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

After Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ’60 died in 2016, his colleague Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflected on their ...

Harvard Law Professor Howell Jackson discusses whether a president can unilaterally refuse to spend money appropriated by ...

Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and ...

Sherif Girgis, a constitutional law scholar and philosopher, will join the Harvard Law School faculty, effective January 1, 2027.

How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People," Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan trace the history of a Supreme Court that has come to be associated with what they call ‘judicial supremacy’ ...

A conversation with Lawrence Lessig about the VthePeople conference, the risks an Article V convention could present, and the range of perspectives of event participants.

On the evening before Thanksgiving in 1984, four African American leaders visited the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. and refused to leave until certain demands were met. Among these were ...

Professor Janet Freilich writes and teaches in the areas of patent law, intellectual property, information law, and civil procedure. She has published in peer-reviewed journals including Science, The ...

As J.D.s, LL.M.s, S.J.D.s, international exchange students, and transfer students settle in, we take a look at the many Orientation activities that began the 2026-2027 academic year at Harvard Law. At ...

At Sanders Theatre on August 26, Dean John Goldberg welcomed Harvard Law School’s newest students, urging them to approach their legal education with intellectual openness, compassion, and a ...