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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.
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Harvard Law students, faculty, and staff served as nonpartisan poll monitors in Nevada.
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Climate change experts see dark clouds ahead
December 9, 2024
Salata Institute panelists predict legal and regulatory setbacks, and areas of hope as the Trump administration prepares to take over.
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At a Petrie-Flom Center book talk, panelists discussed the lost history of constitutional challenges to punitive drug laws and possible ways forward.
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Experts discussed the impact of AI on justice systems and democracy at a recent Harvard Law School talk.
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Lessons from Nepal on cultural heritage loss and repatriation
December 4, 2024
Panelists at Harvard Law School discussed cultural heritage loss through the lens of Nepal and the recent repatriation of Nepalese art and artifacts to the country.
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Eighth annual Tortys brings glitz, glamour, and great performances
December 4, 2024
For the eighth year in a row, students took home the awards known as Tortys at the annual ceremony celebrating students' short tort films.
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Supreme Court preview: Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments
December 2, 2024
Harvard Law alum and M.D. Daniel G. Aaron says that there is danger the Court could “shore back the power of administrative agencies.”
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Penny, a 3 year-old beagle, visited Harvard Law School to meet Mary Hollingsworth, director of the Animal Law & Policy Clinic, whose work led to her release from an inhumane breeding facility.
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At Berkman Klein event, experts say ‘facts can’t fix’ social media’s most urgent problems
November 25, 2024
Empathy, understanding, and less algorithmic amplification on social media platforms are the best ways to combat conspiracy theories, experts say at Berkman Klein Center event.
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Ames Moot Court Competition takes on the Second Amendment
November 22, 2024
At Harvard Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson helped preside over the 2024 final round of one of the nation’s most prestigious appellate advocacy contests.
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Departing Mexican Supreme Court justice weighs in on judicial reforms in his country
November 21, 2024
Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena LL.M. ’98, who recently resigned from his position on the Supreme Court of Mexico, offers his views on the controversial new laws.