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    HLS Beyond Presents: Am AI Okay?

    April 20, 2026
    12:20 pm – 1:20 pm

    In 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
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    Democracy, Speech, and Public Institutions: “The Librarians” Documentary Screening

    April 20, 2026
    5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    This 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.
  • Ai generated artwork entitled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise

    HLS Beyond presents: Copyright in AI Outputs: Who Owns AI-Created Works?

    April 22, 2026
    12:20 pm – 1:20 pm

    At 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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    Legal research databases: Summer 2026 and new grad access policies 

    As the spring term flies by, your thoughts have likely turned to summer. Whether you’re about to graduate from HLS or you’re a continuing student preparing for a summer job, you may be wondering about your online legal research options.  Read on for information about access to your Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw accounts, as

    April 7, 2026

  • 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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