Publications

Gerald L. Neuman

CDC Ends Use of Public Health Law to Deny Rights of Asylum Seekers

  On April 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered the termination of the “Title 42” procedure,…

Another Trump Legacy That Won’t Give Up

It appears that on April 1, Harvard Law School will be hosting a lecture by Peter Berkowitz, formerly the Executive…

Court Issues Ruling Aligned with Amicus Brief Submitted by HLS Professors Protecting the Rights of Asylum Seekers During the Global Pandemic

On September 16, a U.S. District Judge granted a preliminary injunction aligned with an amicus brief submitted by HLS professors protecting the rights of asylum seekers during the global pandemic….

Harvard Human Rights Journal on Indirect Discrimination and Religion

Grounded in an April 2020 symposium hosted by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the latest issue of…

Human Rights Workshops Explore Indirect Discrimination

In Panama, Peru, and Colombia, gender-based quarantine schedules created a culture of fear and risk for transgender individuals. With men…

Impeachment Can Vindicate Human Rights

Impeachment is an extraordinary procedure for responding to abuse of power by government. Is legislative trial of elected officials consistent with…

Coming to grips with populism after Trump

Gerald L. Neuman, Human Rights Program Co-Director, reflected on populism and human rights in a post-Trump landscape for Open Global…

WATCH: Pompeo’s “Commission on Unalienable Rights”: Shrinking U.S. Human Rights Policy

In 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo created a highly controversial “Commission on Unalienable Rights” to reexamine the basis of…

Mourning the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

With the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the nation and the world have lost a champion of human equality….

The Supreme Court’s Attack on Habeas Corpus in DHS v. Thuraissigiam

Gerald L. Neuman, Human Rights Program Co-Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, contributed a…