First, stop the self-flagellation: The labor movement lives, and is getting stronger.
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Gertner Responds to Brodsky on University Rules for Campus Sexual Assault Justice
The author took issue in the Prospect with Harvard’s new guidelines for disciplinary proceedings in campus rape cases. Alexandra Brodsky offered an opposing view on our website.
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Fair Process, Not Criminal Process, Is the Right Way to Address Campus Sexual Assault
School investigations don’t look like trials because they aren’t supposed to.
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Are the French Free Expression Hypocrites?
Last week, I suggested that while the outpouring of support and unity in the wake of the horrific murders of staff members of Charlie Hebdo in France seems to be about free expression in the abstract and not about defending particular kinds of expression, we might be misleading ourselves a bit on that score. Many […]
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Labor at a Crossroads: In Defense of Members-Only Unionism
Allowing members-only unions would protect the rights of those who wish to bargain collectively even if they fail to surmount all the legal hurdles necessary to establish the union as the representative of all employees in the workplace.
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Remedy for an Ailing Civil Justice System: Preventive Legal Care
The proper and efficient administration of justice is in jeopardy when we leave so many people to their own devices in our courts.
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Labor at a Crossroads: Can Broadened Civil Rights Law Offer Workers a True Right to Organize?
It’s one way to allow victims of anti-union discrimination to sue in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages.
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Sex, Lies and Justice
Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?
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Movements for Racial Justice and Economic Justice Could Converge to Form a Powerhouse for Change
What sort of policies—what sort of majority support in the country—can we imagine that will fix what is broken?
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We Can’t Forget: Black Women Are Targeted, Too
“It’s not just the brothers dying; I’m at risk too,” Joanne says. “I could be the next person.”