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Shining a light on veterans and service members
November 9, 2023
Harvard Law Today spotlights current and former students who have served in the armed forces, and on the legal support and advocacy the HLS community is providing today.
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On the front lines for veterans
November 8, 2023
How Harvard Law’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic is helping a former Marine and small business owner get the benefits he deserves…
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From homelessness to Harvard Law, Logan Lathrop ’25 credits the military for his unexpected trajectory
November 8, 2023
Having grown up in chaos, Logan Lathrop ’25 credits the military with setting him on a technology-related litigation career path.
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Matthew D. Pekoske LL.M. ’24, leading at sea and in the law
November 8, 2023
Matthew Pekoske, a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Coast Guard, is hoping his time catching drug smugglers will translate to stopping cyberattacks.
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Former aspiring aviation officer Rachel Anderson J.D./M.B.A. ’26 is keeping things in perspective
November 8, 2023
After a near fatal helicopter crash Rachel Anderson J.D./M.B.A. ’26 is determined to live life to its fullest.
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A Harvard Law clinic on the front lines for veterans
November 8, 2023
Harvard Law’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic is helping a former Marine and small business owner get the benefits he deserves.
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U.S. hurtles toward new record for mass shootings
November 3, 2023
ATF director cites advances in gun technology and lack of restrictions on access, saying change will come when Americans demand it.
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Why so many blue-collar workers drifted away from Democratic Party
November 3, 2023
A new book puts mid-century unions at the center of Rust Belt identity, social life. A shifting economy splintered community, fostered disillusionment.
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California didn’t ban Skittles. But it tackled a food safety problem the FDA hasn’t solved
November 2, 2023
An Opinion article in the Los Angeles Times by Food Law and Policy Clinic director and clinical professor of law Emily Broad Leib.
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Intellectual property experts discuss fair use in the age of AI
November 2, 2023
During Harvard Law's Rappaport Forum on Oct. 30, two intellectual property scholars went deep into the implications of generative AI.
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Inquest and Institute to End Mass Incarceration host Visiting Room Project symposium
October 31, 2023
At a daylong symposium cohosted by Inquest and the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, formerly incarcerated members of the Visiting Room Project sought to bridge the experiences of incarcerated people and the law students and lawyers who may one day represent them, or prosecute them.
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Supreme Court preview: United States v. Rahimi to test Second Amendment and gun control
October 31, 2023
Harvard Law expert Mark Tushnet says an upcoming Supreme Court gun control case could ‘open up a very large number of questions about statutes that most people in this country think should be upheld.’
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Supreme Court takes on social media in Lindke v. Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier
October 27, 2023
On October 31, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases — Lindke v. Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier — that may decide whether and under what circumstances government officials can block private citizens from their personal social media accounts.
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How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
October 27, 2023
At a Berkman Klein Center event, tech reporter Kashmir Hill discussed her book on Clearview AI, a small company that launched a facial-recognition app in 2017.
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Minow awarded Freedom of the Press Career Achievement Award
October 20, 2023
Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard and former dean of Harvard Law School, was honored with a Career Achievement Award by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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Chayes Fellow Izza Drury ’24, working at the intersection of international law and migrants’ rights
October 20, 2023
As a Chayes Fellow, Izza Drury ’24 drafted a complaint to the UN Committee against Torture on behalf of a survivor seeking international protection in Greece.
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Even war has rules, so why none for espionage?
October 20, 2023
Berkman Klein Center affiliate Asaf Lubin points up the need for a legal framework to govern peacetime intelligence operations.
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Manatees Move Toward Restored Endangered Species Safeguards
October 18, 2023
Responding to a formal petition submitted by the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Center for Biological Diversity, Miami Waterkeeper, Save the Manatee Club, and Frank S. González García, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that reclassifying the West Indian manatee from threatened to endangered may be warranted.
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The Supreme Court will hear a case that could overturn a 40-year-old legal doctrine
October 17, 2023
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Andrew Mergen of Harvard Law School's Environmental Law and Policy Clinic about the "Chevron Doctrine," an important legal precedent that will be taken up by the Supreme Court this term.
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Ben Eidelson appointed professor of law
October 12, 2023
Benjamin Eidelson, a leading legal theorist with a body of work that spans the central areas of public law, has been named a professor of law at Harvard Law School.
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‘Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella’
October 11, 2023
On Oct. 5, Harvard Law School hosted a special screening of "Without Precedent," a documentary about the life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella.