In this interview, the expert Eric Ni explains the difference between traditional genomic data storage and SAMchain's use of blockchain technology. Eric Ni is a PhD student at the Gerstein Lab at Yale University, currently researching data privacy solutions for biomedical data. Eric has helped in developing SAMchain to be a more efficient tool for sharing genomic data on blockchain. He discusses the potential for blockchain technology to branch out to patient data storage in hospitals and doctor's offices, along with the challenges and opportunities in using blockchain technology to store patient data. Finally, he offers insights into the anticipated legal developments and how organizations can stay compliant while leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology for more precise patient care.

Jonathan Abady is one of the most influential civil rights litigators in the state of New York and a founding partner of Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff, Abady, Ward, and Maazel LLP. He has argued on topics such as voter suppression, prison reform, police shootings, and climate change. Noteworthy cases of his include Tamir Rice estate settlement, class actions against Rikers Island, Meek Mill wrongful imprisonment and altered absentee ballots in Seminole County Florida. He is currently representing the City of Hoboken in a legal battle aimed at addressing the environmental damages from the fossil fuel industry.

Justice Stephen Breyer, an esteemed member of the United States Supreme Court and Byrne Professor of Administrative Law and Process at Harvard Law School, has dedicated his life to upholding and interpreting the United States Constitution. Justice Breyer's unwavering commitment to constitutional principles have shaped his approach to judicial decision-making and have established him as a leading voice on the Court. His years of service have allowed him to witness the evolving historical landscape of American society and grapple with the complex legal questions that arise within it. This interview illustrates his resolute and unshakeable faith in the Constitution as a guiding force that ensures justice, protects individual liberties, and promotes the common good.

Staff Writer Lisa Mathew interviews Harvard Law School Professor and former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Cass Sunstein in November 2022. We discussed his legal career, OIRA accomplishments, behavioral economics, administrative law, and politics more broadly.

Amir H. Ali serves as the Executive Director of MacArthur Justice Center, one of the nation’s leading civil rights firms. Mr. Ali, who is also a lecturer at Harvard Law School, has won nearly every appeal he has argued in the federal court system, including landmark Supreme Court cases Thompson v. Clark, Welch v. United States and Garza v. Idaho. Mr. Ali has worked with various clients across the country who have faced unwarranted violence at the hands of the police and wrongful convictions due to prosecutorial conduct. He also serves as Trustee of The Appellate Project and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Compassion & Choices is an advocacy group that aims to give patients power over the choices for their end-of-life care; the group’s executives include Kimberly Callinan, the President and CEO; Kevin Díaz, the Chief Legal Advocacy Officer and General Counsel; and Sean Crowley, the Senior National Media Relations Director. The Harvard Undergraduate Law Review sat down with Callinan, Díaz, and Crowley to discuss the current legal climate surrounding medical aid-in-dying, legislation of recent years, and the future of advocacy efforts.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a right to privacy that protects a pregnant woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion. In 1992, the Court ruled in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that states could not impose an “undue burden” on women seeking abortions for a nonviable fetus; viability outside the womb begins around 24 weeks into gestation. However, a Supreme Court draft opinion leaked on May 2, 2022, suggests that the Court may soon overturn Roe and Casey. This would mean abortion would no longer be a federally protected right, leaving its regulation up to the states. Jeffrey Miron, a libertarian economist, argues that this is the least bad approach because it will likely reduce polarization in the country while preserving access to abortion services for most women.

Jeffrey Miron is vice president for research at the Cato Institute and director of graduate and undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He served as the chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University from 1992 to 1998. His area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs. He has advocated for many libertarian policies, including legalizing all drugs and allowing failing banks to go bankrupt. He has written three books, including Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition and Libertarianism, from A to Z. He received a BA in economics from Swarthmore College in 1979 and a PhD in economics from MIT in 1984.

