Gaining power, losing control

As the 2020 Tanner Lecturer on Human Values at Clare Hall, Cambridge, Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain explores the clash of free speech and public health online.

Draining the swamp

When Joe Biden began presidential duties last week, he issued an ethics pledge for his administration. And the students in the Harvard Law School course Legal Profession: Government Ethics—Scandal and Reform were paying especially close attention.

For Prof. Ruth Okediji, ‘grievous’ Capitol insurrection holds hopeful lessons

Harvard Law Professor Ruth Okediji believes recent events can reinvigorate American democracy and serve as a lesson for the world.

Presidential picks

Harvard Law Today has compiled the names of just a few of the HLS graduates who are expected to fill some of the most high-profile posts in the new Biden administration.

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.

Trump impeached

Five Harvard Law faculty react to the unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald J. Trump.

Blocking the president

Harvard Law experts Yochai Benkler and evelyn douek weigh in on the suspension of President Trump’s social media accounts and potential First Amendment implications.

HLS scholars weigh in on the events in the U.S. Capitol

Scholars across Harvard Law School have been sharing their perspectives on issues of accountability and the peaceful transfer of presidential power after an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol.

‘A grim form of political theater’

Harvard Law Visiting Professor Sanford Levinson puts the storming of the Capitol in historical perspective.

Did implicit bias lead to breach of U.S. Capitol?

Harvard Law School’s James Tierney says police would have treated Black Lives Matter protesters differently.