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Harvard Law School’s Guy-Uriel E. Charles spoke about the demise of the “civil rights consensus” and what comes next, at a lecture celebrating his appointment as the Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law.

In honor of this global holiday, here are just a few international women who make up the Harvard Law School community.

Hassan is a UK lawyer and former chief trade negotiator at the World Trade Organization for the Federal Government of Somalia. She says her time…

Ásgerður Snævarr LL.M. ’23 is a legal adviser to the Prime Minister of Iceland and a part-time lecturer in administrative law at the University of…

Khawla Yassin Nassar LL.M. ’23 is a Palestinian Israeli lawyer. She completed her Bachelor of Laws degree at Tel Aviv University, graduating magna cum laude…

At Harvard Law School, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner discusses differences with the U.S. judiciary and argues that access to justice is a ‘democratic imperative.’

Students in Harvard Law’s Consumer Protection Clinic fight to eliminate debt for community members.

Chief counsel of a respected mid-’70s Senate inquiry into improper federal investigations says the credibility of the oversight function is at stake.

Experts on law and policy say the originalist view used to overturn Roe v. Wade could upend a 1976 ruling based on the cruel and unusual punishment clause.

A conference co-hosted by Harvard and Yale Law Schools featuring Education Secretary Miguel Cardona focused on best practices for sharing law school data.

Allowing ideas to evolve may lead to new, positive, and altogether different paths, according to Professors Guy-Uriel Charles, Charles Fried, and Rachel Viscomi.

From transgender equality to the rights of displaced persons, four Harvard Law students describe their winter-term projects abroad.

As a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, Francisco Balbín conducted an independent clinical with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland.

As a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, Janna Adelstein traveled to the United Kingdom to conduct research on how equality law doctrines affect transgender people.

Teresa Chen, a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, traveled to Taiwan to undertake research on a recently-enacted national security law and its effect on democracies in the region.

Carlos Gonzalez Sierra, a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, undertook an independent clinical placement in Central America with an NGO offering legal aid and psychological support to victims of forced displacement.

At Harvard Law’s Scalia Lecture, William Baude argues that in some cases, textualists must consider unwritten law to arrive at the correct interpretation.

Timothy Edgar, a former national security and intelligence official and lecturer at Harvard Law School, says a full ban of the video-sharing app isn’t likely, but regulation may be needed.

Harvard’s Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program teaches law students how to be facilitators at work and in life.

Former Human Rights Watch head Kenneth Roth says that autocrats tend to become more isolated and make poorer decisions as they consolidate power.

The recipients of the first grants awarded by Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability will tackle a range of climate change challenges, seeking to reduce future warming and assist those whose lives already have been affected by the crisis.