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JET-Powered Learning
August 21, 2019
1L January Experiential Term courses focus on skills-building, collaboration and self-reflection
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The Choosing People
August 13, 2019
Robert and Dale Mnookin never had any doubt that they areewish. But the question of who should be considered Jewish can be surprisingly tangled and fraught. That question is at the heart of Robert’s new book, “The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World.”
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Planting herself in the right career
August 12, 2019
Unhappy with what many would consider a plum job in corporate law, Nisha Vora ’12 decided to reset, and she has recently released her debut cookbook, “The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook,” which builds on her success as a chronicler of vegan recipes and photos on her popular site, Rainbow Plant Life.
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‘Broadsides’ and the history of the criminal mind
August 12, 2019
Students in Professor Elizabeth Papp Kamali’s seminar, Mind and Criminal Responsibility in the Anglo-American Tradition, spend the semester reading and analyzing primary and secondary sources—beginning with Jewish scriptures and excerpts from Roman law through the end of the 21st century—to study the history of mens rea in English common law.
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Harvard Law Crimmigration Clinic is moving the needle on the criminalization of immigration
August 9, 2019
Criminalizing immigration status has been increasing over the past twenty-five years, according to Phil Torrey, managing director of the Crimmigration Clinic at Harvard Law School.
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A Question of Prevention
August 6, 2019
Calls are growing for the U.S. to lift a ban on mitochondrial replacement therapy, or MRT, a procedure developed to enable women who are at risk of passing on rare but devastating diseases to have healthy, biologically related children.
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Animal Law and Policy Clinic launches at Harvard Law School
August 5, 2019
Harvard Law School has announced the launch of the new Animal Law and Policy Clinic, to be led by Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor Katherine Meyer and Clinical Instructor Nicole Negowetti.
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Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project reached a new milestone this year, when Judith Haran, one of two document analysts with the project, was invited to speak at an international conference on Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age.
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A Home Victory
July 30, 2019
Recently elected mayor of his native Shreveport, Louisiana, Adrian Perkins ’18 seeks to rejuvenate the city he loves.
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Defending Domains
July 29, 2019
As a former top national security official and current adviser to companies in the defense, intelligence, and technology sectors, Michael Leiter ’00 has spent his life assessing threats.
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One thing to change: Question that status quo
July 29, 2019
As part of a series called Focal Point, in which the Harvard Gazette asks a range of Harvard faculty members to answer the same question, I. Glenn Cohen explains why we should scrutinize what is and then ponder what should be.
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“A lot of people think law is this very staid, confined, operate-within-the-four-corners field, but I think there’s a lot of creativity that comes about in…
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Harvard Law School clinicians testify on legislation supporting tenants in eviction cases
July 25, 2019
Four Harvard Law School clinicians—Esme Caramello, Patricia Whiting and Nicole Summers from the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) and Shelley Barron from the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP)—presented testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary on a series of housing bills aimed at tenants facing eviction.
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The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and the Center for EcoTechnology have released a new toolkit on state and local organic waste bans, policies that restrict the amount of food or organic waste that can be sent to landfills.
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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.