Cases in Brief: Furman v. Georgia with Carol Steiker

Harvard Law Professor Carol Steiker ’86 discusses Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 landmark Supreme Court decision that declared the death penalty unconstitutional.

‘One Generation … from Segregation to the Supreme Court’

Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 took a historic step on June 30, when she was sworn in as the 116th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first Black woman to ascend to the nation’s highest court.

‘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.

‘Everyone can celebrate this advance in human rights’

Annette Gordon-Reed discusses Juneteenth, the Texas elementary school named after her, and Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery committee.

Nikolas Bowie, constitutional law and legal history scholar, named professor of law at Harvard

Nikolas Bowie ’14, a scholar of constitutional law, local government law, and legal history, was named a professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Legal scholar and philosopher Ryan D. Doerfler joins Harvard Law faculty

Ryan D. Doerfler ’13, who focuses his research on critically examining the place of the federal judiciary in the American legal and political order, has joined the Harvard Law faculty as a professor of law.

Anna Lvovsky, a scholar on American legal history and criminal procedure, named a professor of law

Anna Lvovsky ’13 has been promoted to professor of law at Harvard Law School. A scholar of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and evidence, she joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2017.

Watergate-era reforms 50 years later

Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith says laws and norms established after President Nixon’s resignation ‘had a great run,’ but the Trump presidency proved that new reforms are needed.

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.’

Overturning precedent? Harvard Law faculty weigh in on leaked draft Supreme Court opinion and future of abortion

Across major news outlets, Harvard Law scholars weighed in on the implications —for the Court and country — of a leaked draft of a majority Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.