Themes
National & World Affairs
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AI is speeding into healthcare. Who should regulate it?
January 14, 2026
Medical ethicist Glenn Cohen details the need to balance thoughtful limits while avoiding unnecessary hurdles as industry groups issue guidelines around AI.
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How technology supports and undermines democracy
December 16, 2025
At a recent event, experts urged collaboration between technologists and policymakers to protect the rule of law.
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Climate law experts discuss the road ahead
December 15, 2025
Top legal experts on energy, emissions, and natural resources discuss navigating the path forward in environmental law.
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Protecting human rights in the age of AI
December 5, 2025
Former State Department official Harold Hongju Koh outlines ways to hold nations accountable for AI-related abuses.
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Global hopes still pinned to international law
November 14, 2025
Despite major challenges on compliance and enforcement, the system remains the best deterrent against harmful behavior by countries, experts say.
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Voice of DOJ experience makes case for ‘deference doctrine’
November 6, 2025
Visiting Professor Andrew Mergen, who served 3 decades with Justice Department, sees an urgent need to protect the presumption of regularity.
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Your chatbot may be the friend that isn’t
October 30, 2025
Your AI chatbot may be your companion, your assistant, even your romantic partner. But it may also be the gateway to something more ominous, according…
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The challenge to the judiciary from a rising executive branch
October 16, 2025
A Harvard Law Review symposium examines the growing obstacles facing the judiciary, and the tools courts have to confront them.
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How much power does the president have to dismiss executive branch officials? From the founding era to today, the answer is ever evolving
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A Man for All Seasons
October 6, 2025
As Britain’s former foreign secretary and current deputy prime minister, David Lammy remains connected to his roots in working-class London and to his Harvard experience
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What is Congress allowed to do?
September 25, 2025
Scholar Richard Primus reframes the oldest constitutional question, on enumeration of powers.
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Harvard Law experts weigh in on climate law ‘retrenchment’
September 25, 2025
Attacks on statutes and regulations are unprecedented, panelists say during Harvard Climate Action Week.
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How Supreme Court may get chance to re-examine landmark climate ruling
September 18, 2025
The Supreme Court is expected to get a chance to take a second look at a landmark 2007 decision that paved the way for federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, power plants, and other sources.
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Executive order on prescription drug marketing could increase transparency, invite legal challenges
September 17, 2025
Harvard Law expert Carmel Shachar says pharmaceutical companies will need to list all drug complications in their TV and social media ads.
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A Harvard Law affiliate breaks down an antitrust lawsuit brought by real estate brokerage Compass.
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How Delta Airlines and other companies use dynamic pricing to determine how much you pay
August 15, 2025
Airlines and other companies are increasingly using data to determine pricing, says a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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Is more partisan redistricting coming to a state near you?
August 6, 2025
Harvard Law Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos explains the national laws at stake in the Texas gerrymandering dispute.
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Supreme Court decision ‘an enormous assistance’ to plaintiffs seeking relief via class action, says Rubenstein
July 31, 2025
Harvard Law Professor William Rubenstein explains why class action lawsuits may replace universal injunctions as the hot legal tool for challenging federal policy.