Teaching & Learning

During the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Civil rights attorney and Howard professor Sherrilyn Ifill detailed the need for a national reckoning and greater civic involvement.

Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program commemorated its 40 year anniversary with a daylong symposium.

Doha Mekki speaks at Harvard Law on how DOJ’s Antitrust Division has focused on workers’ rights.

An event at Harvard Law School highlighted the challenges faced by caregivers working in the legal profession, especially women with children.

In her new film, Harvard Law’s Rebecca Richman Cohen explores the question: If terroir impacts every glass of wine, why not marijuana?

Food law and policy expert Emily Broad Leib discusses why doctors need to know more about food and nutrition.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shares advice on being a judge and a lawyer with Harvard Law students while discussing his recent book, “Reading the Constitution.”

At Harvard Law’s Rappaport Forum, experts debated the limits of the federal agency’s ability to regulate American industry, health, and safety, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo.

A daylong conference hosted by Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab focused on strategies for fostering healthier, more satisfying civil discourse online.

HLAB aims to change the dynamic between DCF and families by educating mandated reporters.

At Harvard Law School, NFL General Counsel Jeff Pash ’80 discusses Sunday Ticket litigation and offers advice for aspiring sports lawyers.

A Boston-area collaboration supported by Harvard’s Transactional Law Clinics is bringing business skills to returning citizens.

Michael Klarman, an expert in American constitutional law and history at Harvard, says that early elites wrote anti-populism into the U.S.’ founding document.

Beginning in July 2025, Ihab Khatib will serve as Harvard Law School’s Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.

Lior Frankiensztajn will serve as Harvard Law School’s Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, beginning in September 2024.

Participants, faculty, and staff celebrate the completion of the inaugural cohort of individual learners to go through Harvard Law’s online legal fundamentals course, Zero-L.

During a discussion led by Harvard Law School Professors Richard Lazarus and Jody Freeman, a panel of legal and government experts addressed the prospects for U.S. climate law over the next five years.

Harvard Law’s Jody Freeman, Richard Lazarus, Andrew Mergen, and Carrie Jenks discuss the impact alumnus Dan Emmett’s $15 million gift to establish the Emmett Environmental Law Center will have for students, faculty, staff, and environmental law practitioners nationwide.

A gift by alumnus Dan Emmett ’64 and the Emmett Foundation will bolster the work of the law school’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Environmental and Energy Law Program.

Two Harvard Law experts explain why mediation skills are increasingly valuable for lawyers.

Experts from law, philosophy, and spiritual care discuss issues surrounding research and the safer use of psychedelics, kicking off a Divinity School initiative.