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...
Press
There will be more Fergueson
It isn’t surprising that a grand jury on Monday ruled...
Op-Ed: Who Speaks For the Bench About Surveillance?
At the 11th hour, the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committee received an extraordinary letter from U.S. District Judge John Bates of Washington...
2014 Margaret Brent Award
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Judge Nancy Gertner receives the 2014 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement...
(Not) Wired: Electronic Coverage in the Federal Courts
Read the article on the Boston Bar Journal Here
By: Nancy Gertner
I supported electronic coverage of court proceedings...
The Trial of Edward Snowman--Legally Speaking (Special Edition)
In late 2012, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden leaked to the press almost 200,000 classified documents exposing secrets about the scope and methods of American intelligence gathering. To some this made him a hero; to others a traitor. In...
Nancy Gertner receives the Margaret Brent Lawyers of Achievement Award
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Harvard Law School Professor of Practice...
A Texas ‘Handmaid’s Tale’: A Woman Controls Her Body, But Her Fetus Belongs To The State
Click here to read the article by Nancy Gerter on WBUR
At first glance, the scene is Kafkaesque. The John Peter Smith Hospital, citing Texas’ Advance...
Judicial Nominations
On February 6, 2014 Judge Gertner was on C-SPAN discussing Judicial Nominations with Senator Elizabeth Warren. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the keynote speaker at an Alliance for Justice forum on judicial nominations and diversity. She...
Tsarnaev Death Penalty Decision Causes Divide
Judge Gertner was interviewed regarding her thoughts on the decision to seek the death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. She is quoted as saying, “Even in this horrendous crime, our citizens believe that the death...
The Virtual Repeal of Kennedy-Johnson Administrations' 'Signature Achievement'
By Nancy Gertner
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Just when we are rightly...
Which Judges Breached the Rules?
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By Judge Nancy Gertner
As a former U.S. District Court...
Advice for the US Sentencing Commission from former USDJ Nancy Gertner
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I am genuinely unsure if the US Sentencing...
Keep Female Prisoners Close to Family
By Nancy Gertner and Judith Resnik
Just as Attorney General Eric Holder was...
If I Sentenced Manning
By Nancy Gertner
Forgive this title. It is a bit of a tease. In fact, I am completely skeptical of...
Public Defenders Fall to the Sequester
By Nancy Gertner and Paul Cassell. This article was published in the Wall Street Journal.
The American justice system is based on the principle that justice is only possible when everyone...
