Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Podcast: Recent Episodes

The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review

A discussion of the most important current events in law and legal scholarship produced by the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL), the nation’s leading progressive law journal. CR-CL was founded in 1966 as an instrument to advance personal freedoms and human dignities, and seeks to catalyze progressive thought and dialogue through the promotion of innovative legal perspectives.

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On this episode the Volume 58 podcast team introduces themselves and asks Harvard Law School students what civil rights and civil liberties they care about. Tell us your thoughts at this feedback form! Subscribe to the podcast and follow the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review on Twitter and Instagram!    

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On this episode, editor Laura Garcia speaks with Nina Perales, the Vice President of Litigation at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). They discuss her work as an impact litigator at MALDEF, gerrymandering and voting rights, civil rights issues facing the LatinX community more broadly, and more. Subscribe to the podcast and […]

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On this episode, Vol. 56 Editor-in-Chief Armani Madison speaks with Professor Spencer H. Boyer, the founder of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and a professor at Howard Law School. They talk about what motivated him to found a civil rights journal, how the journal has evolved, the most pressing civil liberties issues we […]

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On this episode, Executive Editor Samantha Neal speaks with Evelyn Douek, a lecturer on law and SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, about digital free speech: to what extent it should be regulated online, who the “arbiters of truth” are and why it matters, the threat of disinformation, and more. Subscribe to the podcast and […]

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On this episode, we speak with Professor Alexander Chen, the founding director of Harvard Law School’s newest clinic, the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic. Follow Professor Chen on Twitter @alexanderlchen, and follow the clinic on Twitter @harvardlgbtq, Instagram @harvardlgbtq, or Facebook @harvardlawlgbtq.

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On this episode we speak with Aaron Regunberg and Hannah Perls, two students organizing with #DropExxon, a group of law students seeking to pressure Paul Weiss to drop Exxon Mobil as a client. Follow #DropExxon on Twitter at @dropexxon.

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On this episode, we speak with Mark Haidar, President of The Equal Democracy Project at Harvard Law School, a new student group fighting for voting rights and electoral reform. Follow The Equal Democracy Project on Twitter @EqualDemocracy.

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On this episode, our hosts speak with James Esseks, Director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, about Bostock v. Clayton County, Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda, and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. EEOC, three major cases currently before the Supreme Court addressing whether Title VII prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation […]

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In this episode, our hosts speak with two organizers from People’s Parity Project about their work fighting to end harassment and discrimination in the legal profession and advance access to justice in the courts. Follow People’s Parity Project on Twitter @PeoplesParity. We also speak with legal scholar and activist Noura Erakat, author of Justice for […]

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In this episode, our hosts Mahroh Jahangiri and Elizabeth Ross speak with our guest Angel Sanchez to discuss his recent article “In Spite of Prison” as well as developments in the prison abolition movement more broadly. This episode also features an interview with hosts Rund Khayyat and Melanie Fontes and guest Dr. Cynthia Boyer on […]