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Faculty Scholarship
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On the occasion of her appointment as Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law, criminal justice expert Alexandra Natapoff delivered a lecture titled "Redistributing Law: A View from Below."
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Supreme Court preview: United States v. Rahimi to test Second Amendment and gun control
October 31, 2023
Harvard Law expert Mark Tushnet says an upcoming Supreme Court gun control case could ‘open up a very large number of questions about statutes that most people in this country think should be upheld.’
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Supreme Court takes on social media in Lindke v. Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier
October 27, 2023
On October 31, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases — Lindke v. Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier — that may decide whether and under what circumstances government officials can block private citizens from their personal social media accounts.
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Minow awarded Freedom of the Press Career Achievement Award
October 20, 2023
Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard and former dean of Harvard Law School, was honored with a Career Achievement Award by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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Ben Eidelson appointed professor of law
October 12, 2023
Benjamin Eidelson, a leading legal theorist with a body of work that spans the central areas of public law, has been named a professor of law at Harvard Law School.
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Harvard Law IP expert explains how Disney has influenced US copyright law to protect Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh
October 6, 2023
Rebecca Tushnet spoke with Harvard Law Today about how Disney has influenced copyright law in the U.S. and how creators can use works now in the public domain.
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Settlement Reached in Historic Human Rights Lawsuit
October 3, 2023
Susan Farbstein ‘04 explains the importance of the lawsuit that HLS' International Human Rights Clinic and its students filed in 2007 against the former president of Bolivia seeking justice on behalf of Bolivian citizens whose families were killed by the military in 2003.
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Scholars probe urgent issues facing Harvard and the world
October 2, 2023
Panels examine challenges ahead: riven democracies, biomedical advances, raging inequity, climate change, harnessing AI, role of academy
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Supreme Court Preview: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America
September 29, 2023
Professor Howell Jackson says the case poses a risk not only to the CFPB itself but to other agencies and programs not currently dependent upon Congress’ ability to annually approve federal spending by the beginning of the new fiscal year – a goal it does not always achieve on time
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Supreme Court preview: Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer
September 25, 2023
Harvard Law Professor Michael Ashley Stein says the Supreme Court will consider whether ‘stigmatic harm’ is enough to qualify for standing under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Does filing for bankruptcy make employees flee?
September 20, 2023
A new study by Harvard Law Professor Jared Ellias shows that employees begin leaving an at-risk company months or years before bankruptcy — and that Chapter 11 may help retain workers long-term.
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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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Wondering is a series of random questions answered by experts. Sheila Heen is the Thaddeus R. Beal Professor of Practice at the Law School, deputy…
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Jill Lepore, award-winning American historian and New Yorker writer, joins Harvard Law faculty
August 31, 2023
Jill Lepore, award-winning American historian and writer, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a professor of law.
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In "The Problem of Twelve," John Coates argues that a small number of large financial institutions increasingly pose a threat to American democracy and to themselves.
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A Law School analysis of the Dedicated Docket in Boston says the biggest problem is lack of legal representation.
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Okediji appointed director of Center for African Studies
August 10, 2023
Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies (CAS).
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Providing cluster munitions has ‘changed the nature of U.S. involvement’ in Ukraine, says Harvard Law expert
August 7, 2023
Bonnie Docherty, scholar on humanitarian disarmament, says the weapons endanger civilians now and in the future.
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Harvard Law labor expert Sharon Block on the Hollywood writers strike, AI, and what comes next
July 11, 2023
Labor expert Sharon Block says the Writers Guild of America’s weekslong strike could heat up in the fall when production companies run out of stockpiled scripts
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Property law expert Molly Brady discusses Transformers in Georgetown, nuisance law, land use, and the first amendment
July 10, 2023
Harvard Law Professor Molly Brady explains the rights and wrongs of land use and nuisance law.
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Flood Warning
June 27, 2023
In her book “Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm,” Susan Crawford digs beneath the surface of the celebrated city to reveal economic and racial disparities, as well as a crisis of increasing flooding, upending the lives of its most vulnerable residents