Californians must carry health insurance in 2020, or face a state-imposed penalty starting at $695 in 2021.

This fall, the Harvard Law School Library continued its regular series of faculty book talks by Harvard Law School authors on topics ranging from forgiveness in law, transparency in health, and fidelity in constitutional practice. In this ongoing series, faculty authors from various disciplines come together, often with a panel of discussants, to share their recently published books with the Harvard Law community.

Just over a century ago, on February 22, 1917 (using the Russian Julian calendar which was 13 days behind the West), began the civil protests and strikes in Petrograd that would topple Tsar Nicholas II and mark the start of the Russian Revolution. It would culminate, eight months later, with the Bolshevik coup and Lenin’s assumption of power. 

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has put forward his recommendations to help the ailing Indian economy out of the ongoing slowdown in the cover story of India Today magazine' How to Fix the Economy.' Rajan calls for reforms in this article, among other items, to liberalize finance, land and labour markets, and to promote investment and growth. He also urged India to judiciously enter free trade agreements to raise demand and increase domestic production.