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,...
Press
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...
What The N.H. Trial Of A Teen Accused Of Rape Says About Teens, Sex And Consent
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Under cross examination in a Concord, N.H. courtroom, a 16-year-old girl sobbed as she said, “I was raped. I was violated in so many ways.”...
The toughest issue on (any) campus
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The background
Two Yale undergraduates—let’s call...
Will we ever know why Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke after it was too late?
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The government focused on the claim...
Death Qualified: The Tsarnaev Jury, His Sentence And The Questions That Remain
By Nancy Gertner
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In 1924, Clarence Darrow represented Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, men accused of a senseless...
We all chose death for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
By Nancy Gertner
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We all...
Officials must follow law prohibiting the shackling of pregnant inmates
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By Nancy Gertner
The anti-...
Op-Ed: Like DNA, Cameras on Cops Would Reveal Truth
By Nancy Gertner and John Reinstein
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DNA testing and videotaping of police-...
The Perfect Victim
A conversation between America ReFramed's host Natasha Del Toro and Judge Nancy Gertner about the documentary The Perfect Victim.
Was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial necessary?
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By Nancy Gertner
April 08, 2015...
Sexual Assault and Justice: Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?
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Campus sexual assaults are horrifying, made all the worse because the...
Retired Judge Nancy Gertner to Receive NEFAC’s 2015 Stephen Hamblett First Amendment Award
An advocate for cameras in the courtroom, and such a proponent of the press...
There will be more Fergueson
It isn’t surprising that a grand jury on Monday ruled...
