Latest from Emily Newburger
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Christopher Edley Jr., 1953-2024
May 15, 2024
A civil rights expert and policy adviser to several presidents, Christopher Edley Jr., who was a member of the Harvard Law School faculty for more than two decades before becoming dean of University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, died on May 10
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David Herwitz: 1925-2024
April 25, 2024
David Herwitz ’49, Royall Professor of Law, Emeritus, died April 8, 2024. He was 98. A scholar of tax and business law, Herwitz, who taught on the Harvard Law faculty for more than 50 years, is remembered as a beloved teacher colleague and mentor.
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Why do innocent people go to, and stay in, prison?
February 13, 2024
At a Harvard Law School Library book talk, author Daniel Medwed outlines the tangle of legal rules and procedures that keep wrongly convicted people behind bars.
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Gerald E. Frug: 1939-2023
November 14, 2023
Gerald E. Frug ’63, a pathbreaking scholar who reinvented the field of local government law, and a superb teacher and mentor, died Nov. 7 after a long illness. The Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School was 84.
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Charles Ogletree Jr. : 1952-2023
August 5, 2023
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. ‘78, or Tree, as he was affectionately known, the celebrated, influential, and beloved Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar, died peacefully on August 4 in his home in Odenton, Maryland, from the natural progression of Alzheimer's disease.
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On Class Day, Michelle Yeoh, Academy Award-winning actress and advocate, offered the Class of 2023 advice from the multiverse.
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‘Why is it so hard to make environmental law?’
April 18, 2023
Harvard Law School Professor Professor Richard Lazarus tells the story of challenges and hope inherent in environmental law.
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‘Misunderstanding how the world works’
November 9, 2022
Harvard Law Professor Mark Roe says that Wall Street short-termism has gotten a bad rap.
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Picturing ‘the elders of the race and justice movement’
September 27, 2022
Harvard Law Library receives collection of 5,000 photo and video files by Lolita Parker Jr. highlighting the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.
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‘Dominant power does not control everything’
September 8, 2022
Legal scholar, thought leader, and equal rights champion Catharine A. MacKinnon, 2022 recipient of the American Philosophical Society’s Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence, discusses her teaching and the changes she has spent her career fighting for.
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Kristi Jobson ’12, the assistant dean for admissions and chief admissions officer, received the Suzanne L. Richardson Staff Appreciation Award during Harvard Law School’s Class Day ceremony on May 25.
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“This is a unique moment, particularly to be a Black law student,” Harvard Law School Professor David B. Wilkins ’80, told an audience of students during a talk titled Black Lawyers Matter — Race, Obligation, and Professionalism from the Civil Rights Movement to BLM and Black Corporate Power.
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Conservative backlash threatens global gender justice efforts
December 7, 2021
Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity shared his views at a virtual event last month hosted by the HLS Human Rights Program that focused on his year-long investigation into incorporation of gender and gender identity into international human rights law.
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Studying law while fighting illicit finance
September 28, 2021
Harvard Law student Michael Chang-Frieden ’23 discusses writing a global watchdog report on Japan’s ability to fight money laundering, terrorist financing, and nuclear proliferation financing.
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Ordering LGBTQ protections
February 3, 2021
Alexander Chen ’15, founding director of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at Harvard Law School, on the significance of the Biden administration's executive orders providing protections for LGBTQ people, the danger of backlash, and the work that still needs to be done.
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‘A grim form of political theater’
January 8, 2021
Harvard Law Visiting Professor Sanford Levinson puts the storming of the Capitol in historical perspective.
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Representing ‘The Super Class of 2021’
December 15, 2020
During a global pandemic when classes are remote and students are living around the country and the world, there is no such thing as business as usual. But this year’s class marshals are determined to do their part.
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How can law students help in the midst of COVID-19?
April 29, 2020
Lee Mestre helped to coordinate Harvard Law School student aid efforts after natural disasters in New Orleans and Puerto Rico. Now she's using that experience to help law students support people in Massachusetts affected by the COVID-19 crisis.