Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of
illicit executive behavior on the domestic and international fronts, the Bush administration has …

Thirty years ago, the Church Committee completed what was and still is the most exhaustive
look at any government's secret intelligence agencies. The Committee showed that in times …

On November 7, 1989, the voters of the City of New York approved, by a vote of fifty-five
percent to forty-five percent, the broadest and most radical changes to their Charter since 1901.'…

Professor William E. Nelson has written a comprehensive, useful, and interesting history of a
government law office-the Corporation Counsel's office, or, as it is formally known, the New …

Before delving into these two subjects, it might be helpful to describe how I first became aware
of the overuse of government secrecy and of the harm this does to America. In 1975-at the …

Cardozo was a judge for twenty-four years and prior to that time a practicing lawyer for
twenty-three. While a majority of Cardozo Lecturers through the years have been judges, it …

The struggle of the civil rights movement for freedom and fairness is among the most important
events in America's history, and it had a great impact on my life. There were many heroic …

Mr. Schwarz’s opening remarks address the function of local and state governments in
stimulating more widespread change. He begins by providing examples of such inspiration to …

… In this important book, Frederick AO Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the US Church
Committee on Intelligence—which uncovered the FBI’s effort to push Martin Luther King Jr. to …

On the second day of his presidency, Barack Obama signed two memoranda for the heads
of executive departments and agencies, through which he committed his administration" to …