Vol. 61
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60th Anniversary Symposium — Friday, April 17, 2026
On Friday, April 17, 2026, Harvard CR-CL honored our founding members’ vision by hosting a 60th Anniversary Symposium. Our theme—Building Bridges or Borders? Community, Citizenship, and Civil Rights in an Age of Authoritarianism—responded to the state’s rapidly accelerating violations of the civil rights and civil liberties of non-citizens and U.S. citizens alike. Our speakers explored these dimensions through the lens of immigration law enforcement. They hailed from the ACLU State Supreme Court Initiative; the City Council of Saint Paul, Minnesota; the University of Minnesota Law School; Boston University School of Law; Boston College Law School; Harvard Law School; and Rutgers Law School.
You can learn more about the symposium on this page. Attendance was limited to the Harvard community and invited guests.
SUBMIT
YOUR WRITING
Submissions for Outside Articles are closed for Volume 61.2 and will reopen in January, 2026.
Submissions from students are now closed for Volume 62.1. Due to some delays, we are still in the process of returning feedback to all applicants who requested feedback.
Submissions for the Forum and Blog are open year-round.
RECENT VOLUMES
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Vol. 60, No. 2, Summer 2025
Table of Contents Articles Abolition in the Real World: A Case Study of Cash Bail Abolition in Illinois by […]
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Vol. 60, No. 1, Winter 2025
Table of Contents ArticlesAdministrative Exhaustion After Perezby Chris Yarrell Fee-Shifting Shortcutsby Maureen Carroll Paramilitary Propertyby Meghan L. Morris Race, Unconscionability, […]
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Vol. 59, No. 2, Spring 2024
Read about the ongoing fight for equity and increased civil rights in Indigenous communities, the untold story of the Model Penal Code, novel litigation strategies in environmental justice, and more in the latest edition of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
The Latest
- Stopping Violence and Reducing Crime: Detroit’s Successful Experiment with Community Violence InterruptionBy Kenneth S. Alyass Last year, in Detroit, Michigan, something unprecedented happened: the number of homicides fell to the lowest number recorded since 1969. At thirty two homicides per 100,000 residents, the decline was a major victory for a city that once had sixty four homicides per 100,000 residents, for which commentators gave Detroit the moniker of… Read more: Stopping Violence and Reducing Crime: Detroit’s Successful Experiment with Community Violence Interruption
- Is Affirmative Action Dead?
By Nathalie Beauchamps Among the panoply of decisions that the Supreme Court has overturned or narrowed over the past few years, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard stands out. In the immediate aftermath of the decision, the burning question for those interested in or impacted by affirmative action was: what next? The lasting effects of… Read more: Is Affirmative Action Dead? - Originalism: A Conservative Doctrine or An Opportunity to Expand Rights?
Originalism could be utilized to uphold or even expand the rights that progressives care about. Where, then, does originalism go wrong? - How Defamation Is Used to Silence Survivors
Defamation suits are being used increasingly by those in power to evade accountability by silencing survivors. The judicial system needs to do better. - In Review: The Broken Constitution
The question looming here is as obvious as it appears: what is this moral crevasse, and why has Feldman, in a book centered on Lincoln, America’s most famous liberator, chosen the future president of the Confederacy to articulate its opening?
Want to Stay Updated?
Submissions for Volume 61.1 are now open! We will be accepting articles for publication through February 14, 2025. Learn more about our submission process, including requirements and our mandatory diversity form (https://tinyurl.com/crcldivform), here: https://harvard-crcl.scholasticahq.com/for-authors
Applications for Volume 61 of CR-CL Law Review are open! If you’re interested, apply through our application (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIuyehnrxexvyVz6u1mYnD1xIFPwizVdcMfruyuSSwGP681w/viewform?usp=sf_link) by 11:59pm EST next Wednesday, January 15, 2024. Reach out to [email protected] with any questions.
Trans Rights Symposium Happening Now! Watch the livestream!
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