Striving for equality in the law
Shirley Bayle, who turns 100 today, looks back at her life in the law.
Harvard Law students win release for two inmates with mental disabilities
PLAP students secure release of two prisoners with mental disabilities, and set new judicial precedent under the Americans with Disabilities Act
Distance Learning Up Close
Teaching and learning at Harvard Law School in the first months of the pandemic
A Killing in Broad Daylight
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, legal scholars see a moment of reckoning.
Learning and Teaching ‘in the Curvature of Constitutional Space’
No one in legal academia has ever combined the roles of constitutional teacher, scholar, advocate, adviser, and commentator with the dazzling breadth, depth, and eloquence of Larry Tribe ’66. And no constitutional law professor has ever so seamlessly integrated all these roles for his students’ benefit.
‘An Unmatched Curiosity of Mind and Humbleness of Spirit’
It is one thing to find someone who combines stunning intellect, subject matter mastery, confidence and courage in his or her decision-making, but it is exceedingly rare to find one who possesses all those qualities together with a thoroughly genuine humbleness of spirit. But that is Robert Clark.
Embracing the Whole World through the Study and Teaching of Law
Mary Ann Glendon communicated an ideal that as students of the law, we were participants in a vast, complex and immensely important human enterprise. She embodied in her own life and generated in others a joy and a passion for what we studied together because it was valuable and relevant to our lives. At the same time, she was never naïve or utopian in this vision of the distinctive nobility and grandeur of law’s ideals. She never lost sight, with clear-eyed realism, of law as a sociological fact—subject to interests and powers—and of the fragility and flaws of every human undertaking.
Reading Frederick Douglass together
In a July 2019 Q&A, David Harris, managing director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, discussed the annual public reading of Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, virtual this year for the first time in its 12-year history.
Seeking overdue reparations for U.N.-caused devastation in Haiti
Beatrice Lindstrom, clinical instructor and supervising attorney in the International Human Rights Clinic, has been working for nearly a decade to secure accountability from the U.N. for a devastating cholera outbreak caused by UN peacekeepers in Haiti in 2010.
HLS professors and other associates condemn President Trump’s statements about recent protests
In an open letter to the community, Harvard Law School professors and other associates condemn President Trump’s statements about recent protests