Justice Denied in the Bronx
By Nancy Gertner | New York Law Journal | May 13, 2016 Access to justice means more than fancy courthouses, a courtroom with high ceilings, the American flag unfurled, and even compelling quotes from...
View ArticleWhat Dogs, Lies And Sex Teach Us About Our True Selves
By Tania Lombrozo | NPR | September 19, 2016 New research suggests that even college students who overwhelmingly report that they accept interracial relationships show greater activity in the insula —...
View ArticleThe Varieties of Anger
By Lisa Feldman Barrett | The New York Times | November 12, 2016 Bitterness. Hostility. Rage. The varieties of anger are endless. Some are mild, such as grumpiness, and others are powerful, such as...
View ArticleNFL Doctors Should Not Report to Teams, Harvard Study Recommends
This article highlights a recent report published by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, entitled, “Protecting and Promoting the Health of...
View ArticleHow ‘Confused’ Could Jeff Sessions Have Been?
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | March 6, 2017 That Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a false statement under oath before a congressional committee is clear. He said, “I did not have...
View ArticleJudge Gorsuch is More Dangerous Than He Appears
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | April 3, 2017 He sounds so judicial. He talks about neutrality, raising plain vanilla issues about deference to the expertise of administrative agencies. It is...
View ArticleMandatory Minimum Sentences are Cruel and Ineffective. Sessions Wants Them Back.
By Nancy Gertner | The Washington Post | May 15, 2017 Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed the nation’s 2,300 federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges in all but...
View Article19-Year-Olds Don’t Belong in Adult Prisons
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | June 20, 2017 Governor Baker introduced a criminal justice bill in February to great fanfare. Designed to give prisoners incarcerated on mandatory minimum...
View ArticleWhen Is Speech Violence?
By Lisa Feldman Barrett | The New York Times | July 14, 2017 Imagine that a bully threatens to punch you in the face. A week later, he walks up to you and breaks your nose with his fist. Which is more...
View ArticleFacebook is Re-Sculpting Our Memory
CLBB Scientific Faculty Member Dr. Daniel Schacter, an expert on the neuroscience of memory, is extensively quoted in this Quartz article examining how social media shapes our memories. By Olivia...
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