Features | September-October 2024
Academic Freedom and Free Speech
Robert Post explains how they differ—and why it matters, especially now
John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2023
After Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court upends admissions.
The Supreme Court Affirmative Action Rulings: An Analysis
The underlying arguments project clashing worldviews of race and appropriate remedies.
Harvard Defends Race-Conscious Admissions at the Supreme Court
Should the law continue to reflect that the United States is anything but colorblind?
Features | November-December 2022
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
Montage | September-October 2022
Is the Supreme Court’s Role Undemocratic?
Justice Felix Frankfurter, to great controversy, said yes.
Features | January-February 2022
Both Sides Now
Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s bifocal view of the civil-rights movement
Montage | January-February 2022
A Democracy of Opportunity
Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.
Montage | January-February 2021
Review of Kimball and Coquillette, “The Intellectual Sword,” by Lincoln Caplan
The making of the modern Harvard Law School
Features | September-October 2020
Constitutional scholar Noah Feldman profiled by Lincoln Caplan
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.
Montage | November-December 2019
Lincoln Caplan reviews “When Should Law Forgive?” by Martha Minow
…and don’t always forgive
Justice Holmes, presented by Stephen Budiansky and Lincoln Caplan
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.