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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.

A Public Service Venture Fund Fellowship helped Lauren Herman ’13 launch an organization to help underserved communities in New Jersey.

National security expert Elena Chachko argues that the Russia's war against Ukraine has given both NATO and the European Union new purpose and energy.

Harvard Law’s John Palfrey says that lawsuits against Google and Twitter might be among ‘the most consequential Supreme Court cases related to the internet in the technology’s history.’

On the occasion of her appointment as the Peter B. Monroe and Mary J. Monroe Professor of Law, Daphna Renan puts forth an argument for 'a more political constitutionalism.'

Guy-Uriel Charles and Jeannie Suk Gersen will join the Harvard committee that will lead an effort to memorialize the enslaved individuals whose labor was instrumental in the establishment and development of Harvard.

New York Times lawyer David McCraw discusses modern challenges to press freedom and growing distrust of the news media.

Harvard Law School today announced the appointment of Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow, a journalist, academic, and former executive secretary of The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission, as the inaugural Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.

Harvard Law expert J.S. Nelson says that Elon Musk and the tech industry risk gains when they engage in disreputable business practices.

Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic partners with organizers in Jacksonville, Florida to score important victories for voting rights.

A team of Harvard Law School students seeks justice for Roma exposed to lead poisoning under the U.N.’s watch.

Speakers at a Radcliffe Institute conference look at the divisive, fraught history of Roe v. Wade and predict where legal battles will go next.

John C.P. Goldberg was honored for his scholarship in the field of tort law as the recipient of the William L. Prosser Award, and the Civil Justice Scholarship Award.

Walmart has become a better corporate citizen, ‘Still Broke’ author Rick Wartzman says, but problems with U.S. labor practices run deeper than one company.

During winter term, students in the Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic work in Washington, D.C. with the MacArthur Justice Center on ongoing cases related to civil rights and the criminal justice system.

Across the globe HLS students worked on independent clinical placements during the January winter term.