Audience: General Public

“What can forgiveness achieve in this age of resentment? Harvard Law School professor and former dean 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— comparing […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Red Cross Blood Drive

Home to five percent of the world’s population but roughly 25 percent of its incarcerated population, America is beginning to reckon with the failed endeavor that is mass incarceration. Those fighting to end mass incarceration and immigrant detention have called attention to the ways in which legal actors and institutions have been central to the […]

Debra LaPrevotte is the Senior Investigator for The Sentry, investigating greed that fuels war crimes and atrocities in Sudan, South Sudan Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR). Prior to joining The Sentry, Debra retired after 20 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Debra served as a Supervisory Special Agent on the […]

Join us for a discussion on promising storytelling strategies to advance the fight for justice and health equity. With Ayesha McAdams-Mahmoud, ScD, MPH, and Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD. Please bring your own lunch. Dessert and coffee provided.

This final workshop in our Gender, Law, and Society Series will explore Islamic feminism and the contributions of feminist scholars and activists challenging patriarchy and male domination in the Muslim legal traditions. Sarah Marsso and Jana Rumminger (Musawah Knowledge-Building Group) will discuss the pioneering work of Musawah – a global movement that brings together different […]

Please join us for lunch and a conversation on the status of free expression in the Middle East and North Africa. Our panelists will use specific case studies to discuss the legal frameworks regulating speech and analyze practical realities of criminalizing critical speech across the region. Speakers will include Deina Abdelkader, Visiting Scholar at the […]

With the use of case-studies of campaigns in both USA (2016) and Mexico (2017), digital manipulation explains how psychology and technology worked together to create nano-segmentations that influenced public opinion, ultimately affecting voting intention of citizens. How was this achieved? What legal and ethical implications do these strategies have? *Non-pizza lunch will be served*

Havva Guney-Ruebenacker, HLS alum and current fellow at the HLS Program on Law and Social Change in the Muslim World, will speak about what she terms “Islamic legal realism,” seeking to unsettle some established notions of Islamic law. Non-pizza lunch will be served.

Join Harvard Law School’s best (and only) a cappella group for our spring concert!

Join us for a discussion on promising storytelling strategies to advance the fight for justice and health equity. With Ayesha McAdams-Mahmoud, ScD, MPH, and Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD. Please bring your own lunch. Dessert and coffee provided.

12-1:30PM(Boxed Lunch provided) Dialogue between Professor Mark Wu and Stephen Orlins, President of National Committee on United States-China Relations, Former Director of Carlyle Asia, Former President of Lehman Brothers Asia. We will potentially cover the recent developments on U.S.-China trade negotiations, One Belt One Road Initiative and other issues. All questions are welcome. Panel: Risk […]