Harvard Law School

10/20/2026

October in Cambridge. 🍂🎃

Photos: Ralph Vieux

10/18/2026

In an interview with Harvard Law Today, Lecturer Duncan Levin explains how a new technology could collide with an old protection against self-incrimination.

Harvard Law lecturer Duncan Levin explains how generative AI could collide with an old protection against self-incrimination.

10/17/2026

Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar '08 recounted her law career, Supreme Court interactions, and Harvard years during a recent return to campus.

Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar ’08 recounts her law career, Supreme Court interactions, and Harvard years.

10/16/2026

A new toolkit developed by The Food Law and Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School explores local policies and initiatives to reduce food waste across the United States.

New toolkit highlights policies and best practices to support local policymakers and advocates to reduce food waste, improve food security, and bolster resource circularity across the country. By Akif Khan, […]

10/15/2026

As part of a panel discussion about his new book, Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet and his co-author weigh the pros and cons of an elastic governing principle.

As part of a panel on his new book, Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet and his co-author weigh the pros and cons of the elastic governing principle.

10/14/2026

Delivering the fifth annual Gaillard Lecture this fall, international arbitration expert Sean Murphy outlined the complex legal issues surrounding investment treaties.

Delivering the annual Gaillard Lecture, international arbitration expert Sean D. Murphy outlines the complex legal issues in play regarding temporal jurisdiction.

10/13/2026

Could a never-used provision of the U.S. Constitution offer Americans a new forum for debating changes to their government? That was the question Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig posed to scholars, legislators, and advocates from across the political spectrum as he opened VthePeople, a two-day conference held this month.

Participants explored the possibility of amending the U.S. Constitution through a federal convention called by two-thirds of the states under Article V, as well as the potential benefits and drawbacks. Lessig also invited them to consider whether citizens’ assemblies, made up of ordinary people drawing on their lived experiences, could help shape the convention process.

Featured speakers included Harvard Law School Professor Jill Lepore, whose latest book "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" argues the Constitution has been effectively unamendable for decades; Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe ’66; former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu; and former U.S. Comptroller David Walker.

10/11/2026

At a recent discussion, faculty shared practical strategies for prioritizing mental health and sustaining well-being in a demanding profession.

These are some of the ways that Harvard Law School faculty members prioritize their well-being in a demanding profession.

10/10/2026

Harvard experts assess the nationwide redistricting battle and the implications for the coming midterm elections.

Harvard Law Professors Ruth Greenwood and Nicholas Stephanopoulos assess the recent redistricting battle and what could come next

10/09/2026

This morning, Harvard Law School alumnus Navanethem Pillay LL.M. ’82 S.J.D. ’88 was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Read our profile of Pillay shared in the Spring 2006 issue of the Harvard Law Bulletin.

When Navi Pillay LL.M. '82 S.J.D. '88 was growing up in South Africa, there was no international court in which apartheid could be prosecuted as a crime against humanity. Now there is--and she's on it.