The Columbia Law Review (CLR) has been reinstated online following a controversy over the censorship of an article discussing Palestine. CLR’s board had taken the journal offline in response to the publication of the article titled “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.” The board expressed concerns about the publication process. But student editor...
The Columbia Law Review journal removed its entire website after publishing an article on the Nakba by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah, who is also a Harvard Law student. The Nakba, meaning “Catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement of Palestinians during Israel’s war on the region in 1947 and 48, whic...
