Bernard E. Harcourt: News

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Executive Director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His upcoming book, Cooperation, will be published by Columbia University Press in the spring of 2023. During the 2022-2023 academic year, he is convening the Utopia 13/13 seminar series and teaching a year-long seminar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His legal practice today includes death penalty litigation and civil impact litigation. 

His recent media appearances and publications appear below. 

• "Show and tell," Times Literary Supplement, July 23, 2021.
• "The Fight Ahead," Boston Review, January 7, 2021. 
• "Mayor De Blasio's Police Strategy Has Always Been Racist," Gothamist, June 26, 2020)
• "On Cooperationism: An End to the Economic Plague" Critical Inquiry, May 5, 2020.
• "American Democracy Has Been Eclipsed," The Nation, February 21, 2019.
• "Editorial: How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right," New York Review of Books, November 29, 2018.

• "The Ghoulish Pursuit of Executing a Terminally Ill Inmate," New York Times, December 20, 2017.

• The US Supreme Court and the issue of Capital Punishment. In conversation with Professor Bernard Harcourt, Columbia University (February 7, 2023, The San Francisco Experience, podcast)

• ‘The nation’s executioners’: the US supreme court’s shift towards capital punishment (January 12, 2023, Guardian)

• What is it like to survive an execution by lethal injection? (December 28, 2022, Guardian)

• De Google à Galula : sonder les âmes américaines à l’heure des midterms, une conversation avec Bernard Harcourt (November 8, 2022)

• Alabama inmate who survived execution bid buried with family (Associated Press, December 4, 2021)

• A freed Guantánamo Bay detainee is reunited with his family in Morocco (New York Times, Carol Rosenberg, July 20, 2021)

• "After Almost 20 Years, Guantanamo “Forever Prisoner” Abdul Latif Nasser Returns Home to Morocco," Press Release, July 19, 2021.

• Biden Administration Transfers First Detainee Out Of Guantánamo (NPR, Sacha Pfeiffer, July 19, 2021)

• Moroccan man held nearly 20 years without charges released from Guantanamo (ABC, Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, July 19, 2021)

• Biden Administration Transfers Its First Detainee From Guantánamo Bay (New York Times, Carol Rosenberg and Charles Savage, July 19, 2021)

• Bernard E. Harcourt awarded 46th Lionel Trilling Award by Columbia College for Critique & Praxis (Columbia Global Thought, May 12, 2021)

• ‘Troubling Tableau’ in 11th Circuit’s Prisoner Cases, Sotomayor Says (The New York Times, Adam Liptak, June 15, 2020)

• The Fall of the American Counterrevolution: President Trump’s use of counterinsurgency practices to control the population has triggered the revolution he dreaded (El País, Bernard E. Harcourt, June 11, 2020)

• Professor Bernard E. Harcourt Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Review Arbitrariness of Judicial Review in Federal Habeas Corpus Cases (May 13, 2020)

• Professor Bernard E. Harcourt is at the Center of Columbia’s Focus on Justice (The Record, Sabina Lee and Gary Shapiro, March 26, 2019)