LAW ENFORCEMENT
May 15, 2013
"Critics Quick to Attack Obama Administration, but its Inquiry into AP Was Justified"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"...[T]he leak wasn't just an inside-the-Beltway jab at political enemies, and the story that resulted wasn't about infighting in the national security staff. The information cut to the heart of how America fights its enemies and the resources it uses to do so. An agent of ours had infiltrated a terrorist cell. He is no longer in the inner circle. The leaker may be to blame. And the investigation that has everyone up in arms was completely justified."
Summer 2013
"Q&A with Juliette Kayyem"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
Juliette Kayyem is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School who served as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the first Obama administration and headed homeland security efforts for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. Currently a columnist for the Boston Globe and analyst for CNN, Kayyem provided extensive analysis of the situation following the Boston Marathon bombings. We asked for her views on Boston’s response to the attack.
AP Photo
April 25, 2013
"The New Normal?"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"...[E]very aspect of the week's events from the security precautions taken at the finish line of the Marathon to the way the manhunt was conducted will provide new standards for public safety entities who learn from each other. Giving the task of performing such an evaluation to an independent assessor without past ties to Massachusetts law enforcement is essential. Public confidence will benefit because, before we know it, there will be another Marathon next year. A formal process of determining lessons learned, while memories are fresh, is part of an effective feedback loop."
April 12, 2013
"Why the Government Matters: A Primer for Data-Minded Entrepreneurs"
Op-Ed, Hive
By Vivek Mohan, Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project
"...[A]mong the informed public, fear of misuse of personal information is not limited to a wary eye towards cyber criminals — increasingly, concern has been voiced at the increasing power of the government in electronic surveillance."
April 11, 2013
"The Military's Sexual Assault Non-solution"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"...[T]he military can't trust its own senior leaders to do right and thus doesn't want them to have the power to do any more wrong. Seen in this light, there should be only cautious optimism in response to the Pentagon's move to protect victims of sexual crimes. The time to celebrate will be when the Pentagon can actually reduce sexual violence. That is about 19,000 sexual assaults a year away."
February 11, 2013
"Numbers Matter in Public Safety Reform"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Hundreds of books and academic studies have sought to analyze the major reduction in crime in New York City during mayor Rudy Giuliani's reign in the 1990s. Giuliani's basic proposition was that by focusing police efforts on minor crimes — like breaking windows — there would be a corresponding reduction in major crimes. Broken windows were just a symptom, the theory goes, of unstable environments that lead to more serious crimes....Of course, every major city achieved a significant drop in crime during the same period. What is now seriously in doubt is whether New York's reduction can be tied to a specific police tactic."
November 19, 2012
"BP Lets Employees Take the Fall"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"But if the indictments are meant to punish, they are also meant to guide conduct in the future. Individuals should be under no obligation to perform as company men, a message surely not to be missed by employees in industries that perform at high risk for high profits. The indictments break the myth that an employee should only think of what's best for his employer; BP, in admitting its own guilt, protected its senior management from prison but left Vidrine and Kaluza to face a courtroom."
November 19, 2012
The Pharaoh's Curse: Muhammad Morsi and the Temptations of Power
News
An audio recording of a lecture by Professor Ellis Goldberg at MEI on November 15.
November 6, 2012
Indigenous Challenge to Legal Doctrine: Bedouin Land Rights in Israel/Palestine
News
An audio recording of a discussion on November 1 with Ahmad Amara, Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer, and Oren Yiftachel, Professor of political geography, urban planning and public policy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
October 2012
"Decrypting the Fifth Amendment: The Limits of Self-Incrimination"
Journal Article, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law Heightened Scrutiny, volume 15
By Vivek Mohan, Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project and John Villasenor
In "Decrypting the Fifth Amendment: The Limits of Self-Incrimination in the Digital Era," Vivek Mohan and John Villasenor examine the scope of information protected from compelled self-incriminating disclosure by exploring the boundaries of the contents of the mind. They propose a framework for bringing the foregone conclusion doctrine, which was articulated in 1976, into the digital era, and conclude that the question of what constitutes a "testimonial act" must be revisited to proactively ensure that emerging technologies do not eviscerate the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
