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Constitutional
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Dignity
October 22, 2008
Just hours after embattled South African President Thabo Mbeki announced that he would resign on Sept. 21 students in a Harvard Law School classroom are absorbing the reverberations from a hemisphere away.
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An overflow crowd in the Ames courtroom heard Associate Justice Antonin Scalia '60 of the U.S. Supreme Court present a lively defense of originalism on October 2, in the inaugural Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture.
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In New York Times, Feldman explores the role of the Supreme Court in making foreign policy
September 29, 2008
The following article by Professor Noah Feldman, "When judges make foreign policy," was the cover article for the September 28, 2008, New York Times Magazine.
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The Constitution’s Ombudsman
September 27, 2008
At the Department of Justice, being the inspector general can be a very lonely job.
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Constitutional Ink—Visible, and Invisible
September 3, 2008
The U.S. Constitution is 219 years old now, and the revolutionary system of government it created has survived and spread across the globe. No wonder many Americans consider it an almost sacred document, the final say on governmental powers and individual rights.
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Neuman, taking Armstrong chair, advocates ‘global due process’
September 2, 2008
What constitutional rights, if any, do foreign nationals have when the United States acts against them outside its own borders? Professor Gerald Neuman ’80 addressed that question in a Dec. 2 lecture marking his appointment as the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law.
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Battlegrounds
September 2, 2008
On executive power, war and anti-terrorism, scholars have a lot to say--and lawmakers are listening.
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Sunstein advocates for further disclosure in credit industry
August 21, 2008
The following article, "Disclosure Is the Best Kind of Credit Regulation," co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein '78 and University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler, was published in the Wall Street Journal on August 13, 2008.
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An op-ed by Professor Laurence Tribe: The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty
August 21, 2008
The following op-ed, The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty, written by Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe '66, was published in the Wall Street Journal on July 31, 2008.
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Martha Minow discusses equality in education
June 24, 2008
Harvard Law School Professor Martha Minow is co-editor of "Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference," a new book exploring ways to create more equal schools in an increasingly multicultural America.
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In his most recent book, “I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases” (Beacon Press 2008), Professor Mark Tushnet offers an anthology of dissenting opinions, putting them in political context and examining their impact on constitutional law.
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"For a long season," writes Professor Richard Fallon in a major article just published in the Harvard Law Review, the desirability of judicial review of legislation was "a complacent assumption" of American constitutional, political and moral thought.
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In his new book, “Is There a Right to Remain Silent? Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11,” (Oxford University Press 2008), Professor Alan Dershowitz examines the status of the Fifth Amendment privilege in a post 9/11 “preventive” state.
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David Kessler '09 will have an article published in the January 2009 edition of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Though students regularly publish "notes" in law reviews and journals, it is more unusual for them to have articles published.
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Clinical students assist in Supreme Court gun case
April 28, 2008
When the U.S. Supreme Court took up a landmark case on the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban in March, a trio of Harvard Law students could claim modest credit for helping shape the argument. The students assisted lawyers arguing for preserving the ban in the gun-control case—D.C. v. Heller—as part of their work in a new clinical course this year, Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation.
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Warren, Levitin, and Porter testify before Congress about Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights
March 26, 2008
Earlier this month, Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren testified along with two former students - Adam Levitin '06 and Katie Porter '01 - before the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit regarding a proposed Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights.
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Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy ’61 of the U.S. Supreme Court came to Harvard Law School this week for a two-day celebration of the 20th anniversary of his appointment to the Court.
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How should judges interpret ambiguous statutes? Fourteen leading legal scholars -- including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer '64 -- took up that question in a conference at HLS yesterday, occasioned by the publication of a new book, "Statutory Default Rules: How to Interpret Unclear Legislation" (Harvard University Press, 2008) by Professor Einer Elhauge '86.
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An op-ed by Professor Tribe: Why the Supreme Court should take a minimalist approach to gun rights
March 4, 2008
The following op-ed, Sanity and the Second Amendment, written by Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe '66, was published in the Wall Street Journal on March 4, 2008.
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Vox Populi
September 2, 2007
For students in Harvard Law School's Supreme Court litigation clinic, helping Laurence Tribe get ready for a constitutional argument is like being in the eye of a storm.
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Elevation
July 1, 2007
The Kingdom of Bhutan is adopting its first constitution. Will it raise the GNH (gross national happiness)?