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Jeannie Suk Gersen
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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…
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Supreme Court to judge affirmative action in college admissions
October 26, 2022
For nearly half a century, colleges and universities have argued that affirmative action is crucial to their missions — and to American society. Campus diversity,…
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The Supreme Court’s Self-Conscious Take on Andy Warhol
October 19, 2022
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument about an Andy Warhol illustration of Prince, which he based on…
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Harvard Law School experts weigh in on the Supreme Court’s final decisions.
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Attorney’s Sex Harassment Lawsuit Against Federal Judiciary Officials Allowed To Move Forward
April 29, 2022
In 2020, former federal public defender Caryn Strickland filed a complaint alleging sexual harassment from a supervisor while she was a public defender in the Western District of North Carolina. The lawsuit further alleged that the judiciary’s Employment Dispute Resolution system is unconstitutional. ... Jeannie Suk Gersen, attorney for Strickland, noted the impact of the decision: “Today’s decision is a major victory. In a unanimous decision, the court held that Strickland’s constitutional claims for equal protection and due process violations can proceed, and made clear that the federal judiciary as an employer is not immune from suits for sex discrimination.”