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A Harvard Law Review symposium examines the growing obstacles facing the judiciary, and the tools courts have to confront them.

This fall, Emily Newburger, executive editor of the Harvard Law Bulletin, will retire after 15 years and 33 issues of the Bulletin. Covering the school and its alumni, she says, has been a privilege and a pleasure.

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Mariana Pargendler uncovers the unexpected forces that shape corporate law around the world

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A conversation with John C.P. Goldberg, Harvard Law School’s new dean

How much power does the president have to dismiss executive branch officials? From the founding era to today, the answer is ever evolving

As Britain’s former foreign secretary and current deputy prime minister, David Lammy remains connected to his roots in working-class London and to his Harvard experience

J.B. Tarter works to stop cyberthreats as part of a career devoted to public service

Celebrating the life and legacy of the late Harvard Law School Professor William J. Stuntz

A Harvard Law class uses the Bard’s plays to explore legal themes and concepts past and present

Alumni titles from “The Hundred Years’ Trial” to “Outclassed”

At Salesforce, Alicia Lowery Rosenbaum brings commitment and a passion for fairness to the front lines of a changing industry

Harvard Law Library’s rich Magna Carta
trove offers students an important link to the past and the present

Recent works from Algorithmic Harm to How to Age Better Online

Esin Gumustekin combines her studies in law and medicine to tackle some of health care’s most difficult problems.

John Leshy has dedicated his career to building and protecting America’s public lands

In Hong Kong, Andrea Fessler’s love of live performance led to a surprising career shift

Jerome Cohen, a pioneering scholar of Chinese law who introduced the study of East Asian legal systems into American legal education, and shaped global debates on…

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in cases focusing on these and many other questions during its new term, which begins on October 6, 2025.

For most Harvard Law School students, a request to “put on your thinking cap” is a figurative exercise. But for some of Professor Rebecca…