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  • Head Shots of Harvard Law School professors Lawrence Lessig and Larry Schwartztol

    How to Protect a Presidential Election

    September 25, 2024

    On the eve of the presidential election and faced with heightened threats of voter suppression, new laws governing election officials' powers, and the rampant spread of rhetoric around election integrity, Professors Lawrence Lessig and Larry Schwartztol discuss the various legal frameworks that the loser of an election in the U.S. could use to assume office despite election results and the possible courses of action a losing candidate/party could take in the aftermath of a contested election.

  • HLS Library Book Talk: The Quiet Coup

    September 20, 2024

    Join the HLS Library on Wednesday October 16 at 12:30pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in  HLS Library Langdell Hall 232/233. This event…

  • A cello and guitar player perform outside of a campus building in the fall.

    Jazz Night in Langdell Reading Room – A Celebration of the Re-Opening

    September 19, 2024

    A celebration of the re-opening of Langdell's Reading Room at HLS hosted by HLS student musicians Cosimo Fabrizio (JD 25) and Shaan Pandiri (JD 26) w/ cameo sit-ins by musically inclined faculty. Gain a deeper understanding of jazz through selected works and commentary

  • Puzzle being completed with hand holding last piece labeled AI

    HLS Beyond Presents: How Current AI Can Help You Do Legal Research

    September 5, 2024

    Join this session demonstrating AI tools currently available to law students for research, those currently used in law practice (not yet accessible to law schools) compared to the latest commercial LLMs, and a discussion of the limits, likely changes, and implications of AI tools for the future of legal research.

  • Graphical illustration of percent of individuals in solitary confinement

    HLS Beyond Presents: The Importance of Empirical Skills for Changing Policy

    September 4, 2024

    In this session Professor Arevik Avedian and HLS student Felicia Caten-Raines (JD ’25) from the HLS Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program will walk through various steps of empirical analysis, including data quality check and cleaning, best practices of creating and sharing replication data and code, and data analysis and visualization – all grounded in the incredibly impactful report they co-authored with researchers from HLS, HMS, and Physicians for Human Rights entitled “Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention.

  • HLS Library Book Talk: Campus Free Speech

    July 25, 2024

    Join the HLS Library on Tuesday September 10th at 12:30pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in  Wasserstein Hall – Milstein East B. This…

  • HLS Library Book Talk: Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal

    July 25, 2024

    Join the HLS Library on Wednesday October 9 at 12:30pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall 232/233.

  • Exhibits

    March 27, 2024

    Current Exhibit This exhibit celebrates the career, leadership, and impact of late Harvard Law School alumnus and beloved Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023), through

  • Lisa Lilliott Rydin

    April 6, 2023

    Lisa Lilliott Rydin (Faculty Research Librarian) primarily provides research support to HLS faculty members, but also provides research consultations and instruction for JD and graduate…

  • Lori Schulsinger

    April 6, 2023

    Lori supports the Collection Development Unit which includes the direct support of the Associate Director for Collections, the Collection Development Librarian for U.S. and Materials…

  • Maya Bergamasco

    March 10, 2023

    Maya Bergamasco provides scholarly publication and research support to the Harvard Law School community. Maya holds a B.A. in English literature with a concentration in…

  • Emily Neill

    March 10, 2023

    Emily Neill is the Program Manager of HLS Beyond which provides non-curricular learning opportunities for HLS students that build skills and knowledge on issues relevant…

  • Deanna Barmakian

    March 10, 2023

    Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian for Student Services and Foreign, Comparative & International Law, enjoys supporting the research needs of the HLS community. She holds a…

  • AJ Blechner

    March 10, 2023

    AJ Blechner is a Student Services Research Librarian and Instructional Designer at the Harvard Law School Library. They coordinate and participate in teaching legal research,…

  • Jess Rios

    March 10, 2023

    Jess has been at the Harvard Law School Library for over 15 years in various roles. As the Assistant Director of Digital Content & UX…

  • Debbie Ginsberg

    March 2, 2023

    I oversee faculty research and scholarship support for the Harvard Law School Library. I am active in AALL (incoming vice-chair for the Economic Status of Law…

  • Arevik Avedian

    February 6, 2023

    Arevik is a Lecturer on Law at HLS, teaching quantitative methods. She holds a Ph.D. in world politics and methods and a M.A. in…

  • Empirical Research Services Team

    February 6, 2023

  • Database Authorization

    August 15, 2022

    CALI CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, provides access to an extensive collection of interactive, computer-based lessons covering a number of subject areas.

  • History of the Library

    August 15, 2022

    In July 1817, the creation of the Law School was announced with the promise that students “will have access to the college library, and a…

  • Visit Us

    August 3, 2022

    Materials in Historical & Special Collections are open to everyone. Request a Reading Room Appointment The Historical & Special Collections’ Reading Room, the Root Room,…