Harvard professors place the 2020 presidential race in historical context and consider its impact on our future.
Election law and voting rights experts Professor Nick Stephanopoulos and Lecturer on Law Ruth Greenwood, director of the Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic, discuss the 2020 Election in advance of Election Day, November 3.
HLS faculty and legal scholars consider the legal concerns and challenges that have emerged—including those involving election misinformation, voting by mail, and COVID-19—as the United States prepares for the 2020 presidential election.
Installing partisan loyalists into top defense and National Security Agency posts in a president’s final weeks in office is “completely unprecedented,” said Jack L. Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-author of “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” a new book about executive branch reforms.
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election in the United States, experts from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society convened to discuss how platforms are approaching mis- and disinformation and what they can improve going forward.
The Harvard Gazette recently asked scholars and analysts across the University to reflect on lessons learned in a variety of areas from this unprecedented and contentious presidential election.
President Trump has made no secret of his intention to file legal challenges in key states where election results were close. Legal scholars are not convinced there’s a plausible argument that his legal team could make in these new actions that would prove successful in court.
Kenneth Mack, a historian and Harvard Law School professor, weighs in on the unusual history of America's first woman presidential nominee and its first Black vice presidential pick in 1872, just seven years after the end of the Civil War.
Given the strong possibility that Tuesday night’s presidential election will not go off without a hitch, a group of Harvard Law School students have launched a website that explores every other possible election scenario.
