Today Posts

Having grown up in chaos, Logan Lathrop ’25 credits the military with setting him on a technology-related litigation career path.

Matthew Pekoske, a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Coast Guard, is hoping his time catching drug smugglers will translate to stopping cyberattacks.

After a near fatal helicopter crash Rachel Anderson J.D./M.B.A. ’26 is determined to live life to its fullest.

Harvard Law’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic is helping a former Marine and small business owner get the benefits he deserves.

ATF director cites advances in gun technology and lack of restrictions on access, saying change will come when Americans demand it.

A new book puts mid-century unions at the center of Rust Belt identity, social life. A shifting economy splintered community, fostered disillusionment.

During Harvard Law's Rappaport Forum on Oct. 30, two intellectual property scholars went deep into the implications of generative AI.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

Berkman Klein Center affiliate Asaf Lubin points up the need for a legal framework to govern peacetime intelligence operations.

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.

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.

In the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, former AG Loretta Lynch ’84 argues that the arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but it requires devotion to progress.

Rebecca Tushnet spoke with Harvard Law Today about how Disney has influenced copyright law in the U.S. and how creators can use works now in the public domain.

On October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a voting rights case – Alexander v. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP – that will decide whether the Republican-controlled South Carolina legislature deliberately considered race when drawing new congressional district maps

Susan Farbstein ‘04 explains the importance of the lawsuit that HLS' International Human Rights Clinic and its students filed in 2007 against the former president of Bolivia seeking justice on behalf of Bolivian citizens whose families were killed by the military in 2003.

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency reflects on the agency’s challenges, including in North Korea and Iran, as well as Ukraine and Japan.