Faculty Scholarship

When parents profit from social media posts featuring their children, the line between family life and work fades. Two scholars consider how the law should respond

A new collection of essays by Harvard Law School faculty reflects on the legal challenges and opportunities facing the United States as it marks its semiquincentennial

In their new book “Supremacy,” Harvard Law professors Daphna Renan and Nikolas Bowie argue that Supreme Court decisions can undermine government by the people.

As part of a panel on his new book, Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet and his co-author weigh the pros and cons of the elastic governing principle.

In their book "Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People," Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan trace the history of a Supreme Court that has come to be associated with what they call ‘judicial supremacy’ and promote an alternative course.

Pulitzer Prize-winning professor Jill Lepore’s new book shows how a digital communications infrastructure increasingly came to control public life.

Professor Robert H. Sitkoff has been reappointed by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey to serve as a Uniform Law Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Legal historian’s new book argues older Americans control power, wealth — and lack sense of urgency to fix nation’s most pressing problems.

A new collection of essays by more than 60 Harvard Law faculty members contemplates the past, present, and future of the United States.

Deferring hard decisions about which kinds of machine-assisted creative works can be copyrighted over nearly 250 years has made it harder to ascertain whether works…

An award-winning paper cowritten by Harvard Law Professor Jared Ellias explores the rise and risk of private credit.

Faculty books from "The Art of Impasse-Breaking Mediation" to "On Liberalism"

Celebrating the retirement this spring of a polymath who has influenced the careers of countless students

By teaching people how to listen and communicate better, negotiation expert Sheila Heen wants to help them become the best version of themselves

Professor Bruce H. Mann argues that American colonists were fighting to uphold English legal traditions

Born in ancient thought and forged through revolution, the idea that no one is above the law has been tested in every era — including our own. Harvard Law faculty weigh in on this fundamental legal concept.

Recovering democratic practices and values likely depends in part on an organized opposition and an active civil society, says Harvard Law Professor emeritus Mark Tushnet

Harvard Law experts discuss recent U.S. sanctions against International Criminal Court officials.