Upcoming Events
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HLS Beyond Presents: The Importance of Empirical Skills for Changing Policy
September 23, 2024
12:20 pm – 1:20 pmIn this session Professor Arevik Avedian and HLS student Felicia Caten-Raines (JD ’25) from the HLS Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program will walk through various steps of empirical analysis, including data quality check and cleaning, best practices of creating and sharing replication data and code, and data analysis and visualization – all grounded in the incredibly impactful report they co-authored with researchers from HLS, HMS, and Physicians for Human Rights entitled “Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention. -
HLS Beyond Presents: How Current AI Can Help You Do Legal Research
September 30, 2024
12:20 pm – 1:20 pmJoin this session demonstrating AI tools currently available to law students for research, those currently used in law practice (not yet accessible to law schools) compared to the latest commercial LLMs, and a discussion of the limits, likely changes, and implications of AI tools for the future of legal research. -
HLS Library Book Talk: Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
October 9, 2024
12:30 pm – 1:15 pmJoin the HLS Library on Wednesday October 9 at 12:30pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall 232/233. This event features a discussion on Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal with author and HLS Visiting Professor Melissa Jacoby. This…
Amicus Libris: Briefs from the Harvard Law School Library
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Reading Room is refreshed and reopened
On Sept. 3, 2024, Langdell Hall’s iconic Reading Room reopened after being closed since mid-May. While it was closed, the Reading Room – which spans the length of the building at 480 feet (longer than a standard American football field) – was refreshed with a new coat of paint, a deep carpet cleaning, and three new
September 5, 2024
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Introducing Amanda Watson, HLS Library’s new Assistant Dean for Library and Information Services
Dear HLS Community, Over the summer, Amanda Watson joined the Harvard Law School Library as our new Assistant Dean for Library and Information Services. Amanda previously served as the Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston. She is an extraordinary talent who has a career-long track record
September 3, 2024
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HSC manager attends Rare Book School
The Historical & Special Collections Department (HSC) at Harvard Law School Library (HLSL) holds a world-class and historically significant rare books and early manuscripts collection. As the new manager of HSC, I recently had the opportunity to attend Law Books: History & Connoisseurship at Rare Book School (RBS), a course taught by Mike Widener and
August 2, 2024
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