Teaching & Learning

Former Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su ’94, who left the Department of Labor at the end of the Biden administration, speaks at Harvard Trade Union Program’s graduation.

A new online course by Harvard Law Professor Michael Klarman explores the history of race and the United States Constitution.

Harvard Law Professor Kenneth Mack says that early unions often excluded Black workers, but that today’s labor and social justice movements often ‘dovetail’.

For five decades, John Cratsley has placed students in state and federal judicial internships through HLS’s Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic.

Julia Devanthéry has designed and launched an initiative to ensure students across the Legal Services Center’s six public interest clinics develop consistent advocacy skills.

An Ohio law requiring an Amish religious sect that shuns technology to attach flashing electric lights to its horse-drawn buggies is now on hold, thanks in part to a student team from Harvard Law School.

In January 2025, 88 Harvard Law School students traveled to 37 countries for winter term research and clinical projects. 

Organizers of an AI conference at Harvard Law say the unprecedented rate of technological change “makes it even harder for the already trailing legal system to catch up.”

The new program aims to make public domain materials housed at Harvard Law School Library and other knowledge institutions available to train AI.

Harvard Law students, faculty, and staff served as nonpartisan poll monitors in Nevada.

At a Petrie-Flom Center book talk, panelists discussed the lost history of constitutional challenges to punitive drug laws and possible ways forward.

At Harvard Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson helped preside over the 2024 final round of one of the nation’s most prestigious appellate advocacy contests.

Debating the meaning of a 100-year-old Supreme Court decision on parents’ rights

In the Biddle Lecture, civil rights scholar Dorothy Roberts draws a throughline from the horrors of slavery to the Supreme Court’s recent abortion ruling.

At the first plenary panel of the Harvard LL.M. Program’s 100th Anniversary celebration, top international jurists returned to campus with stories from the bench.

In an increasingly polarized world, a Harvard Law School course teaches students how to navigate ideas that may seem like binary choices — but aren’t.

Today’s military veterans face distinct needs and challenges that are just beginning to be understood—and some of the most forward-thinking policies to support them are being developed at the state level, according to the fall 2024 convening of the DAV (Disabled American Veterans) Distinguished Speaker Series at Harvard Law School on October 9.

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.