Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem
Virtual film premiere and panel discussion of new documentary inspired by HLS Professor Alexandra Natapoff’s book, “Punishment Without Crime.”
A journal dedicated to promoting ‘revolutionary law’
On its 55th anniversary, Harvard Law Today takes a look back at the founding of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Kennedy, Minow, Sunstein found new American Journal of Law and Equality
Three Harvard Law School professors have teamed up with MIT Press to launch a new journal focused on issues of inequality.
More Harvard Law faculty and alumni tapped to serve in the Biden administration
Since President Joe Biden took office in January, dozens of Harvard Law community members, including faculty and alumni, have been tapped to serve in high-profile positions in his administration
Banking on crime: The economic contours of policing in America
Experts discuss the myriad ways money and wealth influence criminal processes and outcomes as part of the yearlong “Policing in America” colloquium series, led by Harvard Law Professors Alexandra Natapoff and Andrew Manuel Crespo.
Premal Dharia joins Harvard Law School as inaugural executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration
Premal Dharia, founder and director of the Defender Impact Initiative, is joining Harvard Law School as the inaugural executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration.
Wendy Jacobs 1956-2021: Her deep commitment to the environment profoundly affected all who knew her
Wendy Jacobs ’81, one of the nation’s most highly celebrated environmental law experts and the founder of the first-ever environmental law and policy clinic at Harvard Law School, died on Feb. 1, after a long illness. She was 64.
Deconstructing the ‘Karen’ meme
It’s a scene we unfortunately see too often now: A white woman pulls out her phone to call the police to patrol Black people in public spaces. They become memes, the kind that are studied by Apryl Williams, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Tribe and the other Lincoln
Reporter Lincoln Miller, 11, interviews Laurence Tribe ’66 on the Capitol riots and impeachment for his story in Scholastic Kids Press.
Looking back on ‘the future’: The Rev. Dr. King at the Harvard Law Forum
In October 1962, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on “The Future of Integration” as a featured speaker at the Harvard Law School Forum.