Themes
Teaching & Learning
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Is the law playing catch-up with AI?
January 16, 2025
Organizers of an AI conference at Harvard Law say the unprecedented rate of technological change “makes it even harder for the already trailing legal system to catch up.”
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Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab launches initiative to use public domain data to train artificial intelligence
December 12, 2024
The new program aims to make public domain materials housed at Harvard Law School Library and other knowledge institutions available to train AI.
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Harvard Law students, faculty, and staff served as nonpartisan poll monitors in Nevada.
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At a Petrie-Flom Center book talk, panelists discussed the lost history of constitutional challenges to punitive drug laws and possible ways forward.
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Ames Moot Court Competition takes on the Second Amendment
November 22, 2024
At Harvard Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson helped preside over the 2024 final round of one of the nation’s most prestigious appellate advocacy contests.
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Does a parent’s authority end at the schoolhouse door?
November 19, 2024
At Harvard Law’s Herbert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecture, three experts — Melissa Moschella, Anne C. Dailey ’87, and Erika Bachiochi — debated the meaning of a 100-year-old Supreme Court decision on parents’ rights.
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Dorothy Roberts on the intersecting politics of abortion, pregnancy, and family policing
November 14, 2024
In the Biddle Lecture, civil rights scholar Dorothy Roberts draws a throughline from the horrors of slavery to the Supreme Court’s recent abortion ruling.
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Judges and judging on international and supreme courts
November 13, 2024
At the first plenary panel of the Harvard LL.M. Program’s 100th Anniversary celebration, top international jurists returned to campus with stories from the bench.
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Polarities course explores benefits of recognizing, negotiating ‘interdependent opposites’
November 13, 2024
In an increasingly polarized world, a Harvard Law School course teaches students how to navigate ideas that may seem like binary choices — but aren’t.
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Today’s military veterans face distinct needs and challenges that are just beginning to be understood—and some of the most forward-thinking policies to support them are being developed at the state level, according to the fall 2024 convening of the DAV (Disabled American Veterans) Distinguished Speaker Series at Harvard Law School on October 9.
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During the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Civil rights attorney and Howard professor Sherrilyn Ifill detailed the need for a national reckoning and greater civic involvement.
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HRP at 40: Envisioning the future of human rights
October 30, 2024
Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program commemorated its 40 year anniversary with a daylong symposium.
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DOJ expert on the upside of antitrust for consumers and workers
October 23, 2024
Doha Mekki speaks at Harvard Law on how DOJ’s Antitrust Division has focused on workers’ rights.
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Working lawyers and ‘the motherhood penalty’
October 18, 2024
An event at Harvard Law School highlighted the challenges faced by caregivers working in the legal profession, especially women with children.
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In her new film, Harvard Law’s Rebecca Richman Cohen explores the question: If terroir impacts every glass of wine, why not marijuana?
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Beyond ‘An apple a day’
October 8, 2024
Food law and policy expert Emily Broad Leib discusses why doctors need to know more about food and nutrition.
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Breyer discusses constitutional interpretation, originalism, textualism, and pragmatism
October 3, 2024
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shares advice on being a judge and a lawyer with Harvard Law students while discussing his recent book, “Reading the Constitution.”
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Did the administrative state die with Chevron?
October 1, 2024
At Harvard Law’s Rappaport Forum, experts debated the limits of the federal agency’s ability to regulate American industry, health, and safety, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo.