How do you protect against indirect discrimination?
A recent Harvard Law School Human Rights Program (HRP) workshop convened a group of experts for a discussion on indirect discrimination on the basis of religion.
If Democrats win in November, should they pack the Supreme Court?
Harvard Law Today recently emailed with Mark Tushnet about the possibilities for, and potential pitfalls of, any effort by an incoming Democratic majority to pack the Supreme Court.
Environmental law clinic pushes back against federal efforts to roll back regulations
Students, faculty and staff in the Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic are still hard at work, pushing back against the current administration’s attempts to undo environmental regulations approved under former President Barack Obama ’91.
No ‘silver lining’ for the climate
Jody Freeman discusses the progress the nation has made in protecting the environment since Earth Day was founded in 1970, the Trump administration’s efforts to undo Obama-era federal climate regulations, and COVID-19’s urgent lessons for the planet’s health.
Charles Fried addresses Trump administration’s ‘contempt for the rule of law’
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.”
Experts trace the history of the Equal Rights Amendment
To commemorate International Women’s Day, a team of experts met at Harvard Law School on March 9 to trace the history of the Equal Rights Amendment to date, and to argue for its importance going forward.
Who needs foreign law?
The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ’60 believed America had much to learn from laws adopted by nations abroad, according to Harvard Law School Professor Mary Ann Glendon. In an address titled “Who Needs Foreign Law?,” Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law, gave a clear, if somewhat surprising, answer: Scalia did.
Chol Soo Lee and his fight for freedom
For the fourth consecutive year, the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) welcomed the Honorable Judge Denny Chin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for a reenactment of a key trial that shaped Asian American history.
Celebrating Black History Month: A look back at historic firsts
Professors Annette Gordon-Reed, Kenneth Mack and David Wilkins discuss the Harvard Law School’s first black graduates and the legacy of African Americans at HLS throughout the years.
A man of letters: The Antonin Scalia Collection opens at Harvard Law School
The Harvard Law School Library has announced the public release of the first batch of papers and other items from the Antonin Scalia Collection. His papers were donated by the Scalia family following the influential justice’s death in 2016.