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Negotiation Blog Essay

Systemic Prioritization in Negotiation and the Law

April 22, 2026 I. Introduction Negotiation lies at the heart of legal practice — yet even highly trained negotiators regularly reach suboptimal agreements. This problem is widespread....
  • Jasper D.C. Johnston
Artificial Intelligence Blog Essay

United States v. Heppner 

March 23, 2026 Fitting new technology to old doctrine is a perennial challenge for courts. Today, that technology is generative artificial intelligence (AI), and those doctrines now...
  • Elizabeth X. Guo
Legal Profession Blog Essay

The Cost of Capitulation

April 12, 2025 In a 2020 article, Dean Cynthia Fountaine documents how Germany’s Nazi regime incrementally gained control of the legal system and the role legal professionals...
  • R. Elliott DeRiso
  • Siddharth Jejurikar
  • Harvard Law Review
Legal Education Notes

Alienation in Law School

Vol. 137 No. 3 January 2024 There is a lot to admire about lawyers. Many commit their professional lives to the pursuit of a fairer world, and at the same...
Empirical Articles

Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights from Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals

Vol. 137 No. 2 December 2023 Abstract Judicial clerkships are key positions of responsibility and coveted opportunities for career advancement. Commentators have noted that the demographics of law clerks do...
  • Jeremy D. Fogel
  • Mary S. Hoopes
  • Goodwin Liu
Enslaved People Blog Essay

On Taboos, Morality, and Bluebook Citations

June 10, 2023 In many First Nations of what we now call Australia, people have and have had immense respect for the dead. This respect manifests linguistically...
  • Alexander Walker III
Effective Assistance of Counsel Articles

The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes

Vol. 132 No. 3 January 2019 Debates over mass incarceration emphasize policing, bail, and sentencing reform, but give little attention to indigent defense. This omission seems surprising, given that interactions...
  • James M. Anderson
  • Maya Buenaventura
  • Paul Heaton
Legal Profession Notes

Proving Breach of Former-Client Confidentiality

Vol. 131 No. 2 December 2017 A telecommunications company hires a law firm to help it calibrate its bid for an FCC license. To provide full legal advice, the firm...
Legal Education Essay

The Socratic Method in the Age of Trauma

Vol. 130 No. 9 October 2017 When I was a young girl, the careers I dreamed of — as a prima ballerina or piano virtuoso — involved performing before an...
  • Jeannie Suk Gersen
Legal Education Essay

Marking 200 Years of Legal Education: Traditions of Change, Reasoned Debate, and Finding Differences and Commonalities

Vol. 130 No. 9 October 2017 What is the significance of legal education? “Plato tells us that, of all kinds of knowledge, the knowledge of good laws may do most...
  • Martha Minow
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