After The Government Seized Their Cash, Drivers Not Charged With Crimes Will Get Back Their Money

Driving through Humboldt County, Nev., motorists lost anywhere from $1,000 to nearly $40,000. None of the drivers were ever charged with a crime. Americans should not lose their property without a criminal conviction.

UK Plain Packaging Will Undo Property Rights, Not Solve 'Public Health'

BY LORENZO MONTANARI - By denying companies the right to use their own branding, this law is undermining the capitalist system that underpins the UK and the entire western world.

Professor Roberto Unger Appointed Brazilian Minister of Strategic Affairs

Roberto Mangabeira Unger LL.M. ’70 S.J.D. ’76, the Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been appointed the Minister of Strategic Affairs in Brazil by the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff.

How She Did It: Maria Bartiromo On Building A Career As A Broadcast Journalist And Entrepreneur

Maria Bartiromo is a pioneer within the world of broadcast journalism who is not only paving the way for young women that wish to pursue the vocation, but is also serving as an inspiration when it comes to being an entrepreneur balancing multiple ventures. In addition to working as Global Markets [...]

How She Did It: Maria Bartiromo on Building a Career as a Broadcast Journalist and Entrepreneur

Maria Bartiromo is a pioneer within the world of broadcast journalism who is not only paving the way for young women that wish to pursue the vocation, but is also serving as an inspiration when it comes to being an entrepreneur balancing multiple ventures. In addition to working as Global Markets [...]

A different kind of drug research: Heymann, Falco on lessons learned from the U.S. ‘war on drugs’

HLS Prof. Philip Heymann joined an array of experts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for a two-day seminar to explore lessons learned from the U.S. 'war on drugs' and how to use that knowledge to develop better public policies.

Less corporate, more mindful: Lawrence Levy ’83 on leap from Pixar to meditation-focused nonprofit

In advance of his visit to campus this week, the Harvad Gazette spoke with Lawrence Levy '83 about his transition from the corporate world (as CFO of Pixar Animation) to the nonprofit one, co-founding the Juniper Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to bringing meditation to contemporary life.

NY Times: Lani Guinier redefines diversity, re-evaluates merit

In a recent Q&A in the New York Times, Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier discusses her new book, "The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy" in which she argues for a rethinking of merit, typically measured by standardized test scores, that would better reflect the values of a democratic society.

Gertner to receive First Amendment award

Harvard Law School Senior Lecturer on Law and retired federal judge Nancy Gertner will receive the New England First Amendment Coalition's 2015 Stephen Hamblett Award, named after the late publisher of The Providence Journal and given each year to an individual who has promoted, defended or advocated for the First Amendment.

Criminal Justice and Policing after the Events in Ferguson, Staten Island, Cleveland and Elsewhere (video)

On Friday, Feb. 6, after several town hall meetings in which Harvard Law students and faculty shared their experiences and observations of discrimination and systemic injustice, as well as hopes for pedagogical and cultural shifts at the law school, the HLS community convened to discuss a somewhat more familiar law school topic: legal and policy reforms.

Five Strategies for Building Transparency In The Workplace

In the frenetic 21st century, when employees job-hop at an alarming pace, customers’ preferences change on a dime, and every week could bring a paradigm shift to the business world at large, what sets successful companies apart is one thing: loyalty. Loyal employees keep operations steady, prioritize long-term success, and [...]

Harvard convenes international meeting on clinical trial recruitment

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program of Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center convened an international panel of experts at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland for a workshop entitled “Clinical Trial Recruitment: Problems, Misconceptions, and Possible Solutions,” on Jan. 19-21.

Death penalty, in retreat: Interview with Professor Carol Steiker

Carol Steiker’s interest in criminal justice took hold while she was at Harvard Law School (HLS) in the 1980s. While studying there, she recalled, “It began to appear to me that criminal justice was a great engine of American inequality.” Steiker ’86 became interested in capital punishment while clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood […]