Themes
Teaching & Learning
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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.
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Social media experts discuss moving beyond ‘discourse dumpster fires’
September 25, 2024
A daylong conference hosted by Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab focused on strategies for fostering healthier, more satisfying civil discourse online.
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Harvard Legal Aid Bureau pioneers medical-legal partnership to defend families in the community
September 25, 2024
HLAB aims to change the dynamic between DCF and families by educating mandated reporters.
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NFL general counsel talks game growth and league litigation, offers advice
September 25, 2024
At Harvard Law School, NFL General Counsel Jeff Pash ’80 discusses Sunday Ticket litigation and offers advice for aspiring sports lawyers.
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Harvard’s Transactional Law Clinics help local citizens move from incarceration to entrepreneurship
September 19, 2024
A Boston-area collaboration supported by Harvard’s Transactional Law Clinics is bringing business skills to returning citizens.
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The framers of the Constitution didn’t want you to choose the president
September 16, 2024
Michael Klarman, an expert in American constitutional law and history at Harvard, says that early elites wrote anti-populism into the U.S.’ founding document.
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Beginning in July 2025, Ihab Khatib will serve as Harvard Law School’s Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
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Lior Frankiensztajn will serve as Harvard Law School’s Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, beginning in September 2024.
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A landmark moment for Zero-L
August 7, 2024
Participants, faculty, and staff celebrate the completion of the inaugural cohort of individual learners to go through Harvard Law’s online legal fundamentals course, Zero-L.