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A new report from the Animal Law and Policy Program contends that the country’s widespread and underregulated animal industries could lead to new animal-to-human pandemics.

Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society have announced a new Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law (IAIL), directed by Professors Oren Bar-Gill and Cass Sunstein.

Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, a legal historian whose research examines the relationship between international law and global inequality, has joined the Harvard Law School faculty.

Inmates have long had the freedom to exercise their religion in prison, but Damon Landor, a practicing Rastafarian, had his dreadlocks shaved against his will.

Mariana Pargendler, whose scholarship focuses on corporate law and corporate governance, will join the Harvard Law faculty in 2024.

Labor expert Sharon Block says the Writers Guild of America’s weekslong strike could heat up in the fall when production companies run out of stockpiled scripts

Harvard Law Professor Molly Brady explains the rights and wrongs of land use and nuisance law.

Meet four former Semester in Washington Clinic participants who are dedicating their careers to government service.

Machine-generated output is raising a host of legal and ethical questions around authorship, fair use, copyright, and more.

Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession co-hosts the International Legal Aid Group's 14th biennial conference.

In her book “Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm,” Susan Crawford digs beneath the surface of the celebrated city to reveal economic and racial disparities, as well as a crisis of increasing flooding, upending the lives of its most vulnerable residents

A new course taught by Richard Lazarus examines the wide-ranging implications of law for climate change.

Highlights from the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. papers, focusing on the work of the Harvard Law School professor, author, legal theorist, and advocate.

Author and professor Imani Perry ’00 strives ‘to dig deep enough for the truth to flood in.’

Tammy Albarrán ’99, an expert changemaker, is chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Peloton.

Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod ’92 has long gravitated toward the courtroom.

Students in the Semester in Washington Clinic spend a spring semester in the nation’s capital, working full time at a government agency and attending classes on policymaking

I. Glenn Cohen ’03 has always been fascinated with how things and people work, and with parsing thorny ethical dilemmas. He loves science and the law, and he’s been blending those passions for years as a legal scholar focused on bioethics.

The first of four volumes of “1/6: The Graphic Novel,” co-written by Alan Jenkins ’89, envisions a fictitious aftermath of the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021

In 2021, the Biden administration established fast-tracked removal proceedings, known as the Dedicated Docket, targeting asylum-seeking families who recently arrived in the United States. This report analyzes…

Harvard Law School researcher Ashley Nunes says electric vehicles aren't a sure-fire climate change solution.