Kathryn Tucker is the Co-Chair of the Psychedelic Practice Group at Emerge Law Group and a Founding Board Member & Co-Interim Executive Director at The Psychedelic Bar Association. She has served as an adjunct law professor at Lewis and Clark School of Law, Seattle University, the University of Washington, Loyola/LA and Hastings. In 1997, as legal director of Compassion & Choices, Tucker argued Washington v. Glucksberg before the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to establish a federal constitutional right to choose aid-in-dying. The Glucksberg case is widely recognized as prompting widespread effort to improve end-of-life care. Tucker attended Hampshire College and Georgetown Law School.

As a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Michael Delikat is an industry leader in the field of unemployment law. He brings over thirty years of experience to the legal profession, and he is renowned for his legal acumen concerning whistleblower and sexual harassment claims. Michael is also a proud graduate of Harvard Law School.

Congressman Jamie Raskin (BA ‘83, JD ‘87) represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. In the House of Representatives, Raskin served as the lead impeachment manager for President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial and serves on six committees, including the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a Maryland State Senator and a constitutional law professor. In his new book Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, he discusses his experience in the January 6th attack and the subsequent impeachment trial, shaped by grappling with the incredible grief of losing his son Tommy to suicide only a few days before.

Jameel Jaffer is an Adjunct Professor of Law and Journalism and the Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Previously, he was deputy legal director at the ACLU and director of the ACLU’s Center for Democracy, overseeing work on free speech, technology, national security, and human rights. He has litigated numerous critical post-9/11 cases involving national security and human rights, including the litigation leading to the publication of the Bush administration’s torture memos and the Obama administration’s drone memos. He attended Williams College, Cambridge University, and Harvard Law School.

Professor Christoph Mikulaschek teaches within Harvard University’s Department of Government, focusing on the power dynamics that define international law, security, and organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University and a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. In 2018, he was awarded the American Political Science Association’s Merze Tate Award for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics. His dissertation examines the role of informal power-sharing in the proceedings of the UN Security Council. Professor Mikulaschek’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Review of International Organizations.

Professor Susan Farbstein is currently the co-director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School. She received her B.A. from Princeton University, Master's in International Relations from Cambridge University, and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He current work focuses on human rights in South Africa, socio-economic rights and racial justice in the United States, and gender equity and women's leadership in human rights organizations.

I. Glenn Cohen is the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and is one of the world’s most prodigious health law and bioethics experts. Professor Cohen also serves as Deputy Dean of the Law School and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. His scholarship centers around various disciplines within health law, including health information, mobile health, reproduction/reproductive technology, research ethics, organ transplantation, and COVID-19. Professor Cohen has authored over 200 articles and chapters and has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited over 18 books. Internationally renowned, his work has appeared in multiple publications and media outlets, including PBS, ABC and CNN.

Dean Polales is a Chicago-based criminal defense attorney. After attending the University of Chicago law school, Mr. Polales worked at the United States Attorney's office for over 21 years. He now owns Polales Horton LLP along with his partner, Timothy Horton.

Dawne Mitchell is the Attorney in Charge of the Juvenile Rights Practice at The Legal Aid Society, the oldest and largest provider of legal aid in the United States. She oversees a team of more than 350 staff members and volunteers that works to tirelessly defend the rights, needs, and interests of children who appear in Family Courts in New York City on Child Welfare, Parental Rights, Persons in Need of Supervision, and Juvenile Delinquency matters. Her leadership has sought to challenge and impact the racial disparities and systemic issues that have led to poor outcomes for children, disruption of families, limited educational advancement of youth in care, and a burdened system of care for children and families for generations. Dawne serves on the NYS Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children, the First Department Advisory Committee, and is a member of several New York City Bar Association committees and workgroups.

Marc Howard is one of the country’s leading criminal justice and prison reform advocates and lawyers, and he is currently a professor of Government and Law at Georgetown University. He is the founding Director of the Prisons and Justice Initiative at Georgetown, through which he recently established a Georgetown degree-granting program for prisoners. He is also the Founder and President of a non-profit, the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice, aimed at combating prisoner stigmatization through open dialogue between the incarcerated and non-incarcerated communities . In 2017, Mr. Howard published Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism, which contrasted the United States penal system with those of other industrialized nations. Mr. Howard is also the author of two other books as well as many articles and op-eds in major newspapers.