Archive
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HLS Students Honored for Their Pro Bono Work
October 22, 2018
HLS alumna Amy Volz, J.D. ’18 and the other recipients of the 2018 Adams Pro Bono award pictured (left to right) with Chief Justice Ralph…
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Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Institute Honors Jemele Hill as its 2018 Trailblazer Lecturer
October 22, 2018
On September 19, 2018, Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) presented its 4th Annual Trailblazer Lecture Series: A Discussion with Jemele Hill. Harvard Law…
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Clinical Professor Esme Caramello ’99 is among the 2018 Top Women of Law honored by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. The award ceremony, held on October 18, honors…
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Delayed Obama-Era Rule on Student Debt Relief Is to Take Effect
October 17, 2018
Via The New York Times Source: Flickr.com By: Stacy Cowley A long-delayed federal rule intended to protect student loan borrowers who were…
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Defrauded Students Win Class Certification in Lawsuit Against DeVos
October 17, 2018
Via Courthouse News Service Source: Flickr.com By: Nicholas Iovino More than 100,000 students defrauded by Corinthian Colleges can team up to sue Education…
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Trump administration says it’s ending ACA ‘sabotage,’ experts say it comes at great risk to patients
October 17, 2018
Via Healio.com Source: Ted Eytan, Flickr.com By: Janel Miller The average premium for the second lowest cost silver health insurance plans — the one…
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When does the ‘affordable’ in the Affordable Care Act kick in?
October 15, 2018
Via The Hill Source: Pexels By: Merrill Matthews It’s a good thing Democrats made health insurance “affordable” when they passed the Patient Protection and…
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Clinical Instructor John Salsberg Quoted in Boston Globe Article about MA Show Cause Hearings
October 15, 2018
Inside Our Secret Courts Via The Boston Globe Credit: Brooks Kraft Senior Clinical Instructor for Harvard Defenders John Salsberg was quoted in an article describing…
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How Tech Swagger Triggered the Era of Distrust in Government
October 15, 2018
Via Wired.com Source: Pixabay By: Susan Crawford Last month, I heard Jill Lepore give a talk about These Truths, her single-volume history of America…
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Delegation from the Philippines Visits HLS Clinical Program
October 15, 2018
By: Alexis Farmer A delegation of thirteen dignitaries from the Philippines touring law school clinical programs on the east coast made their first stop at…
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California, New York and 6 Other States Side with Scammed Students in Battle with DeVos
October 15, 2018
Via MarketWatch
Source: Flickr.com By: Jillian Berman Several states are throwing their support behind scammed student-loan borrowers hoping for relief. Led by… -
Via NJ. com Source: Pexels By: Ekaterina Valiotis New Jersey has 25 percent fewer supermarkets per capita than the national average, according to the Harvard…
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Via the Legal Services Center Source: Pixabay Meaghan Bauer and Stephen Del Rose, former students of EDMC-owned New England Institute of Art, were cheated…
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How Policy Could Impact Food Waste (Part One)
October 9, 2018
Via Waste360 Source: Wikimedia Commons Sixty-three million tons of food is wasted in the U.S. every year, a staggering volume that exacerbates multiple issues…
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Emily Broad Leib Named One of the 28 Inspirational People Working to Reduce Food Waste
October 5, 2018
Via Foodtank.com Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) Director Emily Broad Leib is one of 28 “food waste warriors” named by Food Tank. Food…
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Crimmigration Clinic Issues Resources for Advocates Defending the Rights of Immigrants
October 5, 2018
Via Harvard Law Today The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program’s Crimmigration Clinic and the Immigrant Defense Project issued two new resources for advocates…
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Via the Center for American Progress By: Sara Garcia Under the leadership of Secretary Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Department of Education has sought to…
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Via The Harvard Crimson By: Alexandria A. Chaidez Roughly two dozen Harvard Law School professors have signed a New York Times editorial arguing that the United…
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Cities Are Teaming Up To Offer Broadband, and the FCC is Mad
October 3, 2018
Via Wired.com Source: Pixabay By: Susan Crawford This is a story that defies two strongly held beliefs. The first—embraced fervently by today’s FCC—is that the…
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Evaluating the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Rights
October 1, 2018
Via Harvard Law Today By: Carolyn Schmitt From using artificial intelligence (AI) to determine credit scores to using AI to determine whether a defendant…
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Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic Backs Airbnb In Rowdy Guest Suit
October 1, 2018
Via Law360 By: Joyce Hanson Mason Kortz, Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic has urged the Ninth Circuit not to touch…