Robert and Dale Mnookin never had any doubt that they are Jewish. But the question of who should be considered Jewish can be surprisingly tangled and fraught. That question is at the heart of Robert’s new book, “The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World.”
Chronicling travels to the moon and the Arctic, the dawn of a code war, the unwinding of a miracle.
Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project reached a new milestone this year, when Judith Haran, one of two document analysts with the project, was invited to speak at an international conference on Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age.
As a former top national security official and current adviser to companies in the defense, intelligence, and technology sectors, Michael Leiter ’00 has spent his life assessing threats.
As part of a series called Focal Point, in which the Harvard Gazette asks a range of Harvard faculty members to answer the same question, I. Glenn Cohen explains why we should scrutinize what is and then ponder what should be.
Cari K. Dawson '93 hadn't always envisioned herself as the multi-district, class action litigator she is now. She had, however, envisioned herself as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz,' dancing and singing on a Broadway stage.
Four Harvard Law School clinicians—Esme Caramello, Patricia Whiting and Nicole Summers from the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) and Shelley Barron from the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP)—presented testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary on a series of housing bills aimed at tenants facing eviction.
A provocative keynote by Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain on ethics in AI was the culmination of a Harvard Tech Startup Night, hosted by Harvard Office of Technology Development and the law firm WilmerHale, at its Palo Alto offices.
The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and the Center for EcoTechnology have released a new toolkit on state and local organic waste bans, policies that restrict the amount of food or organic waste that can be sent to landfills.
The latest from alumni authors, chronicling travels to the moon and the Arctic, the dawn of a code war, and the unwinding of a miracle.
Catharine A. MacKinnon, longtime visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been recognized by the National Association for Women with their Woman of Vision Award.
