Media Mentions

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.

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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…