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Food Law and Policy Clinic releases advocacy and lobbying guide for food policy councils
March 20, 2019
The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future have released "Advocacy & Lobbying 101 for Food Policy Councils," a resource for food policy councils and others working to change the food system in the U.S.
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The “Smart Enough” City
March 20, 2019
"The smart city is ultimately a vision full of false promises and hidden dangers," says Ben Green, an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and author of the forthcoming book, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim our Urban Future."
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These are trying times for the World Trade Organization, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff admitted when he spoke at Harvard Law School on March 12. Yet in his speech he offered reason for optimism.
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The Last Palace and the Next Battle
March 18, 2019
Norman Eisen ’91 tells the epic story of democracy’s long victory in Europe through a house’s history—and his mother’s life.
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Video: Will China Save the Planet?
March 15, 2019
China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution. But as leading China environmental expert Barbara Finamore explains in her latest book preventing "environmental catastrophe" is anything but easy.
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Though Lawfare’s masthead is stocked with seasoned legal firepower from across the country, two of the national security blog’s most widely discussed stories in the past few months were co-authored by Sarah Grant, a highly accomplished yet stunningly modest third-year at HLS.
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Co-author Sarah Grant’s stories on Steele dossier and Watergate ‘road map’ are much-discussed As the indictments and plea agreements pile up, close followers of special…
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Proskauer Chairman Joe Leccese talks sports law market diversification and technological innovation with Professor Wilkins
March 14, 2019
Joe Leccese, chairman of Proskauer, joined Professor David Wilkins ’80, faculty director of Harvard Law School's Center on the Legal Profession, for a lunchtime talk sponsored by the Harvard Association for Law and Business.
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Andrew Patterson '20 shares a reflection on his time spent working as an advocate for Legal Permanent Residents throughout the naturalization process with the local organization Project Citizenship.
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Video: Trauma at the Border
March 11, 2019
A recent event at Harvard Law School brought together scientists and lawyers to start a dialogue on neuroscience, trauma, and justice as part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a collaboration between the Petrie-Flom Center at HLS and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Making it big behind the scenes
March 11, 2019
With the help of Harvard Law's Entertainment Law Clinic and Recording Artists Project (RAP), students with a passion for music and the arts are following their dream careers in showbiz.
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Why I Changed My Mind
March 8, 2019
A panel discussion at HLS brought together four faculty members to share their moments of reckoning, when they had to re-examine some of their most closely held ideas.
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Law students help young immigrants start anew
March 8, 2019
Through the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, one of 30 clinics providing legal assistance at Harvard Law School, dozens of HLS students are taking on high-stakes cases for vulnerable clients.
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Redressing Harm through Restorative Justice
March 7, 2019
The 2019 Harvard Negotiation Law Review symposium, “Redressing Harm Through Restorative Justice,” focused on the challenges of addressing power imbalances and trauma through implementation of restorative practices within communities.
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‘They’re representing individuals who are in need’
March 7, 2019
Law students help young immigrants start anew
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Fred Korematsu and his fight for justice
March 6, 2019
The Harvard Asian Pacific American Law Students Association performed “Fred Korematsu and His Fight for Justice,” a reenactment of the trial and events surrounding Korematsu's challenge of Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Alford receives the Li Buyun Law Prize
March 5, 2019
William P. Alford ’77, the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, has received the Li Buyun Law Prize from the Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law, a leading Chinese academic society.
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Alan Jenkins ’89, president and co-founder of The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communications organization, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a professor of practice in July.
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Andrew Leon Hanna named Knight-Hennessy Scholar
March 5, 2019
Andrew Leon Hanna ’19 has been selected as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. The international graduate-level program provides full funding for students as they pursue studies at Stanford university.
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Video: Cass Sunstein, “On Freedom”
March 1, 2019
As part of its regular Book Talk series, the Harvard Law School Library recently hosted Robert Walmsley University Professor Cass Sunstein for a discussion of his latest release, "On Freedom."
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From Fiji to New Delhi, Cravath International Fellows pursue projects around the globe
February 28, 2019
During Winter Term, 12 Harvard Law School students traveled to 12 countries as Cravath International Fellows to pursue clinical placements or independent research with an international, transnational, or comparative law focus. Four of them share their experiences.