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Doctors who provide medical assistance to people labeled terrorists are increasingly vulnerable to prosecution in the United States and other Western democracies, according to a law briefing by the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC).
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After ‘Baby Bella’: Bartholet indicts systemic failures to protect at-risk children
September 24, 2015
Elizabeth Bartholet '65, renowned child welfare advocate and founding faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, has been at the center of many public conversations following the discovery of the child, once known as Baby Doe, but since identified as Bella Bond.
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Undermining Injustice, One Prison Visit at a Time
September 22, 2015
Fernando Delgado ’08 and his students in the International Human Rights Clinic put prisoners’ voices in Brazil at the heart of a human rights case.
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Steiker study influential in Connecticut’s decision to abolish death penalty
September 15, 2015
A study on capital punishment co-authored by Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker ’86 and her brother Jordan Steiker ’88 a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, was influential in Connecticut’s recent decision to abolish the death penalty in that state.
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Minow, Whiting and True-Frost publish volume of essays on ‘First Global Prosecutor’ Luis Moreno Ocampo
July 29, 2015
Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, HLS Professor Alex Whiting and Syracuse University College of Law Assistant Professor Cora True-Frost have published a volume of essays that examine the role and the legacy of the first prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo.
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Mohammad Hamdy awarded ASIL international law fellowship
July 24, 2015
Mohammad Hamdy, an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law, was selected by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) as a 2015 Helton Fellow.
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The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School has released a report, authored by Chike Croslin '16, Justin Dews, and Jaimie McFarlin '15 of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, titled Independent Lens: Toward Transparency, Accountability, and Effectiveness in Police Tactics. The report explores the potential and limitations of body-worn cameras for police.
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Harvard Law School’s Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs has recognized graduating students Seth Hoedl ’15 and Seth Packrone ’15 for exemplifying putting theory into practice through clinical work.
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The Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) at Harvard Law School is making news for work it has done to promote civil discourse in town government and to help police mediate civilian complaints.
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The New Empiricists
May 4, 2015
For the growing number of empiricists at HLS, there’s nothing quite so satisfying—or unimpeachable—as resolving a thorny, often contentious, legal or policy question through rigorous analysis of cold, hard data.
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Telling the Truth about American Terror
May 4, 2015
Racial reconciliation in America has been an elusive dream. To Bryan Stevenson ’85, the problem is that we haven’t been willing to tell the truth about our nightmares
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First Line of Defense
May 4, 2015
Students represent the indigent in courts where judges ask, ‘Is Harvard in the building?’
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Drum Major for Justice
May 4, 2015
Bryan Stevenson ’85 on race, poverty and the things worth fighting for
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Systemic Justice: At a Harvard Law School conference, students reimagine the role of lawyers in addressing societal problems
April 22, 2015
Last year, HLS Professor Jon Hanson and Jacob Lipton ’14 launched the Systemic Justice Project, a new venture intended to provide students with a new way to think about the role that law and lawyers play in society.
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Daphna Renan joins Harvard Law as assistant professor
April 20, 2015
Daphna Renan, a scholar of administrative governance, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in July.
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Elizabeth Papp Kamali ’07 to join Harvard Law faculty
April 3, 2015
Elizabeth Papp Kamali ’07, a scholar specializing in medieval legal history, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in July.
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Dehlia Umunna has been appointed Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She has been a lecturer at HLS since 2007, and is Deputy Director and Clinical Instructor at HLS’s Criminal Justice Institute (CJI).
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Dying While Black and Brown: Hamilton Houston Institute hosts dance performance on incarceration and capital punishment (video)
March 20, 2015
On March 6, Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice hosted Dying While Black and Brown, a dance performance focused on capital punishment and the disproportionate numbers of incarcerated people of color. The performance was first commissioned by the San Francisco Equal Justice Society as part of the society’s campaign to restore 14th Amendment protections for victims of discrimination, including those on death row.
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After Ferguson, the ripples across Harvard
March 5, 2015
National concerns over racial justice lead to campus introspection, discussion, research, and action They are short, stark sentences, seared into the public consciousness in recent…
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A different kind of drug research: Heymann, Falco on lessons learned from the U.S. ‘war on drugs’
February 23, 2015
HLS Prof. Philip Heymann joined an array of experts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for a two-day seminar to explore lessons learned from the U.S. 'war on drugs' and how to use that knowledge to develop better public policies.