Though there may be much to be said for the axiom that creativity can’t be quantified, at least three states have been working to develop something akin to an objective measure of [...]
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Harvard CR-CL is proud to publish the first episode of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Podcast! In this inaugural episode, Senior Online Editor Noah Kaplan talks with Executive Online Editor Matt Giffin about the recent Supreme Court decision about GPS tracking units, United States v. Jones, and about the response to the proposed copyright protection legislation SOPA and [...] There are clear tradeoffs involved in Google’s new privacy policy, but what does it suggest for the growing problem of data privacy more generally? Despite the seeming novelty of privacy problems in the age of the Internet, we can learn a few lessons by turning to privacy problems at the beginning of the information [...] [Update2 - 1PM February 8] The Fifth Circuit has ruled 2-1 to lift the stay of Turner’s execution, and Mississippi officials say that they plan to carry out the execution as originally scheduled this evening at 6PM. Turner’s petition to the Supreme Court is still pending. Turner, represented by attorneys from the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court arguing that the pending execution would violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments because at the time of his offense Mr. Turner suffered from a serious mental [...] HarvardCRCL.org is proud to announce the imminent launch of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Podcast. We hope to bring together students, professors, legal practitioners, and anyone else with insight into important legal developments. The CR-CL Podcast will launch in early February [...] This article is a comment and reflection on Joseph Weiler’s essay, The Political and Legal Culture of European Integration: An Exploratory Essay. The article responds to Weiler’s argument by sketching a philosophical framework within which we may [...] European judges in Strasbourg have recently been called on to decide on some important issues concerning discriminatory treatment in the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms protected by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its [...] In designing constitutions, constitutional drafters often face constraints that cause them to leave things “undecided”—or to defer decision-making on certain constitutional issues to the future. They do this both through adopting vague [...] |
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