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Banned Books Week at Harvard Law: How censorship leaves us in the dark

Banned Books Week at Harvard Law: How censorship leaves us in the dark

This year marks the fourth time the Harvard Law School Library has hosted Banned Books Week, an annual program of exploration and discussion spearheaded by the American Library Association in support of the right to read.

Harvard Food Law Clinic calls for greater nutrition education in the medical field

Harvard Food Law Clinic calls for greater nutrition education in the medical field

A recent report out of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic calls for greater nutrition education in the medical field, and identifies policy approaches to increase nutrition competency of U.S-trained physicians.

The presidential impeachment inquiry: Harvard Law constitutional scholars weigh in

The presidential impeachment inquiry: Harvard Law constitutional scholars weigh in

With the launch of the presidential impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives, constitutional scholars at Harvard Law School weigh in on both the current controversy and on this rarely used and poorly understood congressional power.

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Recent Scholarship by HLS Faculty

Recent Scholarship by HLS Faculty

Bounded Rationality and the Theory of Property

Oren Bar-Gill (with Nicola Persico)

On Repugnance, Distribution, and the Global Kidney Exchange

I. Glenn Cohen

Restating the Architecture of Property

Henry E. Smith

Making Directed Trusts Work: The Uniform Directed Trust Act

Robert H. Sitkoff (with John Morley)

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Probable Cause Pluralism

Andrew Manuel Crespo

Do Alternative Justice Mechanisms Deserve Recognition in International Criminal Law?: Truth Commissions, Amnesties, and Complementarity at the International Criminal Court

Martha Minow

Unpopular Speech in a Cold Climate

Jeannie Suk Gersen

Proposals for Improving the U.S. Pre-Trial System

Crystal Yang (with Will Dobbie)

Why the Constitution Was Written Down

Nikolas Bowie

The Constitution as a Coup Against Public Opinion

Michael J. Klarman

Kavanaugh’s Ascent Is Enormously Significant for Environmental Law

Richard Lazarus

The Globalisation of Constitutional Law as a Weakly Neo-liberal Project

Mark Tushnet

Algorithmic Price Discrimination: When Demand Is a Function of Both Preferences and (Mis)Perceptions

Oren Bar-Gill

The Causal Mechanisms of Horizontal Shareholding

Einer Elhauge

Balancing Versus Structured Decision Procedures: Antitrust, Title VII Disparate Impact, and Constitutional Law Strict Scrutiny

Louis Kaplow

Class Actions and Private Antitrust Litigation

Kathryn E. Spier (with Albert H. Choi)

Contested Child Protection Policies, in The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law

Elizabeth Bartholet

The Regulation of Reproduction and Best Interests Analysis

I. Glenn Cohen

“You Play, You Pay”: Feminists and Child Support Enforcement in the United States

Janet Halley (with Libby Adler)

From Riggs v. Palmer to Shelley v. Kraemer: The Continuing Significance of the Law-Equity Distinction

John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky
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I. Glenn Cohen Chair Lecture | "The Second Reproductive Revolution"

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Dean John F. Manning honored Prof. I. Glenn Cohen, faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, on the occasion of his appointment as the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams professor of law. Cohen, who is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called "medical ethics") and the law, delivered a talk titled “The Second Reproductive Revolution,” focusing on how technology is changing reproduction from gene editing, to uterus transplants, to embryos derived from our skin.