Archive
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Puerto Rico Benefits From Harvard’s Living Lab
December 17, 2018
Via Harvard Law Today Credit: Alyssa Curran
Still suffering from the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria, the city of Utuado (pictured) will implement a… -
Trump Administration Stymies Release of Salary, Loan Debt Data from Certain Colleges, Advocates Say
December 13, 2018
Via CNBC By: Annie Nova At a recent conference on financial aid, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said that every school should help its students…
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Salma Waheedi Co-Authors Chapter on Judicial Review in the Context of Constitutional Islam
December 13, 2018
Via the International Human Rights Clinic Source: Pexels Salma Waheedi, Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at the International Human Rights Clinic and…
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Crimmigration Clinic Wins BIA Case
December 13, 2018
Via the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic Crimmigration Clinic Instructor Phil Torrey with students Joy Lee ’19 and Harry Larson ’19 The Crimmigration Clinic won a…
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Via the Cyberlaw Clinic The Cyberlaw Clinic is pleased to announce the release of “A Preservationist’s Guide to the DMCA Exemption for Software…
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Farm Bill Passes House And Senate
December 13, 2018
Via the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation The 2018 Farm Bill just passed the House (368-47), after passing the Senate yesterday (87-13).
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Congress’s Conference Report Solidifies Farm Bill Support for Major Food Waste Reduction Measures
December 13, 2018
Via the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation 40 percent of food in the U.S. goes to waste each year, costing billions of…
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The Sneaky Fight to Give Cable Lines Free Speech Rights
December 7, 2018
Via Wired
Source: Flickr By: Susan Crawford When you make a phone call, I’m willing to bet you don’t think of the phone… -
By: Rebecca Rechtszaid Photo Credit: Lester Cohen Simon & Schuster On Friday, October 26, 2018 the Recording Artists Project (RAP) at Harvard Law School (HLS)…
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Via the Cyberlaw Clinic Source: Pixabay By: Carol Lin and Zach Glasser Content regulation emerged as a controversial topic earlier this year after right-wing…
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“The Newest Federal Court Experiment”: Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims speaks at Harvard Law School
December 6, 2018
Via the WilmerHale Legal Services Center Chief Judge Davis and DAV National Adjutant Marc Burgess pose with staff of the Veterans Legal Clinic…
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HIRC & HIP Submit Comments on Proposed Removal of Fee Waiver
December 5, 2018
Via the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program Source: Pixabay On November 27, HIRC and the HLS Immigration Project (HIP) submitted comments on U.S.
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Harvard Professors Decry Trump Administration Approach to Asylum Policy, Migrant Caravans
November 30, 2018
Via The Harvard Crimson By: Ema R. Schumer and Ruoqi Zhang Harvard professors decried the Trump administration’s asylum policies to a packed room at the…
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Jared Golden’s Lawyer Calls Bruce Poliquin Suit ‘sour grapes’
November 30, 2018
Via the Sun Journal Peter Brann is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and a partner at Brann & Isaacson. At HLS,…
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ITT Tech Students Score Victory in Bankruptcy Settlement
November 29, 2018
Via The Washington Post Source: Flickr.com By: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel As creditors of ITT Educational Services fight over the remaining assets of the defunct…
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Thanks for Listening – Episode 1
November 27, 2018
Via the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinic Source: Pixabay This podcast will spotlight efforts to bridge the political divide in the U.S. through dialogue…
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Credit: Adam Dean
Princess Sonam Dechan Wangchuck LL.M. ’07 is honorable president of Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, named after her father, the fourth… -
After Fifteen Years, the Bolivian Struggle for Justice Continues in the United States
November 27, 2018
Via the Human Rights Program By: Thomas Becker Téofilo Baltazar places flowers on the tomb of his wife, Teodosia, who was shot and killed…
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Challenging Immigration Law’s Conviction Definition
November 27, 2018
Via the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Source: Pexels By: Philliip Torrey The “conviction” definition is one of the most misunderstood and odious…
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Independent Clinical Experience with the Surfrider Foundation
November 26, 2018
By: Alex Gazikas J.D. ’17 I spent my January term interning at the Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit organization in San Clemente seeking to preserve and…
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Back to Myanmar with fresh insights
November 26, 2018
Via The Harvard Gazette Yee Htun, Myanmar native lawyer who teaches a human rights advocacy course at HLS. Here she works inside 6 Everett…