Themes
Faculty Scholarship
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        Frozen in Time
 September 10, 2025 Jill Lepore’s new book, a history of the U.S. Constitution, explores the consequences of its effective unamendability 
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        How data centers may lead to higher electricity bills
 September 3, 2025 According to environmental and energy law expert Ari Peskoe, the public is paying for the energy infrastructure used to power Big Tech. 
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        Religious minorities won key Supreme Court cases on freedom of speech, assembly, and more, says Harvard Law expert
 August 28, 2025 Josh McDaniel of Harvard Law’s Religious Freedom Clinic argues that religious plaintiffs help secure secular rights. 
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        David Wilkins celebrated as ‘market shaper’
 June 25, 2025 David Wilkins ’80, faculty director of the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, has been named a ‘market shaper’ by Financial Times and RSGI, in recognition of how he has ‘promoted study of the development of the profession as a discipline in itself.’ 
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        Martha Minow recognized as the ‘finest academic in law’ at 2025 Burton Awards ceremony
 June 12, 2025 Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard, received a prestigious 2025 Burton Award for academic excellence at a gala in Washington, D.C. 
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        Professor Kenneth W. Mack ’91, the Lawrence D. Biele Professor at Harvard Law School and affiliate professor of History at Harvard University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
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        A new book by Harvard Law School Project on Disability Fellow Alex Green looks at the life and career of Walter Fernald 
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        Rubenstein on career, complex litigation, and class action
 April 14, 2025 During a talk at Harvard Law School, Professor William Rubenstein argued that civil procedure is not a ‘book of settled rules,’ but a ‘set of standards that are up for grabs’. 
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        ‘Patience, Precision, and Passion’
 March 31, 2025 Innovation and mentorship have marked Todd Rakoff’s career 
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        Faculty Books in Brief: Spring 2025
 March 31, 2025 Recent works, from “Rethinking Merger Analysis to “The World and Us” 
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        Redefining Criminal Law for a New Generation
 March 31, 2025 A criminal law casebook co-written by Andrew Manuel Crespo aims to change the way the first-year course is taught 
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        Studying the Past to Inform the Present
 March 31, 2025 Adriaan Lanni blends her love of the law with her passion for the ancient world 
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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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        Conflicting and contrasting views
 February 20, 2025 The American Journal of Law and Equality, founded by Martha Minow, Randall Kennedy and Cass Sunstein, launches the fourth issue with symposia on Brown and SFFA. 
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        ‘Money and politics, and partisan gerrymandering, matter more than any other electoral rules today’
 February 7, 2025 In his new book, Nicholas Stephanopoulos provides perspective on aligning election law. 
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        One way to save lives in jails
 January 29, 2025 Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths. 
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        Can Texas limit citizens’ access to online content?
 January 8, 2025 Harvard Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet says the case Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton could upend existing First Amendment law. 
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        How the law can help build better neighborhoods
 November 1, 2024 Harvard Law Professor Molly Brady argues that efforts to protect single-family neighborhoods tended to ‘destroy, rather than build, community.’ 
 
   
   
   
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
              