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Teaching & Learning
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Two veterans — one an LSC student and the other a client battling homelessness — help each other in surprising ways
November 2, 2023
Nathan Lowry ’24 shares his perspective as a student with Harvard Law's Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic.
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Intellectual property experts discuss fair use in the age of AI
November 2, 2023
During Harvard Law's Rappaport Forum on Oct. 30, two intellectual property scholars went deep into the implications of generative AI.
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Inquest and Institute to End Mass Incarceration host Visiting Room Project symposium
October 31, 2023
At a daylong symposium cohosted by Inquest and the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, formerly incarcerated members of the Visiting Room Project sought to bridge the experiences of incarcerated people and the law students and lawyers who may one day represent them, or prosecute them.
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How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
October 27, 2023
At a Berkman Klein Center event, tech reporter Kashmir Hill discussed her book on Clearview AI, a small company that launched a facial-recognition app in 2017.
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Even war has rules, so why none for espionage?
October 20, 2023
Berkman Klein Center affiliate Asaf Lubin points up the need for a legal framework to govern peacetime intelligence operations.
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A two-day conference, hosted by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Social Justice, examined election law and electoral systems impact communities of color
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Rappaport Forum talks First Amendment limits of content moderation, ‘lawful but awful’ speech on social media
September 27, 2023
At HLS Rappaport Forum, legal experts debated the balance between the free speech rights of users, platforms, and the government
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Legal writing in focus
September 22, 2023
Before you open your laptop or pick up your pen, know your audience and what you are trying to achieve, says Susannah Barton Tobin ’04, director of Harvard Law's First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program.
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Access to water by low-income residents of Delhi in peril without government action, says Harvard report
September 20, 2023
Access to water for residents of Delhi, India’s unplanned communities is dire and likely to get worse because of climate change, concludes a new report from the International Human Rights Clinic.
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HLS Beyond provides students with opportunties for less formal learning
September 20, 2023
An initiative led by the Harvard Law School Library offers workshops on cutting-edge topics and skills for life and lawyering.
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Third year of Harvard Law’s Future-L program inspires the next generation of lawyers
September 8, 2023
Now in its third year, Future-L is helping more gifted young people around the country learn about the law, the legal profession — and how they could be part of it.
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The Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program (ALPP) at Harvard Law School has announced Nirva Kapasi Patel as its new executive director.
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Harvard Law’s Transactional Law Clinics help community members build businesses and long-term financial security
September 6, 2023
Harvard Law’s Business and Non-Profit Clinic, Real Estate Clinic, Entertainment Law Clinic, and Community Enterprise Project make a difference for community members in Boston and beyond.
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How I discovered my passion in the law
September 5, 2023
Professors, lecturers, and staff members share how they found their way to the subjects they are most passionate about — and why they stay there.
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How to manage office conflict
August 18, 2023
At an event hosted by the Program on Negotiation, author Claire Fowler looks at new ways to resolve disagreements in the workplace.
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US faces serious risks of zoonotic disease, says report by Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program
July 17, 2023
A new report from the Animal Law and Policy Program contends that the country’s widespread and underregulated animal industries could lead to new animal-to-human pandemics.
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Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center announce new initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
July 17, 2023
Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society have announced a new Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law (IAIL), directed by Professors Oren Bar-Gill and Cass Sunstein.
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Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, a legal historian whose research examines the relationship between international law and global inequality, has joined the Harvard Law School faculty.
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Corporate law and governance specialist Mariana Pargendler will join Harvard Law as professor of law
July 12, 2023
Mariana Pargendler, whose scholarship focuses on corporate law and corporate governance, will join the Harvard Law faculty in 2024.
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Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession co-hosts the International Legal Aid Group's 14th biennial conference.
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A Changing Climate for Environmental Lawyers
June 27, 2023
A new course taught by Richard Lazarus examines the wide-ranging implications of law for climate change.