Areas of Interest
Constitutional Law
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Harvard Law expert Peter Brann breaks down the antitrust lawsuit targeting one of the biggest media deals in history.
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Evaluating Supreme Court’s 2025-26 term: ‘A conservative Court that has also checked the Trump administration’
July 17, 2026
Harvard Law faculty weigh in on a SCOTUS term marked by major decisions on citizenship, voting rights, and presidential power.
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W. Tanner Allread, a legal historian whose research spans federal Indian law, tribal law, Indigenous legal history, and constitutional law, has been named an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School.
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Harvard Law Professor Daniel Tarullo explains the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Cook
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A new collection of essays by more than 60 Harvard Law faculty members contemplates the past, present, and future of the United States.
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Noah Feldman on the struggle over the rule of law
April 23, 2026
Professor Noah Feldman examines how legal norms are faring under President Trump.
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When is it time to dissent?
April 17, 2026
Legal, constitutional scholar suggests looking to judges’ practices for wider lessons.
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America at 250: ‘Citizens need to make this democracy work’
April 16, 2026
Commemorating 250 years, Harvard Law School professors discuss the conditions of American debate and democracy.
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‘We thought we were immune’ to democratic backsliding
April 16, 2026
Recovering democratic practices and values likely depends in part on an organized opposition and an active civil society, says Harvard Law Professor emeritus Mark Tushnet
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Weighing anonymity for public officials
April 9, 2026
Speaking on an Animal Law Week panel, Professor Noah Feldman says circumstances can sometimes determine whether transparency or privacy should triumph.
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Two Americas, then and now
April 2, 2026
Panel featuring filmmaker Ken Burns and professors Bruce Mann and Annette Gordon-Reed probes ‘disjunction’ between Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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On the 250th anniversary of American independence, Harvard Law experts debate the law and governance challenges facing the nation today.
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Once eroded, rule of law can be hard to restore
April 2, 2026
In Election Law Clinic’s inaugural Gregory and Emily Harvey Memorial Lecture, Professor Aziz Huq warns of threats to U.S. legal system.
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At a Harvard Law event, experts debated the president’s power to control and fire federal officials.
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Are last-mile delivery drivers working interstate?
March 19, 2026
Professor Benjamin Sachs explains what’s at stake in Flowers Foods v. Brock
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Shedding light on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket
March 4, 2026
Legal scholars debate whether the surge in emergency orders is merely a response to rising presidential power or a threat to the rule of law.
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Are Americans’ civil rights on thin ICE?
February 19, 2026
Harvard Law Professors Nikolas Bowie and Laurence Tribe discuss upholding such rights amid the ongoing federal immigration crackdown.
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Rule of Law 101 explores pivotal decisions in U.S. legal history
February 12, 2026
Harvard Law Professor Alexandra Natapoff hopes the video series she pioneered will help ‘expand the public conversation about the rule of law.’