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Jonathan Zittrain
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Faculty share stories of an intellectual about-face
April 4, 2024
Harvard Law experts Janet Halley, Juliette Kayyem, and Ruth Okediji share moments of reckoning when they changed their minds, at an event moderated by Jonathan Zittrain.
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Amanda Watson appointed new assistant dean for library and information services at Harvard Law School
April 1, 2024
Amanda Watson will join the Harvard Law School Library as assistant dean for library and information services in August 2024.
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The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow
March 21, 2024
An op-ed by Adam Ziegler: On my left: the edge of the off-ramp, a modest guardrail, and a fifty-foot drop. On my right, inching closer: a…
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Harvard Law School celebrates the Caselaw Access Project and its efforts to transform justice with the digitization of millions of pages of case law.
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Harvard Law Releases 40M Pages Of Digitized Case Law
March 11, 2024
Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab is releasing nearly 40 million pages of scanned case law for free as part of the Caselaw Access Project,…
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Matthew D. Pekoske LL.M. ’24, leading at sea and in the law
November 8, 2023
Matthew Pekoske, a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Coast Guard, is hoping his time catching drug smugglers will translate to stopping cyberattacks.
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How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
October 27, 2023
At a Berkman Klein Center event, tech reporter Kashmir Hill discussed her book on Clearview AI, a small company that launched a facial-recognition app in 2017.
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In certain ways, Meta Platforms Inc. is a complicated company. It runs an ever-growing collection of social media apps—Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads—and the virtual-reality…
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HLS Beyond provides students with opportunties for less formal learning
September 20, 2023
An initiative led by the Harvard Law School Library offers workshops on cutting-edge topics and skills for life and lawyering.
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How to think about AI
June 27, 2023
Machine-generated output is raising a host of legal and ethical questions around authorship, fair use, copyright, and more.
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The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social
April 20, 2023
Nearly two decades ago, Facebook exploded on college campuses as a site for students to stay in touch. Then came Twitter, where people posted about…
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Notes and Comment
March 29, 2023
At this spring's Notes and Comment event, dozens of Harvard Law students working on writing projects met with faculty experts for advice and commentary on their work.
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Talk to almost anyone today about social media, and you’ll hear that it’s toxic. One might diagnose it with having an excess of outrage, another…
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Ifs, ands and bots
February 17, 2023
An article by Jonathan Zittrain: If reading articles about cybersecurity has become a little tiresome, it’s because its curse has been deep and persistent. Our…
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What Is ‘Shadow Banning’?
January 13, 2023
Your social media posts, as far as you can tell, are great, but they don’t they get any engagement. Are you being “shadow banned”? The…
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Facebook and the problem of truth
December 15, 2022
In a new podcast, Harvard Law Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Jill Lepore road-test an idea to enlist high school students across the country as “advertisement juries.”
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Trial by Teenager, Part 2
November 10, 2022
The fact-checking experiment gets scaled up with 40 students in two states. The Super Bowl of fact-checking, a final test of an idea that might…
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Ogletree family donates the celebrated law professor and civil rights scholar’s papers to Harvard Law School
October 13, 2022
The Harvard Law School Library has been chosen as a steward of the papers of Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., the celebrated and influential Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar.