On the bookshelf
Here are some of the latest from HLS authors to add to your reading list over the holiday break.
‘Talent is equally distributed; opportunity is not’
Future-L, a pilot collaboration between Harvard Law School and the National Education Equity Lab, introduces high-achieving high school students from historically underserved backgrounds to the legal field.
The Tortys return
Oscars-style event back in person for its fifth year, celebrating student short films on tort law and justice.
In their honor
To mark Veterans Day, Harvard Law Today highlights a few of the profiles and stories that illustrate the profound commitment of those in the HLS community to service and the law.
In a potentially precedent-setting case, Veterans Clinic students work to help LGBTQ widower secure VA benefits
Members of the Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School are representing a same-sex widower in his appeal before the VA and in federal court in a potentially precedent-setting case.
‘I felt almost like I had a responsibility; people my age were getting blown up, and I’m sitting here in college.’
As a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan, Nathan Lowry ’24 led a team of counterterrorism intelligence specialists targeting Taliban operations.
‘Protect expression, protect speech, protect thinking’
During a recent discussion about his new collection of essays, “Say it Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture,” Randall Kennedy shared background on a few of his favorite pieces, defended free thought, and spoke about his view on the future of race relations in America.
Intisar Rabb has been appointed special adviser to ICC prosecutor
Professor Intisar Rabb, director of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School, was appointed as a special adviser on Islamic Law to the new chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
‘We have to spend more time on the inequalities that are embedded in the law itself’
September 2021 saw the publication of the inaugural issue of The American Journal of Law and Equality, a project developed by Professors Martha Minow, Randall Kennedy, and Cass Sunstein, in collaboration with MIT Press.
‘Our original Constitution was both brilliant and highly flawed’
Harvard Law Professor Alan Jenkins discusses the U.S. Constitution and its treatment of race, how to guarantee fundamental rights, and why lawyers should be better communicators.