Ames Semifinal Liveblog
Welcome to the CR-CL Liveblog! The annual Ames Competition takes place in three rounds, beginning with the Qualifying Round (held […]
Ames Live Blog
Ames Live Blog, Amicus, Uncategorized
Ames Semifinals Liveblog, Tue. 3/22 & Wed. 3/23
Harvard CRCL will be liveblogging from the Ames Moot Court Semifinals on Tuesday, March 22nd and Wednesday, March 23rd at 6pm. This
Amicus, Events, LGBTQ Rights
Colloquium: Video: Gay Rights and Lefts
On March 9, 2011 at 5-7p.m. at Harvard Law School in Austin North Professor Libby Adler presented her piece entitled, “Gay Rights and Lefts: Rights Critique and Distributive Analysis for Real Law Reform. Streaming video of the March 9 presentation and discussion is below.
Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation
SCOTUS rules 8-1 for Gov't transparency,
says FOIA exemption for “personnel files” cannot apply to things like the maps and data related to the location of
Amicus, Guest Author
Essay: Why the ACLU’s President is a Card-Carrying Member
When I was a third-grader in public school (in Long Beach, NY) our class play was Johnny Tremain — the story of a 14 year old boy caught up in the American Revolution. I decided to take the book version out of the school library to read the whole story but the librarian told me I wasn’t allowed to. That book was in the boy’s section. The girl’s section, as I well knew, contained collections of fairy tales and biographies of Presidents’ wives, Florence Nightingale, and Clara Barton.
Amicus, Criminal Justice, Events
Panel Discussion: Developments in Material Support Law
The HLS Middle East Law Students Association presents: Developments in Material Support Law
March 3, 2011 at 6pm, Austin North at Harvard Law School
This panel will explore the implications of the the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and the current landscape for material support prosecutions in the US.
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at HLS, the Islamic Legal Studies Program at HLS, Justice for Palestine at HLS, the National Lawyers Guild – HLS Chapter, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, ACLU-HLS, and ACS.
Amicus, Human Rights
”I heard them say the revolution won’t be televised/Al Jazeera proved them wrong/Twitter has them paralyzed.”
Hip hop artist Omar Offendum raps about the Egyptian uprising (click through for link to video on youtube)
Amicus, Events
Cambridge Grassroots Rally for Egypt
On our way to an article selection committee meeting for Volume 47, we passed a few Cambridge residents rallying for
Amicus, Guest Author
Article: A Matter of Life & Death: Advocates in New York Respond to Medical Repatriation
On the afternoon of February 28, 2000, Luis Alberto Jiménez was returning home from work when he was hit by
Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights
Dearth of Death Penalty Drug Buys Time for Convicts
Hospira, the Illinois-based company that manufactures sodium thiopental, will no longer manufacture the drug after Italy expressed concerns over the
Amicus, Freedom of Expression
Essay: is WikiLeaks more dangerous than the alternative?
Everyone has commented on the leaks from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to Saturday Night Live but it was Ron Paul, Texas Congressman, who finally seemed to ask a poignant question several days ago, “[Which events caused more deaths,] lying us into war, or the release of the WikiLeaks papers?”