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The New York Times28d
Harvard’s Trick for Fighting Trump? A Deep Bench of Conservative Lawyers.
For now, Justin Driver, a professor at Yale Law School who clerked for Justice O’Connor, said Harvard’s roster of lawyers “underscores how deeply fractured the right is during this fraught m ...
The Conversation20d
Can Trump strip Harvard of its charitable status? Scholars of nonprofit law and accounting describe the obstacles in his way
President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt ... The Conversation U.S. asked Philip Hackney, a nonprofit law professor who previously worked in ...
The Harvard Crimson15d
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 was ...
Law22d
University of Chicago Law School Selects Professor as New Dean
Chilton holds multiple degrees from Yale University and Harvard University plus Harvard Law School. Adam Chilton has been appointed the next dean of the University of Chicago Law School ...
New York Post27d
Trump to take away Harvard’s tax-exempt status: ‘It’s what they deserve!’
President Trump on Friday said he is stripping Harvard University of its tax exempt status — escalating a showdown with the Ivy League school after it defied his administration’s efforts to ...
Law28d
Law Schools Report Record-High Application Rates as Numbers Continue to Skyrocket
Northwestern Law received 7,410 applications in 2021, according to the ABA. While Harvard Law School hasn't yet broken its 2021 application record of 9,933, the school has received more than 8,700 ...
WAMC14d
Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it
But one day in December 2023, David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was searching through the digital archives of the Harvard Law Library when he clicked on a ...
Fox News24d
Linda McMahon blasts Harvard in scathing letter telling elite university it will no longer get federal grants
"Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these ‘students’ come from ...
ABC News23d
Department of Education tells Harvard no new research grants unless it complies with White House demands
"Harvard will continue to comply with the law, promote and encourage respect for viewpoint diversity, and combat antisemitism in our community," it said, adding that the school would "continue to ...
The Boston Globe27d
Trump’s vow to end Harvard’s tax-exempt status sparks immediate rebuke: ‘This is just textbook authoritarian behavior’
President Trump lit another firestorm on social media Friday morning, vowing to end Harvard University‘s tax-exempt status. The threat, if realized, would mean the university could start being ...
Politico24d
Trump administration bars Harvard from new federal research funding
Education Secretary Linda McMahon, in a letter sent Monday to Harvard President Alan Garber, slammed the institution for “engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law” and advised ...