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“While a growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill have voiced concern over the rising economic costs of US aid to Ukraine,” Goldsmith writes, “an innovative way of providing Ukraine with economic aid absent the expenditure of additional US resources exists: the transfer of Russian central bank reserves held in the US into Ukrainian hands.”

Read more here: https://hulr.org/spring-2023/rebuilding-ukraine

“The Constitution was intended to reflect the highest moral standards of the country; should Americans allow the Second Amendment to prevail in the face of overwhelming violence, the American government becomes complacent within a greater crime against the very legitimacy of its institution, ” writes Isabelle Ritchie in her recent piece in our Spring 2023 Issue.
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Read more here: https://hulr.org/spring-2023/second-amendment

We are excited to meet with Kristin Amerling today at 7pm in Sever 306! Amerling is a current IOP Fellow and was senior counsel on the January 6th Committee Hearings.

NOTE- all those who are interested in being a part of masthead next semester are strongly encouraged to attend!

“Although it has taken important steps to improve U.S. air quality, the scope of the Clean Air Act is nonetheless insignificant and rapidly declining,” writes Adelaide Parker. “The Clean Air Act is limited in its ability to address air pollution hotspots, and as a result of recent administrative and legal action, has become significantly weaker in addressing pollution and climate change on all scales."

Read more here: https://hulr.org/fall-2022/limitations-of-the-clean-air-act

We are very excited to welcome Professor Adriaan Lanni this Tuesday to Harvard Hall! Professor Lanni is Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Adjudication, Restorative Justice, the Criminal Justice Workshop, and Ancient Law.

Before teaching at Harvard, she received her B.A., summa cm laude, from Yale University, her M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and her J.D from Yale University. She also has a Ph.D in History from the University of Michigan.

We are so excited to announce that HULR is holding a Speaker Session with Pratima Narayan on Tuesday, March 21st at 7PM in Sever 113. Tasty Burger will be served. Can't wait to see you there!

Pratima is currently the U.S. Foreign Policy Division Advocacy Director of the Open Society Foundations. She recently served as a deputy director with the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience where she oversees several programs in transitional justice and atrocity prevention in East Africa, as well as in Bangladesh with Rohingya communities. Prior to this, Pratima served as the chief of investigations for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. In 2018, she was one of 18 investigators selected globally to participate in a U.S. Department of State investigation into atrocities allegedly committed against Rohingya communities in Myanmar. Pratima has also held various other positions with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Apply today for HULR's Spring Comp! Applications are due this Friday, February 10th, at 11:59PM. Comp is available for both operations and publishing tracks. No legal writing experience required.

Check out one of our recent short articles from writer Belle Souza.

From the abstract of this piece: "The recent passing of the Work and Mobility Bill in the Massachusetts House legislature, has inspired legal debates over whether or not undocumented immigrants should be able to obtain a driver’s license. This article argues that due to several Human Rights violations and civil rights violations, this bill should be passed everywhere in the U.S."

Read more here: https://lnkd.in/epa-cc2T

Tonight was the HULR’s final meeting of the semester. It was also Jack and Lucy’s final meeting as Co-Presidents! We celebrated with gingerbread cookies made by the lovely Hana! Thank you Jack and Lucy for all of your amazing work this past year, and thank you to our staff writers for making this semester wonderful!

Keep an eye for our upcoming short articles!

Yesterday, the HULR was honored to host a speaker session with Dr. Michele Goodwin. Dr. Goodwin holds the Chancellor’s Professorship at the University of California, Irvine and is the founder and director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. We had an amazing session discussing health law, amongst other topics. Thank you to Dr. Goodwin!

In light of current events, the Harvard Undergraduate Law Review would like to highlight its Angles on Affirmative Action Roundtable.

In this collection of articles, some of our writers came together to discuss different perspectives and laws surrounding affirmative action. This collection includes articles by Rishi Mohan, Dylan Hu, and Sydney Bloch.

You can read their amazing work here:
https://hulr.org/angles-on-affirmative-action

"105 years have passed since the United States granted American citizenship to the people of Puerto Rico. Nevertheless, Puerto Ricans still suffer from an unequal treatment by the United States government and they are subject to continued discrimination in a variety of government programs," writes staff writer Ramón Rivera Calo in his most recent article.

Read more here: https://hulr.org/spring-2022/unequal-treatment