Constitutional Law

At Harvard Law’s 2025 Scalia Lecture, Judge Rachel Kovner argues that ‘purposivism is not dead, and it coexists with textualism on the Supreme Court today.’

Kirby West, a 2024 Wasserstein Fellow, is passionate about defending Americans from what she sees as government overreach

Sociologist and 
legal expert 
Dorothy E. 
Roberts ’80 
works for radical 
change and a 
more just society

As the U.S. Supreme Court embraces federalism, are state supreme courts becoming the new power centers?

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer ’64 explains his dissent in a case involving cheerleading uniforms.

Legal scholars debate the unitary executive theory and the limits of presidential authority at Harvard Law School’s Rappaport Forum.

Four Harvard Law School experts examine the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape executive power.

A daylong Indian Law symposium, organized by Harvard's Native American Law Students Association, explored indigenous issues across the legal landscape.

The U.S. is probably not in a constitutional crisis — at least, not yet, according to a group of experts discussing the matter at a recent Harvard Law School event.

The American Journal of Law and Equality, founded by Martha Minow, Randall Kennedy and Cass Sunstein, launches the fourth issue with symposia on Brown and SFFA.

A new online course by Harvard Law Professor Michael Klarman explores the history of race and the United States Constitution.

Harvard Law School Professor Gerald Neuman says a president has no authority at all to change United States citizenship rules.

Privacy and cybersecurity law expert Timothy Edgar examines national security and First Amendment issues as the popular video website faces a legal deadline.

Harvard Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet says the case Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton could upend existing First Amendment 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.