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The Trump administration is attacking climate science on multiple fronts with little regard for federal law, say Harvard experts who worry that the damage will…
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Defending Academic Freedom
May 20, 2025
In recent weeks, the Trump Administration has escalated intimidation efforts against Harvard University and other private colleges, by cancelling billions in federal funding, and threatening…
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Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to criticize “activist judges” for allegedly obstructing his agenda — but he may be the most vocal.
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If there has been a common theme in the federal courts’ response to the fallout from President Trump’s aggressive deportation policies, it is that the…
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Two years ago, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank sounded an alarm over vulnerabilities in the banking system. And briefly, it looked like a call…
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Bought for $27.50 after World War II, the faint, water stained manuscript in the library of Harvard Law School had attracted relatively little attention since…
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Cut-price Magna Carta ‘copy’ now believed genuine
May 16, 2025
A manuscript once considered an unofficial copy of Magna Carta is now believed to be a genuine version and ”one of the world’s most valuable…
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It wasn’t exactly like the big reveal on the Antiques Roadshow. But one day in December 2023, David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Today’s oral argument before the Supreme Court related to President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship focused on whether a…
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‘The Constitution is explicit’: Tribe says Trump’s birthright citizenship ban would create ‘chaos’
May 16, 2025
Harvard Constitutional Law professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Donald Trump’s latest case before the Supreme Court over federal judges’ power over…
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For 80 years, Harvard Law School believed the Magna Carta it bought for $27.50 was a reproduction. Now, British researchers think the document is a…
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Harvard Law School bought a copy of Magna Carta for $27. Turns out, it’s actually an original
May 16, 2025
A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from…
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A British academic was poring over Harvard Law School’s digitized collection from his home southeast of London on a rainy day in December 2023 when…
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An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: My clerkship interview with David Souter was in the winter of 2002. In his chambers, amid piles of hardbound…
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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is rescinding Biden administration policy efforts on Covid-19 and gender identity bias protection as part of a regulatory…
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Oklahoma could change charter school laws, embrace other forms of school choice | Opinion
May 14, 2025
An op-ed by Brian Broderick JD ’25: The Supreme Court recently heard arguments for Oklahoma’s St. Isidore Catholic Virtual School. If successful, St. Isidore would…
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‘Beacon of freedom’ dims as US initiatives that promote democracy abroad wither under Trump
May 13, 2025
Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio,…
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Following the announcement of a substantial, albeit temporary, reduction in tariffs between the U.S. and China, both nations are touting the agreement as a victory…
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David Souter Set an Example for the Supreme Court
May 12, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: David Souter, the former US Supreme Court justice who died at 85 on Thursday, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have…
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David Hackett Souter — Supreme Court justice at the center of the preeminent legal disputes of the contemporary period and supreme example of the rustic…
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Deep in the bowels of .gov web addresses sits a site that houses the climate adaptation plans for more than two dozen federal agencies. They…