Today Posts

Highlights from the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. papers, focusing on the work of the Harvard Law School professor, author, legal theorist, and advocate.

A new course taught by Richard Lazarus examines the wide-ranging implications of law for climate change.

Recent alumni titles, from ‘Speaking Yiddish to Chickens’ to ‘Who Speaks for You?’

Author and professor Imani Perry ’00 strives ‘to dig deep enough for the truth to flood in.’

Tammy Albarrán ’99, an expert changemaker, is chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Peloton.

Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod ’92 has long gravitated toward the courtroom.

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

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.

David Ryan can’t get too specific about his work at the U.S. Department of Justice. And that’s probably a good thing,

Like a detective, Elizabeth Arkell enjoys sifting through information, painstakingly piecing together facts, and then applying them to the law.

Not everyone can say they are working at their dream job. Demarquin Johnson can. 

“There is no winning in a prosecution,” says Vanessa Strobbe ’12. “That’s someone’s father, that’s someone’s son, who’s going to jail.”

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

Diane Rosenfeld presents a model from the animal world 
that she says would empower and protect women

In 2021, the Biden administration established fast-tracked removal proceedings, known as the Dedicated Docket, targeting asylum-seeking families who recently arrived in the United States. This report analyzes…

Harvard Law School researcher Ashley Nunes says electric vehicles aren't a sure-fire climate change solution.

Experts discuss “Money as a Democratic Medium” at a conference organized by Harvard Law School Professor Christine Desan.

Harvard Law School’s Carmel Shachar examines a lawsuit by pharmaceutical giant Merck contesting a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Susannah Baruch has joined the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School as executive director.