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‘A natural fit’ in the Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic
February 1, 2023
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.
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Clinical placements across the globe
January 31, 2023
Across the globe HLS students worked on independent clinical placements during the January winter term.
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Shaping law to build a more just economy
January 31, 2023
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.
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Apsara Iyer ’24 elected president of the Harvard Law Review
January 30, 2023
The Harvard Law Review has elected Apsara Iyer ’24 as its 137th president. Apsara succeeds Priscila Coronado ’23.
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Harvard and Yale to Hold Law School Conference on Best Practices for Law School Data
January 26, 2023
Harvard Law School and Yale Law School will convene law deans and education experts from around the country on March 1 to discuss paths forward…
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Could a California lawsuit lower the cost of insulin in the US?
January 25, 2023
Harvard Law expert Carmel Shachar says if California wins its suit against drug manufacturers, it could make the lifesaving drug more affordable for everyone
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‘Like summer camp for law nerds’
January 25, 2023
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.
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Harvard University and the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts announced a cooperation agreement to strengthen their collaboration on future research and educational programming.
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Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner asks whether ‘it is fair to use the criminal legal system’ to assess the actor’s responsibility.
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‘A genuine debt ceiling crisis’?
January 23, 2023
Howell Jackson discusses what could happen if the United States defaults on its debts for the first time in history.
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Why did so many buy COVID misinformation? It works like magic.
January 20, 2023
Harvard Law panelists say both exploit how brains process information.
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Students in the Critical Corporate Theory Lab will co-host a first-of-its kind conference bringing hundreds of law students and lawyers together to examine corporate capture of the legal system and what might be done about it.
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Disability in a time of climate disaster
January 19, 2023
Harvard Law’s Michael Ashley Stein is ‘calling for systemic and urgent disability inclusion’ in climate resilience planning.
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Score! Harvard Law cheers on Harvard hockey
January 19, 2023
The Harvard Law School community cheered on the Crimson at Bright-Landry Hockey Center on Jan. 13 as the Harvard Men’s Hockey team took on Clarkson…
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The legal profession in 2023
January 13, 2023
Now that the champagne is long gone, the confetti has been swept up, and we are settling into 2023, Harvard Law Today wondered what changes the new year might have in store for the practice of law.
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What’s it like to argue in front of the Supreme Court?
January 10, 2023
Three seasoned Harvard Law advocates share tips and tales of their times arguing before the nation’s highest court
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Andrew Mergen will lead the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law
January 3, 2023
Former Department of Justice chief and appellate lawyer Andrew Mergen will join Harvard Law School as director of the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.
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Harvard Law School top ten of ’22
December 22, 2022
A look back at our most ‘loved’ Instagram posts of 2022.
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Photo highlights from Harvard Law School 2022
December 21, 2022
From a snowy J-term to a sunny Commencement to a rousing Ames Moot Court, check out some of our top photos from 2022.
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos elected to the American Law Institute
December 16, 2022
Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, was elected as a member of the American Law Institute, this fall.
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Facebook and the problem of truth
December 15, 2022
In a new podcast, Harvard Law Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Jill Lepore road-test an idea to enlist high school students across the country as “advertisement juries.”
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‘He showed me what it meant to lead with love’
December 14, 2022
Harvard Law Clinical Professor Robert Greenwald retires after a long career securing health care access for vulnerable populations
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Spotlight on climate
December 14, 2022
The Tortys, an Oscars-style event celebrating student short films on tort law and justice, takes over Ames Courtroom.
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Notes and Comment, an annual event held at the Harvard Law School Library, helps students working on writing projects find faculty mentors.
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On the bookshelf
December 13, 2022
This fall, Harvard Law School showcased the works of faculty, alums, and students at book events throughout the semester.
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Sullivan, Criminal Justice Institute part of suit against Florida’s migrant relocation program
December 9, 2022
A lawsuit joined by Ronald Sullivan Jr. and Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Institute alleges that a plan by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to move asylum seekers to Massachusetts violated the Constitution.
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Laurence Tribe reflects on Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, 40 years later
December 7, 2022
In this installment of "Cases in Brief," Laurence Tribe reflects on the landmark decision involving a popular Harvard Square bar denied a liquor license by the church next door.
