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.
Property law scholar Maureen ‘Molly’ Brady named to the tenured faculty at Harvard Law School
Maureen E. “Molly” Brady, an expert in property law, was named a professor of law, effective July 1.
The alchemist
Keyon Lo LL.M. ’21 hopes to combine his legal and artistic skills to promote fairness and diversity
Memes for Sale? Making sense of NFTs
The high-priced sales of creative NFTs have recently become ubiquitous. Harvard Law Today asked intellectual property law expert Rebecca Tushnet to help make sense of the NFT boom.
Waiving COVID vaccine patent rights? It’s complicated
Harvard Law Today recently spoke to Professors Terry Fisher and Ruth Okediji about COVID-19 vaccine challenges in the global south, waiving drug-maker patents, and what they propose to reform the system in time for the next pandemic.
Last Lecture: Ruth Okediji encourages the graduating class to cultivate the courage to try something new
In her Last Lecture, Ruth Okediji encouraged the graduating class to cultivate the courage to try something new.
Harvard Law School Last Lecture Series 2020
The 2020 Last Lecture Series is an HLS tradition where selected faculty members impart insight, advice, and final words of wisdom to the graduating class. Speakers this year included Dehlia Umunna, Daphna Renan, Ruth Okediji, and Naz Modirzadeh.
Rebecca Tushnet testifies on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Rebecca Tushnet, the inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and a director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, on Feb. 11, on “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act at 22: What is it, why was it enacted, and where are we now?”
Innovation, Justice and Globalization
The “Innovation, Justice and Globalization” conference, hosted by HLS professor and leading intellectual property scholar Ruth Okediji, brought international academics and policymakers to campus to discuss intellectual property issues.
New this year for HLS faculty
With the start of the academic year, four new scholars have joined the ranks of the Harvard Law School faculty and two have been promoted to professor of law.