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The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought seeks to bridge theory and practice. Along this dimension, the Center directly engages contemporary social issues through practical engagements, including litigation and public policy interventions. It brings contemporary theory to bear on current social problems, primarily in the area of punishment practices and penal law.

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

• Mayor De Blasio's Police Strategy Has Always Been Racist (Gothamist, Bernard E. Harcourt, June 26, 2020)

• ‘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)

• On Cooperationism: An End to the Economic Plague (Critical Inquiry, Bernard E. Harcourt, May 5, 2020)

• "American Democracy Has Been Eclipsed" (The Nation, Bernard E. Harcourt, February 21, 2019)

• Heartbeat Opera advocates for criminal and social justice reform with ‘Fidelio’ adaptation (Columbia Spectator, Fonda Shen, December 3, 2018)

• Editorial: How Trump Fuels the Fascist Right (New York Review of Books, Bernard E. Harcourt, November 29, 2018)

• Nearly One Million Felons Given the Right to Vote. Is This the Beginning of a Movement? (Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, November 17, 2018)

• Students Win Medical Treatment for Alabama Inmate (Columbia Law School, November 7, 2018)

• Bernard E. Harcourt Challenges Constitutionality of Lethal Injection in Alabama Death Penalty Case (Columbia Law School, June 8, 2018)
   
• Bernard Harcourt and the State of Alabama Settle Civil Rights and Habeas Corpus Lawsuits (Columbia Law School, March 27, 2018)
   
• Death Penalty Madness  in Alabama (The New York Times, February 27, 2018)
   
• Students Successfully Advocate for Client in Visa Case (Columbia Law School, September 6, 2017)
   
• A Syrian Doctor with a Visa is Suing the Trump Administration (The New Yorker, February 1, 2017)
   
• A Syrian Doctor Returns to Illinois (The New Yorker, February 2, 2017)
   
• "The Long Defense of the Alabama Death-Row Prisoner Doyle Lee Hamm" (The New Yorker, September 13, 2016)
   
• "Foucault and the Birth of Biopolitics" (Columbia Law School, February 9, 2016)
   
• "In Alabama death penalty cases, judges' opinions are routinely written by prosecutors" (The Washington Post, June 23, 2016)
   
• "Hasty Death Penalty Review Raises Doubt in Alabama" (Bloomberg View, June 22, 2016)
   
• "The Death Penalty Case Where Prosecutors Wrote the Judge’s ‘Opinion’" (The Marshall Project, June 19, 2016)
   
• "Legal Confusions and Political Calculations: The European Refugee Crisis" (The Hannah Arendt Center, April 15, 2016)
   
• "Foucault, la société punitive et l'Amérique avec Bernard Harcourt" (France Culture, March 23, 2016)
   
• "Cover-Up in Chicago" (The New York Times, November 30, 2015)
   
• "Foucault 13/13: The First Seminar" (Columbia Law School, September 14, 2015)
   
• "Unpacking Foucault" (Columbia Law School, August 6, 2015)
   
• "Spectacle and Surveillance" (Columbia Law School, March 19, 2015)
   
• "Law school launches center on critical thinking" (Columbia Spectator, October 28, 2014) 
   
• "Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Launches" (Columbia Law School, October 7, 2014)