While the Senate gears up to vote on the historic Health Care Reform Act, students at Harvard and across the country have organized to protest the Stupak amendment, a last minute addition to the act that will expand and entrench barriers to accessing abor...

Has America lost its way during the tumult of the financial crisis, driven to government excess by angry populism? Or has the sobering effect of instability and loss lifted a fog that had obscured the debate on policy objectives? To former New York Govern...

When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, the new government expelled approximately 50,000 Bedouins, a semi-nomadic and pastoral community, from their homes in the Negev Desert. Others fled into the surrounding countries. In the 1960s, the Israeli gov...

A cup of tea. Some finger sandwiches. A plate of roast beef with a glass of elderberry wine. Sweet merciful wine. Joseph Kesserling's Arsenic and Old Lace takes the simple pleasures of American family life and transmogrifies them into the absurd veneer of...

 “How is it that the terrible French, passing racist, sexist laws, are [also passing laws that are] working out better than [those in] the rest of Europe?” This provocative question was raised by Patrick Weil, who, in 2003 and 2004, parti...

The pace of the short race to get on the ballot for the special election to Massachusetts’ vacant U.S. Senate seat is accelerating to a full sprint. Two Harvard alumni are running, Alan Khazei ’87 and Steve Pagliuca HBS ’82, and both cam...

A relatively new take on a centuries-old statute has stirred up serious questions about how U.S. courts can be used to litigate international human rights abuses....

Through a translator, Martha Giraldo spoke about the impunity enjoyed by the government actors carrying out extrajudicial killings of Colombian civilians. According to human rights organizations, the Colombia military killed 535 civilians between January ...

Professor Lawrence Lessig’s new focus on institutional corruption is now hitting home, as a Harvard Alumni Association event last week demonstrated. Lessig, head of the new Institutional Corruption initiative within the Edward Safra Foundation for E...

Sadly, the challenges of registering into law school courses pale in comparison to the daunting feat of cross-registration between Harvard schools. At least part of the problem seems to be that Harvard’s various schools operate less like organs of a...

On November 9th, Indian democracy plunged to its nadir. Elected legislators of the Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena Party (MNS) rushed to the floor of Maharashtra state’s Legislative Assembly to stop the elected member of the Samajwadi Party, Abu Asim Az...

After spending a relaxing year in the U.K., JESSICA CORSI thought she had re-acclimatized herself to Harvard Law School’s culture of crazed workaholism – until she came upon a 1L who likes to trade the refreshment of sleep for more reading. Is...

Thanks to the help of Harvard Law School volunteers, an HLS alumna, and a Stanford law grad, a U.S. citizen mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and held among regular prisoners was released after a monthlong detention. But det...

The marketplace of ideas has hit the road. In a case which revolved around a proposed license plate bearing the slogan, Meat is Murder, the highest court in the Ames competition has upheld limits on the discretion of the State of Ames to reject the licens...

An increasing number of Harvard Law School students is being infected with the H1N1, or swine flu virus, according to an email to the HLS community by Dean of Students Ellen Cosgrove, leading the school to take extraordinary steps to deal with the situati...

It was one of the most notable perks introduced to Harvard Law School by former Dean Elena Kagan '86, who is now Solicitor General. But as many suspected, the free coffee that graced the school's hallowed hallways was cut back following budget cuts early ...

In his latest return to Harvard Law School, consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader '58 attacked the Obama administration's too-timid taming of Wall Street, tore into its unwillingness to investigate abuses of power under Bush a...

“Sleep No More,” a coproduction of the British theater troupe Punchdrunk and the American Repertory Theater, is part Macbeth and part Hitchcock, but one needn’t need to be familiar with either to be taken by the experience, as KAN YAN fo...

This past weekend, a team of Harvard Law students won first place at the Fourth National Puerto Rico Trial Advocacy Competition in San Juan. The “invitation only” competition was sponsored by the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico School...

True, after a long and dreary December some sun-worshipping law students might prefer to opt for a warm and ‘beachy’ location for their winter holidays. But selecting on the basis of the quality of sun, sand and sangria is a much too easy way ...