Making Sense of the Establishment Clause Test for Public Displays of Religion
Each year, over 50,000 skiers and snowboarders visit the ski slopes at Big Mountain in northwest Montana, just 66 miles from the Canadian border. This year, the mountain has set the stage for a battle...
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Colloquium Video: "Roper, Graham, and J.D.B.: Re-defining Juveniles'...
On Monday, March 26, 2012, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, in conjunction with the Juvenile Law Center and the Milbank Foundation, presented a colloquium: Roper, Graham, and...
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CR-CL Podcast – Episode 8 – The Individual Mandate and Juvenile...
Noah and Matt jump on the media bandwagon and provide their take on the week’s arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, particularly the individual mandate to purchase health...
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CR-CL Podcast – Episode 9 – Jail Strip Searches, Online Privacy, and the...
Noah and Matt are joined in the studio this week by HarvardCRCL.org Technology and Privacy blogger Andrew Mamo. The show begins with our weekly news round-up, This Week in Civil Rights and Civil...
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CR-CL Podcast – Episode 11 – Identity-Affirming School Speech and the...
CR-CL’s Executive Editors for Online Content, Noah Kaplan and Matt Giffin, sit down each week to discuss the important civil rights and civil liberties issues presented by the legal and political news...
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CR-CL Podcast – Episode 12 – Summer Interviews – Ben Sachs and Emily Bazelon
This episode is the first in CR-CL’s summer interview podcast series. Over the summer, CR-CL’s Senior Executive Editor for Online Content Noah Kaplan will be joined by professors, legal practitioners,...
View ArticleDoes “Cruel and Unusual” Have to Be Unusual?
In Miller v. Alabama, the Supreme Court considered the case of Evan Miller, a fourteen-year-old who set a fire that killed a neighboring boy. The state of Alabama charged Miller as an adult with murder...
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CR-CL Podcast – Episode 13 – Supreme Court Review, The 47%, and Global Free...
CR-CL’s Executive Editors for Online Content, Noah Kaplan and Matt Giffin, are back to discuss the important civil rights and civil liberties developments of this summer and early fall. The show begins...
View ArticleSupreme Court Needs To Answer Questions Dodged In U.S. v. Jones
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court decided United States v. Jones, a closely-watched Fourth Amendment case holding in that the government had performed an illegal search when it tracked a suspect’s...
View ArticleThe Creeping Control of the Everyday
When we think of maintaining freedom, we most often think of restraining government. Written into the American psyche is a fear of invasion into liberty by the tyrannical power of the state. Yet...
View ArticleSupreme Court Term in Review 2013
On Thursday, September 26th, Harvard Law School held a review of the previous term of the Supreme Court. The panelists included Professors Charles Fried, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Michael Klarman, Visiting...
View ArticleLinda Greenhouse on The Roberts Project
Linda Greenhouse – October 10, 2013 Ms. Greenhouse began by noting that it is an under appreciated aspect of the Supreme Court that the Court gets to decide which cases it wants to decide. There are...
View Article“Arguments Are Cheap,” Says Justice Breyer
“Arguments are cheap. Briefs are filled with thousands. What matters is what grabs you.” Justice Breyer stopped by Wasserstein on October 1 for an hour of wry advice, reflection, and jokes. Breyer...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Town of Greece v. Galloway
On Wednesday, 10/30, Mr. Aaron Street, a Partner at Baker Botts LLP, and Noah Feldman, Bemis Professor of International Law, met to discuss the case Town of Greece v. Galloway, which is slated to have...
View ArticleMcCullen v. Coakley – A Conflict of Rights in the Buffer Zone
In late June, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in McCullen v. Coakley, 573 U.S. ___ (2014). Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the Court and joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and...
View ArticleTaking the Rap for Free Speech?
Imagine that you are walking on your way to work. As usual, you listen to your iPod as you walk. Unconsciously, you begin to sing along to your favorite song, which just so happens to be Bob Marley’s...
View ArticleUpholding the Foundation of the Fair Housing Act
At the height of the Great Society in 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), a piece of legislation aimed at ending housing discrimination. For the past thirty-seven years, every federal...
View ArticleA Missed Opportunity in Foster v. Chatman
A procedural issue may allow the Supreme Court to avoid confronting an egregious instance of racism in a death penalty case. Last November, the Court heard oral arguments in Foster v. Chatman. The...
View ArticleSupreme Court Upholds Texas Admission Plan, But Is It Finished With...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (Fisher II) for the second time, this time affirming the Fifth Circuit’s decision by a 4-3 vote to uphold the public...
View ArticleCR-CL Podcast – Episode 13 – Supreme Court Review, The 47%, and Global Free...
Noah and Matt give their brief reactions to United States v. Alvarez, Miller v. Alabama, Arizona v. United States, and NFIB v. Sebelius. Noah and Matt take a look at Mitt Romney's recently leaked...
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