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How a Harvard Initiative is Translating Archives for AI Models

Since Harvard’s Institutional Data Initiative launched last December, the team has formed partnerships with open-source artificial intelligence developers like OpenAI and Microsoft to train large language models on archival documents in institutional collections.


Epstein’s Birthday Album Includes Notes Apparently Signed by Harvard Faculty, Administrators

Documents released by a House committee on Monday show the signature of former Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean and two-time acting Harvard president Henry Rosovsky alongside lewd images in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2003 birthday album.


How Grievances at the Harvard Law Review Became Ammunition for the White House

A string of leaks this spring made the Law Review a target for the Trump administration. But the same fights — over the Israel-Palestine conflict, race, and meritocracy — have a longer history inside its own walls.


John Goldberg To Stay On as Harvard Law School Dean

John C.P. Goldberg, who has served as the interim dean of Harvard Law School since March 2024, will become the school’s permanent dean, taking his place in the University’s upper ranks as it faces a historic struggle with the Trump administration.


A Mass Leak Showed the Harvard Law Review Assessed Articles for DEI Values. Some Authors Say That’s Not a Problem.

After a massive leak, the Harvard Law Review was accused of using a racially conscious and ideologically discriminatory rubric to evaluate article submissions. But many of the authors whose works were evaluated in the leaked documents didn’t see it that way.


Harvard’s 2025 Class Days

At Convocation and Class Day ceremonies last week, Harvard’s Class of 2025 gathered to celebrate their new degrees. But the Trump administration’s attacks on Harvard cast a shadow over the proceedings — and graduates, faculty, and keynote speakers across Harvard’s schools paired their messages of joy with defiance.


At Harvard Law School Class Day, Grads Applaud Criticism of Trump — and Harvard

As Harvard Law School’s Class of 2025 gathered on Holmes Field Wednesday for the school’s Class Day ceremony, the mood was celebratory — and the Trump administration’s looming threats against Harvard were not far from the audience’s mind.


Harvard Thought It Had a 1327 Copy of the Magna Carta. Then British Scholars Discovered It’s an Original.

British researchers have determined that a “copy” of the Magna Carta owned by the Harvard Law School Library is a rare original issued by England’s King Edward I in 1300. The copy, previously thought to date back to 1327, was purchased by Harvard in 1946 for $27.


Federal Agencies Launch Title VI Investigation Into Harvard Law Review

Two federal agencies launched investigations Monday into Harvard and the Harvard Law Review for discriminating based on race and gender in article selection and journal membership, according to a joint press release.


HLS Dean of Students Condemns ‘Disturbing’ Mass Emails Sent to Students After Law Review Controversy

Harvard Law School Dean of Students Stephen L. Ball condemned a pair of mass emails sent to law students on Friday that accused the Harvard Law Review of discriminating against white authors and urged applicants to falsify their racial and gender identities on application materials.


Experts Say Harvard Has a Strong Case in Legal Battle Against Trump

After Harvard sued the Trump administration Monday afternoon, legal experts and scholars say Harvard’s legal team has a strong case that may secure the University quick relief from the administration’s order to freeze federal funding.


Breyer Suggests Criminal Contempt Charges For Trump Officials at HLS Event

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the Trump administration could be held in criminal contempt over Kilmar Abrego’s deportation at a Harvard Law School speaker event on Friday, expressing optimism that Courts would hold the White House accountable.


Jodi Kantor Talks Investigative Journalism at Harvard Law School Discussion

Jodi Kantor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the The New York Times who exposed allegations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein in 2017, discussed the differences between journalism and legal careers at a Harvard Law School event on Wednesday.


At Rally on Cambridge Common, Hundreds Call On Harvard To Defy Trump

More than 500 demonstrators attended the rally, which was organized by Harvard’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the Cambridge City Council, and the national 50501 movement.


Harvard AAUP Sues Trump Administration To Stop $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Federal Funding

The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration on Friday to end its ongoing review of the University’s federal funding, alleging the review was coercive and unlawfully undermined academic freedom.


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