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‘Unintended consequences’ and the legacy of of the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia

Casey Nakamura, whose relatives had been forced into internment camps during WWII, helped train the Army’s largest air defense battery.

Blair Kuplic most recently advised operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet; she’ll next advise operations for outer space.

Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 becomes the first Black woman to serve on the Court

‘Everyone is struggling to understand what this new world is going to look like’

A social entrepreneur from Nepal, Jesselina Rana LL.M. ’22 focuses on human rights and women’s health.

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."

Jeffery Robinson ’81 has made challenging false narratives about racism his life’s work.

A new Harvard Law initiative examines the legal and ethical aspects of therapeutic psychedelics

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.

An Air Force veteran, community organizer, and counselor to homeless teens, Kristi L. Tanaka ’24 says service will always be part of her plans.

As a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan, Nathan Lowry ’24 led a team of counterterrorism intelligence specialists targeting Taliban operations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A co-author of the 9/11 Commission report, who served on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, says engaged citizenry united in its efforts will make this country safer.

By the time Jeannie Suk Gersen ’02 was a first-year law student at HLS, the Critical Legal Studies movement had been pronounced dead. And yet “every corner you turned and every closet you opened at the law school, there it would be, in some sort of zombie or ghost-like form,” she recalls.

Harvard Law Lecturer on Law Alexander Chen '15, founding director of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at HLS, is working with students in the recently-formed Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition to offer legal protections for people in polyamorous relationships.