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  • A Women standing in front of a cartoon

    No Time Like the Present

    July 23, 2020

    Talia Gillis’ work cuts a wide swath, one focus being the intersection of artificial intelligence and consumer loan discrimination. It’s driven by a question: “What does it mean for a credit pricing algorithm to discriminate?”

  • Group shot in front of the U.S. Supreme Court

    Double Take

    July 23, 2020

    “Carly” Anderson ’12 wrote on Dec. 4 to report that Mitch Reich ’12 had argued Rodriguez v. FDIC before the Supreme Court just the day before. Among those listening to the argument in the courtroom were Anderson and four other HLS classmates—Stephanie Simon, Matthew Greenfield, Stephen Pezzi and Noah Weiss—who, along with Reich, had all been members of the 2011 winning Ames Moot Court Competition team.

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    HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books Summer 2020

    July 23, 2020

    From new takes on famous figures from American history to the stories of lesser-known figures, including two who resisted fascism in war-torn Europe and went on to become the authors’ parents

  • Enduring Lessons

    July 23, 2020

    Retiring Professors Robert Clark, Mary Ann Glendon Laurence Tribe and Mark Tushnet are celebrated by former students.

  • Baseball on Grass Field

    ‘It was a titanic struggle to make this happen’

    July 23, 2020

    HLS Lecturer Peter Carfagna ’79 discusses Major League Baseball’s return to play during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • A federal officer in a camouflage uniform wearing a gas mask pepper sprays a protester wearing a motorcycle helmet next to a graffiti covered building.

    Professor Crespo says events in Portland raise serious concerns about unlawful police tactics

    July 21, 2020

    Andrew Crespo ’08 recently discussed the federal government’s law enforcement actions in Portland, Oregon with Harvard Law Today.

  • Military forces working at computers to address the Covid-19 crisis

    Pivot Point

    July 21, 2020

    HLS sectionmates Phil Caruso ’19 and Gareth Rhodes ’19 unexpectedly found themselves working to address the COVID-19 crisis in their home state of New York less than a year after graduation. Caruso became a Department of Defense liaison to the New York City Emergency Management Department and Rhodes was a member of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 task force.

  • Deidre Mask

    A Sense of Place

    July 21, 2020

    Deirde Mask ’07, author of “The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power” illuminates the richness and history behind the seemingly prosaic numbers and names that mark the places in our lives in her book and talks about how the books came to be.

  • Laurence Tribe

    Learning and Teaching ‘in the Curvature of Constitutional Space’

    July 21, 2020

    No one in legal academia has ever combined the roles of constitutional teacher, scholar, advocate, adviser, and commentator with the dazzling breadth, depth, and eloquence of Larry Tribe ’66. And no constitutional law professor has ever so seamlessly integrated all these roles for his students’ benefit.

  • Robert Clark in front of Langdell

    ‘An Unmatched Curiosity of Mind and Humbleness of Spirit’

    July 21, 2020

    It is one thing to find someone who combines stunning intellect, subject matter mastery, confidence and courage in his or her decision-making, but it is exceedingly rare to find one who possesses all those qualities together with a thoroughly genuine humbleness of spirit. But that is Robert Clark.

  • Embracing the Whole World through the Study and Teaching of Law

    July 21, 2020

    Mary Ann Glendon communicated an ideal that as students of the law, we were participants in a vast, complex and immensely important human enterprise. [Yet] She never lost sight, with clear-eyed realism, of law as a sociological fact—subject to interests and powers—and of the fragility and flaws of every human undertaking.

  • Neil Gorsuch portrait at confirmation hearings

    A Justice Reflects on Law and Life

    July 21, 2020

    In a book featuring speeches and writings over the course of his 30 years in the law, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch ’91 offers “personal reflections on our Constitution, its separation of powers, and some of the challenges we face in preserving and protecting our republic today.”

  • U.S. Supreme Court Exterior

    A legal thriller

    July 17, 2020

    HLS Professors Noah Feldman and Nikolas Bowie ’14 weigh in on the biggest takeaways—and surprises—of the Supreme Court's latest term, and what to expect moving forward.

  • Map of Oklahoma Territories

    Landmark SCOTUS ruling affirms Native American rights in Oklahoma and bodes well for tribal rights going forward, says Robert Anderson

    July 14, 2020

    Robert Anderson, the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, discusses the latest Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, a landmark for Native American rights that resolves decades' worth of legal argument.

  • Alma Cohen

    Professor Alma Cohen receives award for research ‘that has stood the test of time’

    July 13, 2020

    A study co-authored by Harvard Law School Professor Alma Cohen, has received the American Risk and Insurance Association's 2020 Robert I. Mehr Award, presented each year to research published ten years earlier in the Association's journal that has remained relevant in the decade since.

  • Electoral College

    Does recent Supreme Court ruling suggest the Electoral College is ‘good for nothing’ ?

    July 8, 2020

    In a Q&A, Jason Harrow ’11, who argued before the Supreme Court in a case involving the electoral college and faithless electors, shares where he believes U.S. electoral reform should go from here.

  • Lessig, who argued on behalf of ‘faithless electors,’ responds to the Supreme Court’s decision

    July 8, 2020

    Lawrence Lessig issues a statement on the unanimous Supreme Court ruling that states can require Electoral College voters to back the victor of their state’s popular vote.

  • Daphna Renan, Elizabeth Papp Kamali and Alexandra Natapoff.

    Scholars bring wide-ranging expertise and experience

    July 1, 2020

    Effective July 1, two faculty members were promoted and a new scholar joined the Harvard Law School faculty.

  • Elizabeth Papp Kamali

    Kamali appointed professor of law at Harvard Law School

    July 1, 2020

    Elizabeth Papp Kamali ’07, a scholar specializing in medieval legal history, has been promoted to professor of law at Harvard Law School, effective July 1.

  • Daphna Renan

    Renan appointed professor of law at Harvard Law School

    July 1, 2020

    Daphna Renan, a scholar of presidential power and administrative governance, has been promoted to professor of law at Harvard Law School, effective July 1.

  • Alexandra Natapoff

    Criminal law scholar Alexandra Natapoff joins Harvard Law School

    July 1, 2020

    Alexandra Natapoff, a leading expert in criminal law and procedure, informants, public defense, and law and inequality, joins the Harvard Law faculty on July 1.