Justice Denied in the Bronx
By Nancy Gertner | New York Law Journal | May 13, 2016 Access to justice means more than fancy courthouses, a courtroom with high ceilings, the American flag unfurled, and even compelling quotes from...
View ArticleHard Time Gets a Hard Look by Judge Nancy Gertner
The Harvard Gazette covers a new Harvard Law School course led by CLBB’s Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), which approaches the problem of mass incarceration from interdisciplinary perspectives. The course,...
View ArticleHow ‘Confused’ Could Jeff Sessions Have Been?
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | March 6, 2017 That Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a false statement under oath before a congressional committee is clear. He said, “I did not have...
View ArticleJudge Gorsuch is More Dangerous Than He Appears
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | April 3, 2017 He sounds so judicial. He talks about neutrality, raising plain vanilla issues about deference to the expertise of administrative agencies. It is...
View ArticleMandatory Minimum Sentences are Cruel and Ineffective. Sessions Wants Them Back.
By Nancy Gertner | The Washington Post | May 15, 2017 Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed the nation’s 2,300 federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges in all but...
View ArticleWhat Comey’s Testimony Means
CLBB Managing Director Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.) is interviewed after former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. By Christina Pazzanese | Harvard Gazette | June...
View Article19-Year-Olds Don’t Belong in Adult Prisons
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | June 20, 2017 Governor Baker introduced a criminal justice bill in February to great fanfare. Designed to give prisoners incarcerated on mandatory minimum...
View ArticleCLBB Welcomes New Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience!
We’re excited to announce our 2017–2018 Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience, Francis X. Shen! Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience The Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, now entering...
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NEW DATE: APRIL 9– Crimes of Passion: New Neuroscience vs. Old Doctrine
The criminal law often sees love and passion turned into violence. How does this happen? And how should law respond? Many doctrines, most notably the “heat of passion” defense – which historically has...
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Compassionate Release Now for Prisoners Vulnerable to the Coronavirus
CLBB Advisory Board Member Attorney John Reinstein and CLBB Managing Director Judge (Ret.) Nancy Gertner published this Op-Ed in the Boston Globe on March 23, 2020: Prisons are Petri dishes for disease...
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