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Harvey's Publications

Harvey's book The Shadow University, co-authored by Alan Kors, is available in both hardcover and paperback

Harvey's writings have appeared in the following publications (incomplete list):

The Boston Bar Journal

  • 4/97 "Old Wine in New Bottles: Cyberspace and the Criminal Law"

The Boston Globe

The Boston Herald

Boston Magazine

  • 10/97 "The Gardner Heist" (Letter to the Editor)

The Boston Phoenix

2008 Columns

2007 Columns

2006 Columns

2005 Essays

  • 9/09/05 "Poetic License" (Is the 9/11 Commission Report the First American Epic?) with Leslie Dunton-Downer and Daniel Aaron.

2005 Columns

2004 Columns

2003 Columns

2002 Columns

2001 Columns

2000 Columns

Columns prior to 2000:

  • 2/19/99 "Decency Denied" (Lessons of Clinton/Starr)
  • 2/12/99 "Wanted: Free Speech" ("The Nuremberg Files" website)
  • 9/18/98 They Deserve Each Other (Starr/Clinton)
  • 8/ 7/98 "Before the Flood" (Clinton should demand impeachment hearings)
  • 7/16/98 "Liberty's flame" (Flag burning)
  • 7/ 3/98 "Indecent defeat?" (Supreme Court decision on NEA)
  • 6/19/98 "The Fells Acre Tragedy" (Amirault case)
  • 4/10/98 "Attorney-client privilege: A dead issue?" (Zippergate #10)
  • 4/ 3/98 "Monica's reading list" (Zippergate #9)
  • 3/27/98 "Wentworth's Whorehouse" (Wentworth Institute of Technology)
  • 3/27/98 "Feminists for Clinton" (Zippergate #8)
  • 3/20/98 "Hardball and hush money (Zippergate #7)
  • 3/13/98 "Values clarification" (Zippergate #6)
  • 3/6/98 "Starr's un-American activities" (Zippergate #5)
  • 2/27/98 "Family Matters" (Zippergate #4)
  • 2/20/98 "Serving Justice?" (Zippergate #3)
  • 2/13/98 "Live by the Leak, die by the leak" (Zippergate #2)
  • 9/16/97 "A Civilian Force for Change" (NY police brutality against Abner Louima)
  • 8/1/97 "Justice Lost" (William Brennan)
  • 6/23/97 "The Judge and the FBI" (Wolff)
  • 6/20/96 "Vice Talk: A proposed ban on booze ads smacks of '50s paternalism"
  • 6/14/96 "Firestorm: A lawyer stops an arsonist and creates blaze in court" (Jeff Purcell, GBLS)
  • 3/1/96 Letter to the Editor on the Angeli Case
  • 2/9/96 "No Excuse: Zona Labs and its legal allies should have known better"
  • 6/23/95 "Cautionary Tale: The Supreme Court is upholding rights that the SJC endangered" (Bowman/Heller)
  • 5/26/95 Letter to the Editor on the Amirault Case
  • 1/20/95 "Freedom of Speech: The St. Patrick's Day Parade Controversy"
