Fourteen selected as Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows
This academic year, 14 Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows have been named at Harvard Law School.
Polyamory and the law
Harvard Law Lecturer on Law Alexander Chen ’15, founding director of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at HLS, is working with students in the recently-formed Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition to offer legal protections for people in polyamorous relationships.
Vice Age
“There’s no question that policing was a major shadow in the lives of essentially anyone living a socially active life in gay or lesbian circles, particularly in gay circles,” says Anna Lvovsky of the period her new book “Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall” covers.
Cuba’s ‘uncertain future’
Harvard Law Today recently reached out to Visiting Professor Rafael Cox Alomar ’04 to learn more about what is behind recent protests in Cuba, the Biden administration’s response, and whether there is likely to be a lasting impact.
‘In many parts of the country, the Voting Rights Act’ is ‘close to a dead letter’
Harvard Law Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos recently spoke with Harvard Law Today about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, options for advocates moving forward, and the future of the Voting Rights Act.
Joshua McDaniel appointed director of Harvard Law School’s Religious Freedom Clinic
Harvard Law School has appointed Joshua C. McDaniel to serve as a visiting assistant clinical professor and as the director of its Religious Freedom Clinic.
‘What can we do to help create 150 years of change in 10 years?’
Andrew Manuel Crespo ’08 and Premal Dharia, leaders of the ambitious new Institute to End Mass Incarceration, take aim at ‘one of the defining civil rights issues of our time’
Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed ’84 on her home state of Texas’ complex history.
A Sense of Place
In the newly published “On Juneteenth,” Gordon-Reed presents a 360-degree view of the history leading up to the holiday and beyond, weaving in her perspective as a Black woman with Texas roots that run deep.
Justice for all
A Harvard Law School clinic works to overturn a federal policy in D.C. that advocates say leads to racial injustice and contributes to mass incarceration.