Faculty Scholarship

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.

Harvard Law’s Louis Tompros explains the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by heirs of Gaye’s cowriter involving Sheeran’s song “Thinking Out Loud”

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.

Harvard Law School Professor Professor Richard Lazarus tells the story of challenges and hope inherent in environmental law.

Harvard Law School expands the ranks of its faculty with four appointments.

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.

Philip Torrey, managing attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, and director of the Crimmigation Clinic, was named an assistant clinical professor.

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

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.

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.”

Diane Rosenfeld presents a model from the animal world that she says would empower and protect women.

Harvard Law School faculty members are currently featured prominently on SSRN’s list of the 100 most-cited law school faculty in all fields.

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.

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.

Harvard Law’s Rebecca Tushnet, a First Amendment and intellectual property expert, explains an amusing — and potentially consequential — trademark case before the Supreme Court.

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.

Harvard’s Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program teaches law students how to be facilitators at work and in life.

The recipients of the first grants awarded by Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability will tackle a range of climate change challenges, seeking to reduce future warming and assist those whose lives already have been affected by the crisis.

On the 40th anniversary of Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, Inc., Laurence Tribe reflects on the First Amendment case that got its start in a Harvard classroom and went on to the Supreme Court

Professor Molly Brady shares her passion for property law

Professor Cass Sunstein, who has been cited as “one of the most wide-ranging, original, prolific, and influential scholars of our time," on the writing life