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Boston Phoenix | May 10, 2007

If ever there was a time, it's now; if ever there were a place it is Guantanamo Bay, where detainees have been held indefinitely without clearly defined procedures for determining their guilt or innocence of charges that are shadowy and ill-defined -- a situation that makes a joke of the rule of law.

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More by Harvey Silverglate

The Gates Case Isn't About Racenew

The weeks-long hubbub over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. by the Cambridge Police Department has centered on race, understandably. But the racial façade of the story has obscured two other bottom-line truths that should govern the "Gates-gate" conversation.

Boston Phoenix | Harvey Silverglate | 08-06-2009 | Civil Liberties

Tags: Cambridge Police Department, constitutional law, First Amendment Rights, Racial Issues, Social Issues, law, police, Harvard, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The RIAA vs. Free Speechnew

The US recording industry is attempting to block the free public Webcast of its courtroom proceedings against Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University grad student accused of illegally downloading music,

Boston Phoenix | Kyle Smeallie and Harvey Silverglate | 02-05-2009 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil liberties, Joel Tenenbaum, Recording Industry Association of America