Harvard Law Today has compiled the names of just a few of the HLS graduates who are expected to fill some of the most high-profile posts in the new Biden administration.
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Remebering RBG
Ames Alumni Pay Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In the history of Harvard Law School’s renowned Ames Moot Court Competition, eight teams of advocates have had the unique privilege of making arguments before the iconic Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’56-’58. After her passing on Sept. 18, 2020, several Harvard Law School Ames alumni reflected on the experience of arguing before one of the most influential advocates in American history.
Recent Highlights
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Presidential picks
Harvard Law Today has compiled the names of just a few of the HLS graduates who are expected to fill some of the most high-profile posts in the new Biden administration.
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Looking back on ‘the future’: The Rev. Dr. King at the Harvard Law Forum
In October 1962, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on “The Future of Integration” as a featured speaker at the Harvard Law School Forum.
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Trump impeached
Five Harvard Law faculty react to the unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald J. Trump.
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Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program blocks another Trump administration asylum rule
In a case brought by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, a California District Court last week issued a preliminary injunction blocking a Trump administration rule that would gut protections for people fleeing persecution and torture.
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Blocking the president
Harvard Law experts Yochai Benkler and evelyn douek weigh in on the suspension of President Trump’s social media accounts and potential First Amendment implications.
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Professor Natapoff on how our massive misdemeanor system makes America more unequal
Harvard Law Professor Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert.
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Tracee Whitley appointed Harvard Law School dean for administration
Harvard Law School today announced the appointment of L. Tracee Whitley as its new dean for administration, the School’s chief administrative officer.
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HLS scholars weigh in on the events in the U.S. Capitol
Scholars across Harvard Law School have been sharing their perspectives on issues of accountability and the peaceful transfer of presidential power after an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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‘A grim form of political theater’
Harvard Law Visiting Professor Sanford Levinson puts the storming of the Capitol in historical perspective.
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Did implicit bias lead to breach of U.S. Capitol?
Harvard Law School’s James Tierney says police would have treated Black Lives Matter protesters differently.
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Constitutional scholar Guy-Uriel Charles, a leading expert on race, politics and election law, to join HLS
Guy-Uriel Charles will join the Harvard Law faculty as the inaugural Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law, effective July 1. He will also serve as faculty director of HLS’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.
‘The scholar, teacher, and colleague we should all hope to be’: Anne Fleming ’05 (1979-2020)
Anne Fleming ’05, a former HLS Climenko Fellow, a legal historian and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, died suddenly Aug. 26 from an embolism. Her research interests included contract and commercial law, consumer finance, and American legal history, with a focus on the relationship between law and poverty. Continue Reading
Sumner Redstone ’47
Sumner M. Redstone ’47, the billionaire entrepreneur who saw business as combat and his advancing years as no obstacle in building a media empire that encompassed CBS and Viacom, died at age 97. Continue Reading at New York Times »
Walter C. Carrington ’55
The U.S. ambassador and lifelong civil rights activist passed away on August 11, 2020. He was one of only four Black students in his class at HLS. His work in Africa became his most enduring legacy – notably as ambassador to Senegal at the end of President Carter’s administration and, more dramatically, as President Clinton’s ambassador to Nigeria. Continue Reading at Boston Globe »