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From Harvard Magazine: The Justice Gap
A look into America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law.”
Harvard Law School: 200 Years, Countless Stories
As 2017 draws to a close, we invite you to reflect on the stories that have shaped Harvard Law School over the past 200 years.
The need to talk about race
Bryan Stevenson has battled through the courts, defending the wrongly convicted and children prosecuted as adults, while condemning mass incarceration and racial bias in the criminal justice system; now, he is embarking on a fight to start a national conversation about the painful legacy of slavery, which he says “continues to haunt us today.”
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HLS Bicentennial
Moved to Question, Prepared to Reason, Called to Act
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Recent Scholarship by HLS Faculty
- Behavioral economics finally goes mainstream: 4 essential reads December 21, 2017 The Conversation
- Could Facebook Be Tried for Human-Rights Abuses? December 21, 2017 The Atlantic
- In Tax Overhaul, Trump Tries to Defy the Economic Odds December 21, 2017 The New York Times
- Students defrauded by for-profits may not get full relief December 21, 2017 The Associated Press
- Focus On Talent To Prepare For The Entry Of Foreign Law Firms, Says Harvard Law’s Wilkins December 21, 2017 Bloomberg
- What Will You Do if Mueller is Fired? December 21, 2017 Just Security
- Harvard to Pay ‘Unprecedented’ Endowment Tax December 21, 2017 The Harvard Crimson
- The Transformation of Sexual-Harassment Law will be Double-Faced December 21, 2017 The New Yorker
HLS in the World | Marbury v. Madison
Play VideoAs part of Harvard Law School's bicentennial celebration, Supreme Court advocates and constitutional law scholars Laurence Tribe ’66, Harvard’s Carl M. Loeb University Professor, and Kathleen Sullivan ’81, former dean of Stanford Law School, reargued the landmark 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, in the Ames Courtroom. Hearing the case was an all-star quartet of HLS alumni who serve on federal appeals courts: Merrick Garland ’77, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, presided. He was joined by Judge Joseph Greenaway Jr. ’81 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, Judge Jane Kelly ’91 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, and Judge Patricia Millett ’88, who also serves on the D.C. Circuit. Harvard Law School Story Senior Lecturer Susan Davies served as faculty host for the reargument.