News Archive
2002/07
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Times of War
- Professor Christopher Edley writes: "It is becoming increasingly clear that while reorganizing and mobilizing for homeland security, we also need to construct a practical means of addressing wartime threats to civil liberties and civil rights.... What to do? Within the new agency of homeland security, Congress should create an independent Office of Rights and Liberties, headed by a Senate-confirmed director. This director should have the powers of a super-inspector general, but focused solely on monitoring compliance with civil liberties and civil rights norms in the government-wide war." (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) [Thu, 25 Jul 2002]
- Wolfman Explores Accounting Reform
- Professor Bernard Wolfman writes: "The United States Senate is about to pass a bill called the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. If it becomes law, that will be good, but for two reasons it will not be good enough. The bill is designed to eliminate auditor conflict-of-interest but it fails to achieve its goal in two major respects." (Tax Notes) [Mon, 22 Jul 2002]
- Southern African Tax Institute Established
- On June 23, the Harvard Law School International Tax Program joined with the University of Pretoria, University of the Witswatersrand, and the University of South Africa in establishing the Southern African Tax Institute in a ceremony at the University of Pretoria. [Fri, 19 Jul 2002]
- Berkman Center Examines Saudi Arabian Filtering
- Researchers from Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society have released a report concluding that the Saudi Arabian government maintains an active interest in filtering non-sexually explicit Web content. [Tue, 16 Jul 2002]
- Professor Phil Heymann on the Power to Imprison
- Professor Phil Heymann writes: "The argument is that holding enemy combatants as prisoners is a normal, necessary condition of fighting a war. But this is too far from a conventional war, and the seizures have been too far from combat, and the basis for seizure too open to factual questions to have the most fundamental rights of Americans resolved by simply deciding whether the terrorism we face can plausibly be called 'war.'" (The Washington Post) [Sun, 07 Jul 2002]