Tomiko Brown-Nagin

On the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, experts at Harvard Law School discussed the future of racial justice at the inaugural Belinda Sutton Symposium.

Experts at a Radcliffe event weigh whether ‘institutional neutrality’ is best way to encourage academic freedom and safeguard a core mission.

Legal and political scholars discuss balancing personal safety, constitutional rights, and academic freedom amid roiling protests and cultural shifts.

Several Harvard Law faculty members have received accolades for their work and lifelong scholarship and achievements in recent months.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, received the 2023 the Order of the Coif award for her book “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.”

Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. ‘78, or Tree, as he was affectionately known, the celebrated, influential, and beloved Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar, died peacefully on August 4 in his home in Odenton, Maryland, from the natural progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin argues that a Constitutional amendment enshrining the right to vote would demonstrate ‘absolute commitment’ to full participation in U.S. democracy.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s book recounts the remarkable — and too little-known — life and achievements of civil rights lawyer and judge Constance Baker Motley

Harvard issues a report on the university’s connections to slavery and its long history of discrimination against Black people long after slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment.