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Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Starting with the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, and gaining steam throughout the next decade, the prevailing view on criminal justice was that “tough on crime laws make…
Gun Rights and Public Safety
In March 2018, hundreds of thousands of young people walked out of school and marched on their local statehouses and on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., to advocate for…
Freedom of Speech and Media
The First Amendment guarantees some of the most fundamental rights provided to Americans under the Constitution. The right to free expression is a foundational tenet of American…
Religious Freedom
The complicated relationship of religion and government predates the founding of the United States. The Founders grappled with this dilemma for years before compromising on the…
National Survey Finds Bipartisan Support for Expansive View of RightsHeading into the 2020 election, a national survey of American attitudes toward rights and freedoms in the…
Samantha Power, who served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 until 2017, has been named to a joint faculty appointment at Harvard Law…
Carr Center Discussion Paper Series | 2023-04
The exacerbation of racial inequality through the design of technologies remains an understated way in which the evolution of digital technologies impacts our human rights. As we…
Carr Center Discussion Paper | 2023-03
In 2021 the Saami Council asked Harvard to suspend research related to stratospheric aerosol injections, a form of geoengineering. Their intervention raises far-reaching questions…
By recognizing the long history of racism in the justice system, Americans can grasp why deaths like George Floyd's are symptomatic of a larger failure of American justice.
The…
"The US and the European Union (EU) are confronted to- day by a surge of populist nationalism that presents mul- tiple challenges to transatlantic democracy. Populism is a form of…