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Amendments should start with states
December 6, 2022
Stephen Sachs, the Antonin Scalia Professor of Law, outlines a way to smooth the Constitutional amendment process without softening it.
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‘In pursuit of an atmosphere in which ideas can be followed without fear that you’ll be punished’
December 6, 2022
Professors Jeannie Suk Gersen and Janet Halley lead the Academic Freedom Alliance, an organization that protects the rights of faculty to speak or publish without fear of sanction or punishment.
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The state of capital punishment
December 6, 2022
The Harvard Law School Library hosted a series of talks on the death penalty in conjunction with the library’s exhibit “Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame and Sympathy.”
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Will anything come of Jan. 6 hearings?
November 30, 2022
Jamie Raskin, a member of the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, previews the committee's final report, sketches out possible legal charges, and discusses proposals for election-process changes.
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An interactive, multisite exhibition in Lawrence, Kansas called “How the Light Gets In,” co-created by metaLAB (at) Harvard, highlights the sentiments of formerly incarcerated women in a 360-degree immersive environment, and also encourages visitors to contribute their own words of wisdom.
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Change the Senate
November 29, 2022
Constitutional law expert Vicki Jackson argues that the disproportionate voting power of smaller states in the U.S. Senate creates a ‘significant democratic deficit.’
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Former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella on how the US approach differs — and why justice matters
November 28, 2022
Rosalie Abella, former Canadian Supreme Court justice and Harvard’s Pisar Visiting Professor of Law, believes that ‘it’s the majesty of justice’ that is ‘the law’s purpose.’
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‘Just a little more free’
November 22, 2022
At the inaugural Belinda Sutton Distinguished Lecture, Johns Hopkins Professor Martha Jones chronicles her journey into her family’s ties to slavery and to Harvard.
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Someone is thankful for you
November 22, 2022
Harvard Law School students and staff share who (or what) they are most grateful for this Thanksgiving.
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Enshrine an affirmative right to vote
November 21, 2022
Tomiko Brown-Nagin argues that a Constitutional amendment enshrining the right to vote would demonstrate ‘absolute commitment’ to full participation in U.S. democracy.
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Should the Supreme Court care about tradition?
November 18, 2022
At Harvard Law’s Rappaport Forum, panelists debated the Supreme Court's reliance on history and tradition in recent decisions in Dobbs and Bruen.
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‘Falling in love with your rat’: The criminal informant system in the US
November 18, 2022
HLS Alexandra Natapoff argues in her revised book that snitching undermines justice and recommends what we should do about it.
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‘Effectiveness in government is not something one can just assume’
November 18, 2022
In a Library book talk, Professor Vicki Jackson and panelists discuss constitutionalism, and rights to effective government
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How inflation act may help rescue greenhouse-gas goals of repealed Clean Power Plan
November 16, 2022
Harvard Law School professors Richard Lazarus and Jody Freeman discuss the importance of the Inflation Reduction Act in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.
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With support from PSVF and Wasserstein fellowships, Mercedes Montagnes ’09, founder of the Promise of Justice Initiative, has tackled injustices in the Louisiana carceral system.
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Decision to Withdraw from the U.S. News & World Report Process
November 16, 2022
Dean John F. Manning announced that Harvard Law School will no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, effective this year.
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Why has the Supreme Court come under increased scrutiny?
November 16, 2022
In the third of a yearlong lecture series examining “The Supreme Court in a Constitutional Democracy," panelists debate reforming the Court.
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Fostering friendships, fostering growth, and making connections
November 16, 2022
Yvonne Smith, administrative coordinator of the Harvard Law School Board of Student Advisors talks about her journey to HLS, how she has managed the Ames competition, and her reflections on her life-long career at Harvard Law.
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How Harvard Law alums fared in the 2022 midterm elections
November 15, 2022
Several Harvard Law School graduates are headed to Congress after winning elections in the 2022 midterm elections.
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The Ames Game
November 14, 2022
At the 2022 Ames Moot Court Competition, two teams battled over Article III judicial power and climate change.