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Faculty Scholarship
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Combining forces to accelerate climate action here, there, now
February 15, 2023
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.
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Church, State … and Beer?
February 15, 2023
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
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A Tingly Sensation
February 14, 2023
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
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The End of the Death Penalty?
February 14, 2023
‘Unintended consequences’ and the legacy of of the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia
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Daphna Renan says we should ‘give the Supreme Court a little less control’ over the Constitution
February 10, 2023
On the occasion of her appointment as the Peter B. Monroe and Mary J. Monroe Professor of Law, Daphna Renan puts forth an argument for 'a more political constitutionalism.'
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Do facts still matter?
February 8, 2023
New York Times lawyer David McCraw discusses modern challenges to press freedom and growing distrust of the news media.
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Harvard Law expert J.S. Nelson says that Elon Musk and the tech industry risk gains when they engage in disreputable business practices.
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Lessons of Roe, 50 years later
February 2, 2023
Speakers at a Radcliffe Institute conference look at the divisive, fraught history of Roe v. Wade and predict where legal battles will go next.
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Goldberg recognized for contributions to tort law, scholarship
February 2, 2023
John C.P. Goldberg was honored for his scholarship in the field of tort law as the recipient of the William L. Prosser Award, and the Civil Justice Scholarship Award.
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Could a California lawsuit lower the cost of insulin in the US?
January 25, 2023
Harvard Law expert Carmel Shachar says if California wins its suit against drug manufacturers, it could make the lifesaving drug more affordable for everyone.
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Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner asks whether ‘it is fair to use the criminal legal system’ to assess the actor’s responsibility.
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‘A genuine debt ceiling crisis’?
January 23, 2023
Howell Jackson discusses what could happen if the United States defaults on its debts for the first time in history.
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Disability in a time of climate disaster
January 19, 2023
Harvard Law’s Michael Ashley Stein is ‘calling for systemic and urgent disability inclusion’ in climate resilience planning.
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The legal profession in 2023
January 13, 2023
Now that the champagne is long gone, the confetti has been swept up, and we are settling into 2023, Harvard Law Today wondered what changes the new year might have in store for the practice of law.
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Andrew Mergen will lead the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law
January 3, 2023
Former Department of Justice chief and appellate lawyer Andrew Mergen will join Harvard Law School as director of the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos elected to the American Law Institute
December 16, 2022
Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, was elected as a member of the American Law Institute, this fall.
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Facebook and the problem of truth
December 15, 2022
In a new podcast, Harvard Law Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Jill Lepore road-test an idea to enlist high school students across the country as “advertisement juries.”
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‘He showed me what it meant to lead with love’
December 14, 2022
Harvard Law Clinical Professor Robert Greenwald retires after a long career securing health care access for vulnerable populations.
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On the bookshelf
December 13, 2022
This fall, Harvard Law School showcased the works of faculty, alums, and students at book events throughout the semester.
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Laurence Tribe reflects on Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, 40 years later
December 7, 2022
In this installment of "Cases in Brief," Laurence Tribe reflects on the landmark decision involving a popular Harvard Square bar denied a liquor license by the church next door.