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  • Greg Stohr with arms up speaking in the front of the room

    Greg Stohr ’95 on Covering the Supreme Court

    October 2, 2015

    At a September 15 event sponsored by the Harvard Law School Dean's Office, Greg Stohr '95, Supreme Court reporter for Bloomberg News, gave a talk to students, staff and faculty about how the public's understanding of legal news and developments has changed over his 17 years of reporting on the nation's highest court.

  • David Grossman ’88: 1957-2015

    David Grossman ’88: 1957-2015

    October 2, 2015

    After I learned that David Grossman had entered hospice care, I sat at my computer, trying to write a goodbye email, but the words were not coming. I did not know how to express how much Dave’s mentorship impacted my life and my career, and I still do not. Eventually, I gushed out how much Dave meant to me and hit “send.” Then I pictured him reading it, and smiled, realizing how much he would be teasing me for its sappiness.

  • Daniel J. Meltzer ’75: 1951-2015

    October 2, 2015

    Dan Meltzer was my favorite teacher in law school, and he remains the person I most want to be when I grow up. But I must confess that his class was often one of my more stressful experiences at Harvard. Not because Dan was mean or overbearing—quite the opposite. What stressed us out was that we loved Dan from the first day, and nobody wanted to let him down.

  • Screenshot of the internet monitor dashboard showing percent online 27%, broadband adoption 1%, and other statistics.

    Berkman Center launches new internet data dashboard

    September 30, 2015

    Internet Monitor dashboard, a freely available tool that helps identify trends in Internet activity through data visualization, has been launched by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

  • Two surgeons during an operation

    PILAC report finds doctors may risk prosecution for treating alleged terrorists

    September 29, 2015

    Doctors who provide medical assistance to people labeled terrorists are increasingly vulnerable to prosecution in the United States and other Western democracies, according to a law briefing by the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC).

  • Salad Days: Professor Jacob Gersen on the rise of food law

    September 29, 2015

    Harvard Law School Professor Jacob Gersen believes the ever-growing interest in food law is here to stay—and that it, like environmental law and administrative law before it, will eventually go from course-catalog novelty to staple.

  • Elizabeth at the front of a classroom speaking

    After ‘Baby Bella’: Bartholet indicts systemic failures to protect at-risk children

    September 24, 2015

    Elizabeth Bartholet '65, renowned child welfare advocate and founding faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, has been at the center of many public conversations following the discovery of the child, once known as Baby Doe, but since identified as Bella Bond.

  • Kevin Moody

    Kevin Moody to join HLS as Assistant Dean and Chief Human Resources Officer

    September 22, 2015

    Kevin B. Moody will join Harvard Law School as the new Assistant Dean and Chief Human Resources Officer on October 19.

  • Professor Robert Greenwald

    Greenwald analyzes the government’s updated national HIV/AIDS strategy

    September 22, 2015

    Robert Greenwald, director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School, has co-authored an editorial with David Holtgrave, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) from the federal government.

  • Kagan and Minow sitting in chairs at the front of the room talking

    In a visit to Harvard Law, Kagan reflects on her career and the Court

    September 17, 2015

    On September 8 at Harvard Law School's Wasserstein Hall, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice and former HLS Dean Elena Kagan ’86 shared lessons learned from her career and offered a glimpse into the Court’s private world in a talk with HLS Dean Martha Minow.

  • U.S. Constitution

    Harvard scholars commemorate Constitution Day

    September 17, 2015

    In celebration of Constitution Day—the annual commemoration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787—several Harvard Law School professors spoke about the document upon which the American legal and political systems have been built.

  • Carol Steiker faculty portrait

    Steiker study influential in Connecticut’s decision to abolish death penalty

    September 15, 2015

    A study on capital punishment co-authored by Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker ’86 and her brother Jordan Steiker ’88 a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, was influential in Connecticut’s recent decision to abolish the death penalty in that state.

  • Mark Wu

    The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the changing world of international trade: A Q&A with Mark Wu

    September 14, 2015

    Mark Wu, assistant professor of law at HLS, recently sat down to talk about his scholarship, which focuses on the rapidly changing world of international trade and international law, and to offer some comments about the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  • Closeup of white gloved hands handling antique brooches

    Historical Treasures: A look at HLS’s Special Collections

    September 14, 2015

    Over 300,000 rare books, 3,500 linear feet of manuscripts, and 70,000 visual resources—photographs, prints, paintings, and objects—make up Harvard Law School’s Historical and Special Collections. Here's a look inside one of the world’s most comprehensive archives of research materials for study of the history of law.

  • An old weathered book page written in elaborate script

    What precedes precedent? Hint: The answer goes back to the 13th century

    September 9, 2015

    According to Professor Charles Donahue, the best-known innovation in legal academia— the case method of legal teaching—may have had an early precursor dating all the way back to the 13th century.

  • Ralph Nader talking at a podium

    Safe at any Speed: Ralph Nader’s new museum offers a meandering road trip through the history of tort law

    September 9, 2015

    On September 26, Ralph Nader '58 will oversee the opening in his hometown of Winsted, Conn. of the nation's first and only museum dedicated to law: the American Museum of Tort Law.

  • Kristen Stilt on the intersection of animals, law, and religion

    September 8, 2015

    During a recent conversation, Professor Kristen Stilt, co-director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, spoke about the connection between animal law and Islamic law, and the impact of animal law on both animals and people.

  • Two students with their arms around each other, smiling

    HLS welcomes new students from across the country, around the world

    September 2, 2015

    As Harvard Law School welcomes new degree candidates in the J.D., LL.M. and S.J.D. programs, here is a sampling of images from the students' first days on campus.

  • John Goldberg: on ‘Inexcusable Wrongs’, Torts, and Private Law

    September 1, 2015

    Harvard Law School Professor John C.P. Goldberg, an expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy, recently discussed some of the work that he’s done at HLS as well as a forthcoming book on torts that he is co-authoring with Fordham Law School Professor Benjamin C. Zipursky.

  • Henry Smith at his desk talking

    New Private Law: looking at traditional interpersonal law in a different light

    August 31, 2015

    HLS Professors John C.P. Goldberg and Henry E. Smith’s “New Private Law” blog launched recently in an effort to expand interest in the notion that traditional interpersonal, "private" law deserves a fresh look.

  • Jonathan Zittrain

    When forgetting isn’t best: Zittrain discusses the ‘Right to be Forgotten’

    August 31, 2015

    At a talk hosted by the Berkman Center in August, Jonathan Zittrain and members of the ACLU discussed problems raised by the 2014 European Court of Justice ruling – which gave EU citizens the 'Right to be Forgotten' by Google – and laid out potential alternatives.