HOME / SEARCH / OUR WORK / SITE /

Search

Did you mean
fellow

Search results

    Hungary’s Attack on Academic Freedom
    John Shattuck. 4/3/2017. “Hungary’s Attack on Academic Freedom”.Abstract
    See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow John Shattuck.

    An authoritarian nationalist regime in Hungary is threatening a renowned international university in Budapest. Legislation introduced last week by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban would fundamentally alter the legal status of Central European University and could force it to shut down or leave the country.

    What’s going on in Hungary is not a local political dispute, but a frontal assault on liberal values essential to democracy and academic freedom.

    Full Op-Ed here.

    Mark Wolf

    Judge Mark Wolf

    Senior Fellow

    Mark Wolf was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 1985, served as its Chief Judge from 2006 through 2012, and...

    Read more about Mark Wolf

    Technology & Human Rights Fellowship

    The deadline for this application cycle has passed. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on our latest opportunities.

     

    The Technology and Human Rights Fellowship is part of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy’s project to examine how technological advances over the next several decades will affect the future of human life, as well as the protections provided by the human rights framework.

    The project invites applications from individuals to affiliate with the Center for one academic year to conduct research on the ethical and...

    Read more about Technology & Human Rights Fellowship
    This Is What Will Happen If Trump Brings Back Secret Prisons
    Kathryn Sikkink and Avery Schmitt. 2/10/2017. “This Is What Will Happen If Trump Brings Back Secret Prisons.” The Washington Post .Abstract
    An analysis, in The Washington Post, from Carr Center's Kathryn Sikkink and research fellow Avery Schmitt.

    "Amid the flurry of executive orders issued by President Trump during his first week in office, one remains a work in progress. A draft version of the executive order on the “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants” has been leaked. It is a complex document with many provisions — all appeared designed to make it possible for the Trump administration to return to Bush policy of secret kidnapping, detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists.

    Although the Trump administration has publicly backed away from some aspects of the order, Trump’s decision to appoint Gina Haspel — who has been accused of running one of the Bush era secret prisons that tortured inmates — as deputy head of the CIA suggests that Trump continues to be interested in returning to past practices. The mixed signals coming from the administration mean that it is still important to explain what a return of the secret prison system might mean."

    Full article at The Washington Post. 

Pages