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Facebook and the problem of truth
December 15, 2022
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.”
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‘He showed me what it meant to lead with love’
December 14, 2022
Harvard Law Clinical Professor Robert Greenwald retires after a long career securing health care access for vulnerable populations.
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Notes and Comment, an annual event held at the Harvard Law School Library, helps students working on writing projects find faculty mentors.
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On the bookshelf
December 13, 2022
This fall, Harvard Law School showcased the works of faculty, alums, and students at book events throughout the semester.
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Sullivan, Criminal Justice Institute part of suit against Florida’s migrant relocation program
December 9, 2022
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.
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‘In pursuit of an atmosphere in which ideas can be followed without fear that you’ll be punished’
December 6, 2022
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.
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The state of capital punishment
December 6, 2022
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.”
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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.
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‘Just a little more free’
November 22, 2022
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.
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Should the Supreme Court care about tradition?
November 18, 2022
At Harvard Law’s Rappaport Forum, panelists debated the Supreme Court's reliance on history and tradition in recent decisions in Dobbs and Bruen.
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‘Falling in love with your rat’: The criminal informant system in the US
November 18, 2022
HLS Alexandra Natapoff argues in her revised book that snitching undermines justice and recommends what we should do about it.
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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.
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Why has the Supreme Court come under increased scrutiny?
November 16, 2022
In the third of a yearlong lecture series examining “The Supreme Court in a Constitutional Democracy," panelists debate reforming the Court.
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How Harvard Law alums fared in the 2022 midterm elections
November 15, 2022
Several Harvard Law School graduates are headed to Congress after winning elections in the 2022 midterm elections.
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The Ames Game
November 14, 2022
At the 2022 Ames Moot Court Competition, two teams battled over Article III judicial power and climate change.
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Strategic lawyering by a team of Harvard Law students led Veterans Affairs to change its long-standing benefits policy.
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‘Being in the 75th Ranger Regiment has taught me that success and failure largely hinge on the team, not the individual’
November 9, 2022
During two tours in Afghanistan, Andrew Steen managed various Ranger forces that aimed to disrupt Taliban and ISIS offensives.
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Air Force veteran Sarah McClellan is ‘adding to the diversity of perspectives’ at Harvard Law
November 7, 2022
Sarah McClellan’s experience with underrepresentation, as an Indigenous female Air Force officer, is shaping her Harvard Law career.
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Blair Kuplic of the US Navy JAG Corps: ‘I get a huge sense of fulfillment out of this job’
November 7, 2022
Blair Kuplic most recently advised operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet; she’ll next advise operations for outer space.
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‘Each of us has a bit of activist in us … That’s why we’re here’
November 4, 2022
How attorneys advance civil rights work in their practices, both at private public interest law firms and through pro bono work at large law firms, was the focus of discussion at two panel events at Harvard Law School
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Harvard Law School welcomes the LL.M. Class of 2021 to campus
November 2, 2022
Dean John F. Manning ’85 invited members of the LL.M. Class of 2021, whose LL.M. year was entirely virtual, to experience life on campus and connect with each other in person.