  • 1/13/95 "Freedom: Freedom of speech vs. Freedom from fear"
  • 8/19/94 "Spin Control: The real reason prosecutors hate checkbook journalism"
  • 5/27/94 "Robojudge: Stephen Breyer may be the right man at wrong time"
  • 3/11/94 "Protected Hate: The St. Patrick's Day parade and the sad case of Jimmy Flaherty"
  • 3/4/94 "Civil Wrongs: The road to tyranny is paved with good intentions"
  • 2/11/94 "Tabloid Justice"
  • 12/10/93 "Uncivil Tongues: MIT downgrades freedom of speech"
  • 10/29/93 "Speak no evil: Judge's gag order could choke the Constitution"
  • 9/24/93 "Truth Decay: PBS documentary underscores the dangers of PC on campus"
  • 9/3/93 "Timilty's Trials: Jurors are starting to rebel against prosecutorial abuses"
  • 5/7/93 "Cult Control: Federal self-interest fueled the deadly Waco siege"
  • 3/12/93 "Vexed Vets: Why anti-gay parade officials may have the law on their side"
  • 2/12/93 "Sleight of mind: Clinton knows the courts won't quash the military's ban on gays"
  • 1/29/93 "Human Touch: Justice Marshall's life shaped his opinions -- and the Court
  • 1/1/93 "Clean Sweep: Why Clinton's AG should purge the Justice Department"
  • 12/4/92 "Go Directly to Jail: The SJC should overturn Weld's repressive bail law"
  • 11/20/92 "Not Guilty: A new book exposes the death penalty's biggest flaw"
  • 11/6/92 "Cold War Casualty: Why the Hiss case still matters"
  • 10/30/92 "Boomerang" (Perot/Bush accusation, FBI sting)
  • 10/23/92 "Power Play" (Mavroules trial, Tauro recusal)
  • 9/4/92 "Trampled Rights - How the Feds Stack the Deck Against Criminal Defendants"
  • 7/31/92 "Stay of Execution"
  • 6/26/92 "Imperial Justice" (S.Ct. kidnapping decision)
  • 6/19/92 "Bait and Switch" (Patriarca/Cotter/Chapman sentencing)
  • 5/15/92 "Cybersnoops" (FBI/Digital Phone Tapping)
  • 4/3/92 "Habeas Corpses"
  • 2/28/92 "Dirty Minds"
  • 10/4/91 "The Pursuit of Power"
  • 4/19/91 "Another Step Towards a Police State"
  • 2/1/91 "A Threat to Free Speech"
  • 1/11/91 "More Voltage for the Death Penalty"
  • 1/23/90 "Are Rape Idealogues Running Amok?" (Campus Date Rape)
  • 7/6/90 "Unnatural Act: Should Consensual Sex Be Criminalized?"
  • 6/8/90 "Weld Makes Hay From Dead Weeds" (White/Anzalone/Weld)
  • 6/1/90 "Drug War Follies - Refuge of Scoundrels"
  • 5/11/90 "Drug War Follies - Profiles of `mules' make asses out of police"
  • 12/29/89 "Orwell's 1984, Five Years Later"
  • 10/20/89 "To Be Young, Black, and Frisked"
  • 10/13/89 "Segregating Speech on Campus" (Tufts)
