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Harvard Law labor expert Sharon Block on the Hollywood writers strike, AI, and what comes next
July 11, 2023
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
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Property law expert Molly Brady discusses Transformers in Georgetown, nuisance law, land use, and the first amendment
July 10, 2023
Harvard Law Professor Molly Brady explains the rights and wrongs of land use and nuisance law.
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Working for the people
July 6, 2023
Meet four former Semester in Washington Clinic participants who are dedicating their careers to government service.
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How to think about AI
June 27, 2023
Machine-generated output is raising a host of legal and ethical questions around authorship, fair use, copyright, and more.
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Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession co-hosts the International Legal Aid Group's 14th biennial conference.
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Flood Warning
June 27, 2023
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
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A Changing Climate for Environmental Lawyers
June 27, 2023
A new course taught by Richard Lazarus examines the wide-ranging implications of law for climate change.
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A Force for Racial Equality and Social Justice
June 27, 2023
Highlights from the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. papers, focusing on the work of the Harvard Law School professor, author, legal theorist, and advocate.
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Freedom Writer
June 27, 2023
Author and professor Imani Perry ’00 strives ‘to dig deep enough for the truth to flood in.’
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High Gear
June 27, 2023
Tammy Albarrán ’99, an expert changemaker, is chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Peloton.
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An Appealing Place
June 27, 2023
Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod ’92 has long gravitated toward the courtroom.
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Working for the People
June 27, 2023
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
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Inquiring Mind
June 27, 2023
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.
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Drawing Down Democracy
June 27, 2023
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
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Harvard Law School researcher Ashley Nunes says electric vehicles aren't a sure-fire climate change solution.
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Experts discuss “Money as a Democratic Medium” at a conference organized by Harvard Law School Professor Christine Desan.
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Harvard Law School’s Carmel Shachar examines a lawsuit by pharmaceutical giant Merck contesting a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Susannah Baruch, an expert in health law policy and ethics, joins Petrie-Flom Center as executive director
June 20, 2023
Susannah Baruch has joined the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School as executive director.
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Salma Waheedi named inaugural executive director of Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
June 20, 2023
Salma Waheedi, a lecturer on law and associate director of Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, has been named its executive director.
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Summer 2023 Harvard Law faculty reading recommendations
June 13, 2023
Looking for a summer book recommendation? Check out what these members of the Harvard Law School faculty plan to read — and listen to — this summer.
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For a lucky few students, experiences in other countries led to unexpected connections.