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Jeannie Suk Gersen
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After Affirmative Action Ends
June 29, 2023
Editorial by Jeannie Suk Gersen, Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law: What happens after the Supreme Court ends affirmative action, as…
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An article by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In the next few weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to declare it unlawful for colleges and universities to…
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An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Donald Trump has been so many “first” and “unprecedented” things since he entered the political and legal scene that…
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The Real Scandal Surrounding Clarence Thomas’s Gifts
May 15, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Law and ethics are two different things. In 1991, the year Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court,…
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The Dark Side of Defamation Law
May 11, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In the early years of our country, public men who felt maligned could end up killing over it. The…
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Harvard law professors and two other attorneys have asked to stop representing a former North Carolina public defender suing the federal judiciary for allegedly mismanaging…
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4th Circ.’s Chief Judge Must Sit For Depo In Harassment Suit
April 21, 2023
A former federal public defender in North Carolina can depose the chief judge of the Fourth Circuit in her sexual harassment suit against the federal…
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The U.S. government asked a North Carolina federal judge to deny a former assistant federal public defender’s deposition of Chief Circuit Judge Roger L. Gregory…
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Revisiting the Brock Turner Case
March 29, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In 2016, Brock Turner, a former swimmer at Stanford University, was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside…
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An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Last fall, some mysterious new activity appeared on the Supreme Court’s docket. It was one week after oral arguments…
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‘They see the Court in a different light’
March 21, 2023
A Harvard Law panel on "Teaching the Roberts Court," moderated by Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, examined the ways today’s Court shapes legal pedagogy.
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The Expanding Battle Over the Abortion Pill
March 13, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: More than half of abortions in the United States are accomplished with pills, rather than with surgeries. So, when…
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Committee named to lead Legacy of Slavery memorial project
February 10, 2023
Guy-Uriel Charles and Jeannie Suk Gersen will join the Harvard committee that will lead an effort to memorialize the enslaved individuals whose labor was instrumental in the establishment and development of Harvard.
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The Conservative Who Wants to Bring Down the Supreme Court
January 6, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: On the day that the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the lawyer Jonathan Mitchell was at the National…
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A Year of Dominance and Defiance at the Supreme Court
January 3, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: This was a year that was split into before and after—the dividing line being when the Supreme Court overruled…
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An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: When the Supreme Court declared, in 2015, that the Constitution requires all states to license and recognize same-sex marriages,…
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‘In pursuit of an atmosphere in which ideas can be followed without fear that you’ll be punished’
December 6, 2022
Professors Jeannie Suk Gersen and Janet Halley lead the Academic Freedom Alliance, an organization that protects the rights of faculty to speak or publish without fear of sanction or punishment.
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A federal judge is considering a request to unseal sidebar transcripts from the 2018 trial accusing Harvard’s college admissions policies of discriminating against Asian Americans.
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The New Yorker Relaunches Its Political Scene Podcast
November 18, 2022
The midterms may be over, but a House leadership contest is already under way, and Donald Trump has announced another run for the Presidency. In…
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An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: On Monday, I was at the Supreme Court for five hours of oral arguments on affirmative action. In constitutional…
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Education After Affirmative Action
November 1, 2022
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: When Supreme Court Justices want to justify overruling long-standing precedent, the paradigm often cited is Brown v. Board of…