Latest from Liz Mineo
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Environmental law expert voices warning over Supreme Court
April 19, 2024
Richard Lazarus sees the Supreme Court's conservative majority as threat to environmental protections developed over past half century.
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Treat addiction with psychedelics?
March 26, 2024
Despite promise of success stories from patients in recovery, a Harvard Law School panel cautions that research is lacking on benefits vs. risks of using psychedelics in addiction treatment.
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Immigration roars back in headlines. Time finally come for reforms?
February 2, 2024
Immigration law scholar Gerald Neuman looks at the history and prospects for breaking gridlock in an election year.
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‘Killer robots’ are coming, and the UN is worried
January 12, 2024
Human rights specialist Bonnie Docherty lays out the legal and ethical problems of military weapons systems that attack without human guidance.
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How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
October 27, 2023
At a Berkman Klein Center event, tech reporter Kashmir Hill discussed her book on Clearview AI, a small company that launched a facial-recognition app in 2017.
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Even war has rules, so why none for espionage?
October 20, 2023
Berkman Klein Center affiliate Asaf Lubin points up the need for a legal framework to govern peacetime intelligence operations.
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Lynch calls on audience to reclaim MLK’s legacy
October 6, 2023
In the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, former AG Loretta Lynch ’84 argues that the arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but it requires devotion to progress.
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Friends, colleagues remember Charles Ogletree
August 11, 2023
Tributes to Harvard Law Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ’78 echoed across the Harvard campus and in capitols, city halls, courthouses, and private conversations around the nation.
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A Law School analysis of the Dedicated Docket in Boston says the biggest problem is lack of legal representation.
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As he prepares to graduate, Rehan Staton gives thanks for sacrifices by his dad, brother, and help from pals, professors — and Tyler Perry.
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Putting children first legally, politically, economically
April 26, 2023
Drexel University Professor Adam Benforado ’05 says the nation disregards children's rights, and fails to protect them and create conditions so they can thrive.
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Time for Supreme Court to adopt ethics rules?
March 30, 2023
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner says a lack of transparency and recent incidents involving justices, spouses, and activists have tarnished the Court's public standing.
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Not-so-innocent bystanders
March 13, 2023
Journalist Géraldine Schwarz shares the story of her grandparents who ‘followed the current’ in Nazi Germany.
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Student of history makes history
November 23, 2021
Inspired by family, Samantha Maltais, first Wampanoag to attend Harvard Law School, plans a future focused on Indigenous rights and environmental justice.
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As the trial of Donald Trump takes place in the Senate on charges of inciting the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, renowned journalist Bob Woodward wondered during a Harvard Law School-sponsored webinar on Wednesday whether Trump also could have been impeached for his role in the COVID-19 crisis.
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Harvard scholars ponder putting an end to Columbus Day
October 9, 2020
The Harvard Gazette recently asked Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law Robert Anderson, and other members of the Harvard community, “Is this the end of Columbus Day, and how can America best replace it?”
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How and why the Supreme Court made climate-change history
April 22, 2020
The Gazette sat down with Lazarus, a Supreme Court advocate and the Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, before the coronavirus quarantine to talk about his book, his passion for environmental law, and the legal strategy behind the environmentalists’ victory.
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If at first you don’t succeed…
August 30, 2019
Elena Kagan was 'petrified' when a Law School professor called on her on her first day of class. She blew her first exams, which situated her in 'the bottom third of the class.' And then, in her second semester at Harvard Law School, things started to change.