Featured series 
Tag: Harvard Law School
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Campus & Community
Appetite for change
Tommy Tobin, set to graduate with degrees from the Law School and the Kennedy School, hopes to work on food policy.
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Arts & Culture
In anti-lynching plays, a coiled power
Magdalene “Maggie” Zier turned her senior thesis about anti-lynching plays into a live performance at Harvard Law School.
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Campus & Community
From around the world and across Harvard
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named 50 fellows for the 2016-17 academic year. Eleven of the incoming class are Harvard faculty.
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Nation & World
World Trade Organization, front and center
Top academics, government officials, legal practitioners, and representatives from major think tanks, NGOs, and financial institutions meet this week at Harvard Law School to debate the present and future of the World Trade Organization.
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Science & Tech
Mixed progress cited in challenging discrimination
The Weatherhead Center continued its series of discussions on inequality, focusing on the mixed progress of efforts to advance fairness and social inclusion. The talk touched on discrimination against the Roma people and the disabled, and the rise of inequality in an era of support for human rights.
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Campus & Community
To Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba
Harvard officials unveil a plaque as part of efforts to recognize the lives and contributions that enslaved people have made to the University.
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Nation & World
Hiding money in plain sight
The U.S. Treasury Department has begun scrutinizing the secret world of the American luxury real estate market to better assess how much of it may be enmeshed in money laundering.
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Campus & Community
The costs of inequality: Across Harvard, efforts to improve lives
Harvard offers myriad programs to alleviate the inequality gap within the University, from neighboring communities to overseas.
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Nation & World
Justice in moderation
In a question-and-answer session, Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe explains how Merrick Garland’s long service as a U.S. appeals court judge makes him a well-vetted candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Law School to retire shield
The Harvard Corporation has approved Harvard Law School’s recommendation to retire its shield, which includes part of the crest of a slaveholding family that helped to establish the School.
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: A goal of justice, a reality of unfairness
America’s prison system houses huge numbers of inmates, many of them serving lengthy mandatory sentences, but research finds little evidence that it produces criminal deterrence.
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Nation & World
Clean Power Plan’s legal future ‘a mess’
The future of the President Obama’s Clean Power Plan hangs in the balance with the Supreme Court vote to freeze the plan in place, halting implementation while legal issues are decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and, likely, by the Supreme Court itself.
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Nation & World
Case for reparation gains international force
Distinguished scholar and activist Sir Hilary Beckles, who is leading the international effort to seek restitution from European nations that engaged in the slave trade in the Caribbean, made the case for reparations during a talk at Harvard Law School this week.
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Nation & World
Apple bites back
With a showdown over privacy and national security issues underway between Apple and the FBI, the Gazette spoke with cyber security expert Michael Sulmeyer and Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, about the pivotal yet competing issues raised by the case.
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Nation & World
Death of a judicial giant
Harvard reacts to the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Science & Tech
Love in the crosshairs
A panel of marriage counselors and negotiators tells an audience of Harvard Law students how to use negotiation skills in their romantic relationships.
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Nation & World
A question of citizenship
Two legal scholars debated whether U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada, is a “natural born citizen” according to the Constitution, and thus eligible to serve as president.
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Nation & World
Taking people ‘to where they want to be’
At HLS’s Community Enterprise Project, students provide free legal services to people who want to start small businesses and, in the process, they help communities prosper.
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Nation & World
Top-down urgency for criminal-justice reform
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch made a strong case for criminal-justice reform during a talk at Harvard Law School.
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Nation & World
Muslims wonder what’s ahead
As rhetoric against Muslims rises across the nation, members of the Harvard community increasingly are pondering how to safeguard and support the rights of all.
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Arts & Culture
An enduring Christmas groove
Vince Guaraldi’s quintessential holiday soundtrack, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” made an indelible mark on many, including Harvard Law School faculty assistant Brad Conner.
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Arts & Culture
Cass Sunstein, ‘Star Wars’ fan
Cass Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, is writing a book about lessons that can be drawn from the box-office phenomenon “Star Wars.”
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Nation & World
Lessons from Lessig
Lawrence Lessig speaks candidly about his failed presidential bid, in which he spotlighted the importance of campaign finance reform.
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Nation & World
The plight of the Roma
At Harvard Law School, human rights activists delved into legal ways to fight discrimination against Europe’s largest ethnic minority.
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Campus & Community
A national wave hits Harvard
Issues of race and inclusion prompted fresh discussion across the University last week, and police probed an act of vandalism at the Law School.
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Nation & World
For law students, a cautionary tale
The Law School hosted Victor Rosario and his attorneys for a discussion examining his wrongful conviction.
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Nation & World
Reforming criminal justice
A new program at Harvard Law School aims to help reform the criminal justice system in the United States with assistance from Harvard students and faculty, says executive director Larry Schwartztol.
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Nation & World
Agreeing to disagree
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer discusses the dynamics on the Supreme Court, his role and view on sentencing reform and Citizens United, and how American democracy is strengthened by our understanding of the legal thinking of other nations.
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Nation & World
Using law to protect veterans
Fifteen active-duty or veteran soldiers have matriculated at Harvard Law School this year. Among them is Anne Stark, who commanded a company that was responsible for the daily operations of a 500-soldier battalion.
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Nation & World
An inside view from Powell, complete with regrets
Retired four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell expanded on the “intensely human experience” of high-level negotiations in a conversation at HLS.
