Areas of Interest

Law and Political Economy

Laura Weinrib at the podium.

Unions’ extension into politics was necessary — and contributed to their decline, says Harvard Law expert

Faculty Scholarship

Valdis Dombrovskis stands behind a podium at a European Commission event.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an existential crisis, says European Commission trade leader

National & World Affairs

David Wilkins.

‘These are the most important problems for our society to grapple with’

Teaching & Learning

  • Scales of Justice statue

    ‘We have to spend more time on the inequalities that are embedded in the law itself’

    September 21, 2021

    September 2021 saw the publication of the inaugural issue of The American Journal of Law and Equality, a project developed by Professors Martha Minow, Randall Kennedy, and Cass Sunstein, in collaboration with MIT Press.

  • illustration Bank with growth of money represented in background

    Going public

    July 7, 2021

    Harvard Law School students are working to create a Massachusetts public bank to help minority-owned businesses, small farms, and gateway cities.

  • Capitol losses

    February 2, 2021

    A virtual gathering titled “The Events of January 6 and the Future of American Democracy” featured HLS Professor Richard Fallon and other Harvard experts assessing the damage done by the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

  • Professor Cass R. Sunstein ’78

    Cass Sunstein tapped to chair WHO technical advisory group

    August 24, 2020

    Cass Sunstein ’78, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard, has been tapped by the World Health Organization to chair its Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health.