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‘This is something that’s worth fighting for’
May 12, 2023
Robert Bullard, the ‘father of environmental justice' and the 2023 Horizon Award recipient, discusses what he sees as the struggle to address climate change
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His American Dream
May 12, 2023
With the support of other immigrants and compassionate immigration lawyers, Ricardo Jimenez Solis ’23 is now achieving what his family hoped for when they left their home in El Salvador for the United States.
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‘The legacy I hope to leave’
May 10, 2023
Barbara “Babs” Tsao ’23 was 13 years old when her family moved from a leafy suburb in California’s Bay Area to a ranch in a small Texas town where her stepfather raised alpacas and her mother opened her own sushi restaurant.
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Profiles of the Class of 2023
May 9, 2023
Members of the Class of 2023 reflect on their Harvard Law School experience and their plans after graduation
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Army Captain Ryan Gunderman '23 hopes to use his legal training to bring restorative justice to military adjudication.
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‘Education can change ordinary people’s lives’
May 9, 2023
For as long as she can remember, Tushigjargal Bold LL.M. ’23 has enjoyed such a wide variety of interests that it’s been hard to focus on just one.
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For Frances Williamson ’23, a childhood spent largely outdoors in South Texas inspired a career in environmental litigation.
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AI created a song mimicking the work of Drake and The Weeknd. What does that mean for copyright law?
May 2, 2023
A Harvard Law expert explains why AI-generated art doesn’t qualify for copyright protection — but how it nonetheless will ‘materially affect’ the music industry.
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Hannah Shaffer ’21, whose research interests focus on criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and economics, will join Harvard Law School as an assistant professor of law.
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Roberto Tallarita S.J.D. ’23, a lecturer on law and the associate director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, has been named an assistant professor of law at Harvard.
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Professor Rebecca Tushnet says that Disney’s claims of retaliation are strong and that, if the company prevails in the lower courts, the Supreme Court might choose to have the final word.
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Harvard Law’s Louis Tompros explains the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by heirs of Gaye’s cowriter involving Sheeran’s song “Thinking Out Loud”
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Class of 2023 words of wisdom
April 26, 2023
Six members of the Class of 2023 delivered talks to their peers — final words of wisdom on everything from the power of community to familial pride to lessons learned from mushrooms.
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First Gen Empower, founded by Arabi Hassan ’23, enables first-generation, low-income, and immigrant high school and college students to pursue their dreams.
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Professor Carol Steiker ’86, the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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What critics get wrong — and right — about the Supreme Court’s new ‘major questions doctrine’
April 19, 2023
Oren Tamir, a post-doctoral fellow, says that many of the critiques of the major questions doctrine tend to miss the mark — and that, with some changes, the doctrine could be fixed in ways that would make it a valuable contribution for our law and democracy.
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Former national security official Timothy Edgar says that the government isn’t doing enough to protect classified computer systems.
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‘Why is it so hard to make environmental law?’
April 18, 2023
Harvard Law School Professor Professor Richard Lazarus tells the story of challenges and hope inherent in environmental law.
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At an event hosted by the Harvard Law School Library, several students discussed their experiences working with capital defense offices across the country as part of the Capital Punishment Clinic.
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New faculty appointments
April 18, 2023
Harvard Law School expands the ranks of its faculty with four appointments.
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Carmel Shachar named assistant clinical professor of law
April 14, 2023
Carmel Shachar J.D./M.P.H. ’10 has been appointed assistant clinical professor and faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.