How do you protect against indirect discrimination?
A recent Harvard Law School Human Rights Program (HRP) workshop convened a group of experts for a discussion on indirect discrimination on the basis of religion.
Renowned Public Interest Lawyer Bryan Stevenson ’85 named Harvard Law School’s 2020 graduation speaker
Renowned Public Interest Lawyer Bryan Stevenson J.D./M.P.P. ’85 was named Harvard Law School’s 2020 graduation speaker.
Minow helps steer 6th Circuit to recognize fundamental right to education
In late April, a federal appeals court handed an unprecedented win to schoolchildren, becoming the first appellate federal court in American history to conclude that children have a fundamental right to a minimum education that provides basic literacy.
Three Harvard Law professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three Harvard Law School faculty members—Nancy Gertner, Tomiko Brown-Nagin and David Barron—have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Years of advocacy by HIRC culminate in landmark decision by First Circuit
Years of advocacy by Harvard Law School’s Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program have culminated in a landmark decision recognizing gender as basis for asylum claims.
At year-end celebration, Petrie-Flom student fellows present their independent research projects
Student fellows at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics recently celebrated their fellowships’ end virtually when their capstone meeting moved to Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lila Fenwick ’56, the first black female graduate of Harvard Law, dies at 87
Lila Fenwick ’56 was a student at Harvard Law School in 1954 when the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education came down. “I was delirious,” recalled Fenwick, one of only a handful of women students at HLS at the time and the only black woman among them.
Uncharted territory: Legal experts weigh in on the COVID-19 outbreak
HLS scholars and legal experts consider the important legal and policy concerns and challenges that have emerged—including those involving civil liberties, privacy, historical precedent, and economic impact—as cities, states and countries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers release first detailed survey on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on correctional facilities in the United States
A collaboration between Harvard University researchers and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care has yielded the first detailed survey on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on correctional facilities in the United States.
‘Medical debt is a violation of human rights’
At a March 27 Petrie-Flom event on medical debt and universal health coverage, health experts and journalists raise serious concerns about the affordability of testing and hospital care.