Teaching & Learning

The years ahead may prove perilous for public health, warn health and legal experts at the Petrie-Flom Center.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ’99 discusses importance of public service and shares career advice.

Obligations XI brought together scholars and practitioners from across the common law world to discuss current issues in areas such as contracts, torts, property, equity, unjust enrichment, and private law theory.

Catherine Peshkin, who has served as interim dean of student services since October 2024, has been appointed dean of student services for Harvard Law.

Nancy Pinn, who joined the law school in 2001 as assistant director for LL.M. affairs, has been appointed assistant dean for Harvard Law's Graduate Program and International Legal Studies.

Amanda Watson of the Harvard Law School Library says the release of Harvard’s digitized collection is only the beginning of collaborations between libraries and tech firms.

The founders of Harvard Law School Project on Disability discuss the program’s ethos and evolution over the past 20 years.

Four scholars are joining, re-joining, or moving up the ranks to begin the 2025-2026 academic year.

Alex Whiting, who supervised prosecutions at the International Criminal Court and served as an assistant special counsel in the Department of Justice, returned to Harvard Law School as a professor of practice on July 1.

Kristen Eichensehr, an expert in foreign relations, national security, cybersecurity, and international law, joined the Harvard Law faculty as a professor of law on July 1.

Richard Re, a leading expert on constitutional law, federal courts, and criminal procedure, joined the Harvard Law faculty as a professor of law on July 1.

Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey talks labor organization with Harvard Law’s labor expert Sharon Block.

Experts debate what Harvard Law School’s original Magna Carta can tell us about our history.

The Petrie-Flom Center welcomed three dozen scholars from the law, medicine, and bioethics to debate the implications of aging brains and bodies on the law.

Harvard Law Today takes a closer look at the history of Magna Carta at Harvard Law.

On June 1, Samantha Power will return to Harvard Kennedy School as the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy and to Harvard Law School as the William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights.

British researchers have discovered that a ‘copy’ of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is in fact an extraordinarily rare original from 1300.

Harvard Law School Library's Amanda Watson discusses the importance of digitizing the past in light of a recent Magna Carta discovery.

Randall Kennedy has blazed a path as an open-minded, nuanced, and independent thinker.

Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic celebrates 25 years of providing pro bono services at the intersection of technology, law, and social justice.

In a Berkman Klein Center discussion about leadership in times of crisis, Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, said people should demand more from politicians.