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Video: Susan Crawford on why America may miss the fiber revolution
February 26, 2019
Via Harvard Law Today On February 13, the Harvard Law School Library hosted Prof. Susan Crawford for a book talk and discussion on her newly-released…
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China Will Likely Corner the 5G Market – And the US Has No Plan
February 25, 2019
Via Wired.com Source: Pexels By: Susan Crawford You may have heard that China has cornered much of the world’s supply of strategic metals…
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Could Marijuana Policy Be The Sleeper Policy Issue of 2019?
February 25, 2019
Via the Semester in Washington Blog So far in Washington, 2019 has been dominated by talk of the shutdown, immigration policy and “The Wall.”…
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A Look at Refugee Legal Advocacy in Germany
February 21, 2019
Isabel Schayani and Niku Jafarina JD ’19 at WDR in Germany By: Niku Jafarnia JD/MPP ’20 This J-term, I did an independent clinical in Germany,…
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Via the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation A new survey examining U.S. consumer attitudes and behaviors related to food date labels found…
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CVLC Advances Veteran Law with Discharge Upgrade Practice Manual
February 21, 2019
Via Connecticut Veterans Legal Center CVLC Discharge Upgrade Director Margaret Kuzma with LSC staff Betsy Gwin, Dana Montalto, and Dan Nagin. Connecticut Veterans Legal…
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My Student Loan Truth: Rick’s Wyotech Story
February 21, 2019
Via the Project on Predatory Student Lending Source: Flickr In our Student Loan Truth blog series, our clients share what they really got…
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Harvard Law Student Gets Landmark Win At Mass. Top Court
February 21, 2019
Via Law360 By: Chris Villani HLAB students Kenneth Parreno ’19 and Elizabeth Soltan ’19 with Clinical Instructor Patricio Rossi after oral argument at the…
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Mass. Top Court Sets Standard For Atty Fees In Wage Suits
February 20, 2019
Via Law360 Source: Pexels By: Chris Villani An employee suing an employer for unpaid wages can recover attorneys’ fees when winning a “favorable settlement,”…
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Shutdown Inflicted ‘Real Harm’ on Taxpayers, IRS Watchdog Says
February 14, 2019
Via The Wall Street Journal By: Richard Rubin The recent government shutdown damaged the Internal Revenue Service, an agency already struggling with budget cuts…
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A Lawyer’s Limits
February 13, 2019
By: Solange Etessami, J.D. ’20 Solange Etessami, a 2L at Harvard Law School In the middle of January, the town of Mytilene on the island…
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Transformative Constitutions: How One African Nation is Writing A New Constitution for National Healing and To Learn from The Past
February 13, 2019
By: Oladeji M. Tiamiyu, J.D. ’20 The Constitutional Review Commission in The Gambia, located in the Greater Banjul Region When democracies endure prolonged crises, a complete…
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Ensuring Veterans Aren’t Left Behind
February 13, 2019
Via the American Bar Association for Law Students Steven Kerns, 2L at Harvard Law School Excerpt from “Law Students Speak: Why I Do Public…
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Via The Washington Post Source: Flickr By: Robert Barnes The Supreme Court’s late-night, two-paragraph order that sent a Muslim inmate in Alabama to…
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Circuit Judge Wary of DeVos’ Student Loan Debt Formula
February 13, 2019
Via Courthouse News Service Source: Pixabay By: Nicholas Iovino A Ninth Circuit judge suggested Friday that the Trump administration’s Education Department used a flawed…
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Via the International Human Rights Clinic With the semester already off to a great start, we’d like to extend the warmest welcome to our…
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Template License and Collaboration Agreements for AI Art
February 7, 2019
Via the Cyberlaw Clinic As the Cyberlaw Clinic has continued to deepen its practice in AI-generated art (and as AI art has increasingly cropped…
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A ’60s Experiment with a Ripple Effect
January 31, 2019
Via Harvard Law Today By: Emily Newburger During an event at Harvard Law School last year celebrating its 40 clinics and student practice organizations,…
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Cyberlaw Clinic Files Amicus Brief for Former Magistrate Judges re: Surveillance Orders
January 31, 2019
Via the Cyberlaw Clinic Source: Pexels The Cyberlaw Clinic filed an amicus brief (pdf) last week in the United States Court of Appeals for the…
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Tough Choices Over a Pricey but Effective Drug for Hepatitis C
January 31, 2019
Via Star Tribune By: Glenn Howatt Hepatitis C is one of the most common infectious diseases, with the potential to cause serious liver damage,…
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Chapter Three
January 31, 2019
Via The Semester in Washington Blog Source: Pixabay By: Johnathan Wroblewski, Lecturer on Law for the Semester in Washington Externship For the presidency of…