Harvard Law School

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ’59—as told by them, their families, and a SCOTUS justice who remembers them all.

How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach.

Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.

David Halberstam’s title The Best and the Brightest was steeped in irony. Did these presidential advisers earn it?

A collaborative project by legal scholars sets out to make visible the vast array of legal precedents based on cases involving enslaved people.

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.

Despite her path-braking work as a litigator before the Court, she doesn't believe that large-scale social change should come from the courts.