Latest from Elaine McArdle
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An indelible experience with deep Harvard roots
April 5, 2023
A friendly competition between four Harvard Law students in 1960 has grown into the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, with 700 students competing worldwide.
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Ten Harvard Law students trekked to arctic Alaska during spring break to prepare tax returns for indigenous communities.
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‘A Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’
February 14, 2023
Kimberly J. Robinson argues for a federal right to education
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The End of the Death Penalty?
February 14, 2023
‘Unintended consequences’ and the legacy of of the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia
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‘When it feels like your country really doesn’t like you … is that the time to pull away or lean in?’
November 8, 2022
Casey Nakamura, whose relatives had been forced into internment camps during WWII, helped train the Army’s largest air defense battery.
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Blair Kuplic of the US Navy JAG Corps: ‘I get a huge sense of fulfillment out of this job’
November 7, 2022
Blair Kuplic most recently advised operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet; she’ll next advise operations for outer space.
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‘One Generation … from Segregation to the Supreme Court’
July 15, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 becomes the first Black woman to serve on the Court
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Practicing Law in the Wake of a Pandemic
July 15, 2022
‘Everyone is struggling to understand what this new world is going to look like’
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A focus on empowerment
April 28, 2022
A social entrepreneur from Nepal, Jesselina Rana LL.M. ’22 focuses on human rights and women’s health.
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‘We Ukrainians know Putin all too well’
February 28, 2022
For international law expert Svitlana Starosvit LL.M. ’13 S.J.D. ’22, Russia's military assault on Ukraine is horrifying yet unsurprising because, she says, “We Ukrainians know Putin all too well."
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Who we are
February 23, 2022
Jeffery Robinson ’81 has made challenging false narratives about racism his life’s work.
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Reassessing Psychedelics
January 31, 2022
A new Harvard Law initiative examines the legal and ethical aspects of therapeutic psychedelics
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‘The journey is the whole point. You can’t just look at the end point, you have to love everything in the middle.’
November 2, 2021
In the fall of 2010, Brad Carney ’24 couldn’t stand what he saw in the mirror. Then he discovered that he could go further than he thought he could.
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‘If I graduate helping one person better understand the military and how national security issues inform that perspective, I will be happy.’
November 2, 2021
An Air Force veteran, community organizer, and counselor to homeless teens, Kristi L. Tanaka ’24 says service will always be part of her plans.
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‘I felt almost like I had a responsibility; people my age were getting blown up, and I’m sitting here in college.’
November 2, 2021
As a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan, Nathan Lowry ’24 led a team of counterterrorism intelligence specialists targeting Taliban operations.
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Electric slide
September 21, 2021
Helping key players across Massachusetts — including the City of Boston and environmental nonprofits — reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 is a focus for the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
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John B. Bellinger III ’86: ‘I really mostly worry about the future’
September 10, 2021
Former legal adviser to the National Security Council during the Bush administration says 20 years after 9/11, he's frustrated there hasn't been more progress toward an international legal framework for dealing with terrorism.
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Juan C. Zarate ’97: ‘There’s a lot of presumption of the demise of American power, and I’m raging against that’
September 10, 2021
A counterterrorism czar in the Bush administration, and the first-ever assistant secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes, says the U.S. needs to reconceptualize what power means in the 21st century.
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Jane Harman ’69: ‘We haven’t learned that when we work together we overcome’
September 10, 2021
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, a former California congresswoman and ranking member of House Intelligence Committee reflects on events of that day and the calamities we still confront.
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Kenneth R. Feinberg: ‘I’m very proud of what we did’
September 9, 2021
The former Special Master for 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund says the fund was unprecedented, unique and the right thing to do, but warns it shouldn't be replicated.
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Michael Chertoff ’78: ‘What are we going to do to make sure it doesn’t arise again?’
September 9, 2021
The former head of Homeland Security and co-author of the USA Patriot Act says the U.S. needs a strategy for dislodging terrorist groups.