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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.

Mariana Pargendler, whose scholarship focuses on corporate law and corporate governance, will join the Harvard Law faculty in 2024.

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

Harvard Law Professor Molly Brady explains the rights and wrongs of land use and nuisance law.

Machine-generated output is raising a host of legal and ethical questions around authorship, fair use, copyright, and more.

Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession co-hosts the International Legal Aid Group's 14th biennial conference.

HLS alumni provide personal and professional updates.

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

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

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

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