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Vol. 60, No. 1, Winter 2025
Table of Contents Articles Administrative Exhaustion After Perez by Chris Yarrell Fee-Shifting Shortcuts by Maureen Carroll Paramilitary Property by Meghan L. Morris Race, Unconscionability, and Contractual Equality by Sabine Tsuruda Notes Critical...
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.
Vol. 59, No. 1, Winter 2024
Read about current litigation strategies in the transgender rights movement, a civil Gideon for renters, abolishing prison labor, and more in Volume 59, No. 1.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Mandatory Prosecutorial Disclosure: Safeguarding Our Right to a Fair Trial
Society wins not only when the guilty are convicted but when the criminal trials are fair; our system of the administration of justice suffers when any accused is treated unfairly.
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Supreme Court Provides a Win for Students with Disabilities in Perez v. Sturgis
The Supreme Court recently delivered an important victory for students with disabilities in Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, providing an additional avenue of redress when school districts violate the right to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) established...
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