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Judge Gertner Participates in Webinar Series "What are Prisons For?" at John Jay College

On November 4, 2021, Nancy Gertner participated in a webinar series called "What are Prisons For?" at the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College. Judge Gertner joined Renaldo Hudson of the Illinois Prison Project, Lee Kovarsky of...


Tianjin University Law School Hosts Judge Gertner to Discuss Trial Courts and Trial Court Culture

On October 26, 2021, Tianjin University Law School hosted a Zoom event with Judge Gertner to discuss trial courts and trial court culture.

Nancy Gertner is a former U.S. federal Judge who built her career around standing up for women's...


Do Supreme Court justices have competing judicial philosophies or are they just partisan hacks?

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Supreme Court justices have...


The Lawlessness Of The Supreme Court

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in a speech at the Mitch McConnell Center at the University of...


Unfinished Business

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By Nancy Gertner

In 2011, when I retired from the United States District Court in the District of Massachusetts, I...


Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing

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By Dean A. Strang and Nancy Gertner

Caron Nazario...


What Trump’s pardons say about criminal justice

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By Nancy Gertner and Dean A. Strang

Much ink has been spilled —...


A judicial undoing project

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By Nancy Gertner

In his 2016 book ...


Ruth Bader Ginsburg was all I wanted to be

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To watch a recording of the...


That Harvard racial disparities study: What’s left out

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By Nancy Gertner

In this summer of our racial discontent, with...


Prosecutors’ excessive zeal during the Tsarnaev Trial

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By Nancy Gertner, Martin F. Murphy, and Michael Keating

News reports...


Criminal Contempt Charges In Donziger Case Are Excessive

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By Nancy Gertner and Mark Bennett

For years, we have independently followed the...


The moment the police approached George Floyd, the wheels of injustice started

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By Nancy Gertner and Paul Bulter

If equal justice under the law had applied to...


Presidents Once Used This Law To Uphold Civil Rights And Protect Black Americans. Now Trump Is Trying To Silence Dissent

By Nancy Gertner

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True to form, President Donald Trump appears poised to blunder into an...


Coronavirus can mean a death sentence to prisoners

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By Nancy Gertner

Even with the coronavirus spreading in prisons, even though...


The American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announces New 2020 Members

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Cambridge, MA | April 23, 2020 – The American Academy of Arts & Sciences was...


Compassionate release now for prisoners vulnerable to the coronavirus

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By Nancy Gertner and John Reinstein

Prisons are Petri dishes for...


Stone case lays bare Barr’s not so just Justice Department

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When Department of Justice prosecutors told the judge...


This President Won't Be Deterred

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By Nancy Gertner

Modern deterrence theorists believe that if it’s likely you will...


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