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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.”

  • Nisha Vora

    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.

  • ‘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.

  • Border patrol agent taking man into custody

    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.

  • Boanne Wassink with Charlotte the pig

    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.

  • Nuremberg Trials Project website

    Nuremberg Trials Project: Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age

    August 1, 2019

    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.

  • Adrian Perkins greeting some senior citizens

    A Home Victory

    July 30, 2019

    Recently elected mayor of his native Shreveport, Louisiana, Adrian Perkins ’18 seeks to rejuvenate the city he loves.

  • Michael Leiter walking down a hall

    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.

  • I. Glenn Cohen

    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.

  • Cari K. Dawson ’93: Grit, fearlessness, and a flair for the creative

    July 25, 2019

    “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…

  • Prof. Esme Caramello testifying at the State House

    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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    Food Law and Policy Clinic releases organic waste ban toolkit

    July 23, 2019

    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.

  • Illustration of woman leaning against a tree with open books on the branches

    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.

  • 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.

  • Justice John Paul Stevens smiling on the bench

    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.

  • Jessica Tisch ’08 at the New York Police Department

    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.

  • Illustration of cords being plugged into the White House.

    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.

  • Molly Brady

    Property law scholar Molly Brady joins Harvard Law faculty

    July 16, 2019

    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.