Building Equitable Cities Post-Pandemic

In March 2023, University of Chicago Law Professor William Baude took on textualism, the increasingly common approach to legal interpretation that emphasizes the plain language of a statute. During a lecture at Harvard Law School, Baude argued that, in some cases, textualists must consider unwritte…

Civil rights leader Sherrilyn Ifill, who served as the seventh president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, examined the role of race and racism in bringing about what she sees as the current democratic crisis in the United States during a lecture at Harvard Law S…

Just three months after stepping down from the U.S. Supreme Court, in September 2022, Justice Stephen Breyer joined Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning to discuss his time on the nation’s highest court, the job that most shaped his career, and why his questions at oral argument were so famously…