Harvard Law School unveils official portrait of former Dean Martha Minow
On October 22, Harvard Law School dedicated the decanal portrait of Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor.
Annette Gordon-Reed receives Governor’s Award from Mass Humanities
Harvard Law Professor Annette Gordon-Reed ’84, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard, has been recognized by Mass Humanities with its Governor’s Award in the Humanities
Supreme Court preview: Ramirez v. Collier
Josh McDaniel, director of Harvard’s Religious Freedom Clinic, explains the Supreme Court’s upcoming Free Exercise case — and how his clinic is involved.
Animal Law & Policy Clinic assists in a victory for the Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary, represented by Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic, scored a victory this week when a judge ruled that a lawsuit filed against the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service will move forward.
The obstacles to decriminalizing psychedelic drugs are political, not legal, say experts
The new Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at Harvard Law School recently convened a conference on the future of psychedelics law and regulation.
In the Situation Room
Professor David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, recently sat down with Jeh Charles Johnson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP who served as the secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017 during the Obama Administration.
‘It’s good to be back’
Harvard Law School employees share what they’re looking forward to back on campus.
Moderating free speech
At a Federalist Society event, David French ’94 says government “should keep its hands off” social media and argues that support for free speech is waning across the political spectrum.
Pay no attention to the justices behind the curtain
Charles Fried, Richard Lazarus ’79, Tejinder Singh ’08, and Carol Steiker ’86 discuss the Supreme Court’s increasingly important emergency powers known as its “shadow docket.”
Harvard beyond the Yard
Harvard Law faculty and staff reveal beloved spots for work and play at America’s oldest institution of higher learning.