Snapshots of HLS: Fall 2024
Snapshots from the fall 2024 semester at Harvard Law School
Ames Moot Court Competition takes on the Second Amendment
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.
The Latest
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Salata Institute panelists predict legal and regulatory setbacks, and areas of hope as the Trump administration prepares to take over.
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Experts discussed the impact of AI on justice systems and democracy at a recent Harvard Law School talk.
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Panelists at Harvard Law School discussed cultural heritage loss through the lens of Nepal and the recent repatriation of Nepalese art and artifacts to the country.
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For the eighth year in a row, students took home the awards known as Tortys at the annual ceremony celebrating students' short tort films.
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Harvard Law alum and M.D. Daniel G. Aaron says that there is danger the Court could “shore back the power of administrative agencies.”
Cases in Brief Faculty discuss some of the most notable cases in the history of the Supreme Court
In the News
- ‘It Will Be a More Robust Check on Trump Than the G.O.P. Congress’: Three Legal Experts on Trump 2.0. The New York Times
- Amazon faces possible US strikes as Christmas looms. Reuters
- UAW Reaches Secret Deal With Rivian to Make Unionizing Easier. Bloomberg
- Are reparations the answer?. The Harvard Gazette
- Lawfare Daily: Frictionless Government and Foreign Relations, with Ashley Deeks and Kristen Eichensehr. Lawfare
- Temp Agency or Tech Platform? Advocates Say Staffing Apps Are Skirting Laws, But Companies Say They’re Exempt. WTTW
- Erin Burnett Out Front. CNN
- The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks. The Atlantic
- Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half. The New York Times
- ABC's Decision to Settle Trump's Defamation Suit Makes Sense. Bloomberg
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