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Are Americans Getting Enough Fiber?
July 23, 2019
The U.S. is falling behind in fiber optic technology, but cities and localities are leading the way.
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HLS Authors: A summer selection of alumni books
July 22, 2019
The latest from alumni authors, chronicling travels to the moon and the Arctic, the dawn of a code war, and the unwinding of a miracle.
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MacKinnon recognized as a ‘Woman of Vision’
July 19, 2019
Catharine A. MacKinnon, longtime visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been recognized by the National Association for Women with their Woman of Vision Award.
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Remembering Justice John Paul Stevens (1920-2019)
July 17, 2019
Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, the second longest-serving justice in the Court's history, died July 16, at the age of 99. With the passing of Justice Stevens has come an outpouring of remembrances and testaments to his influential presence during his thirty-five years on the Court.
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A Conversation with Jessica Tisch ’08
July 17, 2019
Jessica Tisch has put data-driven policing tools in the hands of New York City’s 36,000 uniformed police officers, including 911 dispatch information and electronic report forms on iPhones.
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Presidential Power Surges
July 17, 2019
Particular moments in history and strategic breaks with unwritten rules have helped many U.S. presidents expand their powers incrementally, leading some to wonder how wide-ranging presidential powers can be.
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Maureen E. “Molly” Brady, an expert in property law, land use law, local government law, legal history and intellectual property law, has joined the Harvard Law School faculty as assistant professor of law.
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The Price Is Right
July 15, 2019
Sunstein details how government can best spend money to benefit the public
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A walk through a work of art
July 12, 2019
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus with a tour of Harvard Law School’s Bauhaus-built spaces.
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Student Voices: Going against the government at the Office of the Federal Public Defender in D.C.
July 12, 2019
Alyssa Bernstein ’19 recounts her experience working for the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia.
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Going West
July 11, 2019
A provocative keynote by Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain on ethics in AI was the culmination of a Harvard Tech Startup Night, hosted by Harvard Office of Technology Development and the law firm WilmerHale, at its Palo Alto offices.
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A half century ago, Archibald MacLeish LL.B. 1919 served as a literary interpreter of events beyond the imagination of most observers.
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Letters: Summer 2019
July 9, 2019
Kudos Congratulations! Firstly, the layout and design in the last issue blew me away as a work of art. Secondly, to anyone who doubts we’ve…
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For India, a New Era in LGBTQ Rights
July 8, 2019
Constitutional lawyer Menaka Guruswamy LL.M. ’01 successfully argued against a colonial-era law that criminalized gay sex in India. The ruling by India's Supreme Court last year went beyond decriminalizing gay sex to acknowledge the individual rights of LGBTQ people and apologize for past mistreatment.
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HLS Caselaw Access Project helps researchers draw new connections between ideas, people and organizations
July 3, 2019
In June, the Harvard Library Innovation Lab hosted an inaugural research summit to highlight the diversity of research that the Caselaw Access Project is making possible.
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Diplomat, academic, and human rights advocate Ambassador Samantha Power ’99 has been appointed William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. She has served as Professor of Practice at HLS since 2017.
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The hidden labor supporting algorithms
July 3, 2019
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Fellow Mary Gray, senior researcher at Microsoft Research, talks about her book “Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass."
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Benjamin Eidelson, a scholar of constitutional law and legal theory, has joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor, effective July 1. Trained in both law and philosophy, Eidelson specializes in questions at the intersection of the two disciplines.
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Andrew Manuel Crespo ’08 has been promoted to professor of law at Harvard Law School, effective July 1, 2019. Crespo, who joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2015, is the first Latino to be promoted to a tenured position on the HLS faculty.
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On July 2nd, people from across Massachusetts will gather at noon in Boston Common near the State House for the 11th annual public reading of Frederick Douglass’s historic address, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?"