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
A Killing in Broad Daylight
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, legal scholars see a moment of reckoning.
Professor Crespo says events in Portland raise serious concerns about unlawful police tactics
Andrew Crespo ’08 recently discussed the federal government’s law enforcement actions in Portland, Oregon with Harvard Law Today.
A Sense of Place
Deirde Mask ’07, author of “The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power” illuminates the richness and history behind the seemingly prosaic numbers and names that mark the places in our lives in her book and talks about how the books came to be.
Landmark SCOTUS ruling affirms Native American rights in Oklahoma and bodes well for tribal rights going forward, says Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson, the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, discusses the latest Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, a landmark for Native American rights that resolves decades’ worth of legal argument.
Making the case for reproductive rights
A warrior for reproductive rights, Julie Rikelman ’97 has taken the fight for access to abortion to the Supreme Court and won.
HLS faculty weigh in on Supreme Court 2019-2020 term decisions
Harvard Law School scholars weigh in on recent SCOTUS decisions.
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.
‘Juneteenth is a day of reflection of how we as a country and as individuals continue to reckon with slavery’
Tomiko Brown-Nagin spoke with Harvard Law Today about the history of Juneteenth and its particular relevance more than 150 years later.
A milestone in LGBT rights
In a 6-3 vote, the Court ruled that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids job discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity. Alexander Chen ’15, founder of HLS’ LBGTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, discusses the significance of the landmark decision.