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Media Mentions
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Harvard Law School media roundup: From the NSA scandal to the regulatory battles of a new taxi cab app June 17, 2013 Over the past…
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The Secret Law Behind NSA’s Verizon Snooping
November 8, 2013
Noah Feldman, the Bemis Professor of International Law, is a regular columnist for Bloomberg. “How, exactly, could the government order a Verizon division…
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We Need a New Church Committee It’s time for a basic re-evaluation of intelligence operations
November 8, 2013
Yochai Benkler ’94 is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies and co-director of the Berkman Center for…
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Opinion: When innovation and market clash – the taxi cab
November 8, 2013
Cass Sunstein ‘78 is the Robert Walmsley University Professor and director of HLS’s new Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. “People can run into two problems when they need to find a taxi. The first is that they don’t know whether a taxi will be available. The second is that they don’t know when a taxi will be available.
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Can you patent genes? In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, the U.S. Supreme Court answered this imponderable question with a split decision: You can't if they are naturally occurring, and you've simply discovered the gene; but if you've crafted a synthetic gene, you've invented it -- and you can keep the patent.
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My Great Link
October 28, 2013
This is where my description would go.
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What Happened to the Rule of Law?
October 26, 2013
An op-ed by Professor Jack Goldsmith: Since the United Nations was created in 1945, its Charter has been more honored in the breach than the observance. So…
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Keep female prisoners close to family
October 26, 2013
An op-ed by Nancy Gertner and Judith Resnik: Just as Attorney General Eric Holder was rightly decrying the impact of onerous drug sentences for low-level, nonviolent offenders this…
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Charles Ogletree on Civil Rights 50 Years After “I Have A Dream”
October 26, 2013
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree, a friend and mentor to President Barack Obama, discusses the state of civil rights in the United States on the…
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A New Kind of Union
October 26, 2013
An op-ed by Benjamin Sachs: The financial challenges low- and middle-income Americans face are daunting. But the poor and middle class are in an equally serious, if…
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White House Picks Panel to Review NSA Programs
October 25, 2013
A group of veteran security experts and former White House officials has been selected to conduct a full review of U.S. surveillance programs and other…