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.

Polyamory and the law

Harvard Law Lecturer on Law Alexander Chen ’15, founding director of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at HLS, is working with students in the recently-formed Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition to offer legal protections for people in polyamorous relationships.

Going public

Harvard Law School students are working to create a Massachusetts public bank to help minority-owned businesses, small farms, and gateway cities.

Cities & the teacher

Few have looked at cities with as much care or creativity as Jerry Frug has.

Justice for all

A Harvard Law School clinic works to overturn a federal policy in D.C. that advocates say leads to racial injustice and contributes to mass incarceration.

‘A sense of duty and honor’

In a Q&A with Harvard Law Today, Congressman Jamie Raskin ’87, who served as lead House impeachment manager, reflects on a time of trauma and hope.

Banking on crime: The economic contours of policing in America

Experts discuss the myriad ways money and wealth influence criminal processes and outcomes as part of the yearlong “Policing in America” colloquium series, led by Harvard Law Professors Alexandra Natapoff and Andrew Manuel Crespo.

Transfer of power

Harvard Law School scholars weigh in on the transfer of presidential power and what the events in weeks prior mean for the future of democracy in America.

Landmark SCOTUS ruling affirms Native American rights in Oklahoma and bodes well for tribal rights going forward, says Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson, the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, discusses the latest Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, a landmark for Native American rights that resolves decades’ worth of legal argument.