Guy-Uriel Charles elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Professor Guy-Uriel E. Charles, the Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Weighing President Biden’s first year

In this series, Harvard Law experts turn a critical eye to the Biden administration’s efforts on health care, the economy, criminal justice reform, and other areas important to Americans — and share their thoughts on its agenda for the future.

Weighing President Biden’s first year: Voting and elections

Harvard Law School election law expert Ruth Greenwood applauds the Biden administration’s support for new voting legislation, but says the filibuster remains an obstacle to finishing the job.

In Memoriam: Lani Guinier 1950 – 2022

Lani Guinier, the first African-American woman to be tenured at Harvard Law School and an influential scholar who devoted her life to justice, equality, empowerment, and democracy, died Jan. 7.

On the bookshelf, fall 2021

Here are some of the latest from HLS authors to add to your reading list over the holiday break.

The Tortys return

Oscars-style event back in person for its fifth year, celebrating student short films on tort law and justice.

‘The algorithm has primacy over media … over each of us, and it controls what we do’

Social media’s business model of personalized virality is incompatible with democracy, agreed experts at a recent Harvard Law School discussion on the state of democracy.

Is democracy in peril?

The state of American democracy will be examined in a lecture series, “Democracy,” which had its first session this week and will continue through the fall and spring.

Faculty on the move

With the start of the academic year, a look at nine faculty who have joined Harvard Law School, been promoted, or taken on new roles in 2021.

The battle for the ballot box

“We were prepared for everything with regard to this last election cycle, except for the levels to which people would stoop to try to stop democracy and deny the voice of the people,” says Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ’04.