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Teaching & Learning
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Can investment treaties apply retroactively? Not generally.
October 1, 2026
Delivering the annual Gaillard Lecture, international arbitration expert Sean D. Murphy outlines the complex legal issues in play regarding temporal jurisdiction.
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Lani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words
September 30, 2026
Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.
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Are you an AI idealist, alarmist, or skeptic?
September 24, 2026
A Harvard Law course will explore the values, incentives, and anxieties driving artificial intelligence.
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One effort to safeguard humanity: AI ‘constitutions’
September 22, 2026
The Berkman Klein Center heard calls to keep models ‘honest, helpful, harmless.’ It’s a work in progress.
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Democracy? Some founders were skeptical.
September 22, 2026
Historians detail how and why the Constitution became (and remains) a work in progress.
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Sherif Girgis joins the Harvard Law faculty
September 21, 2026
Sherif Girgis, a constitutional law scholar and philosopher, will join the Harvard Law School faculty, effective January 1, 2027.
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Is there a philosopher in the house?
September 16, 2026
At a Berkman Klein Center event, tech insiders call for humanist-scientist discourse amid ‘Copernican moment’ of AI age.
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The legacies of Randall Robinson and TransAfrica live on at Harvard Law School Library
September 16, 2026
Historian Ronald Williams II donates materials from a forthcoming book about prominent alumnus and human rights icon Randall Robinson ’70.
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Harvard Law School has launched the National Security Law & Policy Initiative, a dedicated effort to bring together scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and students to address some of the most pressing issues in national security.
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Harvard Law students work to slow the wave of prison construction
September 9, 2026
Working with the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, law school students partner with grassroots groups to stop prison construction.
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What the framers were really thinking
August 13, 2026
Origin story of Declaration of Independence involves more than just embrace of Enlightenment ideas, scholars say.
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You’re getting a divorce. What happens to the frozen embryo?
August 6, 2026
Panelists dig into the fraught legal and ethical questions at heart of fertility cases.
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Former federal government official Susan M. Davies joins Harvard Law School as a professor of practice
July 15, 2026
Susan M. Davies, who served as deputy White House counsel to President Barack Obama, has been named a professor of practice at Harvard Law School.
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W. Tanner Allread, a legal historian whose research spans federal Indian law, tribal law, Indigenous legal history, and constitutional law, has been named an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School.
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What Harvard Law School faculty are reading this summer
June 17, 2026
What do a bold new translation of “The Odyssey,” histories of Jerusalem and the Muslim world, and a graphic novel about a pygmy goat sanctuary have in common? They’re all on this year’s Harvard Law School faculty summer reading list.
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Columnist and author David French offers students advice on how to be heard by readers.
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Student-run Harvard Legal Aid Bureau partners with local, parent-led group to ensure rights.
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Noah Feldman on the struggle over the rule of law
April 23, 2026
Professor Noah Feldman examines how legal norms are faring under President Trump.