‘A seismic moment in Constitutional history’
In a panel discussion, experts in law and medicine examine the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade, and access to legal and safe abortion in a post-Dobbs America.
Harvard Law School professors call potential abortion rights rollback ‘unprecedented’
The Petrie-Flom Center hosted ‘Roe in limbo: A town hall on the leaked Dobbs opinion.’
HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books Winter 2022
When Tibor Várady began looking through more than 100 years of files of his family’s law firm in a Serbian city in Eastern Europe, he found not only client information. He uncovered a history of the people of the region during world wars and under control of multiple states.
Reassessing Psychedelics
As mental illness skyrockets and the development of new medicines stagnates, some are looking to an ancient treatment.
Faculty Books in Brief: Winter 2022
A wide range of books by faculty, from a collection of essays on the ethics of consumer genetic testing to a look at the fate of constitutional institutions in populist regimes to a delightful children’s book by a legal philosopher.
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: Health care and the pandemic
Glenn Cohen and Carmel Shachar reflect on the administration’s successes, failures, and agenda for the future.
The obstacles to decriminalizing psychedelic drugs are political, not legal, say experts
The new Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at Harvard Law School recently convened a conference on the future of psychedelics law and regulation.
Electric slide
Helping key players across Massachusetts — including the City of Boston and environmental nonprofits — reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 is a focus for the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
Investigating mask mandate bans
Michael Ashley Stein ’88, executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, says the Department of Education should go beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act in investigating state bans against mandating face coverings in schools.