Audience: General Public

Jacqueline Charlesworth, one of the legal leaders who spearheaded passage of the Music Modernization Act in 2018, will discuss the MMA and music copyright law more generally.

The Harvard Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law and the Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law present the 2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium. An annual event, the Symposium is intended to bring together sports industry–focused practitioners, academics, and students for meaningful discussions on the most pressing business and legal issues in the sports world. […]

The Harvard Litigation Finance Symposium, held at Harvard Law School from April 2 – 4 and sponsored by the Harvard Law and Technology Society, brings together leaders in the burgeoning field of litigation finance across three key areas of expertise: practice, regulation and academia.

The Harvard Litigation Finance Symposium, held at Harvard Law School from April 2 – 4 and sponsored by the Harvard Law and Technology Society, brings together leaders in the burgeoning field of litigation finance across three key areas of expertise: practice, regulation and academia.

The Harvard Litigation Finance Symposium, held at Harvard Law School from April 2 – 4 and sponsored by the Harvard Law and Technology Society, brings together leaders in the burgeoning field of litigation finance across three key areas of expertise: practice, regulation and academia.

The Harvard Litigation Finance Symposium, held at Harvard Law School from April 2 – 4 and sponsored by the Harvard Law and Technology Society, brings together leaders in the burgeoning field of litigation finance across three key areas of expertise: practice, regulation and academia.

Jay Shooster is Of Counsel to the Richman Law Group. His work is focused on animal welfare litigation. Jay strives to combat all forms of discrimination as a part of a broad coalition of advocates working for food justice, workers’ rights, environmental protection, and animal rights. This event is sponsored by the Harvard Animal Law […]

SALSA and the Muslim Law Students Association present the next event in our four-part series on Addressing Islamophobia. At this dinner talk, Charles Swift, the litigation director of the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America, will speak about his career and litigation practice at the vanguard of civil rights for Muslim Americans. Non-pizza dinner […]

Migrant Children in State Family Court

Migrant Children and Family Separation at the Border

The bail reform movement in the USA is in a state of flux, caught between discriminatory cash bail systems and the controversial risk assessment tools replacing it. Meanwhile European systems, which feature neither cash nor algorithms, are experimenting with other methods to reduce detention rates. This event brings together key criminal justice reformers from the […]

Please join us for the screening of two short films by Southeast Asian filmmakers that shed light on the lived realities of queerness in Southeast Asia. Dory (Philippines, 2017, by Beverly Ramos) and On Friday Noon (Indonesia, 2016, by Luhki Herwanayogi) tell the stories of queer women and their daily struggles to negotiate their space […]

A book talk by journalist Anna Clark. In the first full account of this American tragedy, Anna Clark’s The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American […]

“There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are.” So begins Lawrence Lessig’s sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is […]

“Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring” A book talk by Judge Richard Gergel, U.S. District Judge of the U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, followed by a conversation with HLS professors Randall Kennedy, Kenneth Mack, and […]

Come enjoy lunch and hear about hot topics in health law. Professor George Annas, beloved health law professor at Boston University, will be discussing gene editing of babies and the idea of health care as a human right.

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

Join HLSARJ, HALT, ACLU, and HLS Dems for a conversation about the media, the #metoo movement, political protest, and women’s rights in today’s society. Confirmed speakers include Koa Beck (former editor-in-chief of Jezebel), Lauren Duca (formerly of Teen Vogue, now of MTV News), Melissa Jeltsen (senior reporter at Huffington Post), and Casey Corcoran, Youth Sexual […]