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Last Lecture: “Every traumatic event is an opportunity to reset for greatness,” says Dehlia Umunna
May 20, 2020
On May 12, Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Dehlia Umunna urged students to maintain a sense of gratitude as she kicked off the Last Lecture series for the graduating Class of 2020.
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Last Lecture: Ruth Okediji encourages the graduating class to cultivate the courage to try something new
May 20, 2020
In her Last Lecture, Ruth Okediji encouraged the graduating class to cultivate the courage to try something new.
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Last Lecture: “Humility, humanity, integrity and imagination define truly great lawyers,” says Daphna Renan
May 20, 2020
In her Last Lecture on May 13, Harvard Law School Assistant Professor Daphna Renan emphasized her kinship with the Class of 2020. She had…
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Harvard Law School Last Lecture Series 2020
May 20, 2020
The 2020 Last Lecture Series is an HLS tradition where selected faculty members impart insight, advice, and final words of wisdom to the graduating class. Speakers this year included Dehlia Umunna, Daphna Renan, Ruth Okediji, and Naz Modirzadeh.
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Renowned Public Interest Lawyer Bryan Stevenson ’85 named Harvard Law School’s 2020 graduation speaker
May 6, 2020
Renowned Public Interest Lawyer Bryan Stevenson J.D./M.P.P. ’85 was named Harvard Law School’s 2020 graduation speaker.
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In late April, a federal appeals court handed an unprecedented win to schoolchildren, becoming the first appellate federal court in American history to conclude that children have a fundamental right to a minimum education that provides basic literacy.
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How can law students help in the midst of COVID-19?
April 29, 2020
Lee Mestre helped to coordinate Harvard Law School student aid efforts after natural disasters in New Orleans and Puerto Rico. Now she's using that experience to help law students support people in Massachusetts affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
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Zooming in on faculty at home
April 29, 2020
With a little help from their at-home photographers, HLS professors share what teaching classes via Zoom looks like.
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Environmental law clinic pushes back against federal efforts to roll back regulations
April 21, 2020
Students, faculty and staff in the Harvard Law School's Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic are still hard at work, pushing back against the current administration’s attempts to undo environmental regulations approved under former President Barack Obama ’91.
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Spring on(to) Campus
April 21, 2020
Springtime in Cambridge brings daffodils, cherry blossoms and even a little snow. Check out some past and present photos of spring on the Harvard Law School campus.
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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is currently taking the lead in the effort to explore the ways data can be mined to increase understanding of COVID-19 and to fight it more efficiently.
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For the Clinical Program at Harvard Law School, the past weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic have been a time to mobilize. As the clinics have moved to working remotely, their work has continued with new urgency.
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Cyberlaw Clinic turns 20
April 9, 2020
It was 1999 and the dot-com bubble was about to burst. Corporations were scrambling to address new legal challenges online. Napster was testing the music industry. And at Harvard Law School, the Berkman Klein Center was creating a clinical teaching program specializing in cyberlaw.
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Waste not, want not
April 1, 2020
Harvard Law School Professor Emily Broad Leib ’08, director of the HLS Food Law and Policy Clinic, and her students have been working furiously to ensure that the most vulnerable—and ultimately the rest of us—are fed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Catherine Pattanayak named assistant dean for public service
March 31, 2020
Catherine Pattanayak ’04 has been appointed Harvard Law School’s assistant dean for public service and director of the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising. She was formerly OPIA’s interim assistant dean for public service.
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Harvard Law School J.D. Admissions Office announced last week that the deadline to apply for the School’s Junior Deferral Program has been postponed by two months, and clarified that pass/fail grades in spring 2020 will not harm an applicant’s chances of admission.
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The move to online learning
March 23, 2020
Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen discusses switching her classroom to remote learning.
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Noah Feldman and Richard Lazarus ’79 discuss public health and civil liberties in the time of COVID-19 on Feldman's Deep Background podcast.
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A Q&A on Harvard Law School’s response to coronavirus
March 13, 2020
Harvard University and Harvard Law School will shift to remote teaching and learning on March 23 as part of efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus in the community while continuing to educate its students. Matt Gruber, Harvard Law School dean for administration, discusses the “unprecedented move to deal with unprecedented circumstances.”
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Human Rights Program hosts UN-expert consultation on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ practices
March 13, 2020
The Harvard Law School Human Rights Program welcomed government officials, medical experts, legal scholars, and human rights activists from around the world to Cambridge on Feb. 28 for a global consultation on practices of so-called “conversion therapy” to which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse persons are subjected around the world.