Areas of Interest
LGBTQ+
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‘My inability to take care of myself was impacting my ability to be more expansive in the thinking of my work’
April 10, 2023
In a Last Lecture, Alex Chen reflects on moments of reckoning he’s faced in pursuit of advancing social change.
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2023 Cravath International Fellows
March 2, 2023
From transgender equality to the rights of displaced persons, four Harvard Law students describe their winter-term projects abroad.
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As a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, Janna Adelstein traveled to the United Kingdom to conduct research on how equality law doctrines affect transgender people.
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Strategic lawyering by a team of Harvard Law students led Veterans Affairs to change its long-standing benefits policy.
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At a recent public consultation, the U.N. Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity Victor Madrigal-Borloz, a senior visiting researcher at Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program, gathered testimonies on the well-being of LGBTI communities around the world.
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In a potentially precedent-setting case, Veterans Clinic students work to help LGBTQ widower secure VA benefits
November 8, 2021
Members of the Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School are representing a same-sex widower in his appeal before the VA and in federal court in a potentially precedent-setting case.
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Ordering LGBTQ protections
February 3, 2021
Alexander Chen ’15, founding director of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at Harvard Law School, on the significance of the Biden administration's executive orders providing protections for LGBTQ people, the danger of backlash, and the work that still needs to be done.
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After a landmark victory for gay rights in Kenya, Eric Mawira Gitari will continue to work for legal reform in Africa. “There are so many democratic changes going forward on the African continent right now," said Gitari. "We need to make sure that sexual orientation and gender identity are included in the debate.”