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.

Dr. Jim Greiner is the Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. Griener is also the faculty director of the Access to Justice Lab, which focuses its research on which societal barriers stand in the way of effective legal participation. This interview focuses on exploring the work of Professor Greiner with the Access to Justice Lab, diving into the reasons that so many families in the United States have restricted access to the legal system. Furthermore, Greiner discusses the main ways in which the legal system can adapt to provide increased access to justice.

Dr. Myisha S. Eatmon is an Assistant Professor in African and African American Studies and History at Harvard University. She is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled, Litigating in Black and White: Black Legal Culture, White Violence, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies, which explores how Black people challenged white violence during Jim Crow. Her scholarship notably sheds light on often overlooked aspects of “Black legal culture” during Jim Crow and how it played a critical role in the resistance to white violence. Professor Eatmon is also the recipient of various grants and fellowship awards, including the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Research in Legal History Research Grant and the Mellon/American Council for Learned Scholars Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

The interview with Martha Field, Langdell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, conducted by the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review (HULR), provides a comprehensive overview of her distinguished career and her perspectives on a range of legal issues related to civil and human rights. Field's academic journey, spanning from her education at Radcliffe College and the University of Chicago Law School to her clerkship at the US Supreme Court, has equipped her with a unique vantage point on matters of constitutional law, disability law, and social justice.

The interview delves into her early experiences growing up in the Deep South during a period marked by racial segregation, which ignited her passion for activism and the pursuit of civil and human rights. Field's work has encompassed topics such as wrongful-life and wrongful-birth suits, surrogacy, and abortion law. Her insights shed light on the legal complexities surrounding these issues and emphasize the need for better protection of the rights of surrogate mothers.

Field also offers her thoughts on the evolving landscape of abortion law in the United States, particularly in the context of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, expressing concerns about the erosion of reproductive rights and the lack of judicial consistency in these matters.

The interview concludes with a call to action, with Field advocating for greater attention to disability rights and the need for more advocates in this field. She highlights the technical nature of disability law and its importance in combating systemic inequalities in the legal system. In addition, Field raises concerns about the narrowing of civil rights protections and the limitation of remedies, particularly punitive damages, in discrimination cases.

While Field acknowledges not currently working on any specific projects, her extensive contributions to the legal field and her ongoing role as the Langdell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School underscore her commitment to advancing civil and human rights through education and advocacy.

As questions regarding TikTok, ChatGPT, and social media continue to bombard our notifications, one must wonder where the state of our data privacy is. Today, our digital footprint exists in all corners of the Internet, and with that, sensitive and private information. Furthermore, recent data breaches such as the SolarWinds Hack and the US Marshall Service Security Breach have placed the question of data privacy at the forefront of our attention. Many states, such as California and Virginia, are now moving toward stricter consumer data protection legislation. Will it be enough? Moreover, with the rise of AI, how will our data remain secure? What obstacles loom ahead? What don’t we know?

The Harvard Undergraduate Law Review had the chance to sit down with Dayle Duran regarding information security, class action litigations, and how AI plays a role in all of this. After graduating from the Northeastern University School of Law, concentrating in Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Innovation, Ms. Duran worked as a data privacy analyst and consultant for a variety of top companies. These include Focal Point Data Risk, Wellframe, and currently operates as the Privacy and Data Policy Manager at Meta.

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.