November 21, 2020
From the 1860s until the 1970s, the U.S. government operated Indian boarding schools intended to expedite assimilation: the early proponents of this system believed it would “[k]ill the Indian . . . and save the man.” Recently, U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced a bill to establish the Truth…
November 14, 2020
Harris County, Texas—the third most populous county in the United States and home to the city of Houston—had more early voters in the 2020 general election than it had total voters in the 2016 election. The record early voting turnout, in spite of a global pandemic, was due in large part to the efforts of…
November 11, 2020
Last Term, sixteen Supreme Court cases cited pieces published in the Harvard Law Review. The works cited were published over the course of the Law Review’s 134-year history, touching on a variety of different topics including statutory interpretation, constitutional law, and tort law. Please see a complete list of the Articles the Court cited below….
November 2, 2020
As the global pandemic rages on, mail-in ballot counts are expected to skyrocket in the general election, which is predicted to have a higher voter turnout rate than any election in the past one hundred years. Yet signature matching threatens to invalidate a record number of mail-in ballots. Recently, in Richardson v. Hughs, a Fifth…
October 14, 2020
On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued Executive Order 13943, banning the use of WeChat, a Chinese social media app, in the United States starting on September 20, 2020. Under the order, consumers in the United States will not be able to download or update WeChat, or engage in transactions such as sending or…
October 14, 2020
It is, perhaps, a severe understatement to claim that qualified immunity—the legal doctrine shielding police officers and other government officials from liability for constitutional violations in all but the most egregious cases—is a doctrine in need of reform. A recent Eleventh Circuit ruling in Cantu v. Dothan, however, exemplified how deeply this need for reform…
Cymie R. Payne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University and the School of Law – Camden. She is known for her work on…
Ian Samuel is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He is a former law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of…
Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He holds B.A., J.D.…
