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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.”
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Is TikTok’s time nearly up?
January 15, 2025
Privacy and cybersecurity law expert Timothy Edgar examines national security and First Amendment issues as the popular video website faces a legal deadline.
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Can Texas limit citizens’ access to online content?
January 8, 2025
Harvard Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet says the case Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton could upend existing First Amendment law.
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Harvard Law faculty remember Jimmy Carter
January 8, 2025
Three current and former Harvard Law professors share their memories of working with Jimmy Carter and reflect on his life and legacy.
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Cellist Krysta Hyppolite's experiences as a working musician are shedding new light on the challenges facing artists, and guiding new work in the music world.
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Snapshots of HLS: Fall 2024
December 18, 2024
Snapshots from the fall 2024 semester at Harvard Law School
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On the bookshelves, fall 2024
December 18, 2024
Harvard Law Today features a selection of the book events that took place on campus during the fall semester.
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A wish made real at Harvard Law School
December 17, 2024
A veteran and lifelong learner visited Harvard Law’s campus for a taste of law school life, as part of AARP’s Wish of a Lifetime program.
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Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab launches initiative to use public domain data to train artificial intelligence
December 12, 2024
The new program aims to make public domain materials housed at Harvard Law School Library and other knowledge institutions available to train AI.
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How could reducing prescription drug prices save patients money?
December 11, 2024
A Harvard Law School visiting professor says that increasing competition could lower the cost of medications for millions of Americans.