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  • 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

  • A portrait of a man near a gray granite building

    Trading Places 

    September 30, 2024

    Mark Wu shines a light on the world of international trade while mentoring the next generation

  • A portrait of Dean Manning in front of a red brick building in Harvard Yard.

    ‌John Manning appointed provost of Harvard University

    September 30, 2024

    John F. Manning, a renowned scholar of administrative law, legislation, and federal courts and dean of Harvard Law School since 2017, was appointed Harvard University’s chief academic officer

  • Five students standing under a doorway passage

    State of Democracy

    September 30, 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 sillouett of a wolf

    Lone Wolf No More

    September 30, 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

  • a herd of cows

    Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat.

    September 27, 2024

    “There is a known playbook that’s emerging around the policy tools that can get food out of landfills,” says the Food Law and Policy Clinic’s…

  • Stephanie Goldenhersh, Elizabeth Tuttle Newman, Erin Hegarty, and Jacob Chin pose for a photo in front of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

    Family defense in the community

    September 26, 2024

    HLAB aims to change the dynamic between DCF and families by educating mandated reporters…