Teaching & Learning

At Harvard Law’s 2025 Scalia Lecture, Judge Rachel Kovner argues that ‘purposivism is not dead, and it coexists with textualism on the Supreme Court today.’

NYU School of Law Professor Devon Carbado argues that slavery was not just an event, it was a ‘structural phenomenon’ that ‘wired racial inequality’ into American society.

Inquest, a publication of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, at Harvard Law School, was named a finalist for the 60th annual National Magazine Awards.

Luis Gallegos, a senior advisor on disability rights, is leading the push for a UN convention on the rights of older people.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer ’64 explains his dissent in a case involving cheerleading uniforms.

Local student advocates in the Bluegrass state file an education rights lawsuit with legal representation from Harvard’s Education Law Clinic.

A daylong Indian Law symposium, organized by Harvard's Native American Law Students Association, explored indigenous issues across the legal landscape.

At Harvard Law School, John Finley ’81, an executive with private equity firm Blackstone, expresses optimism about SEC regulation under the second Trump administration.

The psychic and political toll of the pandemic is examined at a Petrie-Flom book event.

Former Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su ’94, who left the Department of Labor at the end of the Biden administration, speaks at Harvard Trade Union Program’s graduation.

A new online course by Harvard Law Professor Michael Klarman explores the history of race and the United States Constitution.

Harvard Law Professor Kenneth Mack says that early unions often excluded Black workers, but that today’s labor and social justice movements often ‘dovetail’.

For five decades, John Cratsley has placed students in state and federal judicial internships through HLS’s Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic.

Julia Devanthéry has designed and launched an initiative to ensure students across the Legal Services Center’s six public interest clinics develop consistent advocacy skills.

An Ohio law requiring an Amish religious sect that shuns technology to attach flashing electric lights to its horse-drawn buggies is now on hold, thanks in part to a student team from Harvard Law School.

In January 2025, 88 Harvard Law School students traveled to 37 countries for winter term research and clinical projects. 

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.”

The new program aims to make public domain materials housed at Harvard Law School Library and other knowledge institutions available to train AI.