Constitutional Law

At a Petrie-Flom Center book talk, panelists discussed the lost history of constitutional challenges to punitive drug laws and possible ways forward.

Harvard Law alum and M.D. Daniel G. Aaron says that there is danger the Court could “shore back the power of administrative agencies.”

At Harvard Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson helped preside over the 2024 final round of one of the nation’s most prestigious appellate advocacy contests.

Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena LL.M. ’98, who recently resigned from his position on the Supreme Court of Mexico, offers his views on the controversial new laws.

At Harvard Law’s Herbert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecture, three experts — Melissa Moschella, Anne C. Dailey ’87, and Erika Bachiochi — debated the meaning of a 100-year-old Supreme Court decision on parents’ rights.

In the Biddle Lecture, civil rights scholar Dorothy Roberts draws a throughline from the horrors of slavery to the Supreme Court’s recent abortion ruling.

In a talk promoting his new book, ‘Watchdogs,' Glenn Fine ’85, a former inspector general of the Department of Justice, argued the U.S. Supreme Court would benefit from having one.

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.

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.

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.”

Professor Stephen Sachs discusses high-profile cases on terrorism and medical care for transgender minors at an event sponsored by the Harvard Federalist Society.

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.

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.

Harvard Law constitutional scholar Ryan Doerfler says that President Biden’s Supreme Court reforms don’t go far enough to ‘return … decision-making authority to elected officials’

Neil Eggleston, an expert on presidential powers at Harvard Law School, explains a pivotal case against Richard Nixon and how it squares with the Court’s decision in Trump v. U.S.

Although prior Supreme Court precedent suggests a new law violates the First Amendment, Harvard Law scholar Sanford Levinson says that ‘with this Court, nothing is settled’

Former White House counsel and Lecturer on Law Neil Eggleston offers his analysis of Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling in the Trump documents case and weighs what’s next in a conversation with the Harvard Gazette.

As the Supreme Court wraps up another blockbuster term, Harvard Law School faculty members reflect on the ways the justices’ most recent decisions might reshape the law.