Professor Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Dershowitz taught at Harvard Law School for almost 50 years and is well-known for his work in constitutional and criminal law.

Damario Solomon-Simmons is a national civil rights attorney specializing in civil & human rights, racial justice, and wrongful death. Solomon-Simmons has been a practicing attorney for almost 17 years and is currently the Managing Partner of SolomonSimmonsLaw, an Oklahoma-based law firm.

Professor Susan Farbstein is the Director of the International Human Rights Clinic and a Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School. After receiving her B.A from Princeton University, she went on to earn an M.Phil. in International Relations from Cambridge University and a J.D from Harvard Law School. Her current work focuses on enforced disappearances in Mexico, corporate accountability for human rights abuses in the seafood supply chain, and Torture Victim Protection Act litigation in U.S. courts against perpetrators of extrajudicial killings. Other recent work includes investigations of human rights violations in The Gambia, the right to water and the right to education in South Africa, as well as efforts to advance gender equity within human rights organizations and institutions.

Britt Cramer is a litigation lawyer in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis. She has worked on a variety of cases after graduating from Harvard Law School regarding the False Claims Act, product liability, and commercial disputes. At HLS, she was editor of the Harvard Law Review. Cramer emphasizes the value of hearing about other people’s experiences to determine the path one wants to take. HULR is grateful to be able to speak with Ms. Cramer about her background, current job, and some casework. The two case highlights are Teva Pharmaceuticals v. United Healthcare and Doe v. Macleod. Both have different problems and ways of addressing a solution, showing that business litigation lawyers have to be prepared for any type of case they may work on.

Andreas Føllesdal is a Professor of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Føllesdal’s work focuses particularly on international law through a philosophical lens. He has explored matters related to distributive justice, human rights in court, legitimacy and sovereignty of states, and international legal theory. In this interview, Føllesdal and HULR discussed how part of the solution for many contemporary problems lies in weaving through philosophy and law, and learning from other models of government and ways of thinking.

This interview was conducted with James Sherk. Sherk is the Director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. Previously, he served as Labor Policy Advisor and Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in the Trump White House. While in office, he was responsible for drafting Schedule F, which would have removed the civil service protections of many career civil servants, making them easier to fire.