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From clinical student to clinical instructor
February 27, 2020
Kendra Albert ’16, former student and current clinical instructor in Berkman Klein Center's Cyberlaw Clinic talks about their takeaways from that experience, their current work, and what they’re the proudest of in their time there.
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HLS to create new legal clinic to support rights of vulnerable clients to practice their religion
February 26, 2020
Harvard Law School has launched a new Religious Freedom Clinic. The clinic joins the 46 legal clinics and student practice organizations that make up the school’s clinical program.
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Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic launches at HLS
February 26, 2020
Harvard Law School has launched a new Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic. The clinic joins the 46 legal clinics and student practice organizations that make up the school’s clinical program.
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Gallery: The LL.M. Class of 2020 celebrates at Harvard Law School’s annual International Party
February 26, 2020
On Feb. 15, Harvard Law School LL.M. Class of 2020 celebrated the annual International Party in Wasserstein Hall.
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How tightly should hateful speech be regulated on campus?
February 26, 2020
Two professors squared off Friday during the inaugural Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum in a session titled “When Is Speech Violence? And Other Questions About Campus Speech.”
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Celebrating Black History Month: A look back at historic firsts
February 24, 2020
Professors Annette Gordon-Reed, Kenneth Mack and David Wilkins discuss the Harvard Law School's first black graduates and the legacy of African Americans at HLS throughout the years.
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In soda tax fight, echoes of tobacco battles
February 19, 2020
Amid rising rates of diabetes and obesity in the nation, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School recently hosted a panel discussion concerning levies—those enacted, those proposed and those failed—on sugary beverages in jurisdictions nationwide.
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‘Just Mercy’ in the criminal justice system
February 18, 2020
“Just Mercy,” the film based on the memoir by Bryan Stevenson ’85, ends with a sobering statistic: For every nine people executed in the U.S., one on death row is exonerated. As Professor Carol Steiker noted in a discussion following a screening of the film, that makes the U.S. No. 1 in a problematic category.
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Rebecca Tushnet testifies on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
February 16, 2020
Rebecca Tushnet, the inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and a director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary's Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, on Feb. 11, on “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act at 22: What is it, why was it enacted, and where are we now?”
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‘Game Changers’ puts muscle behind its message at HLS
February 14, 2020
The old-fashioned notion that tough guys—and tough women—must eat meat was challenged by a panel of athletes and experts at Harvard Law School, following a screening of the popular documentary “The Game Changers.”
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‘Game Changers’ puts muscle behind plant-based diet
February 13, 2020
Athletes share that what they eat powers their success
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Coming Full Circle
February 12, 2020
The Harvard Law School Forum was born in 1946, when Jerome “Jerry” Rappaport approached Harvard Law School Dean James Landis with an idea: What if Harvard Law School sponsored a speaker series on issues that would shape the post-war world?
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The Harvard Law School Library has announced the public release of the first batch of papers and other items from the Antonin Scalia Collection. His papers were donated by the Scalia family following the influential justice's death in 2016.
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Winter term around the world
February 11, 2020
HLS students traveled to 25 countries over winter term with the support of the Winter Term International Travel Grant Program.
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Michaeljit Sandhu ’21 elected 134th Harvard Law Review president
February 11, 2020
The Harvard Law Review has elected Michaeljit Sandhu ’21 as its 134th president. Sandhu succeeds Lauren Beck ’20.
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A window into the world of Justice Scalia
February 7, 2020
Harvard Law Today recently sat down with Ed Moloy, the library’s curator of modern manuscripts, and Project Archivist Irene Gates to discuss the Antonin Scalia Collection, the work of archiving, preserving, and making it public, and other collections held by the Harvard Law Library.
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Finding human solutions to global problems
February 6, 2020
With headlines declaring 2019 the year that the world woke up to climate change, Aminta Ossom ’09 sees hope in approaching the issue from a specific angle: human rights.
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First Class
February 6, 2020
An organization started by Harvard Law students offers community and resources for low-income and first-generation college students at the school.
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New book looks at how Trump has remade the presidency
February 4, 2020
In “Unmaking the Presidency,” HLS lecturer on law Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey ’13 say Trump has bucked norms and expanded power, but whether others will follow his lead is unclear.
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Has Trump remade the presidency?
February 4, 2020
Authors Wittes and Hennessey say he’s bucked norms and expanded power, but whether others will follow his lead is unclear
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Leading scholars bring new expertise
February 2, 2020
Effective Jan. 1, three faculty members were promoted and two new scholars joined the HLS faculty.