Areas of Interest
Criminal Law and Procedure
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Harvard Law Professor Ron Sullivan says modern media can make things difficult for defendants in high-profile cases.
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A Portrait of the Attorney as a Young Man
March 31, 2025
Carter Stewart explores issues of race, justice, and parenting in his new short film inspired by his time at Harvard Law
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Redefining Criminal Law for a New Generation
March 31, 2025
A criminal law casebook co-written by Andrew Manuel Crespo aims to change the way the first-year course is taught
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Studying the Past to Inform the Present
March 31, 2025
Adriaan Lanni blends her love of the law with her passion for the ancient world
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Inquest named a finalist for a National Magazine Award
March 28, 2025
Inquest, a publication of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, at Harvard Law School, was named a finalist for the 60th annual National Magazine Awards.
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One way to save lives in jails
January 29, 2025
Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths.
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At a Petrie-Flom Center book talk, panelists discussed the lost history of constitutional challenges to punitive drug laws and possible ways forward.
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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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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.
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Harvard Law faculty members share their thoughts on where the Supreme Court justices ultimately landed on prominent cases — and on the longer-term implications of the Court’s decisions.
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The veiled history of the English jury trial
May 6, 2024
English medieval law expert Elizabeth Papp Kamali explores the roots of modern criminal procedure through papal precedent and the story of Saint Veronica.
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Supreme Court preview: City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
April 22, 2024
Harvard Law expert Carol Steiker explains how the Eighth Amendment will impact a Supreme Court decision on homelessness.
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A study co-authored by Harvard Law expert Crystal Yang shows that an innovative new jail education program reduces recidivism and may improve lives in Flint, Michigan.
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Andrew Crespo explores the origins of mass incarceration and how lawyers can fight back
March 27, 2024
At a lecture celebrating his appointment as the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law, Andrew Crespo outlined a path for lawyers and organizers to end mass incarceration.
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Why do innocent people go to, and stay in, prison?
February 13, 2024
At a Harvard Law School Library book talk, author Daniel Medwed outlines the tangle of legal rules and procedures that keep wrongly convicted people behind bars.
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Equal Opportunity by the Numbers
December 14, 2023
Crystal S. Yang brings her love for economics to the study of the law and the pursuit of justice
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On the occasion of her appointment as Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law, criminal justice expert Alexandra Natapoff delivered a lecture titled "Redistributing Law: A View from Below."
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Inquest and Institute to End Mass Incarceration host Visiting Room Project symposium
October 31, 2023
At a daylong symposium cohosted by Inquest and the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, formerly incarcerated members of the Visiting Room Project sought to bridge the experiences of incarcerated people and the law students and lawyers who may one day represent them, or prosecute them.