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Harvard University has released a dataset of library books, named Institutional Books 1.0, for researchers, which contains over 394 million records, according to the AP. These materials, preserved and…
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Eight hundred and ten years ago, almost to the day, an English king agreed to a seminal document laying down principles that would help establish…
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Discrimination: Expanding the definition
June 20, 2025
“Reverse discrimination” lawsuits will now be “easier to bring,” said Noah Feldman in Bloomberg. The Supreme Court last week ruled unanimously in favor of a woman who argued…
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Law-Skepticism On The New Right: A Sympathetic Critique
June 20, 2025
An op-ed by Adrian Vermule One of the difficulties that afflict the classical lawyer is the constant need to fight a war on no less…
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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismissal of a key panel that advises on immunizations policy is a significant step in implementing his longstanding…
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Trump backs off plan linking disaster aid, immigration
June 13, 2025
The Trump administration has retreated from a plan to make federal disaster aid conditional on states helping with immigration enforcement, a new court document shows.
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Trump EPA proposes repealing major air pollution and emissions limits for power plants
June 13, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to scrap two major federal regulations that limit air pollution and planet-warming emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants,…
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Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository…
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Big Beautiful Bill would ban regulating AI
June 12, 2025
An op-ed co-written by Sharon Block: In 2022, few people had ever heard of ChatGPT or knew what “artificial intelligence” was. But in just a…
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‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate’
June 12, 2025
President Donald Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official: The United States is giving up on trying to stop the planet’s warming. In…
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Every month, thousands of women thwart abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to prescribe pregnancy-ending drugs online and ship…
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The Trump administration is clamping down on foreign students who want to attend American universities – and the schools that admit them. What that could…
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In the aftermath of the revocation of tenure for Harvard Business School one-time superstar Francesca Gino, an influential Harvard Law School professor says he will…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, over the objection of California Governor Gavin Newsom, represents a…
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The Pardon Power Is Helping Trump Realize His Dreams
June 10, 2025
More than any previous president, Donald Trump has systematically deployed his authority to grant pardons to reward loyalists, assure appointees and associates that they can…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency may be about to lose its mojo now that Elon Musk has left the building…
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David Wilkins provides commentary on the way the legal profession is changing as business practices become more and more prevalent in the field.
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: White individuals and straight people do not need to meet a higher burden of proof than members of minority groups to…
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An article co-written by Nancy Gertner: Even though President Donald Trump has lost every case brought by law firms suing over his executive orders against…
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The rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers is fundamentally transforming the electricity sector. Driven by surging demand from artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital services,…
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The Trump administration has frozen around 3 billion dollars in Harvard grants and contracts, and is trying to stop the university’s ability to enroll foreign…