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Video: The Bauhaus at Harvard Law School
2019 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, the highly influential school of art and design in Germany. In this video, curators at the Harvard Art Museums highlight the legacy of the Bauhaus at Harvard Law School.
Can President Trump lawfully build the wall by declaring a national emergency? Harvard Law School faculty weigh in
After signing a government funding bill that provides $1.375 billion for a barrier with Mexico, President Donald Trump announced a national emergency on Friday, Feb. 15, that would allow him to draw $8 billion from the just-passed bill and other existing federal accounts to build the wall. Does the President have the legal authority to […]
In ethics lecture, Linda Greenhouse discusses the Supreme Court’s role in threatening civil society
Linda Greenhouse, the Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at Yale Law School, delivered the Kissel Lecture in Ethics at Harvard Law School on Feb. 7. In her lecture, Greenhouse discussed the role of the Supreme Court in threatening civil society and looked critically at recent Supreme Court decisions.
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- Tribe on national emergency: The only emergency is that Trump was a ‘bad negotiator’ February 16, 2019 MSNBC
- Democrats’ Compromise Strengthens Case for Trump’s Wall ‘Emergency’ February 15, 2019 Bloomberg Opinion
- The Orphan Drug Act Revisited February 15, 2019 JAMA
- U.S. News to Launch New Way to Rank Law Schools February 15, 2019 LAW.COM
- Trump’s emergency declaration would face legal challenges February 15, 2019 Boston Herald
- Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger February 15, 2019 Bloomberg Opinion
- Dan Mallory, 2 Starkly Similar Novels and the Puzzle of Plagiarism February 14, 2019 New York Times
- Huawei and 5G: A Case Study in the Future of Free Trade February 14, 2019 Bloomberg
Money as a Democratic Medium: A conference re-examining the history of money in America
Play VideoIn December 2018, a diverse group of lawyers, economists, academics and scholars gathered at Harvard Law School for a conference that challenged its participants to re-examine the history of money in America, and to redefine its future. The two-day event was jointly sponsored by the Harvard Program on the Study of Capitalism, the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, the Harvard Law Forum and Harvard Law School.