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Fighting for the freedom to practice religion in prison
July 12, 2023
Inmates have long had the freedom to exercise their religion in prison, but Damon Landor, a practicing Rastafarian, had his dreadlocks shaved against his will.
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Corporate law and governance specialist Mariana Pargendler will join Harvard Law as professor of law
July 12, 2023
Mariana Pargendler, whose scholarship focuses on corporate law and corporate governance, will join the Harvard Law faculty in 2024.
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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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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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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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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 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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HLS Authors: Summer 2023
June 27, 2023
Recent alumni titles, from ‘Speaking Yiddish to Chickens’ to ‘Who Speaks for You?’
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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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Working for the People: David Ryan ’17
June 27, 2023
David Ryan can’t get too specific about his work at the U.S. Department of Justice. And that’s probably a good thing,
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Working for the People: Elizabeth Arkell ’17
June 27, 2023
Like a detective, Elizabeth Arkell enjoys sifting through information, painstakingly piecing together facts, and then applying them to the law.
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Working for the People: Demarquin Johnson ’20
June 27, 2023
Not everyone can say they are working at their dream job. Demarquin Johnson can.
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Working for the People: Vanessa Strobbe ’12
June 27, 2023
“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.”
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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