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Dying While Black and Brown: Hamilton Houston Institute hosts dance performance on incarceration and capital punishment (video)
March 20, 2015
On March 6, Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice hosted Dying While Black and Brown, a dance performance focused on capital punishment and the disproportionate numbers of incarcerated people of color. The performance was first commissioned by the San Francisco Equal Justice Society as part of the society’s campaign to restore 14th Amendment protections for victims of discrimination, including those on death row.
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Tribe: Why EPA’s Climate Plan Is Unconstitutional
March 20, 2015
When my friends Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus defend the legality of the EPA’s power plant rule by saying that no one would take the…
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Noted constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe ’66, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, has made headlines with his Congressional testimony that the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan is unconstitutional. Professors Jody Freeman LL.M. '91 S.J.D. '95 and Richard Lazarus '79--two leading Harvard Law professors with expertise in environmental law, administrative law, and Supreme Court environmental litigation--take an opposing view.
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Experts debate the constitutionality of the president’s climate change plan Noted constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe ’66 has made headlines with his Congressional testimony that…
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Explaining ‘Capital:’ In HLS visit, economist Thomas Piketty discusses his landmark text (video)
March 18, 2015
It’s been just a year since Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” turned the respected French economist from the University of Paris into an academic and publishing rock star. Piketty’s status showed little sign of fading during his March 6 visit to Harvard to speak about the book before an overflow crowd inside Austin Hall at Harvard Law School.
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Heard on the Hill: Tribe on Clean Power Plan; Shay on international tax system; and Desai and Fogg on tax complexity
March 16, 2015
On Tuesday, March 17, two professors from Harvard Law School, Laurence Tribe ’66 and Stephen Shay, will testify before Senate committees. Last week, Harvard Law School Professor Mihir Desai and Visiting Clinical Professor T. Keith Fogg testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.
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Last week, the nine justices of the Supreme Court peppered Tom Goldstein, veteran of 35 oral arguments before the Court and a cofounder of SCOTUSblog, with nearly 75 questions in 30 minutes – questions he was able to answer with the help of seven Harvard Law students who spent their January term working around the clock to research, write and edit the entire respondents’ brief in City of Los Angeles v. Patel.
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Biden joins event at Harvard Law honoring Inspiring Women
March 10, 2015
In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Harvard Law and International Development Society and the Harvard Women’s Law Association honored 50 women in their International Women’s Portrait Exhibit. More than a dozen of the honorees attended a luncheon as part of the event, on Tuesday, March 10.
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Focus on food: Twenty-two faculty deliver lightning lectures on research, realities involving what we eat
March 10, 2015
The Food+ Research Symposium, which was hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Harvard Kennedy School Sustainable Science Program, and the Harvard Center for the Environment, brought together 22 faculty speakers from eight Schools last Friday to deliver seven-minute presentations on the nexus of food, agriculture, environment, health, and society.
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The Yukos settlement: an insider’s view into the largest arbitration award in history
March 10, 2015
In a Feb. 6 talk sponsored by International Legal Studies, the Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association, and the International Law Journal, Emmanuel Gaillard and Yas Banifatemi LL.M. ’97, head of international arbitration and head of public international law, respectively, at Shearman & Sterling, detailed the intricate story behind securing the historic $50 billion award for the Yukos Oil Cooperative against the Russian Federation.
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View full gallery (25 images) This month, the Harvard Law School Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain held an art opening: the theme was…
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2015 HLS Parody: The eternal curse of the 1L
March 6, 2015
The 2015 Harvard Law School Parody Beauty v. the Beast, which ran from Feb. 27 to March 3, drew sold-out audiences of students, faculty members, and visitors. Staged annually since the 1980s by the Harvard Law School Drama Society, the Parody serves as a creative outlet for many students at the law school.
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Public Service Venture Fund announces two ‘seed grant’ recipients for 2014-15 academic year
March 6, 2015
Two recent Harvard Law School graduates, Shannon Erwin ’10 and Alana Greer ’11, have been selected as recipients of grants from the Public Service Venture Fund, a unique program that awards up to $1 million each year to help graduating Harvard Law students and recent graduates obtain their ideal jobs in public service.
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After Ferguson, the ripples across Harvard
March 5, 2015
National concerns over racial justice lead to campus introspection, discussion, research, and action They are short, stark sentences, seared into the public consciousness in recent…
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The numbers paint a telling picture. In the United States of the 1950s there were between 3 million and 4 million annual cases of measles,…
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Six from Harvard Law School awarded Skadden Fellowships
March 3, 2015
Six Harvard Law School students and recent graduates have been chosen to receive Skadden Fellowships to support their work in public service.
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger LL.M. ’70 S.J.D. ’76, the Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been appointed the Minister of Strategic Affairs in Brazil by the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff.
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New study on liability of online intermediaries by the Global Network of Internet and Society Centers
February 25, 2015
The Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers (NoC) and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University recently announced the release of a new report, which examines the rapidly changing landscape of online intermediary liability at the intersection of law, technology, norms, and markets, and is aimed at informing and improving Internet policy-making globally.
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Vicki Jackson to serve on ALI’s project on campus sexual assault
February 25, 2015
Harvard Law School Professor Vicki C. Jackson will serve as reporter for a project, sponsored by the American Law Institute, that will examine college and university procedures surrounding allegations of sexual misconduct on campus.
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A different kind of drug research: Heymann, Falco on lessons learned from the U.S. ‘war on drugs’
February 23, 2015
HLS Prof. Philip Heymann joined an array of experts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for a two-day seminar to explore lessons learned from the U.S. 'war on drugs' and how to use that knowledge to develop better public policies.
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On Feb. 14, the Harvard Law School LL.M. Class of 2015 hosted the International Party, an annual event at the law school for more than a decade that has served as an opportunity for graduate students to share their culture with the entire HLS community.