by CRCL | Apr 22, 2024 | Amicus, Blog
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...
by CRCL | Mar 21, 2024 | Amicus, Blog
By Nathalie Beauchamps In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, legal scholars have wondered how far the Court’s text, history, and tradition test can extend. Could the Supreme Court use it to strip...
by CRCL | Mar 14, 2024 | Amicus, Blog
By Ali Medina In 2022, the internet was transfixed by Depp v. Heard, a defamation trial of actress Amber Heard by her ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp. Prior to the trial itself, Heard had written an op-ed in 2018 discussing the backlash she’d received for speaking out...
by CRCL | Feb 16, 2024 | Amicus, Blog
By Mac Taylor Of all the questions Noah Feldman’s 2021 book, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America, brings to the fore, the largest greets the reader in the epigraph. Feldman, Harvard Law professor and constitutional scholar, begins...
by rdalessandro | Oct 24, 2023 | Amicus
“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.” – Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87, (1963). For a trial to be truly fair, the...
by | Apr 14, 2023 | Amicus
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...