  • 8/18/89 "Lewin's Loss, and Ours" 
  • 8/11/89 "Free Speech Heads for a Fall"
  • 7/28/89 "What's Right About Offensive Speech"
  • 7/7/89 "The Court's Dark Vision of America" (Webster decision)
  • 6/30/89 "Seeds of Dowd"
  • 6/23/89 "A Curse on the First"
  • 3/10/89 "Making of a Crooked Case"
  • 2/24/89 "Going to the Dog: The Mail-Odorous Campaign" (Lynn case)
  • 1/6/89 "North's Nuremberg Defense" (North trial/Iran-Contra)
  • 1 2/30/88 "The End of Innocents" (Youngblood case)
  • 12/9/88 "Going South on North" (North trial/Iran-Contra)
  • 12/2/88 "A Pardonable Sin?" (North trial/Iran-Contra)
  • 11/4/88 "Courting Disaster"
  • 10/7/88 "Card Carrying Members"
  • 9/30/88 "Giving the Union Its Due"
  • 7/1/88 "Hardly Cracking the Club Doors"
  • 6/3/88 "And Justice For All" (North prosecution/Iran-Contra)
  • 5/20/88 "Oliver North's Escape?: Thwarting the Iran-Contra case"
  • 4/15/88 "A bankrupt verdict on The Bible Speaks" McCarran-Walter Act
  • 2/5/88 "Taking Liberties" (Reagan Judges and Ind. Prosecutors)
  • 12/11/87 "Distress Signal" (Flynt v. Falwell case)
  • 10/16/87 "Bork Chops - Talking Out of Turn"
  • 10/2/87 "Bork Chops - The Nominee's Poor Bedside Manner"
  • 9/25/87 "Bork Chops - Freedom to Segregate"
  • 8/7/87 "But Look at All the Other Stuff He's Done" (Reagan years)
  • 7/17/87 "Dummies Like a Fox - Reagan's Judicial Nihilists"
  • 7/10/87 "Origins of Specious: The most self-serving of intentions"
  • 6/5/87 "Affording Innocence" (Raymond Donovan)
  • 5/22/87 "Signifying Nothing" (Rehnquist BU commencement address)
  • 5/1/87 "What the Supreme Court Wouldn't Hear" (Linnas Nazi deportation)
  • 4/24/87 "Lawbreaking to Expose Lawlessness" (Amy Carter)
  • 4/17/87 "Why `brainwash' doesn't wash"
  • 3/31/87 "Getting Handled" (Prison visitor searches by guards)
  • 12/9/86 "On Orders From a Higher Authority" (Iran-Contra)
  • 10/28/86 "The New FBI" (William Webster/COINTELPRO)
  • 10/7/86 "Judging Heffernan"
  • 8/12/86 "Rehnquist Update & Wahidullah/INS story"
  • 7/22/86 "Fraser 'offensive speech' case"
  • 10/1/85 "Porn Again: A Civil-rights Issue By Any Other Name" (Dworkin-MacKinnon Cambridge anti-porn bill)
  • 9/17/85 "Tauro/Zannino Heart Condition"
  • 9/3/85 "Tauro Dismissal of Dailey Marijuana Prosecution"
  • 11/17/81 "Turning Point: The Dangers of Bartered Testimony"
  • 10/6/81 "Prince of the City: The Facts of the Case"
  • 5/4/81 "Memphis `Badge of Slavery' Supreme Court Decision"
  • 3/10/81 "The Burger-King anti-crime menu"

