Bernard E. Harcourt

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Bernard E. Harcourt (born January 28, 1963 ) is an American lawyer and political scientist . He researches and publishes on topics of social control in the “criminal and surveillance society” and, as a lawyer, represented prisoners who were sentenced to death or life imprisonment without parole.

He works at Columbia University in New York City and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris .

Life

Harcourt graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1984 , a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Harvard Law School in 1989 , and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. PhD. He has taught at various universities, including as a professor at the University of Chicago . He is currently Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Scientific Director at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris . He is co-editor of lectures by Michel Foucault . In 2016/2017 he was visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton .

As part of the Equal Justice Initiative , Harcourt served as an attorney on death row inmates in Montgomery, Alabama and Mobile, Alabama . Even today he is still active as a lawyer in such contexts. He also took part in human rights missions in South Africa and Guatemala . He was one of the initiators of an open letter signed by 2,400 law professors against the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh as judge of the Supreme Court .

In his writings he examines various forms of government in the “criminal and surveillance society”, especially in the world after September 11, 2001 and in the age of “Big Data”. He describes the recent development in the United States as counterinsurgency is becoming a form of government.

Fonts (selection)

  • Illusion of order. The false promise of broken windows policing . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2001, ISBN 0674004728 .
  • Language of the gun. Youth, crime, and public policy . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2006, ISBN 0226316084 .
  • Against prediction. Profiling, policing, and punishing in an actuarial age . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2007, ISBN 978-0-22-631613-0 .
  • The illusion of free markets. Punishment and the myth of natural order . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2011, ISBN 978-0-67-405726-5 .
  • Exposed. Desire and disobedience in the digital age . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2015, ISBN 978-0-67-450457-8 .
  • The Counterrevolution. How our Government went to War against its own Citizens . Basic Books, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-54-169728-7 .
    • Counter-revolution. The fight of the governments against their own citizens . From the American by Frank Lachmann, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397436-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Library of Congress.
  2. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, information is based on: Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia Law School
  3. ^ Bernard E. Harcourt at the Institute for Advanced Study.
  4. ^ Peter Schuler: Law professor gets inmate off death row in legal victory , The University of Chicago Chronicle, March 4, 2004.
  5. ↑ Carolin Emcke : Foreword to counter-revolution. The fight of the governments against their own citizens . From the American by Frank Lachmann, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397436-2 , pp. 11–14, here p. 14.
  6. ^ Carolin Emcke: Counterrevolution - America at war against its own citizens?
  7. ↑ Pearl Divers Review Notes
  8. ↑ Günter Beyer points out that the subtitle in the German translation is incorrect: “One government becomes several. In fact, Harcourt restricts himself to the USA. ”Beyer: Turning the wheel of history . Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Harcourt, Bernard E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harcourt, Bernard Edouard; Harcourt, Bernard E. Hamburger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1963