Upcoming Events
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HLS Beyond & SFS present Smart Money: Using AI for Financial Decision Making
April 7, 2026
12:20 pm – 1:20 pmHarness the power of artificial intelligence to transform the way you approach making financial decisions and accessing information. From personalized budgeting tools to interactive debt management simulations and investing modeling, this session will reveal cutting-edge ways to demystify complex financial topics. Discover how AI can provide you with the insights you need to make informed financial decisions, all while saving you time. -
HLSL Faculty Book Talk: Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law: Essays for Mark Tushnet
April 8, 2026
12:30 pm – 1:30 pmThis event features a discussion on Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law: Essays for Mark Tushnet with HLS Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet and volume editors HLS Professor, Vicki Jackson, and Columbia Law School Professor, Madhav Khosla. The book reflects upon the field of comparative constitutional law, which has emerged in recent decades as a major domain of scholarship and judicial practice. Among the most prominent figures in the ongoing renaissance of this field has been Mark Tushnet. -
HLS Beyond and BKC present: Evidence-Based AI Policy
April 9, 2026
12:20 pm – 1:20 pmIn this third and final session of the TechReg in AI series with Professor Alan Raul, we consider what constitutes an “AI incident” for policy and governance purposes. Who is monitoring and reporting them? How does the concept account for foreseeable harms, near misses, and distinctions between systems performing as intended versus those that are malfunctioning, maliciously compromised, or acting in novel or unexpected manners? As we dig into today’s incident-monitoring ecosystem, we’ll discuss relevant challenges such as underreporting, selection bias, confidentiality, reproducibility and how to translate scattered, anecdotal events into meaningful evidence for risk management and harm prevention. -
HLS Beyond Presents: Am AI Okay?
April 20, 2026
12:20 pm – 1:20 pmIn this session, led by fellow Dan Be Kim from the CDT, you’ll work through an exercise both individually and collectively designed to help make our inner experiences with AI more visible and explicit. Focusing not only on what AI does for us, but also on what AI does to us — shaping our habits and decision-making — you’ll leave with an approach to AI informed by a greater awareness and intention in your personal and professional lives -
Democracy, Speech, and Public Institutions: “The Librarians” Documentary Screening
April 20, 2026
5:00 pm – 7:30 pmThis National Library Week join HKS Library & Research Services, Harvard Law School Library, local library leaders, and Harvard policy experts for an exclusive campus screening of the new documentary The Librarians. -
HLS Beyond presents: Copyright in AI Outputs: Who Owns AI-Created Works?
April 22, 2026
12:20 pm – 1:20 pmAt this fireside chat-style discussion, Professors Bavitz and Tushnet will use the Supreme Court’s recent cert denial in Thaler v. Perlmutter to explore the doctrine of human authorship and originality and how those requirements apply to AI-assisted outputs.
Amicus Libris: Briefs from the Harvard Law School Library
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From records to evidence: quantifying conditions in ICE detention with public and FOIA-released data
Immigration detention is often described as “tough” or “necessary,” but the day-to-day reality experienced by individuals in custody is shaped by policies that are hard to evaluate without reliable evidence. Over the past several years, Empirical Research Services has been working across disciplines to document how detention practices affect detainees’ mental and physical health, and,
April 1, 2026
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Finding your way around the library
Effective wayfinding signage often feels invisible because it simply assists you in accomplishing your tasks. However, when signage is ineffective, we take notice. A good sign is more than typography, icons, words, and color. Just as a user interface (UI) is part of the user experience (UX) of a website, wayfinding signs in the library
March 2, 2026
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Gerhardt Bubnik ’69, HLS’ first Czeck graduate and longtime judge at Winter Olympic Games, stopped by Library to autograph his book
As the 2026 Winter Olympic Games draw to a close, the Harvard Law School Library recalls a visit last year from HLS alum Gerhardt Bubnik ’69, whose life and career illustrate the powerful intersection of law, sport, and history. Mr. Bubnik has been a lawyer, figure skater, International Skating Union legal adviser, and Winter Olympic
February 23, 2026
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