The CATO Journal

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Harvard Crimson

Inc. Technology Magazine

Los Angeles Times

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

Media Studies Journal

The National Law Journal

  • 8/2/06 "Restoring habeas corpus" (with Phil Cormier, on House v. Bell and its implications for the MacDonald case)
  • 2/27/06 "Real agenda: future power" (NSA Surveillance Program)
  • 10/17/05 "Assault on college press" (Hosty v. Carter; student press)
  • 9/30/02 "Muzzling free speech" (With Josh Gewolb)
  • 1/28/02 "O.J. as litmus test"
  • 12/3/01 "First Amendment: casualty of war"
  • 9/24/01 "Let's not trade freedom for security"
  • 8/20/01 "Who gets to do the taping?"
  • 6/28/01 "Courts let the FBI run amok" (missing McVeigh files)
  • 5/14/01 "Let's hear it for parody"
  • 3/19/01 "Kid-porn law goes too far" (Free Speech Coalition v. Reno)
  • 12/11/00 "Teach at your own risk" (George Fletcher/Columbia Law School)
  • 10/16/00 "Will they ever learn? " (Wen Ho Lee)
  • 9/11/00 "Freedom Seems Academic" (Urofsky v. Gilmore)
  • 5/8/00 "One-way ticket for Elian" (Elian Gonzalez)
  • 4/24/00 "The Right to private pee" (urine tests for pregnant women)
  • 3/20/00 "Change police perception" (Diallo)
  • 2/14/00 "Lying is part of the FBI's job" (FBI & Wen Ho Lee)
  • 12/20/99 "Threat to academic freedom (Catholic bishops)
  • 10/25/99 "6th Circuit just doesn't get it" (Kincaid decision)
  • 8/30/99 "Prior Restraint in California" (Aguilar v. Avis)
  • 5/19/99 "Tipping the evidence scale"
  • 3/1/99 "'Miranda' Upheaval Unlikely"
  • 11/30/98 "Pleas: Justice or Bribery?"
  • 10/12/98 "At area colleges, a disturbing trend on hate speech" (Coauthored with Alan Kors)
  • 8/17/98 "Lawyers Called Conspirators"
  • 8/17/98 "Immunity is Not for Sale, says the Tenth Circuit" (US v Singleton)
  • 8/17/98 "Coming Soon 'Lolita,' the Lawyer's Cut"
  • 6/22/98 "'Race Profiling' Inflicts Injustice on Individuals"
  • 4/27/98 "Clinton v. Starr v. Clinton may make Court act"
  • 2/16/98 "Prosecutors Tread Where Defendants Daren't Go"
  • 12/22/97 "Tape Defendant's Statements, or Don't Use It"
  • 8/4/97 "The End of Life is not a Special-Interest Issue"
  • 5/12/97 "Cults, Heaven's Gate and the First Amendment"
  • 4/14/97 "States, Feds and Doctors Tangle in Drug War"
  • 4/3/97 "Gagging Physicians: Abortion versus Marihuana"
  • 3/3/97 "Is Summary Disposition Cowardly Avoidance?"
  • 1/27/97 "Death Penalty Reprieve Still Hangs Up Prisoner"
  • 12/23/96 "The Perils of Being a Juror with a Conscience"
  • 9/23/96 "A Fine Line Between Suborning and Encouraging"
  • 8/19/96 "Star Chamber Redux: Secret Court in America"
  • 7/1/96 "Secret as a Confession?"
  • 4/29/96 "Paying the Piper Who Protects Our Freedoms"
  • 3/4/96 "Cyber Speech at Risk"
  • 1/8/96 "P.C. Gags Fair Harvard"
  • 1/13/95 "American Family Values"
  • 10/10/95 "Simpson Jury Sends a Subtle Message on Race"
  • 9/11/95 "Free Exercise Revisited"
  • 7/24/94 "Net Ignorance is Bliss"
  • 5/22/95 "Is It Paranoia or Fear"
  • 3/27/95 "Tale of Two Parades: Gays, St. Patrick's Day and Culture War"
  • 1/20/95 "Use of Informers Hurts Accuseds' Rights"
  • 12/12/94 "'Fighting Words' Redux"

The New York Post

  • 2/25/08 "Rachel's Law" (on Rachel Ehrenfeld and libel tourism, with Sam Abady)

The New York Times Book Review

The Philadelphia Inquirer

  • 1/27/94 "Testing the Bounds of Intimidation at Swarthmore"

Real Paper

  • 8/11/79 "Proposed Carter Nominee Under Fire"
  • 7/14/79 "Tossing a Lousy Hot Potato to Courts"
  • 4/28/79 "Investigation of DA Needed in Blackfriars Case"
  • 3/24/79 "Bad Boy Roy Slapped Hard by the SJC"
  • 3/10/79 "The Scott Case: Bad News for McKenney"
  • 12/16/78 "In Defense of Cults"
  • 12/2/78 "Organized Crime Overkill"
  • 7/1/78 "The Lessons of Injustice"
  • 4/22/78 "Knowing Bonin by His Enemies"
  • 4/15/78 "Judge McKenney's Lament"
  • 3/28/78 "How Judge McKenney Beats Bail Reform"
  • 2/25/78 "Prisoners' Rights and Wrongs"
  • 12/24/77 "The Other Case Against Judge Bonin"
  • 11/26/77 "How Richard Helms Did In the Government"
  • 11/12/77 "The U.S. Courts as Political Bullies"
  • 10/22/77 "Blowing Court Reform"
  • 2/26/77 "Witnesses for the Prosecution"
  • 3/31/76 "How Bailey Blew It"

Reason Magazine

Slate Magazine

The Village Voice

The Wall Street Journal

The Washington Times

Wilson Quarterly

Last Updated January 30, 2008

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