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These are some of the ways that Harvard Law School faculty members prioritize their well-being in a demanding profession.

As part of a panel on his new book, Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet and his co-author weigh the pros and cons of the elastic governing principle.

Harvard Law’s Stephen Sachs and Institute for Justice attorneys preview the Supreme Court's October 2026 Term, featuring disputes over forfeiture, prisoner rights, administrative power, climate litigation, and public funding in religious schools.

Delivering the annual Gaillard Lecture, international arbitration expert Sean D. Murphy outlines the complex legal issues in play regarding temporal jurisdiction.

Harvard Law faculty share a SCOTUS ruling they disagree with but nonetheless come back to.

Harvard Law Professor Howell Jackson discusses whether a president can unilaterally refuse to spend money appropriated by Congress via a ‘pocket rescission.’

Richard Lazarus previews the Supreme Court case Suncor Energy Inc. v. Boulder County.

Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.

Faculty members from different fields of study share their views and concerns about recommendation algorithms.

A Harvard Law course will explore the values, incentives, and anxieties driving artificial intelligence.

The Berkman Klein Center heard calls to keep models ‘honest, helpful, harmless.’ It’s a work in progress.

Historians detail how and why the Constitution became (and remains) a work in progress.

Sherif Girgis, a constitutional law scholar and philosopher, will join the Harvard Law School faculty, effective January 1, 2027.

At a Berkman Klein Center event, tech insiders call for humanist-scientist discourse amid ‘Copernican moment’ of AI age.

In their book "Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People," Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan trace the history of a Supreme Court that has come to be associated with what they call ‘judicial supremacy’ and promote an alternative course.

A conversation with Lawrence Lessig about the VthePeople conference, the risks an Article V convention could present, and the range of perspectives of event participants.

Historian Ronald Williams II donates materials from a forthcoming book about prominent alumnus and human rights icon Randall Robinson ’70.

In the 25 years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Harvard Law community has come together to unite in vigil, and to reflect on the long effects of 9/11 on people's lives across the nation and around the world.