Teaching & Learning

At this spring's Notes and Comment event, dozens of Harvard Law students working on writing projects met with faculty experts for advice and commentary on their work.

Ten Harvard Law students trekked to arctic Alaska during spring break to prepare tax returns for indigenous communities.

At the “Teaching First-Generation Law Students” event, professors shared insights and recommendations for making law teaching more inclusive.

A Harvard Law panel on "Teaching the Roberts Court," moderated by Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, examined the ways today’s Court shapes legal pedagogy.

The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau launches the Family Defense Practice to help parents facing investigations by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.

Journalist Géraldine Schwarz shares the story of her grandparents who ‘followed the current’ in Nazi Germany.

At Harvard Law School, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner discusses differences with the U.S. judiciary and argues that access to justice is a ‘democratic imperative.’

A conference co-hosted by Harvard and Yale Law Schools featuring Education Secretary Miguel Cardona focused on best practices for sharing law school data.

Allowing ideas to evolve may lead to new, positive, and altogether different paths, according to Professors Guy-Uriel Charles, Charles Fried, and Rachel Viscomi.

At Harvard Law’s Scalia Lecture, William Baude argues that in some cases, textualists must consider unwritten law to arrive at the correct interpretation.

A course taught by retired Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella asked students to ponder the role of courts and judges in democratic nations

Guy-Uriel Charles and Jeannie Suk Gersen will join the Harvard committee that will lead an effort to memorialize the enslaved individuals whose labor was instrumental in the establishment and development of Harvard.

Harvard Law School today announced the appointment of Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow, a journalist, academic, and former executive secretary of The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission, as the inaugural Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.

Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic partners with organizers in Jacksonville, Florida to score important victories for voting rights.

A team of Harvard Law School students seeks justice for Roma exposed to lead poisoning under the U.N.’s watch.

During winter term, students in the Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic work in Washington, D.C. with the MacArthur Justice Center on ongoing cases related to civil rights and the criminal justice system.

At an event last week to celebrate the launch of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School, Sen. Elizabeth Warren outlined what she said are the many opportunities and challenges now facing the labor movement.  

There is no morning bugle call. Nor are there group hikes, swimming lessons, or arts and crafts sessions. It is not even the same season.

Harvard Law panelists say both exploit how brains process information.

Three seasoned Harvard Law advocates share tips and tales of their times arguing before the nation’s highest court.

Notes and Comment, an annual event held at the Harvard Law School Library, helps students working on writing projects find faculty mentors.