Featured series 
Tag: Law
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Nation & World
What the framers were really thinking
Origin story of Declaration of Independence involves more than just embrace of Enlightenment ideas, scholars say
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Nation & World
Why we need to break the grip of ‘oldigarchy’
Legal historian’s new book argues older Americans control power, wealth — and lack sense of urgency to fix nation’s most pressing problems
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Nation & World
How AI may change public policy, how we lead
Kennedy School unveils 10-year strategic plan that features robust new focus on promise, perils of technology
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Nation & World
You’re getting a divorce. What happens to the frozen embryo?
Panelists dig into fraught legal, ethical questions at heart of fertility cases
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Science & Tech
Do you have a guilty AI secret?
Media, legal experts discuss angst of individuals over appropriate use of powerful technology as institutions, culture scramble to set boundaries
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Nation & World
Will Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance yield big changes for parties?
Nicholas Stephanopoulos says probably not, but it may make it easier for wealthy donors to bypass individual giving limits
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Science & Tech
Is that bot a Pomeranian or a wolf — and who to sue when it ‘bites’?
Legal expert says canine law provides useful framework for leashing AI
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Nation & World
How liberal Law School professors fueled rise of Federalist Society
New book traces broad campaign to combat what organizers viewed as takeover of nation’s legal system by forces of ‘radical’ liberalism
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Nation & World
Constitution was made to be amended. So what’s stopping us?
Jill Lepore argues in her new Pulitzer-winning history that it desperately needs update, traces emergence of roadblocks
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Work & Economy
Would it be fair if you could bet on date of your college reunion?
Financial regulation expert says greater oversight needed of wager-on-anything prediction markets given risk of insider trading, worsening of gambling problems
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Campus & Community
Lessons from Beyoncé on public policy
Professor sees parallels between songs on overlooked life experiences of the marginalized, unintended gaps in government safety net
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Nation & World
Warning: This debate ‘could be really combustible’
Conservative and progressive law scholars get together to trade views on SCOTUS legitimacy — and prove a chatbot wrong
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Nation & World
Breyer makes case for civic education
Retired SCOTUS justice says path to less polarization runs through the classroom
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Nation & World
Walking in Harvard’s ‘Revolutionary footsteps’
Exhibit traces University’s role in America’s birth — from campus barracks to Founding Father alumni
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Nation & World
Deterring the next nuclear arms race
Experts assess threat landscape amid war, lapsing treaties, declining faith in U.S. security guarantee
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Health
Dangers coming from inside the house
John D. Spengler reflects on 50-year career of clearing the air — including in hockey rinks and on airplanes
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Nation & World
Voting goes to court
Election law expert assesses challenges to state authority as parties look ahead to midterms
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Science & Tech
Time for government, business leaders to figure out AI cybersecurity regulation
Experts say capabilities of agentic AI rising, along with risk to personal data, economy, national security
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Nation & World
How 3 mayors are combating homelessness
City leaders meet to discuss ‘highly visible and highly unacceptable’ crisis
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Health
Psychedelics and the search for truth
Legal scholar sees common interests with law, religion, humanities
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Nation & World
‘This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
Garber discusses threat to university-government partnership, AI, fighting bias on campus in talk at 92NY
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Science & Tech
Bone-eating worms and other deep-sea survivors
‘Dark Frontier’ author details life in one of Earth’s harshest environments and quest to carve out ‘national parks’ of the oceans
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Nation & World
When is it time to dissent?
Legal, constitutional scholar suggests looking to judges’ practices for wider lessons
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Nation & World
Social media firms lost two bellwether cases, but future remains unclear
Legal scholar on next move for tech giants, chances of ‘master settlement,’ more
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Work & Economy
For now, Live Nation deal is just a ‘Band Aid,’ says antitrust scholar
Visiting professor discusses ‘vertical integration,’ why DOJ originally sought breakup, and what’s next
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Nation & World
Is social media responsible for what happens to users?
Landmark suit to examine 1996 law, questions about mental health, other harms, role of website design
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Nation & World
New factor in predicting who becomes criminal: when you were born.
Sociologist Robert J. Sampson investigates plunging arrest rates for youngest millennials
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Nation & World
What would the Founding Fathers think of TikTok?
Experts weigh national security concerns against free speech in discussion of video app’s future
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Nation & World
Worried about how AI may affect foreign policy? You should be.
Experts discuss vulnerabilities, need for oversight of tech development, regulation
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Science & Tech
How AI deepfakes have skirted revenge porn laws
Limits unclear when explicit images of individuals look real, but are digitally generated
