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For the Sake of Argument

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Singer seeks to help lawyers and the general public make reasoned arguments, promote civil discourse, and consider alternative perspectives.

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  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Ethics, Mediation & Negotiation

Professor Crespo says events in Portland raise serious concerns about unlawful police tactics

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Andrew Crespo ’08 recently discussed the federal government’s law enforcement actions in Portland, Oregon with Harvard Law Today.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
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Lessig, who argued on behalf of ‘faithless electors,’ responds to the Supreme Court’s decision

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Lawrence Lessig issues a statement on the unanimous Supreme Court ruling that states can require Electoral College voters to back the victor of their state’s popular vote.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Constitutional, Public Service, Ethics, Legal History, Election Law

Seeking overdue reparations for U.N.-caused devastation in Haiti

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Beatrice Lindstrom, clinical instructor and supervising attorney in the International Human Rights Clinic, has been working for nearly a decade to secure accountability from the U.N. for a devastating cholera outbreak caused by UN peacekeepers in Haiti in 2010.

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Pandemic has exacerbated longstanding problems with the prison system

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COVID-19 presents a unique threat to people in prisons and jails, agreed panelists at “Incarcerated Populations and COVID-19: Public Health, Ethical, and Legal Concerns,” a webinar hosted by Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
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Machteld van Egmond LL.M. ’20: A physician-researcher with a curious mind turns to the practice of law

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A physician-researcher, Machteld van Egmond LL.M. ’20 explored the intersections among empirical science, law, and medicine during her LL.M. year at Harvard Law School.

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Years of advocacy by HIRC culminate in landmark decision by First Circuit

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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.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Civil Rights, Constitutional, Human Rights, Clinical Practice, Ethics, Family, Gender & Children, International

At year-end celebration, Petrie-Flom student fellows present their independent research projects

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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.

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How much access to data should be permitted during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is currently taking the lead in the effort to explore the ways data can be mined to increase understanding of COVID-19 and to fight it more efficiently.

  • Themes: Teaching & Learning, Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Ethics, Science & Technology, Cyberlaw

Charles Fried addresses Trump administration’s ‘contempt for the rule of law’

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Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, who served as solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan, joined 21 other conservative or libertarian attorneys in a statement condemning inspector general Michael Atkinson’s ouster as part of a “continuous assault on the rule of law.”

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  • Topics: Constitutional, Public Service, National and International Security, Ethics, Legal History

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