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urnal articles, many influential, are also available online, including a 2008 article by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy called "Restoring the Civil rights Division." That article was cited in a recent speech before ACS by Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Thomas E. Perez. Another journal article, by Cornell University scholars Kevin Clermont and Stewart Schwab, featuring information showing that employment discrimination lawsuits face uphill struggles in the federal courts, was highlighted by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy in a committee hearing. A recently featured article on the HLPR Web site, by Columbia Law School professor Jamal Greene studies "originalism" in context of the Supreme Court's ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the 5-4 majority led by Justice Antonin Scalia found that the Constitution does protect an individual right to posses firearms.
HLPR Launches New Web Site
February 4, 2010
Check out the revamped online version of Harvard Law & Policy Review (HLPR), the official journal of ACS. The new Web site includes journal articles and frequently updated content, including commentary on legal and policy issues, book reviews and a forum for student writing. The recent issue of HLPR explores solutions to the nation's soaring incarceration rates and includes articles by Sharon Dolovich, Judge Nancy Gertner, and Nkechi Taifa and Catherine Beane.
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