Carrie Jenks is the Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program (EELP), where she works with Professors Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus. The EELP team includes several lawyers, Legal Fellows, and the program’s student researchers to pursue EELP’s mission of facilitating the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable future. Prior to this appointment, Jenks was Executive Vice President of M.J. Bradley & Associates (MJB&A), an energy and environment strategic consulting company. Jenks has over fifteen years of legal and policy expertise in climate and environmental law, working with the private sector, non-profit organizations, and policymakers to identify common ground. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Harvard College (concentrating in Environmental Science and Public Policy – ESPP) and a Juris Doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Peter Williams is a Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellow with expertise in nonprofit capacity building and program development in housing equality and civil rights. He has gained experience in housing rights and civil justice as Executive Vice President for Programs at the NAACP, President and CEO of the Mid Bronx Desperadoes, Vice President of Continuing Education and Community programs at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, and Director of Housing and Community Development at The National Urban League. In this interview, Mr. Williams shares his opinion on the effectiveness of New Hampshire Bill HB588 (Tiny Homes) in addressing housing inequality and provides his insight into the most impactful ways to provide affordable housing to low-income communities.

Despite being the most successful team in the history of women’s international soccer and outperforming their male counterparts in all metrics, both on and off the pitch, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team continues to be paid significantly less. The HULR interviewed Jeffrey Kessler, the USWNT’s lead attorney in their gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, to discuss his firsthand account of the case, its current standing, and his vision for the future.

Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and former Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, has taught at the law school since 1981. Before teaching at Harvard, Minow clerked for Judge David Bazelon of The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She is an expert in human rights and minority advocacy and has written numerous books and scholarly articles. Minow has also served on various committees and boards, such as the Independent International Commission Kosovo, has received several awards and nine honorary degrees from schools around the world, and was appointed to the Legal Services Corporation by President Barack Obama in 2009. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, her master’s degree in education at Harvard, and her law degree at Yale Law School.

For this interview, I was fortunate enough to speak with Chris Johnson, a Space Law Advisor for the Secure World Foundation of the Georgetown University Law Center. Our conversation largely revolved around the premises of historical space regulations and how such legislation will be interpreted moving forward—given the emergence of the private space industry. However, despite this private sector emergence, we also discussed the role of government agencies and how historical space legislation applies to them, particularly with regard to the recently-established US Space Force. Ultimately, it is my hope that this conversation can help identify areas of previous space law that will maintain relevance in the coming future—as well as areas that may need updating/replacement.

Christine Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She “teaches about the international monetary system, the constitutional law of money, constitutional history, political economy, and legal theory. She is the co-founder of Harvard’s Program on the Study of Capitalism, an interdisciplinary project that brings together classes, resources, research funds, and advising aimed at exploring that topic.” (biography from https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10212/Desan/)

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji is the current President (Chief Judge) of the International Criminal Court, located at The Hague in the Netherlands. He began his nine year term on the ICC bench in 2012 before being elected its President in 2018. Prior to his tenure on the Court, he was the legal advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and lead counsel in high-profile cases and ad hoc international tribunals. Judge Eboe-Osuji also practiced as a barrister before the highest courts in Nigeria and Canada and taught international criminal law at the University of Ottawa. He has published over 500 legal research papers, written two books, and submitted numerous amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights.