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Harvard University and the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts announced a cooperation agreement to strengthen their collaboration on future research and educational programming.

Harvard Law’s Michael Ashley Stein is ‘calling for systemic and urgent disability inclusion’ in climate resilience planning.

The Harvard Law School community cheered on the Crimson at Bright-Landry Hockey Center on Jan. 13 as the Harvard Men’s Hockey team took on Clarkson…

Now that the champagne is long gone, the confetti has been swept up, and we are settling into 2023, Harvard Law Today wondered what changes the new year might have in store for the practice of law.

Former Department of Justice chief and appellate lawyer Andrew Mergen will join Harvard Law School as director of the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.

Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, was elected as a member of the American Law Institute, this fall.

Harvard Law Clinical Professor Robert Greenwald retires after a long career securing health care access for vulnerable populations

In this installment of "Cases in Brief," Laurence Tribe reflects on the landmark decision involving a popular Harvard Square bar denied a liquor license by the church next door.

Harvard Law School students and staff share who (or what) they are most grateful for this Thanksgiving.

In a Library book talk, Professor Vicki Jackson and panelists discuss constitutionalism, and rights to effective government

With support from PSVF and Wasserstein fellowships, Mercedes Montagnes ’09, founder of the Promise of Justice Initiative, has tackled injustices in the Louisiana carceral system.

In the third of a yearlong lecture series examining “The Supreme Court in a Constitutional Democracy," panelists debate reforming the Court.

Yvonne Smith, administrative coordinator of the Harvard Law School Board of Student Advisors talks about her journey to HLS, how she has managed the Ames competition, and her reflections on her life-long career at Harvard Law.

At the 2022 Ames Moot Court Competition, two teams battled over Article III judicial power and climate change.

The Final Round of the 2022 Ames Moot Court Competition kicks off on Thursday, November 10, 2022, at 7:30 p.m., in the historic Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School.

Strategic lawyering by a team of Harvard Law students led Veterans Affairs to change its long-standing benefits policy.

Sarah McClellan’s experience with underrepresentation, as an Indigenous female Air Force officer, is shaping her Harvard Law career.

Blair Kuplic most recently advised operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet; she’ll next advise operations for outer space.

How attorneys advance civil rights work in their practices, both at private public interest law firms and through pro bono work at large law firms, was the focus of discussion at two panel events at Harvard Law School

Dean John F. Manning ’85 invited members of the LL.M. Class of 2021, whose LL.M. year was entirely virtual, to experience life on campus and connect with each other in person.

Harvard Law Professor Joseph Singer says the Supreme Court’s decision in Brackeen v. Haaland has the potential to upset tribal sovereignty.

In Memoriam: John Jay Osborn Jr. ’70, author of "The Paper Chase, 1945-2022

This article was originally published in the Harvard Gazette. Jean Salata is a climate optimist, enough to often elicit a gentle eyeroll from his…

This article was originally published in the Harvard Gazette. Mexico and Colombia recently legalized abortion in landmark rulings that offer a stark contrast to…

D.Y. Chandrachud LL.M. ’83 S.J.D. ’86, who has served on the Supreme Court of India since 2016, has been appointed to serve as the next Chief Justice of India.

Harvard Law School faculty members Sabrineh Ardalan, Michael Gregory, and Scott Westfahl candidly discussed their experiences with mental health, during and after law school, and shared how those have informed their work and strategies for well-being.

In a talk moderated by HLS Professor Intisar Rabb, Ret. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer ‘64 and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Supreme Court of Pakistan, reflect on serving in the judiciary.

Harvard Law School honored staff who have worked at HLS 15 years or longer at a staff appreciation luncheon in October.

In his first Harvard event since retiring from the Supreme Court in June, former Associate Justice Stephen Breyer spoke to incoming Harvard Law students about his time on the court, the job that most shaped his career as a jurist, and why his questions at oral argument were so famously idiosyncratic.

Harvard Law alumna Debbie Dickinson ’95 and her daughter have created a wearable device that can help treat two of the most bothersome symptoms of menopause — hot flashes and night sweats.

Move-in day, receptions, dogs, and picnics: incoming students jump right into campus life.

Across the country and throughout the world, Harvard Law School Dean of Students events welcome incoming students to the Harvard Law community.

Harvard Law Professor Carol Steiker ’86 discusses Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 landmark Supreme Court decision that declared the death penalty unconstitutional.

Keith Fogg, clinical professor of law emeritus at Harvard Law School, says that IRS audits of two former FBI officials deserve an investigation, but he doubts tampering.

Larry Schwartztol, White House lawyer focused on voting rights and democracy reform, has been named a professor of practice. He will serve as the faculty director of the Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic.

It’s July, which means summer is in full swing in Cambridge. And with longer days and balmy temperatures, you might be looking for ways to…

Harvard Law faculty and staff share their reading lists for beachside, poolside, or inside with the AC.

Harvard Law School experts weigh in on the Supreme Court’s final decisions.

Articles by four Harvard Law faculty were selected in an annual poll of corporate and securities law professors as three of the ten best corporate and securities articles of 2021.

Harvard Law lecturer and former Maine attorney general Jim Tierney wants to demystify the inner workings of the state attorney general's office with a 'living text' to help students better understand this definitively American structure.

Keith Fogg, a clinical professor of law and the inaugural director of the Federal Tax Clinic at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC), is retiring this summer after seven years of dedicated service to the Harvard Law School community and to hundreds of clients in need.

Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith says laws and norms established after President Nixon's resignation 'had a great run,' but the Trump presidency proved that new reforms are needed.

Harvard Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet discusses the copyright infringement lawsuit against 'Top Gun: Maverick.'

Harvard Law School staff share art, music, stories, and more at second annual event.

Professor Kristen Stilt, faculty director of the Animal Law & Policy Program, weighs in on the campaign by one animal rights organization to release Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo.

Elizabeth Warren offered advice and encouragement at a special in-person Commencement celebration for the Classes of 2020 and 2021.

On Thursday, May 26, the Harvard Law School Class of 2022 processed to Harvard Yard for the University’s morning commencement ceremony where President Larry Bacow…