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Teaching & Learning
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The framers of the Constitution didn’t want you to choose the president
September 16, 2024
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.
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Beginning in July 2025, Ihab Khatib will serve as Harvard Law School’s Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
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Lior Frankiensztajn will serve as Harvard Law School’s Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, beginning in September 2024.
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A landmark moment for Zero-L
August 7, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Resolving conflict outside the courtroom
April 29, 2024
Two Harvard Law experts explain why mediation skills are increasingly valuable for lawyers.
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How to untangle ethics of psychedelics for therapeutic care
April 25, 2024
Experts from law, philosophy, and spiritual care discuss issues surrounding research and the safer use of psychedelics, kicking off a Divinity School initiative.
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On the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, experts at Harvard Law School discussed the future of racial justice at the inaugural Belinda Sutton Symposium.
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‘We are living through a natural law moment in constitutional theory,’ says scholar in Vaughan Lecture
April 16, 2024
Natural law has gained prominence alongside the rise of originalism, argued scholar Joel Alicea during Harvard Law School’s Vaughan Lecture.
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Students cheered one another on to celebrate the culmination of their passion and hard work in the field of youth advocacy during the Youth Advocacy & Policy Lab graduation ceremony on April 9.
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In Biddle Lecture, former DOJ attorney discusses immigration, politics, and the ‘life of the nation’
April 15, 2024
At Harvard Law School, former DOJ attorney Cristina M. Rodriguez spells out what she believes are fundamental tensions in U.S. immigration policy.
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At a recent event hosted by a student organization at Harvard Law School, Congressman Jamie Raskin ’87 urged audience members to use their legal training to get involved.
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IP expert Gary R. Greenstain says Taylor Swift singlehandedly shifted copyright considerations by recording "Taylor's Version" of her early albums.
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2024 Scalia Lecture: Aditya Bamzai on statutory interpretation and the separation of powers
April 2, 2024
At Harvard Law’s Scalia Lecture, Aditya Bamzai says the Supreme Court should create a practicable analytical structure on judicial deference to administrative agencies.
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Andrew Crespo explores the origins of mass incarceration and how lawyers can fight back
March 27, 2024
At a lecture celebrating his appointment as the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law, Andrew Crespo outlined a path for lawyers and organizers to end mass incarceration.
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Space law: The final frontier
March 26, 2024
Harvard Law expert Memme Onwudiwe explains the biggest extraterrestrial issues and controversies in space law — and why lawyers should pay attention.
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Covering the ‘complexity’ of federal Indian affairs
March 20, 2024
Matthew L.M. Fletcher surveys the landscape of federal Indian law and explores the sometimes complicated relationship between Indigenous Americans and the federal government.
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First Lady of Sierra Leone Fatima Maada Bio is working to end gender-based violence, and empower women.
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Sunstein, Kethledge examine separation of powers at Federalist Society National Student Symposium
March 14, 2024
Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein and federal judge Raymond Kethledge argue that maintaining three separate branches of government is vital for American democracy.