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Defending and promoting freedom of expression in Myanmar
August 21, 2019
As a Satter Human Rights Fellow, Jenny Domino LL.M. ’18 spent her fellowship year focused on how social media policy limits one's right to speak in the midst of democratic transition.
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Planting herself in the right career
August 12, 2019
Unhappy with what many would consider a plum job in corporate law, Nisha Vora ’12 decided to reset, and she has recently released her debut cookbook, “The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook,” which builds on her success as a chronicler of vegan recipes and photos on her popular site, Rainbow Plant Life.
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‘Broadsides’ and the history of the criminal mind
August 12, 2019
Students in Professor Elizabeth Papp Kamali’s seminar, Mind and Criminal Responsibility in the Anglo-American Tradition, spend the semester reading and analyzing primary and secondary sources—beginning with Jewish scriptures and excerpts from Roman law through the end of the 21st century—to study the history of mens rea in English common law.
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Harvard Law Crimmigration Clinic is moving the needle on the criminalization of immigration
August 9, 2019
Criminalizing immigration status has been increasing over the past twenty-five years, according to Phil Torrey, managing director of the Crimmigration Clinic at Harvard Law School.
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A Question of Prevention
August 6, 2019
Calls are growing for the U.S. to lift a ban on mitochondrial replacement therapy, or MRT, a procedure developed to enable women who are at risk of passing on rare but devastating diseases to have healthy, biologically related children.
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Animal Law and Policy Clinic launches at Harvard Law School
August 5, 2019
Harvard Law School has announced the launch of the new Animal Law and Policy Clinic, to be led by Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor Katherine Meyer and Clinical Instructor Nicole Negowetti.
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Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project reached a new milestone this year, when Judith Haran, one of two document analysts with the project, was invited to speak at an international conference on Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age.
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A Home Victory
July 30, 2019
Recently elected mayor of his native Shreveport, Louisiana, Adrian Perkins ’18 seeks to rejuvenate the city he loves.
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Defending Domains
July 29, 2019
As a former top national security official and current adviser to companies in the defense, intelligence, and technology sectors, Michael Leiter ’00 has spent his life assessing threats.
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One thing to change: Question that status quo
July 29, 2019
As part of a series called Focal Point, in which the Harvard Gazette asks a range of Harvard faculty members to answer the same question, I. Glenn Cohen explains why we should scrutinize what is and then ponder what should be.
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Credit: via Alston & Bird LLP “A lot of people think law is this very staid, confined, operate-within-the-four-corners field, but I think there’s a lot…
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Harvard Law School clinicians testify on legislation supporting tenants in eviction cases
July 25, 2019
Four Harvard Law School clinicians—Esme Caramello, Patricia Whiting and Nicole Summers from the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) and Shelley Barron from the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP)—presented testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary on a series of housing bills aimed at tenants facing eviction.
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The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and the Center for EcoTechnology have released a new toolkit on state and local organic waste bans, policies that restrict the amount of food or organic waste that can be sent to landfills.
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HLS Authors: A summer selection of alumni books
July 22, 2019
The latest from alumni authors, chronicling travels to the moon and the Arctic, the dawn of a code war, and the unwinding of a miracle.
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MacKinnon recognized as a ‘Woman of Vision’
July 19, 2019
Catharine A. MacKinnon, longtime visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been recognized by the National Association for Women with their Woman of Vision Award.
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Remembering Justice John Paul Stevens (1920-2019)
July 17, 2019
Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, the second longest-serving justice in the Court's history, died July 16, at the age of 99. With the passing of Justice Stevens has come an outpouring of remembrances and testaments to his influential presence during his thirty-five years on the Court.
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A Conversation with Jessica Tisch ’08
July 17, 2019
Jessica Tisch has put data-driven policing tools in the hands of New York City’s 36,000 uniformed police officers, including 911 dispatch information and electronic report forms on iPhones.
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Maureen E. “Molly” Brady, an expert in property law, land use law, local government law, legal history and intellectual property law, has joined the Harvard Law School faculty as assistant professor of law.
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The Price Is Right
July 15, 2019
Sunstein details how government can best spend money to benefit the public
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A walk through a work of art
July 12, 2019
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus with a tour of Harvard Law School’s Bauhaus-built spaces.
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Student Voices: Going against the government at the Office of the Federal Public Defender in D.C.
July 12, 2019
Alyssa Bernstein ’19 recounts her experience working for the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia.