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Howell Jackson discusses what could happen if the United States defaults on its debts for the first time in history.

Harvard Law’s Michael Ashley Stein is ‘calling for systemic and urgent disability inclusion’ in climate resilience planning.

The Harvard Law School community cheered on the Crimson at Bright-Landry Hockey Center on Jan. 13 as the Harvard Men’s Hockey team took on Clarkson University.

Now that the champagne is long gone, the confetti has been swept up, and we are settling into 2023, Harvard Law Today wondered what changes the new year might have in store for the practice of law.

Three seasoned Harvard Law advocates share tips and tales of their times arguing before the nation’s highest court.

Former Department of Justice chief and appellate lawyer Andrew Mergen will join Harvard Law School as director of the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.

Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, was elected as a member of the American Law Institute, this fall.

In a new podcast, Harvard Law Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Jill Lepore road-test an idea to enlist high school students across the country as “advertisement juries.”

Harvard Law Clinical Professor Robert Greenwald retires after a long career securing health care access for vulnerable populations.

Notes and Comment, an annual event held at the Harvard Law School Library, helps students working on writing projects find faculty mentors.

This fall, Harvard Law School showcased the works of faculty, alums, and students at book events throughout the semester.

A lawsuit joined by Ronald Sullivan Jr. and Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Institute alleges that a plan by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to move asylum seekers to Massachusetts violated the Constitution.

Professors Jeannie Suk Gersen and Janet Halley lead the Academic Freedom Alliance, an organization that protects the rights of faculty to speak or publish without fear of sanction or punishment.

The Harvard Law School Library hosted a series of talks on the death penalty in conjunction with the library’s exhibit “Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame and Sympathy.”

An interactive, multisite exhibition in Lawrence, Kansas called “How the Light Gets In,” co-created by metaLAB (at) Harvard, highlights the sentiments of formerly incarcerated women in a 360-degree immersive environment, and also encourages visitors to contribute their own words of wisdom.

At the inaugural Belinda Sutton Distinguished Lecture, Johns Hopkins Professor Martha Jones chronicles her journey into her family’s ties to slavery and to Harvard.

At Harvard Law’s Rappaport Forum, panelists debated the Supreme Court's reliance on history and tradition in recent decisions in Dobbs and Bruen.

HLS Alexandra Natapoff argues in her revised book that snitching undermines justice and recommends what we should do about it. 

With support from PSVF and Wasserstein fellowships, Mercedes Montagnes ’09, founder of the Promise of Justice Initiative, has tackled injustices in the Louisiana carceral system.

In the third of a yearlong lecture series examining “The Supreme Court in a Constitutional Democracy," panelists debate reforming the Court.

Several Harvard Law School graduates are headed to Congress after winning elections in the 2022 midterm elections.