Hard Cases

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam "Hard Cases make Bad Law"; behind this adage (which we will explore) are often competing yet compelling norms and doctrines. When should individual liberty include authority for parents over their minor children's education and health care and when should children's own rights and interests- or priorities or the state- prevail? Should freedom of the press govern or instead rights of criminal defendants when setting boundaries of trial…