September 11, 2021
Earlier this summer, President Biden delivered on a highly anticipated campaign promise to crack down on corporate monopolies and boost competition across the economy. In a comprehensive executive order, President Biden pledged to take a “whole-of-government” approach to rigorously enforcing the nation’s antitrust laws, documenting how rising corporate consolidation harms consumers and small businesses in…
August 7, 2021
Authors’ Note: In an effort to make this blog post accessible to as broad a range of readers as possible, we have developed an easy read version of it. That version is available here. Editors’ Note: This piece is a part of our series celebrating the thirty-year anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)….
August 7, 2021
Authors’ Note: This is the easy read* version of another Blog post. There are over 1 billion people in the world who have a disability. During their lives, most people in the world will either have a disability or know someone who does. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is an important law that says people…
April 9, 2021
In America, the people are sovereign and straightjacketed. Faced with a problem — passing, like a pandemic, or persistent, like poverty — they can call on their government to answer it. But, when they act, courts can tell them they’ve overstepped their Constitution’s grant of powers. Recently, several federal district courts, faced with a novel national…
April 7, 2021
Second Amendment doctrine—perhaps more than any other constitutional right save the Seventh Amendment civil jury—has become intensely preoccupied with genealogy. Ever since Chief Justice John Roberts in District of Columbia v. Heller remarked during oral argument (almost to himself) that, just as there appears to be “lineal descendants” of colonial-era weaponry, there could be “lineal descendants”…
March 15, 2021
In the last year, colleges and universities across the U.S. struggled with how to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent data, from January 2021, shows a mix of online and in-person modes of instruction. At the same time, a study of the experience in early fall 2020 found an association between colleges and…
In her seven years in office, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye has emerged as one of the country’s leading advocates for equal access to justice, transparency, and the reformation of…
Danielle Citron is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, and a 2019…
Charles Fried is the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has been teaching since 1961. He was also the Solicitor General of the United States from…
