Tag: Harvard Law School
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Defending those yearning to breathe free
Housed at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, the Harvard Representation Initiative was created to provide legal representation to undocumented members of the Harvard community, as well as others whose immigration status is at risk.
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Annette Gordon-Reed named University Professor
Annette Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard Law School and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.
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30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Michael Ashley Stein, J.D. ’88, addressed what Harvard has done since then to expand accessibility on its campuses, and provided perspective on what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.
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Waves of progress
A. R. Siders is a social scientist and a lawyer, advocating for audacious climate adaptation that’s fair for everyone.
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Rewriting history — to include all of it this time
“A Conversation on Tulsa and the Long History of Dispossession of African Americans: What We Don’t Know” focused on the race issues dividing the United States — and the possibility that open discussion could move us forward.
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Must we allow symbols of racism on public land?
Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed explores the controversy surrounding the removal of Confederate statues.
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Harvard experts call ruling on LGBT rights a landmark
Harvard faculty members in law and gender issues declared Monday’s Supreme Court ruling protecting gay and transgender workers a landmark for LGBT rights.
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How and why the Supreme Court made climate-change history
Richard Lazarus discusses his new book, which tells the story of a 2007 landmark environmental case.
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No ‘silver lining’ for the climate
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, law professor reflects on the state of U.S. climate change regulation and the impacts of COVID-19.
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How Earth Day gave birth to environmental movement
Denis Hayes remembers how he dropped out of Harvard Kennedy School in 1970 to help pull together a novel idea: a nationwide rally called Earth Day.
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So what have you been up to?
The Gazette reached out to members of the Harvard community as they entered their second month of social isolation to find out what they are reading, watching, doing, and listening to in the age of coronavirus.
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Zooming through the grad Schools
A look at how virtual classes are going at Harvard’s graduate Schools, whose needs and missions are different from the College’s.
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Waste not, want not
Since early March, Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic has been writing briefs aimed at saving tons of food that could feed the hungry, and working to inform the response to COVID-19, including legislation that Congress has been hammering out.
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How the Socratic method translates online
Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen shares her experience using Zoom to teach her class of 115 students in “Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment.“
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At graduate Schools, reinvention on the fly
Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools have had to adjust quickly to the new realities brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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An update of changes on campus as pandemic spreads
Changes across Harvard’s campus reflect the need to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Why ‘truth’ beats facts
Harvard Kennedy School discussion takes a look at why we can’t agree on facts any more.
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Food that’s better for all of us and the planet
According to a summit on food production, diet, and sustainability, humanity needs to refocus on a diet that encompasses sustainability and social justice.
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In soda tax fight, echoes of tobacco battles
Taxes on sugary drinks are potentially effective tools to fight the obesity epidemic and advocates are drawing lessons from the long battle against tobacco as they plot what they know will be a tough road ahead.
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‘Just Mercy’ in the criminal justice system
At a talk following a recent screening of “Just Mercy,” Harvard professors discussed the death penalty as “a point of meditation.”
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Has Trump remade the presidency?
In a new book, authors say Donald Trump is remaking the American presidency into something far more powerful and personal than the country has ever seen.