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    Your Massachusetts voting rights guide

    October 9, 2024

    Harvard Election Law Clinic expert Daniel Hessel shares how to vote and make it count in the Bay State.

  • Sharon Block.

    Block, Sachs assess the effects of recent Supreme Court decisions on labor law

    October 9, 2024

    Recent Supreme Court decisions contribute to an “existential threat” for labor law, according to experts at Harvard Law's Center for Labor and a Just Economy.

  • Doctor holding a red apple.

    Beyond ‘An apple a day’

    October 8, 2024

    Food law and policy expert Emily Broad Leib discusses why doctors need to know more about food and nutrition.

  • A woman and two men sitting in chairs on a stage in front of an audience

    Harvard ‘taught me how to govern’

    October 7, 2024

    At a panel featuring the current leader of Luxembourg, and the former leaders of Peru and Taiwan, Harvard Law’s 100-year-old LL.M. program was praised for its global perspective and for emphasizing ‘how to be kind even when you have strong disagreements.’

  • U.S. Supreme Court interior.

    Low-profile, but not for long: Tracking trends ahead of the Supreme Court’s new term

    October 4, 2024

    Harvard Law emeritus professor Mark Tushnet explains why decisions are getting longer even as there are fewer of them — and how the election will affect the Court’s work.

  • A close up of a man holding a microphone as he is speaking on a panel

    ‘Give yourself grace’

    October 3, 2024

    Four Harvard Law faculty share stories and tips for managing mental health and reducing stress.

  • Stephen Breyer and Martha Minow.

    Breyer discusses constitutional interpretation, originalism, textualism, and pragmatism

    October 3, 2024

    Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shares advice on being a judge and a lawyer with Harvard Law students while discussing his recent book, “Reading the Constitution.”

  • A close up of a man holding a microphone as he is speaking on a panel

    ‘Give yourself grace’

    October 3, 2024

    Four Harvard Law faculty share stories and tips for managing mental health and reducing stress

  • U.S. Supreme Court building.

    Experts preview the new Supreme Court term, at Harvard Law

    October 3, 2024

    Professor Stephen Sachs discusses high-profile cases on terrorism and medical care for transgender minors at an event sponsored by the Harvard Federalist Society.

  • Did the administrative state die with Chevron?

    October 1, 2024

    At Harvard Law’s Rappaport Forum, experts debated the limits of the federal agency’s ability to regulate American industry, health, and safety, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo.

  • Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum.

    Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum

    October 1, 2024

    The Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum is designed to promote and model full, vigorous, and civil discourse on critical and complicated issues facing our community, our nation, and our world.

  • State of Democracy

    October 1, 2024

    In the shadow of a weakened Voting Rights Act, the Harvard Law Election Law Clinic helps harness state power to protect the franchise.

  • A photo of a wolf

    Lone Wolf No More

    October 1, 2024

    Five decades in, the Endangered Species Act remains one of the country’s most muscular environmental laws — and, despite its popularity, a continued target.

  • Logos for Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple each on a square that is slightly broken apart all in a green textured background

    (Anti)Trust Issues

    October 1, 2024

    The Biden administration is cracking down on Big Tech. But will Amazon, Apple,
Google, and Meta go the way of Standard Oil?

  • An historical illustration of a group of people on a field engaged in a football game

    Football on the Harvard Law Campus

    September 30, 2024

    A historic match, a pathbreaking coach and lawyer, and the attraction of resisting The Game

  • A cartoon-like illustration of a man reading a book holding on to the leash of a dog reading a book

    HLS Authors: Fall 2024

    September 30, 2024

    From a history of copyright to a focus on the unchecked power of sheriffs

  • A portrait of a women sitting outside leaning on a table.

    ‘I’m All About Hope’

    September 30, 2024

    Mona Susan Power’s fiction reflects the trauma, joy, and resilience 
of Native American life.

  • A portrait of Michael Adams sitting in a tall leather care in front of a marble fireplace.

    Election Defender

    September 30, 2024

    Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams wins award for his bipartisan efforts to expand voting rights in the face of fierce opposition.

  • A portrait of a woman

    Open Market

    September 30, 2024

    Evita Grant is building a global trading network for African small businesses.

  • A illustration of a box with colored balls falling into it as people looking though holes in the box inspect whats coming from above.

    Shine On

    September 30, 2024

    Lumen, a catalog of takedown requests, helps to illuminate efforts to shape the internet through means fair and foul

  • A illustration of five by three grid of door with some figures going through the door and some figures looking at the door.

    Taking the Long View

    September 30, 2024

    David Wilkins, part of the core research team that launched a longitudinal study on lawyers’ lives, 
describes what’s changed and — despite best intentions — what hasn’t in the past 20 years