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“Visualizing Capital Punishment” Exhibit Closes Soon!

Come visit, or revisit, the Library’s exhibit, “Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame, and Sympathy,” before it closes at the end of July 2023. It’s on view weekdays 9 to 5 in the Library’s Caspersen Room, and is open to all HUID holders. If you can’t make it, visit the online version of the exhibit, which will remain up …

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Summer Research Help: Three Research Guides

Get your summer legal research projects off to a good start with help from three of our recently updated research guides! Guide to Local Law Libraries Check out HLSL Research Librarian / Library Instruction Coordinator AJ Blechner’s newly updated Research Guide to Local Law Libraries. Whether you’re working at a law job, or need access to legal resources …

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Legal Research Databases: Summer 2023 and new grad access policies

Summer is almost here, and whether you’re about to graduate from HLS or embark on a summer job opportunity, there are online research resources available to you. Read on for information about access to your Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw accounts, along with other library databases. BLOOMBERG LAW RETURNING STUDENTS’ SUMMER USE: You may continue to use your …

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Capital Punishment Clinic Students Share Their Work

A Harvard Law School Library Ideas Salon Monday April 3, 4-5 pm Langdell Hall Seminar Rooms 232/233 Learn about capital defense work and the HLS Capital Punishment Clinic in this student-led conversation. Current students – Robert Clinton, Kellen Dugan, Natalie Leitman, and Charles Sonenclar – will share their experiences with moderator and former Clinic student Fjora Arapi. This …

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HLS Library Event: Fifty Years After Furman: The Death Penalty in America

Wednesday March 22, 4 to 5 pm WCC 2019 Milstein West Open to HUID holders Join the HLS Library for a fireside chat moderated by HLS’s Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law Carol Steiker, featuring professors Mugambi Jouet (Associate Professor, USC Gould School of Law), Corinna Barrett Lain (S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law, University …

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HLS Library Event: Scholars and Artists Discuss the Death Penalty

Tuesday March 7, 4 to 5 pm WCC 2019 Milstein West AB Open to HUID holders Join the HLS Library for a conversation moderated by Harvard’s 300th Anniversary University Professor Martha Minow, featuring professor John Bessler from the University of Baltimore Law School, Boston-based photographer Lou Jones, and painter/artist/writer Antonio Martorell. This event is part of the Library’s …

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Exhibit – Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame, and Sympathy

Open to HUID holders in the Caspersen Room, Langdell Hall, weekdays 9 to 5 through June 2023; and open to all online. This Harvard Law School Library exhibit explores the power of visual imagery to change minds about the death penalty. Drawing from material in the Library’s Historical & Special Collections, the exhibit tells a story in three …

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