Latest from Liz Mineo
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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.
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On a recent afternoon, the Harvard Gazette sat down with Susan Carney '77, current president of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and Michael Brown '88, president-elect for 2019-20, to discuss their roles and the challenges that face higher education.
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Making it big behind the scenes
March 11, 2019
With the help of Harvard Law's Entertainment Law Clinic and Recording Artists Project (RAP), students with a passion for music and the arts are following their dream careers in showbiz.
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‘They’re representing individuals who are in need’
March 7, 2019
Law students help young immigrants start anew
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Back to Myanmar with fresh insights
November 27, 2018
When Myanmar’s military junta tightened its grip in the late ’80s to quash a nationwide democracy movement, Yee Htun fled the brutal crackdown on dissent along with her mother, a doctor turned human rights activist, and three siblings. After five years in a refugee camp in Thailand, they immigrated to Canada as government-sponsored refugees, unsure of when they might return home.