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Join us for an in-depth exploration of upcoming changes to the standard repayment plan, income-driven repayment plans, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, and how private loan repayment will impact broader financial planning, lead by Derek Brainard of Accesslex.  Attendees will leave with actionable strategies for integrating these updates into their student loan repayment strategy after graduation.

Nov. 20, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the commencement of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Learn about the work the HLS Library is…

Though technology regulation has traditionally been treated separately from antitrust concerns, panelists in this session argue that the current antitrust regimes and regulatory practices in the US and the EU have worked together to stifle competition and innovation. While navigating the critical tension between fostering innovation and mitigating risks, they will explore the need and possibility of establishing an international legal standard and shared regulatory framework to guide competitive, responsible progress.

In this session, led by fellow Dan Be Kim from the CDT, together you’ll work through a series of short exercises designed to help make our inner experiences with AI more visible and explicit. Focusing not only on what AI does for us, but on what AI does to us — shaping our habits, pressures, and decision-making both individually and collectively-- you’ll leave with an approach to AI informed by a greater awareness and intention in your personal and professional lives. Registration Required. Lunch will be provided.

The development of quantum computers has seen rapid progress in recent years, with global players like Google, IBM and academic labs from Harvard and MIT competing to drive innovation. Amidst this race, multiple different platforms and techniques for achieving scalable, robust quantum computation have emerged. Mikhail Lukin's Group (Quantum Optics Laboratory), along with MIT scientists, are developing technologies based on ultracold neutral atoms. They will discuss the unique advantages and drawbacks of this platform, highlight one of the last remaining challenges towards scalable neutral-atom quantum computing, and outline how their recent work published in Nature Magazine on the continuous operation of a defect-free array of 3,000 qubits - a world record - addresses this challenge.

Professor Danielle Allen explores the history of how government and university research became intertwined, what that relationship has produced since 1945, but also what was missing in that vision that has led higher education into the vulnerable territory it now finds itself. Facing a decline in trust by the public as well as the challenges posed by the Trump administration, she proposes that a new social contract which makes central a firm educational foundation in Civic Strength is what these times call for.

Harvard Law School Library presents a faculty book talk with author and HLS professor Cass Sunstein. This event features a discussion on his newest book, Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do.

Bring your laptops and your appetite and join Debbie Ginsberg of HLSL's Research Services team for a demonstration of the AI tools currently available to law students. We’ll examine AI products from Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg, and the HU Sandbox.

American democracy is in trouble if we cannot learn to see the humanity in the people with whom we disagree.  Harvard Psychology Professor Joshua Greene and his team have created Tango, a cooperative online quiz game that turns members of opposing groups into teammates. Their research shows that playing Tango for less than an hour reduces political animosity, with positive effects lasting four months.

HKS political scientist and co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium, Erica Chenoweth, and Research Project Manager at the Nonviolent Action Lab, Soha Hammam discuss how civilian protests are occurring in the U.S in response to the major policy shifts introduced by the current administration.

Drop into the library between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Start in the lobby and learn about the library, meet vendors, get swag, and enjoy…

In assessing the actual effects of tariffs on the economy, Professor Jason Furman suggests that economists, himself included, may suffer from ‘tariff derangement syndrome’, wherein they find themselves disproportionately worked up every time tariffs are increased. Given the one constant factor currently affecting the U.S. economy--– uncertainty – HLS professor of international trade law and policy, Mark Wu, will engage with Professor Furman on the current state of tariff policy and its effects on the U.S. economy.

Harvard Law School Library Presents: Creepy Collections & Haunted Halls Tour Please join us for our annual celebration of all things spooky! Tour the Library’s…

Harvard Law School Library Presents: Creepy Collections & Haunted Halls Tour Please join us for our annual celebration of all things spooky! Tour the Library’s…

Every law student learns that the federal government is constrained to act only according to its enumerated powers, meaning that Congress can do what the Constitution expressly authorizes it to and nothing more. Law Professor and author, Richard Primus, contends in his important new book, The Oldest Constitutional Question, that this longstanding orthodoxy—allegedly required by the text of the Constitution, the Framers’ vision, and the logic of federalism—is fundamentally flawed.

The panel Why I Changed My Mind features HLS faculty members’ stories of professional moments of reckoning when ideas they had previously thought settled in their worldview changed.

This panel discussion focuses on the divergent regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence in the European Union and the United States. Given the ever-changing political and regulatory landscape, HLS student panelists will examine the critical question of democracy's role in governing emerging technologies given and the broader implications for global AI leadership.