In the summer of 1985, I was 23 years old and poised to enter my last year of law school. Instead of working for a law firm that summer, I decided to explore law and justice in a completely different context. I applied for a summer fellowship with the newly created Harvard Human Rights Program and was given funding to do legal human rights work with “La Vicaria de Soledaridad,” a legal/social agency of the Catholic Church located in Santiago, Chile. Enthusiastic but naive, I had no idea what I was about to encounter under Chile’s military dictatorship, nor how that experience would be so meaningful to me years later.
Volume 5, 2019-20
Jesus and the Second Amendment by Fred Galves
The US Supreme Court recently addressed a gun carry law,in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. City of New York (argued on Dec.2,2019). The case should have been considered entirely moot because the law at issue, which limited carrying personal arms in public,had long since been repealed by the NY legislature. Remember the “actual case or controversy” constitutional requirement, making moot case non-justiciable?
Oh yeah, that.
