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‘Existential questions’ around US climate policy, but resolve, too
February 24, 2025
Analysts weigh in on the Paris Climate Agreement withdrawal and other early moves by Trump administration.
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Conflicting and contrasting views
February 20, 2025
The American Journal of Law and Equality, founded by Martha Minow, Randall Kennedy and Cass Sunstein, launches the fourth issue with symposia on Brown and SFFA.
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‘Unions were built for big fights’
February 19, 2025
Former Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su ’94, who left the Department of Labor at the end of the Biden administration, speaks at Harvard Trade Union Program’s graduation.
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A new course helps make sense of modern American society through a Constitutional lens
February 18, 2025
A new online course by Harvard Law Professor Michael Klarman explores the history of race and the United States Constitution.
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‘Fearless Professor Rakoff, whom we love’
February 12, 2025
The final Rakoff Bake Off at Harvard Law pays tribute to a beloved teacher and mentor, the law, and the beauty of a well-baked sponge or a glossy ganache.
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Organized labor’s complicated history with civil rights
February 12, 2025
Harvard Law Professor Kenneth Mack says that early unions often excluded Black workers, but that today’s labor and social justice movements often ‘dovetail’.
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Students get a front-row seat participating in the judicial process
February 11, 2025
For five decades, John Cratsley has placed students in state and federal judicial internships through HLS’s Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic.
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‘Money and politics, and partisan gerrymandering, matter more than any other electoral rules today’
February 7, 2025
In his new book, Nicholas Stephanopoulos provides perspective on aligning election law.
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G. Terrell Seabrooks elected 139th president of Harvard Law Review
February 6, 2025
G. Terrell Seabrooks, who was selected as the 139th president of the Harvard Law Review, says he will 'maintain the legacy of excellence embodied in each volume of the Harvard Law Review while cultivating a collaborative environment that leverages each editor’s unique contributions'.
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Julia Devanthéry has designed and launched an initiative to ensure students across the Legal Services Center’s six public interest clinics develop consistent advocacy skills.
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‘The battle between states is ripe for a legal showdown’
February 5, 2025
Health law expert Carmel Shachar discusses the rapidly evolving legal issues around telehealth care delivered across state lines.
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Harvard Law’s Religious Freedom Clinic is aiding the Amish
February 4, 2025
An Ohio law requiring an Amish religious sect that shuns technology to attach flashing electric lights to its horse-drawn buggies is now on hold, thanks in part to a student team from Harvard Law School.
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‘Kiah was all light’
January 31, 2025
Kiah Duggins, a member of the Harvard Law School Class of 2021, was a civil rights attorney and beloved graduate.
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Clinic stories: Winter term across the world
January 30, 2025
From cities to farms, tropics to tundras, Harvard Law students traveled near and far to do legal work in many corners of the globe this January through the independent clinical program.
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As new prime minister, Nawaf Salam LL.M. ’91 seeks to ‘build the state’ in a renewed Lebanon
January 30, 2025
After extensive experience in academia and public service, Nawaf Salam LL.M. ’91 was appointed the prime minister of Lebanon, the first time he has held political office in his home country.
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One way to save lives in jails
January 29, 2025
Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths.
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Snapshots: 2025 Winter Term abroad
January 24, 2025
In January 2025, 88 Harvard Law School students traveled to 37 countries for winter term research and clinical projects.
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Can birthright citizenship be changed?
January 24, 2025
Harvard Law School Professor Gerald Neuman says a president has no authority at all to change United States citizenship rules.
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What’s the rub with frictionless government in U.S. foreign policy?
January 24, 2025
Harvard Law School visiting professor Kristen Eichensehr dissects the problems that arise in government when everyone agrees.
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‘It’s always fire season now’
January 23, 2025
A senior staff attorney at the Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program explains how L.A.’s devastating wildfires could shape insurance in California.
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Is the law playing catch-up with AI?
January 16, 2025
Organizers of an AI conference at Harvard Law say the unprecedented rate of technological change “makes it even harder for the already trailing legal system to catch up.”