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    Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96, the 116th Justice of the Supreme Court

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    Putting the 2020 race in historical context and considering its impact on our democracy

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    From grappling with the challenges of an unprecedented health crisis to addressing longstanding racial injustices, HLS affiliates respond

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    From law and forgiveness to politics and the integrity of the Supreme Court to an insider’s view on foreign policy, HLS faculty tackle big issues with scholarship, candor, and compassion

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Berkman Klein Center welcomes Susan Hendrickson as executive director

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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has announced the appointment of Susan Hendrickson ’93 as its new executive director.

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‘The algorithm has primacy over media … over each of us, and it controls what we do’

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Social media’s business model of personalized virality is incompatible with democracy, agreed experts at a recent Harvard Law School discussion on the state of democracy.

  • Themes: Teaching & Learning
  • Topics: Behavioral Economics, Business, Election Law, Ethics, Intellectual Property, Public Policy, Science & Technology

Is it time to swipe left on social media?

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Testifies Before Senate Commerce Subcommittee

Leaked revelations about Instagram’s impact on teens have united Republicans and Democrats in considering legal reforms, say Harvard Law School scholars.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
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Alternative Clean Energy

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.

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Robocabs could make climate change worse, say researchers at Harvard, MIT

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A new study led by Dr. Ashley Nunes, a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, concluded that, counterintuitively, fleets of electric, autonomous taxis could dramatically increase energy consumption and emissions that contribute to climate change — not reduce them.

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‘We’re on a collision course with sanity’

Minow named University Professor

Harvard University Professor and former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow argues for a new Fairness Doctrine and other reforms in a National Constitution Center panel on free speech and media.

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‘We have the common ground of all getting through this together’

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Health law has become especially timely in this year of COVID-19 vaccines and revitalized Obamacare. But for graduating student Phebe Hong ’21, it’s a passion that began in high school.

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Rethinking digital education in a ‘global classroom’

Sidharth Chauhan

As Harvard Law students across the world logged onto Zoom this fall to connect to their professors and peers, Sidharth Chauhan LL.M. ’21 took virtual education a step further.

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Should smokers be prioritized for COVID vaccine?

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Should smoking be among the pre-existing health risks that qualify people for priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine? Harvard Law public health expert Carmel Shachar says the answer is yes. 

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Harvard and Yale health law centers partner for COVID-19 seminar series

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The Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School is joining forces with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, its counterpart at Yale Law School, to host a seminar series reflecting on ethical and legal issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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