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Harvard Law School’s Carmel Shachar examines a lawsuit by pharmaceutical giant Merck contesting a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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AI created a song mimicking the work of Drake and The Weeknd. What does that mean for copyright law?
May 2, 2023
A Harvard Law expert explains why AI-generated art doesn’t qualify for copyright protection — but how it nonetheless will ‘materially affect’ the music industry.
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Hannah Shaffer ’21, whose research interests focus on criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and economics, will join Harvard Law School as an assistant professor of law.
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Roberto Tallarita S.J.D. ’23, a lecturer on law and the associate director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, has been named an assistant professor of law at Harvard.
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Professor Rebecca Tushnet says that Disney’s claims of retaliation are strong and that, if the company prevails in the lower courts, the Supreme Court might choose to have the final word.
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Harvard Law’s Louis Tompros explains the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by heirs of Gaye’s cowriter involving Sheeran’s song “Thinking Out Loud”
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Professor Carol Steiker ’86, the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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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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New faculty appointments
April 18, 2023
Harvard Law School expands the ranks of its faculty with four appointments.
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Carmel Shachar named assistant clinical professor of law
April 14, 2023
Carmel Shachar J.D./M.P.H. ’10 has been appointed assistant clinical professor and faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
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Philip Torrey named assistant clinical professor of law
April 14, 2023
Philip Torrey, managing attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, and director of the Crimmigation Clinic, was named an assistant clinical professor.
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Supreme Court preview: Groff v. DeJoy
April 7, 2023
Harvard Law’s Religious Freedom Clinic Faculty Director Joshua McDaniel explains how a case before the Court could better protect religious minorities in the workforce
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Crystal Yang honored with ALI’s Early Career Scholars Medal
March 29, 2023
The American Law Institute has announced that it will award its Early Career Scholars Medal to Professor Crystal S. Yang ’13 and Professor Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School.
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On being a nuisance
March 28, 2023
At a lecture celebrating his appointment as the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, John Goldberg explores nuisance law and its implications for “today’s biggest litigation.”
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‘Make your world and the world of all your sisters better’
March 27, 2023
Diane Rosenfeld presents a model from the animal world that she says would empower and protect women.
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Harvard Law School faculty members are currently featured prominently on SSRN’s list of the 100 most-cited law school faculty in all fields.
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Rebecca Richman Cohen, a Harvard Law School lecturer, debuts a new documentary on the unintended consequences following the recall of the judge in the Brock Turner assault case.
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Unions’ extension into politics was necessary — and contributed to their decline, says Harvard Law expert
March 16, 2023
As the inaugural Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law, Laura Weinrib described the arc of union power in the 20th century and its relationship to political spending.
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Harvard Law’s Rebecca Tushnet, a First Amendment and intellectual property expert, explains an amusing — and potentially consequential — trademark case before the Supreme Court.
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The U.S. is in the ‘midst of an identity crisis’
March 8, 2023
Harvard Law School’s Guy-Uriel E. Charles spoke about the demise of the “civil rights consensus” and what comes next, at a lecture celebrating his appointment as the Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law.
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Why lawyers should learn to lead difficult conversations
February 21, 2023
Harvard’s Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program teaches law students how to be facilitators at work and in life.