Nancy Gertner

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines cutting edge and even controversial linkages between law and neuroscience. We seek to highlight neuroscientific basis…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will first put 20th century sentencing law in sociological and historical context. It will examine the history,…

Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines cutting edge and even controversial linkages between law and neuroscience. We seek to highlight neuroscientific basis for behavior…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will first put 20th century sentencing law in sociological and historical context. It will examine the history,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will first put 20th century sentencing law in sociological and historical context. It will examine the history,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines cutting edge and even controversial linkages between law and neuroscience. We seek to highlight neuroscientific basis…

Nancy Gertner, There’s another side to the story on judge stats, Mass. Law. Wkly. (Dec. 29, 2022).

Nancy Gertner & Judith Resnik, What Went Unsaid in the Chief Justice’s Report on the Judiciary, N.Y. Times, Jan. 7, 2023.

Nancy Gertner, Judge dignifies Trump’s claim of executive privilege, Boston Globe (Sept. 7, 2022).

Nancy Gertner, Majority in ‘Sweeting-Bailey’ ignored what SJC itself warned against year ago, Mass. Lawyers Weekly (Jan. 6, 2022)…

Nancy Gertner, The Stench at the Supreme Court, The Boston Globe (Dec. 2, 2021).

Nancy Gertner & Dean Strang, America Should Not Tolerate Vigilante Behavior, Chi. Sun-Times, Nov. 8, 2021.

Nancy Gertner, Do Supreme Court justices have competing judicial philosophies or are they just partisan hacks?, The Boston Globe (Oct. 4, 2021).

Paul G. Cassell, Nancy Gertner & Andrew Silverman, United States of America v. Michael Andrew Gary: Brief of Former United States District Court Judges as…

Nancy Gertner, Offense/Offender Distinction and Competence (response to Douglas A. Berman), in Criminal Law Conversations 625 (Paul Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey & Kimberly Ferzan eds.,…

Jeannie Suk Gersen, Nancy Gertner & Janet Halley, Comment on Proposed Title IX Rulemaking (Jan. 30, 2019).

Nancy Gertner & Joseph Sanders, Alternatives to Traditional Adversary Methods of Presenting Scientific Expertise in the Legal System, 147 Daedalus 135 (2018).

Hon. Nancy Gertner, Against These Guidelines, 87 UMKC L. Rev. 49 (2018).

Nancy Gertner, Sexual Harassment and the Bench, 71 Stan. L. Rev. Online 88 (2018).

Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.), The “Lower” Federal Courts: Judging in a Time of Trump, 93 Ind. L.J. 83 (2018).

Lynn S. Adelman, Nancy Gertner, Richard G. Kopf, Gerald E. Lynch & Gregory A. Presnell, Federal Sentenciing Under “Advisory” Guidelines: Observations by District Judges, 75…

Nancy Gertner, Is the Jury Worth Saving?, 75 B.U. L. Rev. 923 (1995) (reviewing Stephen J. Adler, The Jury: Trial and Error in the American…

Nancy Gertner, Bakke on Affirmative Action for Women — Pedestal or Cage, 14 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 173 (1979).

Nancy Gertner, Alternatives to the Carceral State: The Judge’s Role, 74 Soc. Res. 663 (2007).

Nancy Gertner, A Short History of American Sentencing: Too Little Law, Too Much Law, or Just Right, 100 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 691 (2010).

Douglas R. Young, Nanci Clarence, James Brosnahan, John S. Siffert, Robert G. Morvillo, Nancy Gertner, Robert W. Tarun & Cristina Arguedas, Recommended Practices for Companies…

Elizabeth Bartholet, Nancy Gertner, Janet Halley & Jeannie Suk Gersen, Fairness For All Students Under Title IX (Aug. 21, 2017).

Nancy Gertner, The Judicial Repeal of the Johnson/Kennedy Administration’s ‘Signature’ Achievement, in A Nation of Widening Opportunities: the Civil Rights Act at 50 (Ellen D.

Elizabeth M. Schneider & Nancy Gertner, ’Only Procedural’: Thoughts on the Substantive Law Dimensions of Preliminary Procedural Decisions in Employment Discrimination Cases, 57 N.Y.L. Sch.

Nancy Gertner, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate (Beacon Press 2011).

Nancy Gertner, Complicated Process, 125 Yale L.J. F. 442 (Mar. 22, 2016).

Nancy Gertner, Opinions I Should Have Written, 110 Nw. U. L. Rev. 423 (2016).

Nancy Gertner, From Omnipotence to Impotence: American Judges and Sentencing, 4 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 523 (2007).

Nancy Gertner, Juries and Originalism: Giving “Intelligible Content” to the Right to a Jury Trial, 71 Ohio St. L.J. 935 (2011).

Nancy Gertner, Neuroscience and Sentencing, 85 Fordham L. Rev. 533 (2016).

Judge Nancy Gertner & Melissa Hart, Employment Law: Implicit Bias in Employment Discrimination Litigation, in Implicit Racial Bias across the Law 80 (Justin D. Levinson…

Nancy Gertner, On Competence, Legitimacy, and Proportionality, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1585 (2012).