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Teaching & Learning
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Access to water by low-income residents of Delhi in peril without government action, says Harvard report
September 20, 2023
Access to water for residents of Delhi, India’s unplanned communities is dire and likely to get worse because of climate change, concludes a new report from the International Human Rights Clinic.
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HLS Beyond provides students with opportunties for less formal learning
September 20, 2023
An initiative led by the Harvard Law School Library offers workshops on cutting-edge topics and skills for life and lawyering.
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Third year of Harvard Law’s Future-L program inspires the next generation of lawyers
September 8, 2023
Now in its third year, Future-L is helping more gifted young people around the country learn about the law, the legal profession — and how they could be part of it.
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The Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program (ALPP) at Harvard Law School has announced Nirva Kapasi Patel as its new executive director.
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Harvard Law’s Transactional Law Clinics help community members build businesses and long-term financial security
September 6, 2023
Harvard Law’s Business and Non-Profit Clinic, Real Estate Clinic, Entertainment Law Clinic, and Community Enterprise Project make a difference for community members in Boston and beyond.
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How I discovered my passion in the law
September 5, 2023
Professors, lecturers, and staff members share how they found their way to the subjects they are most passionate about — and why they stay there.
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How to manage office conflict
August 18, 2023
At an event hosted by the Program on Negotiation, author Claire Fowler looks at new ways to resolve disagreements in the workplace.
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US faces serious risks of zoonotic disease, says report by Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program
July 17, 2023
A new report from the Animal Law and Policy Program contends that the country’s widespread and underregulated animal industries could lead to new animal-to-human pandemics.
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Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center announce new initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
July 17, 2023
Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society have announced a new Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law (IAIL), directed by Professors Oren Bar-Gill and Cass Sunstein.
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Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, a legal historian whose research examines the relationship between international law and global inequality, has joined the Harvard Law School faculty.
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Corporate law and governance specialist Mariana Pargendler will join Harvard Law as professor of law
July 12, 2023
Mariana Pargendler, whose scholarship focuses on corporate law and corporate governance, will join the Harvard Law faculty in 2024.
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Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession co-hosts the International Legal Aid Group's 14th biennial conference.
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A Changing Climate for Environmental Lawyers
June 27, 2023
A new course taught by Richard Lazarus examines the wide-ranging implications of law for climate change.
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Experts discuss “Money as a Democratic Medium” at a conference organized by Harvard Law School Professor Christine Desan.
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Susannah Baruch, an expert in health law policy and ethics, joins Petrie-Flom Center as executive director
June 20, 2023
Susannah Baruch has joined the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School as executive director.
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Salma Waheedi named inaugural executive director of Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
June 20, 2023
Salma Waheedi, a lecturer on law and associate director of Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, has been named its executive director.
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Public Service Venture Fund selection committee members discuss Harvard Law’s student pipeline to public interest law
May 31, 2023
Recipients of Harvard Law School’s Public Service Venture Fund organization-based fellowships are making their marks all around the world.
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On the bookshelves, spring 2023
May 31, 2023
Harvard Law School book events showcase the works of faculty, alums, and other affiliated individuals.