Volume 26.1

Unpacking the Accomplishments of Drug Prohibitionism: An Alternative View of Plan Colombia’s Results on Violence

Article

by Joaquín Vélez-Navarro¹Joaquín Vélez-Navarro is an S.J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He received his LL.M. from Columbia Law School and his LL.B. from Universidad de los Andes. He is also Assistant Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the Universidad de los Andes
in Bogota, Colombia.

Critical Remembering: Amplifying, Analyzing, and Understanding the Legacy of Anti-Mexican Violence in the United States

Article

by René Reyes ¹ René Reyes is an Associate Professor at Suffolk University Law School. He received his A.B. at Harvard College and went on to Harvard Law School where he obtained his J.D.

Myth & Remembrance: The Harvard Life of Pedro Albizu Campos

Article

by Juan Palacio Moreno ¹ Juan Palacio Moreno obtained his B.A. and M.A. at Lehigh University in 2016 and 2017 respectively. He then went on to Harvard Law School where he graduated with a J.D. in 2022.

Title IX Protection: On the Basis of Privilege

Article

by Regina Margarita Castillo ¹ Regina Margarita Castillo studied at Texas A&M University and graduated in 2019. She then went on to pursue her J.D. at Harvard Law School where she graduated in 2023.

Interview with Lisa J. Pino

Interview

by Lisa J. Pino ¹ Lisa J. Pino is an attorney, public service executive, and former Obama and Biden political appointee who holds fifteen years of legal, program, policy, and management experience across public health, civil rights, immigration, food insecurity, agriculture, and equity fields. Most recently, she served in the Biden-Harris administration as the Director of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and on Biden’s Agency Review team for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Prior to the Biden administration, she was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as the New York State Department of Health’s Executive Deputy Commissioner during the COVID-19 public health emergency. As the agency’s #2 official, she served 19.5 million New Yorkers, conducting over 7 million vaccinations at 15.2 million doses, administering 100,000-314,000 COVID-19 tests per day, hiring 6,000 contact tracers, and donating over 1 million PPE sources.