Spring 2024 - Harvard Law School

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Stephen Breyer for the Defense The former Supreme Court justice and current Harvard Law professor champions a pragmatic approach to constitutional interpretation

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Restatement to the Rescue

Working to bring clarity and cohesion to property law

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Reexamining the Insular Cases. Again.

Harvard scholars weigh in on the history and future of a set of seminal Supreme Court rulings that dictate how the Constitution applies to U.S. territories

International Justice Corps

Harvard Law School LL.M. graduates form common bonds and bolster the rule of law around the globe

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Fighting Injustice in the Courts and on the Page

As director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Sabrineh Ardalan is helping students take on individual asylum claims and a broken system

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Democracy in the Balance

Faculty Scholarship

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A Guide to Living With Perplexity

Faculty Scholarship

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Faculty Scholarship

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Faculty Books in Brief: Spring 2024

Faculty Scholarship

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‘Freedom Is a Constant Struggle’

On the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, experts at Harvard Law School discuss the future of racial justice

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‌‘Untangling Every Strand and Vanquishing Every Fuzzy Notion’

Alvin Warren’s leadership in tax law has transformed the field and illuminated a generation of students

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Legislating the Final Frontier

Asha Jain on satellites, sustainability, and space law

How to Live Life as a Win-Win

Robert Mnookin has had a force multiplier effect in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution.

Campus Leadership in Transition

Professor John C.P. Goldberg is serving as interim dean while John F. Manning takes on the role of interim university provost.

Campus & Community

Alumni Notes and Newsmakers

HLS Authors: Spring 2024

Recent works from an "Octopus in the Parking Garage" to "We Hold These Truths."
Ann Pfohl Kirby on the ‘family tradition’ of taking on a challenge

For one of the first female law students at Harvard, the experience wasn’t daunting; it was merely a natural extension of her desire to get the best education she could.
The Son Also Rises

D.Y. Chandrachud came to Harvard Law from India to forge his own path. He found it close to home.
Doing Well and Doing Good

In the ’80s, Randolph M. McLaughlin and his colleagues devised a strategy that helped bankrupt the Ku Klux Klan. He continues to pursue creative approaches to civil litigation.
Charting a Path

Kim Miner is using her experience with the Boston Red Sox to bring professional women’s soccer to Boston.
Off to the Races and Back Again

This past April, Scott Kline, at age 61, completed the Boston Marathon, for the second time — something that anyone could be proud of. But for Kline it was a recovery run of sorts.

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