Feb 8, 2013 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 46
The Supreme Court in Snyder extolled the protected status of hate speech as essential to First Amendment values, even when targeting a private funeral where it caused significant emotional harm to grieving family members. The Court in essence ruled that hate speech,...
Dec 3, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 45
Work-family policy debate in the United States has focused on work and the workplace, and has presumed its primary beneficiaries are women. Women’s increased participation in the workplace brought the conflict between work and family sharply into view, and generated...
Apr 3, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 45
There is good reason to think that law and war have nothing to do with one another, and this has certainly been so for most of the lifetime of mankind. Cicero’s famous observation—silent enim leges inter arma—from which I take my title, was not a novel insight when...
Aug 4, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 43
In November 2008, one week after Barack Obama was elected as our forty-fifth President, I had the honor of delivering a Donahue Lecture at Suffolk University Law School. “A National Security Agenda” offered thoughts on national security challenges, priorities and...
Aug 4, 2010 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 43
It was my great pleasure to come to Suffolk University Law School to join the ranks of the many distinguished individuals who have delivered the Donahue Lecture. The topic of this lecture is the simple chemical, carbon dioxide, which is, now officially, our newest...