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Legal History

Bilder, Campos Featured in Netflix Documentary

By Timothy Karcz
July 1, 2026

Faculty News

Professor Mary Bilder Enters Distinguished Lectureship Program

By Vicki Sanders
August 31, 2021

The Vision Project

Expecting Deference

America as a white male aristocracy.

July 22, 2020

The Vision Project

What Binds Us, for Good and Ill

The virus may be a historic challenge, but American racism is a far more dangerous one.

July 8, 2020

The Vision Project

In the Crucible of the Moment

Even the law of the land is undergoing transformation.

June 29, 2020

Online Exclusives

Bilder Named 2018 Distinguished Mount Vernon Lecturer

Award-winning professor uses platform to talk about female genius in the Age of the Constitution.

September 17, 2018

Online Exclusives

Saving Constitutional Democracy: An Interview with Vlad Perju

Around the world, populists are wreaking havoc on constitutional democracies by engaging in high-stakes games of political hardball. In a grave setback for Poland’s independent ...

October 6, 2017

Online Exclusives

Slave Memorial Yet Another Result of Coquillette-Kimball Book

"On the Battlefield of Merit" continues to garner appreciation for the unseen hands that built Harvard Law.

September 11, 2017

Online Exclusives

If the Library of Attorney Robert Morris Could Speak…

A new exhibit of books and papers of one of America’s first black lawyers does, in fact, speak volumes about him.

February 16, 2017

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Muller Offers Nuanced View of Japanese Internment Camps

North Carolina Law Professor Eric Muller has found that some civilian camp authorities respected the dignity of detainees.

By David Reich
February 2, 2017