Brock Turner's Sentencing Revives Mandatory Minimums Debate
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The effectiveness of mandatory minimums is up for debate. NPR's Scott Simon talks to retired...
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Hillary Emails and Republican Hypocrisy
A number of Republicans, including Michael Mukasey, former judge, and Attorney General, have...
Wrong? Maybe. Criminal? Maybe not.
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The Supreme Court’s decision in the corruption case against...
Time for a broad approach to clemency
By Marc Mauer, Nancy Gertner, and Jonathan Simon
Despite growing national discussion on criminal justice...
UC Hastings Commencement Address
On May 15, 2015 Judge Gertner gave the Commencement Address at University of California, Hastings College of the Law. A video of the address can be viewd...
Justice Denied in the Bronx
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By Nancy Gertner
Access to justice means more than fancy...
The corruption continuum: When giving gifts bleeds to bribery
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By Nancy Gertner
When we talk about political...
Amicus: This Is Not Corruption
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Why the appearance of quid pro quo may not be enough...
Secrets of the grand jury
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By Nancy Gertner and Jack Corrigan APRIL 27, 2016
THE GLOBE...
Judge Nancy Gertner to Keynote 135th UC Hastings Law Commencement
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The University of California Hastings College of the Law 2016 Commencement Ceremony will...
Gertner to speak at Quattrone Center symposium
Judge Gertner (Ret.) will be a panelist at the Quattrone Center for Fair Administration of Justice's spring symposium, Technology in Criminal Justice Reform. The symposium will take place May 12-13. More information can be found...
Retired judge tells UB Law audience how being a woman influenced her decisions
By Lauren Kirkwood, Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer March 4, 2016
Some judges might have you believe their rulings are entirely the result of impartial analysis. But judges are not “automatons,” according to former federal judge Nancy...
Even when inconsistent, Scalia was certain
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By Nancy Gertner
February 14, 2016
I...
JIL Symposium: Women and National Security
Click here to watch Women of Power: Judge Nancy Gertner, and Indira Jaising in conversation with Rangier de Silva de Alwis, from the University of Pennsylvania Journal of...
Black educators celebrate 50 years of advocacy
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When Barbara Fields took an exam to teach in Boston in the early ‘70s,...
Race and Justice in America: An Atlantic Summit
On November 12th Judge Gertner participated in a panel on the role of the court as a part of "Race and Justice in America: An Atlantic...
U.S. Prosecutors Have Too Much Power
Judge Gertner debated that prosecutors in the United States have too much power on November 10th, at Northwestern University as part of Intelligence Squared U.S.'s debate series. A full video and debate transcript can be found on...
Undoing the damage of mass incarceration
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Over a 17-year judicial career, I sent hundreds of defendants to jail...
