Harvard Law students provide legal referrals to outside agencies and other services at Y2Y—the new shelter in Harvard Square for homeless youth aged 18-24 staffed by young people about the same age.Continue Reading »
Recent Highlights
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Turning Over a New Leaf
The recent digitization of the Simon Greenleaf papers offers glimpses of the 19th century HLS professor who viewed the law as a fusion of scientific thought and moral experience. Continue Reading »
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Harvard Law Library, fashion forward
The latest exhibit from the Harvard Law School Library, “What Not to Wear: Fashion and the Law,” looks at some of the intersections of fashion and the law, from historic laws setting strict class distinctions for fashion, to modern intellectual property law’s approach to protecting those who design and create fashion.Continue Reading »
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Food Law clinic sponsors conference focused on food waste, consumer education
Food recovery entrepreneurs, farmers, business persons, academics, government officials and many others converged at Harvard Law School for two days of learning, strategizing, and networking to address the growing issue of food waste.Continue Reading »
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Bob Bordone encourages students to settle for nothing less than the ‘Best. Job. Ever.’
As the final speaker in this year’s “Last Lecture” Series was Bob Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal clinical professor of law and director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, who spoke about a how simple Facebook status update from 2013 led him to consider the elements of a successful career today.Continue Reading »
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A conversation with John and Lynn Savarese
“Advancing human rights and social justice has been a primary concern of mine for decades,” said Lynn Savarese. “The three years spent at HLS focusing on fairness in myriad complex contexts helped fuel and shape this endeavor.”Continue Reading »
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Brown-Nagin, Zittrain elected members of American Law Institute
HLS Professors Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Jonathan Zittrain ’95 have been elected members of the American Law Institute–the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law.Continue Reading »
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Paul Beran joins SHARIAsource as executive director
Dr. Paul Beran will join the Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program as executive director of SHARIAsource—the online platform designed to provide content and context on Islamic law. Continue Reading »
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Tim Kaine ’83 selected as Democratic vice-presidential candidate
Democratic vice-presidential pick Tim Kaine, former governor of Virginia and currently that state’s junior U.S. senator, is a 1983 graduate of Harvard Law School.Continue Reading »
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Leading experts discuss why the time is right to transform advanced care
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a non-profit organization with a vision of improving advanced illness care for all Americans, and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School co-hosted the inaugural event for their new collaboration: The Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy. Continue Reading »
