News from classrooms, clinics and campus
In this installment of “Cases in Brief,” Harvard Law Professor Carol Steiker ’86 discusses Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 landmark Supreme Court decision that declared the death penalty unconstitutional.
Clinical Professor Deborah Anker LL.M. ’84, ‘one of the architects of modern refugee law’ and founder of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, moves to emerita status.
When the COVID-19 pandemic brought the global economy to a near halt in March 2020, lawyers — like everyone else — wondered how the crisis would affect not only their health and personal lives but also their work lives.
The exhibition, organized by metaLAB, reflected on the many ways social media influences our lives and the world around us — for good or for ill.
Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer returns to HLS faculty. Breyer will teach seminars and reading groups, write, and produce scholarship.
“How could you hold your politicians accountable if they are making it harder for you to vote?” This is among the questions addressed by election law, says Guy-Uriel Charles, questions that are “core to any modern democracy.”
A report issued in April by the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery details Harvard University’s many ties to slavery and the long history of discrimination against Black people by the university long after slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment.
Larry Schwartztol, White House lawyer focused on voting rights and democracy reform, has been named a professor of practice. He will serve as the faculty director of the Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic.
Harvard Law School’s fellowship and seed grant program celebrates a decade of exponential impact for public interest careers, nonprofits, and the world.
In a panel discussion, experts in law and medicine examine the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade, and access to legal and safe abortion in a post-Dobbs America.
