Latest from Rachel Reed
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‘Living — and dying — with dignity are both important’
March 27, 2025
Luis Gallegos, a senior advisor on disability rights, is leading the push for a UN convention on the rights of older people.
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Can local news help bring us together?
March 19, 2025
Professor Martha Minow, the new chair of GBH’s board of trustees, thinks a strong media ecosystem is crucial to democracy.
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Legal scholars debate the unitary executive theory and the limits of presidential authority at Harvard Law School’s Rappaport Forum.
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When a president takes on the administrative state
March 12, 2025
Four Harvard Law School experts examine the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape executive power.
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‘Kentucky’s public schools are well worth fighting for’
March 12, 2025
Local student advocates in the Bluegrass state file an education rights lawsuit with legal representation from Harvard’s Education Law Clinic.
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Is the U.S. experiencing a constitutional crisis?
February 27, 2025
The U.S. is probably not in a constitutional crisis — at least, not yet, according to a group of experts discussing the matter at a recent Harvard Law School event.
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A new course helps make sense of modern American society through a Constitutional lens
February 18, 2025
A new online course by Harvard Law Professor Michael Klarman explores the history of race and the United States Constitution.
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Organized labor’s complicated history with civil rights
February 12, 2025
Harvard Law Professor Kenneth Mack says that early unions often excluded Black workers, but that today’s labor and social justice movements often ‘dovetail’.
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G. Terrell Seabrooks elected 139th president of Harvard Law Review
February 6, 2025
G. Terrell Seabrooks, who was selected as the 139th president of the Harvard Law Review, says he will 'maintain the legacy of excellence embodied in each volume of the Harvard Law Review while cultivating a collaborative environment that leverages each editor’s unique contributions'.
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Can birthright citizenship be changed?
January 24, 2025
Harvard Law School Professor Gerald Neuman says a president has no authority at all to change United States citizenship rules.
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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
Debating 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.