Audience: Faculty

“What can forgiveness achieve in this age of resentment? A towering and beloved figure in legal scholarship, Martha Minow explores the complicated intersection between law, justice, and forgiveness, asking whether law should encourage individuals to forgive and when should the courts, public officials, and specific laws forgive? Minow examines these questions through sometimes- troubling cases— […]

Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States: Law and Ethics (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar & Barbara J. Evans, eds., (Cambridge Univ. Press, Apr. 30, 2019). “Transparency is a concept that is becoming increasingly lauded as a solution to a host of problems in the American health care system. […]

Panel discussion sponsored by the Harvard Law School Forum. (Longer description will be made available next week.)

Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford & Chang-Fa Lo eds., Springer June 8, 2019). “This book tells a story of Taiwan’s transformation from an authoritarian regime to a democratic system where human rights are protected as required by international human rights treaties. There were difficult times […]

They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy by Lawrence Lessig (Harper Collins, Nov. 5, 2019). “With insight and urgency, Harvard law professor and author of the bestselling Republic, Lost Lawrence Lessig argues that our government does not represent us and shows that reform is both essential and possible. America’s democracy is in crisis. Along many […]

Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution by Lawrence Lessig (Oxford Univ. Press May 1, 2019). “The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old — the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document […]

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 31, 2019). This book explores the role of mens rea, broadly defined as a factor in jury assessments of guilt and innocence from the early thirteenth through the fourteenth century – the first two centuries of the English criminal trial […]

Equity and Law: Fusion and Fission (John C.P. Goldberg, Henry E. Smith & P.G. Turner eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2019). “The fusion of law and equity in common law systems was a crucial moment in the development of the modern law. Common law and equity were historically the two principal sources of rules and […]

“It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on a downward slope. The top twenty words used to describe the past year include “chaotic,” “turbulent,” […]

On the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. public schools and neighborhoods are more racially segregated than they have been in decades, while the country’s racial wealth gap continues to widen. These patterns of residential segregation and grossly disparate median net worth are equally present and urgent in Boston on the 45th […]

Monthly HLS Green Team Meeting – Any HLS Faculty, staff, or student is welcome to attend to discuss ways to make HLS more sustainable.

Red Cross Blood Drive

HALA Annual Benefit Dinner

Thanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving Dinner

If you have questions about ways to study for exams, finish a writing project, or just manage the anxiety that exams can bring, stop by to chat with Learning Specialist Dorothy Bisbee about strategies. Come alone, or bring your friends! Enjoy light snacks and refreshment while you’re there.

If you have questions about ways to study for exams, finish a writing project, or just manage the anxiety that exams can bring, stop by to chat with Learning Specialist Dorothy Bisbee about strategies. Come alone, or bring your friends! Enjoy light snacks and refreshment while you’re there.

Please join ACS in welcoming Professor Stephen Krupin from the Harvard Kennedy School for a discussion on “Speechwriting for the President.” The discussion will be a free-for-all Q&A! Stephen Krupin served in the White House as a senior speechwriter to President Obama, as director of speechwriting on Obama’s re-election campaign, and as chief speechwriter to […]

Please come listen to students returning from Palestine.