Latest from Rachel Reed
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‘It’s always fire season now’
January 23, 2025
A senior staff attorney at the Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program explains how L.A.’s devastating wildfires could shape insurance in California.
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A wish made real at Harvard Law School
December 17, 2024
A veteran and lifelong learner visited Harvard Law’s campus for a taste of law school life, as part of AARP’s Wish of a Lifetime program.
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How could reducing prescription drug prices save patients money?
December 11, 2024
A Harvard Law School visiting professor says that increasing competition could lower the cost of medications for millions of Americans.
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Harvard Law students, faculty, and staff served as nonpartisan poll monitors in Nevada.
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Supreme Court preview: Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments
December 2, 2024
Harvard Law alum and M.D. Daniel G. Aaron says that there is danger the Court could “shore back the power of administrative agencies.”
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Ames Moot Court Competition takes on the Second Amendment
November 22, 2024
At Harvard Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson helped preside over the 2024 final round of one of the nation’s most prestigious appellate advocacy contests.
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Does a parent’s authority end at the schoolhouse door?
November 19, 2024
At Harvard Law’s Herbert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecture, three experts — Melissa Moschella, Anne C. Dailey ’87, and Erika Bachiochi — debated the meaning of a 100-year-old Supreme Court decision on parents’ rights.
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Election law experts provide post-election insights and analysis
November 13, 2024
From global election trends to failed voting reform initiatives, Harvard election law experts break down last week’s presidential election and what it might mean for the future of American democracy.
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Polarities course explores benefits of recognizing, negotiating ‘interdependent opposites’
November 13, 2024
In an increasingly polarized world, a Harvard Law School course teaches students how to navigate ideas that may seem like binary choices — but aren’t.
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How the law can help build better neighborhoods
November 1, 2024
Harvard Law Professor Molly Brady argues that efforts to protect single-family neighborhoods tended to ‘destroy, rather than build, community.’
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Harvard Law’s Emily Broad Leib explains why the FDA is considering new front-of-package labels to call out foods with high fat, salt, and sugar.
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How and why US elections are changing
October 24, 2024
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, an election law expert, says America’s voters are shifting — and this has major implications for our elections.
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How much are your airline miles really worth?
October 23, 2024
Author and law professor Ganesh Sitaraman ’08 explains why the Department of Transportation is taking a close look at four major airlines’ rewards programs.
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In her new film, Harvard Law’s Rebecca Richman Cohen explores the question: If terroir impacts every glass of wine, why not marijuana?
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Your Massachusetts voting rights guide
October 9, 2024
Harvard Election Law Clinic expert Daniel Hessel shares how to vote and make it count in the Bay State.
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Low-profile, but not for long: Tracking trends ahead of the Supreme Court’s new term
October 4, 2024
Harvard Law emeritus professor Mark Tushnet explains why decisions are getting longer even as there are fewer of them — and how the election will affect the Court’s work.
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Experts preview the new Supreme Court term, at Harvard Law
October 3, 2024
Professor Stephen Sachs discusses high-profile cases on terrorism and medical care for transgender minors at an event sponsored by the Harvard Federalist Society.
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Did the administrative state die with Chevron?
October 1, 2024
At Harvard Law’s Rappaport Forum, experts debated the limits of the federal agency’s ability to regulate American industry, health, and safety, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo.