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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.

Panels examine challenges ahead: riven democracies, biomedical advances, raging inequity, climate change, harnessing AI, role of academy

Professor Howell Jackson says the case poses a risk not only to the CFPB itself but to other agencies and programs not currently dependent upon Congress’ ability to annually approve federal spending by the beginning of the new fiscal year – a goal it does not always achieve on time

The Clinic has submitted public comments to the National Park Service, which support the agency’s proposal to remove a fence that has prevented Tule elk in…

A two-day conference, hosted by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Social Justice, examined election law and electoral systems impact communities of color

At HLS Rappaport Forum, legal experts debated the balance between the free speech rights of users, platforms, and the government

Harvard Law Professor Michael Ashley Stein says the Supreme Court will consider whether ‘stigmatic harm’ is enough to qualify for standing under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Zachary Price explains the annual government funding, or appropriations, process and how and why federal government shutdowns happen.

In a conversation with the Harvard Gazette, Rebecca Tushnet talks about the Authors Guild's case against OpenAI and some of the broader legal issues around emerging tech.

Before you open your laptop or pick up your pen, know your audience and what you are trying to achieve, says Susannah Barton Tobin ’04, director of Harvard Law's First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program.

Climate change likely to make water more difficult to obtain for poor residents, according to Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic…

Access to water for residents of Delhi, India’s unplanned communities is dire and likely to get worse because of climate change, concludes a new report from the International Human Rights Clinic.

An initiative led by the Harvard Law School Library offers workshops on cutting-edge topics and skills for life and lawyering.

A new study by Harvard Law Professor Jared Ellias shows that employees begin leaving an at-risk company months or years before bankruptcy — and that Chapter 11 may help retain workers long-term.

At a Harvard Law School Library book talk, Cass Sunstein, Steven Pinker and Richard Fallon grapple with constitutional interpretation.

Is Burger King selling you a Whopper of a tale? A juicy class action lawsuit filed in March 2023 alleges that the fast-food chain’s signature…

This July the inaugural cohort of 35 fellows gathered at HLS for a weeklong residency of the Future Leaders in Law Program.

Wondering is a series of random questions answered by experts. Sheila Heen is the Thaddeus R. Beal Professor of Practice at the Law School, deputy…

Now in its third year, Future-L is helping more gifted young people around the country learn about the law, the legal profession — and how they could be part of it.