Themes
Teaching & Learning
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‘Don’t just be a lawyer. Be a strategist’
November 10, 2021
The Center on the Legal Profession convenes experts from public and private sectors for a day-long symposium on crisis lawyering.
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Reading the law
November 10, 2021
Harvard Law School’s upper-level reading groups give students the opportunity to dig into unique subjects connected directly — or not — to the law.
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$10 million endowment established for the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Program
November 10, 2021
Harvard Law School today announced the establishment of a $10 million endowment for the Animal Law & Policy Program, thanks to a gift from the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy.
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In a potentially precedent-setting case, Veterans Clinic students work to help LGBTQ widower secure VA benefits
November 8, 2021
Members of the Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School are representing a same-sex widower in his appeal before the VA and in federal court in a potentially precedent-setting case.
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Hairy hands and brutal broadsides
October 29, 2021
The Harvard Law School Library showcases its creepiest collections during annual Haunted Halloween Tour.
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Portraits in Leadership
October 27, 2021
From the late 1800s to today artists have created portraits of Harvard Law School's deans, preserving a visual history of the school's leaders.
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On October 22, Harvard Law School dedicated the decanal portrait of Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor.
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Annette Gordon-Reed receives Governor’s Award from Mass Humanities
October 22, 2021
Harvard Law Professor Annette Gordon-Reed ’84, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard, has been recognized by Mass Humanities with its Governor’s Award in the Humanities
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Supreme Court preview: Ramirez v. Collier
October 20, 2021
Josh McDaniel, director of Harvard’s Religious Freedom Clinic, explains the Supreme Court's upcoming Free Exercise case — and how his clinic is involved.
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Animal Law & Policy Clinic assists in a victory for the Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary
October 15, 2021
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary, represented by Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic, scored a victory this week when a judge ruled that a lawsuit filed against the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service will move forward.
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The obstacles to decriminalizing psychedelic drugs are political, not legal, say experts
October 13, 2021
The new Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at Harvard Law School recently convened a conference on the future of psychedelics law and regulation.
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In the Situation Room
October 5, 2021
Professor David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, recently sat down with Jeh Charles Johnson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP who served as the secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017 during the Obama Administration.
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Moderating free speech
September 27, 2021
At a Federalist Society event, David French ’94 says government “should keep its hands off” social media and argues that support for free speech is waning across the political spectrum.
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Pay no attention to the justices behind the curtain
September 23, 2021
Charles Fried, Richard Lazarus ’79, Tejinder Singh ’08, and Carol Steiker ’86 discuss the Supreme Court’s increasingly important emergency powers known as its “shadow docket.”
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Harvard beyond the Yard
September 23, 2021
Harvard Law faculty and staff reveal beloved spots for work and play at America’s oldest institution of higher learning.
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Electric slide
September 21, 2021
Helping key players across Massachusetts — including the City of Boston and environmental nonprofits — reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 is a focus for the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
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Gantt named executive director of Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies at HLS
September 13, 2021
L.O. Natt Gantt, II ’94 has been appointed the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Law School Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies and a lecturer on law at HLS.
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Investigating mask mandate bans
September 13, 2021
Michael Ashley Stein ’88, executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, says the Department of Education should go beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act in investigating state bans against mandating face coverings in schools.
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Harvard Law School clinics redouble efforts to assist after eviction moratorium’s end
September 10, 2021
As many people are left wondering what will happen with the end of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related moratorium on evictions, Harvard Law School clinics and programs have reaffirmed their commitment to helping individuals and families navigate the housing system and their legal options.
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Remembering 9/11
September 9, 2021
Looking back: A photo gallery of images of campus vigils on September 11, 2001 and ten years later.
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Each year, half of HLS’ first-year J.D. students and around a quarter of LL.M. students participate in at least one of HLS' 11 Student Practice Organizations, with some involved in multiple organizations at once.