Themes
Faculty Scholarship
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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.’
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How and why US elections are changing
October 24, 2024
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, an election law expert, says America’s voters are shifting — and this has major implications for our elections.
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Robert Sitkoff inducted into Estate Planning Hall of Fame
October 24, 2024
Harvard Law professor Robert Sitkoff has been inducted into the Estate Planning Hall of Fame, one of only five estate planning professionals to be so honored in 2024.
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I. Glenn Cohen ’03, the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and a deputy dean at Harvard Law School, has been elected a member of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine.
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Trading Places
September 30, 2024
Mark Wu shines a light on the world of international trade while mentoring the next generation
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Harvard Law expert addresses the ‘untenable amount of harm’ caused by the criminal system
September 19, 2024
Premal Dharia discusses where efforts to transform the carceral system in the United States are heading.
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You’re not imagining things: contracts are getting longer, says Harvard Law professor
September 16, 2024
Corporate law expert Guhan Subramanian discussed his new book on deal-making obstacles and solutions at an event sponsored by Harvard Law’s Program on Negotiation.
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Speech is never totally free
September 12, 2024
Cass Sunstein suggests universities look to the First Amendment as they struggle to craft rules in the wake of disruptive protests.
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On the bookshelves, spring 2024
May 29, 2024
Harvard Law Today features a selection of the books showcased at campus events throughout the spring semester.
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Better to be talented or lucky?
May 28, 2024
If you want fame, Cass Sunstein says, it typically requires some of both — and is no pure meritocracy.
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The veiled history of the English jury trial
May 6, 2024
English medieval law expert Elizabeth Papp Kamali explores the roots of modern criminal procedure through papal precedent and the story of Saint Veronica.
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Stephen Breyer for the Defense
May 3, 2024
In a new book, the former Supreme Court justice and current Harvard Law School professor champions his pragmatic approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation against the forces of textualism and originalism