Courts, Jurisdiction, and Procedure

For five decades, John Cratsley has placed students in state and federal judicial internships through HLS’s Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic.

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 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.

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

Harvard Law expert Oren Bar-Gill helps deconstruct Disney’s argument for arbitration in a wrongful death lawsuit

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.

Lecturer on Law Neil Eggleston has received a 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer.

Hannah Shaffer ’21, whose research interests focus on criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and economics, will join Harvard Law School as an assistant professor of law.

Oren Tamir, a post-doctoral fellow, says that many of the critiques of the major questions doctrine tend to miss the mark — and that, with some changes, the doctrine could be fixed in ways that would make it a valuable contribution for our law and democracy.

At an event hosted by the Harvard Law School Library, several students discussed their experiences working with capital defense offices across the country as part of the Capital Punishment Clinic.

Harvard Law’s Religious Freedom Clinic Faculty Director Joshua McDaniel explains how a case before the Court could better protect religious minorities in the workforce

Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner says a lack of transparency and recent incidents involving justices, spouses, and activists have tarnished the Court's public standing.

A Harvard Law panel on "Teaching the Roberts Court," moderated by Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, examined the ways today’s Court shapes legal pedagogy.

Rebecca Richman Cohen, a Harvard Law School lecturer, debuts a new documentary on the unintended consequences following the recall of the judge in the Brock Turner assault case.

At Harvard Law School, Canadian Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner discusses differences with the U.S. judiciary and argues that access to justice is a ‘democratic imperative.’

Harvard Law’s John Palfrey says that lawsuits against Google and Twitter might be among ‘the most consequential Supreme Court cases related to the internet in the technology’s history.’

On the occasion of her appointment as the Peter B. Monroe and Mary J. Monroe Professor of Law, Daphna Renan puts forth an argument for 'a more political constitutionalism.'