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

In an annual Harvard show, staffers exhibit their art in person and virtually across a range of media.

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

Harvard Law graduate and visiting researcher Svitlana Starosvit traces the historic causes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and cautions against a settlement that includes concessions of Ukrainian territory.

Patricia Schroeder ’64, a feminist pathbreaker in Congress, who served as U.S. representative from Colorado from 1973 to 1997, died on March 13. She was 82.

On March 7, the Harvard Law School Library kicked off a series of events on the subject of capital punishment in connection with their exhibit Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame, and Sympathy.

Daniel Tarullo, who served as a Fed regulator, discusses the moral hazard and the implications for inflation after the SVB collapse rocks Washington and Wall Street.

Since the first class of women graduated from Harvard Law School in 1953, women have made their mark.

Rebecca Richman Cohen, a Harvard Law School lecturer, debuts a new documentary on the unintended consequences following the recall of the judge in the Brock Turner assault case.

As the inaugural Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law, Laura Weinrib described the arc of union power in the 20th century and its relationship to political spending.

The first class of women graduated from Harvard Law School 70 years ago this spring. A look back at moments and milestones.

Harvard Law’s Rebecca Tushnet, a First Amendment and intellectual property expert, explains an amusing — and potentially consequential — trademark case before the Supreme Court.

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

Four Harvard Law School students were selected this year as Salzburg Cutler Fellows in International Law and Public Service.

Harvard Law School will substantially increase support for graduates in LIPP and launch a new Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

70 years on, Sondra Miller ’53 reflects on her experience as a member of the first class at Harvard Law School to include women.

Harvard Law School’s Guy-Uriel E. Charles spoke about the demise of the “civil rights consensus” and what comes next, at a lecture celebrating his appointment as the Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law.

In honor of this global holiday, here are just a few international women who make up the Harvard Law School community.

Hassan is a UK lawyer and former chief trade negotiator at the World Trade Organization for the Federal Government of Somalia. She says her time…

Ásgerður Snævarr LL.M. ’23 is a legal adviser to the Prime Minister of Iceland and a part-time lecturer in administrative law at the University of…

Khawla Yassin Nassar LL.M. ’23 is a Palestinian Israeli lawyer. She completed her Bachelor of Laws degree at Tel Aviv University, graduating magna cum laude…

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.’

Students in Harvard Law’s Consumer Protection Clinic fight to eliminate debt for community members.

Chief counsel of a respected mid-’70s Senate inquiry into improper federal investigations says the credibility of the oversight function is at stake.

Experts on law and policy say the originalist view used to overturn Roe v. Wade could upend a 1976 ruling based on the cruel and unusual punishment clause.

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.

From transgender equality to the rights of displaced persons, four Harvard Law students describe their winter-term projects abroad.

As a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, Francisco Balbín conducted an independent clinical with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland.

As a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, Janna Adelstein traveled to the United Kingdom to conduct research on how equality law doctrines affect transgender people.

Teresa Chen, a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, traveled to Taiwan to undertake research on a recently-enacted national security law and its effect on democracies in the region.

Carlos Gonzalez Sierra, a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, undertook an independent clinical placement in Central America with an NGO offering legal aid and psychological support to victims of forced displacement.

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

Timothy Edgar, a former national security and intelligence official and lecturer at Harvard Law School, says a full ban of the video-sharing app isn’t likely, but regulation may be needed.

Harvard’s Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program teaches law students how to be facilitators at work and in life.

Harvard Law School and Yale Law School will convene law deans and education experts from around the country on March 1st to discuss paths forward…

Former Human Rights Watch head Kenneth Roth says that autocrats tend to become more isolated and make poorer decisions as they consolidate power.

The recipients of the first grants awarded by Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability will tackle a range of climate change challenges, seeking to reduce future warming and assist those whose lives already have been affected by the crisis.

A Public Service Venture Fund Fellowship helped Lauren Herman ’13 launch an organization to help underserved communities in New Jersey.

On the 40th anniversary of Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, Inc., Laurence Tribe reflects on the First Amendment case that got its start in a Harvard classroom and went on to the Supreme Court

The HLS animal law program is trying to prove that better animal welfare is good for everyone

National security expert Elena Chachko argues that the Russia's war against Ukraine has given both NATO and the European Union new purpose and energy.

Seventy years ago this spring, the first class of women graduated from Harvard Law School. Sondra (Markowitz) Miller ’53 talks about her experience and her career

As U.S. ambassador to India, HLS alumnus Kenneth Juster drew on a career that has encompassed law, business, and government

Kimberly J. Robinson argues for a federal right to education

A new book co-written by Harvard Law School alumnus Andrew Stobo Sniderman LL.M. ’22, spotlights inequities in Canada’s Indigenous communities — and a path toward justice

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