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Celebrating 100 years of Harvard’s Master of Laws program
October 10, 2024
From around the globe, LL.M. alumni came back to campus for a weekend of panels, plenary sessions, and cross-cultural connections
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Your Massachusetts voting rights guide
October 9, 2024
Harvard Election Law Clinic expert Daniel Hessel shares how to vote and make it count in the Bay State.
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Recent Supreme Court decisions contribute to an “existential threat” for labor law, according to experts at Harvard Law's Center for Labor and a Just Economy.
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Beyond ‘An apple a day’
October 8, 2024
Food law and policy expert Emily Broad Leib discusses why doctors need to know more about food and nutrition.
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Harvard ‘taught me how to govern’
October 7, 2024
At a panel featuring the current leader of Luxembourg, and the former leaders of Peru and Taiwan, Harvard Law’s 100-year-old LL.M. program was praised for its global perspective and for emphasizing ‘how to be kind even when you have strong disagreements.’
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Low-profile, but not for long: Tracking trends ahead of the Supreme Court’s new term
October 4, 2024
Harvard Law emeritus professor Mark Tushnet explains why decisions are getting longer even as there are fewer of them — and how the election will affect the Court’s work.
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Breyer discusses constitutional interpretation, originalism, textualism, and pragmatism
October 3, 2024
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer shares advice on being a judge and a lawyer with Harvard Law students while discussing his recent book, “Reading the Constitution.”
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‘Give yourself grace’
October 3, 2024
Four Harvard Law faculty share stories and tips for managing mental health and reducing stress
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Experts preview the new Supreme Court term, at Harvard Law
October 3, 2024
Professor Stephen Sachs discusses high-profile cases on terrorism and medical care for transgender minors at an event sponsored by the Harvard Federalist Society.
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Did the administrative state die with Chevron?
October 1, 2024
At Harvard Law’s Rappaport Forum, experts debated the limits of the federal agency’s ability to regulate American industry, health, and safety, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo.
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Social media experts discuss moving beyond ‘discourse dumpster fires’
September 25, 2024
A daylong conference hosted by Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab focused on strategies for fostering healthier, more satisfying civil discourse online.
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Harvard Legal Aid Bureau pioneers medical-legal partnership to defend families in the community
September 25, 2024
HLAB aims to change the dynamic between DCF and families by educating mandated reporters.
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NFL general counsel talks game growth and league litigation, offers advice
September 25, 2024
At Harvard Law School, NFL General Counsel Jeff Pash ’80 discusses Sunday Ticket litigation and offers advice for aspiring sports lawyers.
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Harvard Law expert addresses the ‘untenable amount of harm’ caused by the criminal system
September 19, 2024
Premal Dharia discusses where efforts to transform the carceral system in the United States are heading.
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Harvard’s Transactional Law Clinics help local citizens move from incarceration to entrepreneurship
September 19, 2024
A Boston-area collaboration supported by Harvard’s Transactional Law Clinics is bringing business skills to returning citizens.
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Then & Now: Hastings Hall
September 18, 2024
Built in 1889, Walter Hastings Hall is the oldest residence hall at Harvard Law School.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson discusses new memoir, ‘unlikely path’ to Supreme Court
September 17, 2024
During an event at Sanders Theatre, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 discussed her new memoir, "Lovely One," and her "unlikely journey" from South Florida to Harvard to nation’s highest court.
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You’re not imagining things: contracts are getting longer, says Harvard Law professor
September 16, 2024
Corporate law expert Guhan Subramanian discussed his new book on deal-making obstacles and solutions at an event sponsored by Harvard Law’s Program on Negotiation.
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The framers of the Constitution didn’t want you to choose the president
September 16, 2024
Michael Klarman, an expert in American constitutional law and history at Harvard, says that early elites wrote anti-populism into the U.S.’ founding document.
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Speech is never totally free
September 12, 2024
Cass Sunstein suggests universities look to the First Amendment as they struggle to craft rules in the wake of disruptive protests.
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GALLERY: Back to school, then and now
September 12, 2024
As the school year gets underway, several students share their first day of school photos, past and present.