Legal History

Students in Adriann Lanni’s class find the Greek philosopher Socrates not guilty (though just barely).

Harvard Law Today offers a look at the Harvard Law School Library's efforts to document the full archive of the Nuremberg trials, and much more.

Harvard Law School lawyers played pivotal roles in the 13 Nuremberg trials that began just six months after Germany surrendered in WWII.

Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.

Harvard Law Professor Ben Eidelson tapped into a childhood passion to build a tool for lawyers and law students.

Harvard Law Library’s rich Magna Carta
trove offers students an important link to the past and the present

Jill Lepore’s new book, a history of the U.S. Constitution, explores the consequences of its effective unamendability

Amanda Watson of the Harvard Law School Library says the release of Harvard’s digitized collection is only the beginning of collaborations between libraries and tech firms.

Experts debate what Harvard Law School’s original Magna Carta can tell us about our history.

Professor Kenneth W. Mack ’91, the Lawrence D. Biele Professor at Harvard Law School and affiliate professor of History at Harvard University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Harvard Law Today takes a closer look at the history of Magna Carta at Harvard Law.

British researchers have discovered that a ‘copy’ of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is in fact an extraordinarily rare original from 1300.

Harvard Law School Library's Amanda Watson discusses the importance of digitizing the past in light of a recent Magna Carta discovery.

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

Harvard Law Professor Kenneth Mack says that early unions often excluded Black workers, but that today’s labor and social justice movements often ‘dovetail’.

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

English medieval law expert Elizabeth Papp Kamali explores the roots of modern criminal procedure through papal precedent and the story of Saint Veronica.

Gannett House, built in 1838 as a private residence and purchased by Harvard Law School in 1897, is the oldest surviving building on the Harvard Law School's campus.