Harvard Law faculty summer 2021 book recommendations
Looking for a new book to enjoy at the beach, park, or on your couch? Six HLS faculty members share what they’re reading this summer.
Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed ’84 on her home state of Texas’ complex history.
A Sense of Place
In the newly published “On Juneteenth,” Gordon-Reed presents a 360-degree view of the history leading up to the holiday and beyond, weaving in her perspective as a Black woman with Texas roots that run deep.
Is the Supreme Court broken?
Is the Supreme Court in crisis, and if so, how can it be fixed? Three distinguished Court-watchers from across the ideological spectrum debated these questions at the Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum, a recurring speaker series established last year thanks to a gift from the Phyllis & Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation.
‘This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for change’
HLS faculty on COVID-19 and the pressing questions of racism, racial injustice, and abuse of power that have driven this difficult year—and that are the focus of three new lecture series at the school.
Expansive racial justice movements ‘make other worlds possible’
“Racial Equality?,” a new year-long lecture series organized by Professors Randall Kennedy and Annette Gordon-Reed ’84, aims to address some of these acute issues with a wider lens that investigates both the paths to—and potential manifestations of—racial equality.
Distance Learning Up Close
Teaching and learning at Harvard Law School in the first months of the pandemic
Must We Allow Symbols of Racism on Public Land?
A legal historian who has focused on the history of U.S. slavery puts the push to remove Confederate statues in context.
‘Juneteenth is a day of reflection of how we as a country and as individuals continue to reckon with slavery’
Tomiko Brown-Nagin spoke with Harvard Law Today about the history of Juneteenth and its particular relevance more than 150 years later.
Professor Glenn Cohen discusses how Harvard Law course can help prepare incoming law students across America
Harvard Law Today recently spoke by email with Zero-L’s faculty director, Professor I. Glenn Cohen, about the program, the decision to make it available for free to interested American law schools this year, and how he expects it can help them and their students prepare for the fall semester.