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Harvard Law School Library
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During the annual ‘Why I Changed My Mind’ event, faculty share how — and why — their thoughts evolved
April 24, 2025
During the annual Why I Changed My Mind event, three Harvard Law faculty members shared stories of how they shifted their views.
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The ‘social cost of carbon’
March 6, 2025
In his new book ‘Climate Justice,’ Cass Sunstein discusses what nations owe each other in a warming world.
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Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab launches initiative to use public domain data to train artificial intelligence
December 12, 2024
The new program aims to make public domain materials housed at Harvard Law School Library and other knowledge institutions available to train AI.
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Why do innocent people go to, and stay in, prison?
February 13, 2024
At a Harvard Law School Library book talk, author Daniel Medwed outlines the tangle of legal rules and procedures that keep wrongly convicted people behind bars.
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HLS Beyond provides students with opportunties for less formal learning
September 20, 2023
An initiative led by the Harvard Law School Library offers workshops on cutting-edge topics and skills for life and lawyering.
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Cass Sunstein and panelists discuss ‘How to Interpret the Constitution’
September 15, 2023
At a Harvard Law School Library book talk, Cass Sunstein, Steven Pinker and Richard Fallon grapple with constitutional interpretation.
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‘Why is it so hard to make environmental law?’
April 18, 2023
Harvard Law School Professor Professor Richard Lazarus tells the story of challenges and hope inherent in environmental law.
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Notes and Comment
March 29, 2023
At this spring's Notes and Comment event, dozens of Harvard Law students working on writing projects met with faculty experts for advice and commentary on their work.
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Harvard Law’s Got Talent
March 22, 2023
Ten Harvard Law School artists recently displayed their masterpieces during the 2023 Harvard Staff Art Show, which held its virtual opening on Feb. 9, with…
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Scholars and artists discuss the death penalty
March 17, 2023
On March 7, the Harvard Law School Library kicked off a series of events on the subject of capital punishment in connection with their exhibit Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame, and Sympathy.
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Notes and Comment, an annual event held at the Harvard Law School Library, helps students working on writing projects find faculty mentors.
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On the bookshelf
December 13, 2022
This fall, Harvard Law School showcased the works of faculty, alums, and students at book events throughout the semester.
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The state of capital punishment
December 6, 2022
The Harvard Law School Library hosted a series of talks on the death penalty in conjunction with the library’s exhibit “Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame and Sympathy.”
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Ogletree family donates the celebrated law professor and civil rights scholar’s papers to Harvard Law School
October 13, 2022
The Harvard Law School Library has been chosen as a steward of the papers of Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., the celebrated and influential Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar.
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This year, Jonathan Zittrain and Jordi Weinstock published Torts! Third Edition as the first in their Open Casebook series of high-quality, low-cost text books designed to make these primary texts affordable to law students across the United States.
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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.
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On the bookshelf
May 13, 2022
This spring, the Harvard Law School Library’s ongoing book talk series featured books by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Joseph D. Kearney ’89 and Thomas W. Merrill, Anna Lvovsky, Mark Tushnet, and a volume co-edited by Michael Ashley Stein ’88.
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Constance Baker Motley
February 15, 2022
Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin ’89 once asked her mentor, Thurgood Marshall, why he had passed over Constance Baker Motley to succeed him when he…