Environment

This year’s Grand Torty — the “best picture” prize awarded to one of this year’s 16 Tort Reports, each produced by 5-person teams of students in Jon Hanson’s Torts class — went to “An Act of God.” The mini documentary

From this year’s collection of 16 Tort Reports, each produced by 5-person teams of students in Jon Hanson’s Torts class at Harvard Law School, one depicts a fictional fossil fuel law firm, Harmin Zee Planette LLP, discusses its recent performance,

In September, Kwame Anthony Appiah, styled as “The Ethicist” at the New York Times, wrote a piece titled: Is It OK to Take a Law-Firm Job Defending Climate Villains?” examining “whether taking a corporate law job means abandoning your values.” He

Calling upon friends of HLS’s Section6. In preparation for the 6th Annual Tortys, the Board of Directorts is looking to add members to the esteemed Tortys Academy.Participating would require you to devote roughly an hour of documentary watching and ranking

In her superb article in The [F]law, “Land is a bank account: A journey into the polluted heart(land) of American agriculture,” Liz Turner tries to work through the troubling implications of a boom in farmland investment, only to find American

Undercover investigators uncover cruel conditions at factory farms every year. But the agricultural industry is fighting back. Jeremiah Scanlan investigates what is happening in Iowa in the battle over what the public has a right to know about the food

When livestock owners complain of predation, the U.S. government traps America’s recovering gray wolves, poisons them, and shoots them from helicopters. Ben Rankins’s powerful reporting on The [F]law. examines how state and federal officials have revived wolf extermination in America