A new report from the HLS International Human Rights Clinic and the Conflict and Environment Observatory establishes a new framework for addressing human harm resulting from the environmental consequences of conflict.
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Confronting conflict pollution
A new report from the HLS International Human Rights Clinic and the Conflict and Environment Observatory establishes a new framework for addressing human harm resulting from the environmental consequences of conflict.
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‘It’s hard to imagine a more consequential life’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s influence on Harvard Law School runs deep. On Thursday, September 24, a star team of Harvard deans and HLS professors remembered Ginsburg as a teacher, boss, colleague, inspiration and friend.
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‘A democracy can only be as strong as the citizens who participate in it’
This fall, the Equal Democracy Project turns its focus to voter registration and engagement.
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A ‘reckoning’ for policing in America
In the first of a seven-part series about policing in America, experts discuss how this moment may be an inflection point.
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Event series explores racial justice and human rights
The Human Rights Program launches a series of talks exploring issues of racial justice and human rights. The inaugural event, “Advocating While Black,” takes place on Sept. 24 .
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A history of corruption in the United States
Anti-corruption law expert Matthew Stephenson focuses his recent scholarship on anticorruption reform in U.S. history.
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If Democrats win in November, should they pack the Supreme Court?
Mark Tushnet discussed with Harvard Law Today the possibilities for, and potential pitfalls of, any effort by an incoming Democratic majority to pack the Supreme Court.
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Harvard Law School remembers Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
With the passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harvard Law School affiliates share remembrances and testaments to her transformative presence on the Court.
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‘We have lost a giant’: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’56-58, whose lifelong fight for equal rights helped pave the way for women to take on high-profile roles in business, government, the military, and the Supreme Court, died on Sept. 18. She was 87.
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In Memoriam: Ralph D. Gants ’80, a tireless advocate for access to justice (1954-2020)
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants ’80, a tireless advocate for access to justice, died on Sept. 14. Gants had been hospitalized since Sept. 4 following a heart attack. He was 65.
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‘Every drop in the ocean counts’
After COVID-19 erupted earlier this year, Sidharth Chauhan LL.M.’21, who grew up in the foothills of the Himalayas, helped lead a multi-layered effort to address the pandemic in rural India.
Anne Fleming ’05, Legal Historian, Past Climenko Fellow
Anne Fleming ’05, a legal historian and professor at Georgetown University Law Center, died suddenly August 26 from an embolism. Fleming was a pathbreaking scholar whose article on the canonical contracts case on unconscionability doctrine, Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co., changed the way many taught it. Fleming’s prize-winning first book, “City of Debtors: A Century […] 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 »