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  • Harvard report compares NFL’s health policies and practices to other pro sports leagues’

    May 15, 2017

    While the NFL’s player health policies and practices are robust in some areas, there are opportunities for improvement in others, according to the findings of a new report by researchers at Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center -- the first comprehensive comparative analysis of health policies and practices across professional sports leagues.

  • Klemen Jaklic in robe

    Klemen Jaklič elected Judge of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia

    May 11, 2017

    Klemen Jaklič LL.M. ’00 S.J.D. ’11 has been elected judge of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia by the Slovenian parliament after being nominated by the president of Slovenia earlier this spring. His nine-year term officially started on March 27.

  • Abandoned house in Detroit

    Battling blight with big data

    May 9, 2017

    HLS student Bradley Pough ’18 and Qian Wan, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate at Harvard's Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, have co-written “Digital Analytics and the Fight Against Blight: A Guide for Local Leaders,” a paper that provides data-driven recommendations city officials can use to battle urban housing blight.

  • Anna Lvovsky ’13 to join Harvard Law as assistant professor

    April 19, 2017

    Anna Lvovsky ’13, a scholar of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law and evidence, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in July.

  • Lauren Kuhlik

    Lauren Kuhlik ’17 wins Law Student Ethics Award

    April 7, 2017

    Harvard Law School student Lauren Kuhlik ’17 has won the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)-Northeast Law Student Ethics Award, an award created to recognize students who have demonstrated exemplary commitment to ethics.

  • Gish Jen

    ‘Baggage’ claims Gish Jen

    April 5, 2017

    During a Library Book Talk at Harvard Law School, writer Gish Jen discussed her latest book, “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap,” making the case for the sociological and cultural patterns that influence many aspects of identity.

  • Essie group photo

    Top seeds: Harvard Law School entrepreneurs launch new ventures of service

    January 27, 2017

    As Harvard Law School's Public Service Venture Fund enters its fourth year, HLS is looking back on all that its awardees have accomplished since the first awards were conferred in 2013.

  • 20 years of the Laws of Cyberspace

    Should states call a convention to amend the Constitution? Lessig debates

    December 7, 2016

    On Dec. 7, Professor Lawrence Lessig participated in a debate hosted by Intelligence Squared U.S. on whether or not states should call a convention to amend the Constitution.

  • Crystal Yang

    Student exhibit shines a light on diversity in the law

    November 17, 2016

    A photo exhibit featuring portraits of legal scholars who represent traditionally marginalized voices will be displayed in Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall from Nov. 17-22.

  • Election 2016: A look back, the road ahead

    November 9, 2016

    Harvard Law Today presents a recap of the 2016 election season in images, words, and photos.

  • Outside of Langdell Hall after dark with lights shining on the columns

    Examining Election 2016: Faculty and scholars weigh in

    November 9, 2016

    The 2016 presidential race -- and the many events and controversies surrounding it -- have prompted HLS scholars to share their viewpoints, to examine the political landscape and to address issues that will have national and global consequences far beyond November 8.

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Program on International Financial Systems celebrates 30 years of research and influence on global financial policy

    October 19, 2016

    In October, The Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS) at Harvard Law School celebrated its 30th anniversary by holding the kind of symposium it has been hosting for three decades — convening financial leaders, high-ranking government officials, and distinguished academics from around the world to discuss the most pressing issues in international finance.

  • Caselaw Access Project Launches API and Bulk Data Service

    Library Innovation Lab leader talks ‘unbinding the law’ with the Caselaw Access Project

    September 2, 2016

    Historically, libraries have been collections — books, multimedia materials and artwork. But increasingly they're about connections, linking digital data in new and different ways, but Harvard Law's Caselaw Access Project is a state-of-the-art example of that shift.

  • Tomiko Brown-Nagin portrait at her desk

    Tomiko Brown-Nagin on Constance Baker Motley and the ‘American experience’

    August 18, 2016

    Accepting the Daniel P.S. Paul Constitutional Law chair, Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivered a lecture titled, "On Being First: Judge Constance Baker Motley and Social Activism in the American Century," which focused on 20th century social reform through the life of the civil rights advocate who became the first female African American federal judge in 1966.

  • Investigating injustice: Michael Jung on his work with UNICEF in Bangkok, Thailand

    August 17, 2016

    Chayes Fellow Michael Jung ’18 recently wrote about his experience working with UNICEF in Bangkok, Thailand, researching and gaining an overview of the current and future landscape of juvenile justice in the region.

  • Harvard Law Library, fashion forward

    August 8, 2016

    The latest exhibit from the Harvard Law School Library, "What Not to Wear: Fashion and the Law," looks at some of the intersections of fashion and the law, from historic laws setting strict class distinctions for fashion, to modern intellectual property law’s approach to protecting those who design and create fashion.

  • Bob Bordone

    Bob Bordone encourages students to settle for nothing less than the ‘Best. Job. Ever.’

    August 4, 2016

    As the final speaker in this year's "Last Lecture" Series was Bob Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal clinical professor of law and director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, who spoke about a how simple Facebook status update from 2013 led him to consider the elements of a successful career today.

  • Summation 4

    Summation

    June 1, 2016

    This year, as they prepared to graduate, five members of the Class of 2016 took time to reflect on their interests and share experiences they will take from their time at Harvard Law.

  • Martha Minow’s next chapter

    May 12, 2016

    Martha Minow's 8-year tenure as dean of Harvard Law School has been nothing short of transformative: Among many other things, she has overseen the expansion of clinical programs and public service initiatives at the school; engendered diversification of faculty, staff and the student body; and supported the pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures--changes that will have a lasting impact on the school and legal scholarship for many years to come.

  • Harvard Law team wins first place in the National Trial Competition

    May 4, 2016

    Harvard Law School students Amanda Mundell '17 and Joe Resnek '17 won first place at the 41st Annual National Trial Competition in Dallas, Texas. Resnek also received the competition's Best Advocate Award for his outstanding performance in the final round.

  • Petrie-Flom, 10 years on: Celebrating the future of health law and policy

    April 14, 2016

    On March 29, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School celebrated its first decade and kicked off the next with a conference that focused on the future of health law and policy.