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via HIRC blog Though Massachusetts is far from the Southern border, many immigrants are still detained across the state. Until recently, one of those…

via Food Tank Emily Broad Leib talks Food Law and COVID-19 Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews Emily Broad Leib,…

via Bloomberg Tax by Aysha Bagchi The U.S. Tax Court is grappling with a legal requirement governing penalties issued by the IRS. Above, the…

For International Women’s Day, Harvard Law School honored a host of women nominated by members of the HLS community. Poster stands on the first floor…

via The Harvard Crimson by Kelsey J. Griffin The Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on…

by Caroline Shinkle ’20 Caroline Shinkle spent the 2020 and 2019 winter terms at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. At the…

via Washington Post by Alex Horton Dwayne Smith, seen in Afghanistan in 2009, was issued an other-than-honorable discharge in 2012. (Dwayne Smith) The Department…

via Berkman Klein Center The 2019–2020 academic year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Cyberlaw…

via Harvard Law Today Harvard Law School in Cambridge. Credit: Brooks Kraft. Harvard Law School today announced plans to create a new legal clinic…

via Harvard Law Today by Grace Yuh “New York, USA – August 14, 2012: Vote buttons featuring elephants for Republican and donkeys for Democrat…

via KXNT HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A coalition of 39 states, including Nevada will look into the marketing and sales of vaping products by…

by Lowry Yankwich ’21 While Boston was cloaked in winter, I spent January in Hamilton, New Zealand, working at the Department of Conservation (“DOC”). Coming…

by Brendan Schneiderman ’21 Law school is a weird place. Year one primarily involves tolerating classrooms with 80 strangers where we’re judged by our ability…

by Elizabeth Melampy ’21   During winter term, I began a litigation externship with Animal Outlook (formerly Compassion Over Killing). Animal Outlook is an organization…

by Olivia Klein Over the course of their winter term, many HLS students choose to partake in independent clinical projects. Students travel far and wide…

by Kathryn Combs ’20 I spent part of Fall 2019 semester working as an independent clinical intern at Communities for Restorative Justice (C4RJ). I heard…

via Harvard Law Today Eloise Lawrence, a community lawyering advocate, was named assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and deputy faculty…

via Harvard Law Today by Dana Walters With headlines declaring 2019 the year that the world woke up to climate change, Aminta Ossom ’09 sees…

by Kenneth Crouch On November 13th, the Harvard Defenders hosted accomplished practitioners to discuss the imagined futures and fraught present of the criminal legal system…

via Harvard Law School YouTube The Legal Services Center’s Veterans Legal Clinic provides legal representation to veterans and their family members when they cannot…