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Six students reflect as Commencement approaches
May 15, 2024
As they prepare to graduate, several members of the Class of 2024 reflect on the interests they brought to — and the experiences and lessons they will take from — their time at Harvard Law.
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In memoriam: Christopher Edley Jr., 1953-2024
May 15, 2024
Christopher Edley Jr. ’78, a civil rights expert and policy adviser to several presidents, who was a member of the Harvard Law School faculty for more than two decades before becoming dean of University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, died on May 10.
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Brenna Phillips ’24 spent the past three years helping create community on the Harvard Law School campus, and plans to use her degree to promote education reform.
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David Paul ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 David A. Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award. Paul is honored for his exceptional achievements in the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic of the Legal Services Center (LSC) and the Criminal Prosecution Clinic.
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150th anniversary of ‘Rah Rah Haavards’
May 14, 2024
On May 14, 1874, the first inter-collegiate “foot-ball” game was played on the Harvard Law School campus, on what is today the Belinda Sutton Quadrangle.
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Although basketball and the law may seem disparate, the throughline for former athlete and Ames Moot Court Competition winner Hayley Isenberg ’24 is the importance of teamwork.
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While she was in the process of being officially admitted to the bar in her native Belgium, Salomé Van Bunnen LL.M. ’24 began to think about the direction she wanted to take in her legal career.
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After a decades-long career, Brian Price, clinical professor of law and founding director of Harvard Law School's Transactional Law Clinics, will retire this summer.
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Through clinics and a Skadden Fellowship, Julio Quiroz Colby ’24 aims ‘to assist immigrant workers every step of the way.’
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The veiled history of the English jury trial
May 6, 2024
English medieval law expert Elizabeth Papp Kamali explores the roots of modern criminal procedure through papal precedent and the story of Saint Veronica.
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U.S. Navy submariner Phoebe Kotlikoff: ‘I loved the idea of helping to integrate this community’
May 6, 2024
The legal underpinnings of integrating submarine service led Phoebe M. Kotlikoff MPP/JD ’24, one of the first female U.S. Navy submariners, to study law.
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A child star, Nicholas Gonzalez ’24 found his vocation for the law through his love for acting.
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Turning ideas into impact
May 3, 2024
Startup founders inspire a global audience at the 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Awards ceremony.
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In their Last Lectures to the Class of 2024, Alan Jenkins, Sharon Block, Christopher Bavitz, and Nikolas Bowie delivered words of wisdom to soon-to-be graduates.
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“Your class is special. You’re a unique class,” declared Nikolas Bowie ’14, the Louis D. Brandeis Professor at Harvard Law School during his Last Lecture…
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The impact of the EPA’s first ever federal PFAS rule limiting toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
May 1, 2024
James Pollack ’20 discusses the impact of first-ever federal rules on “forever chemicals” in drinking water.
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Resolving conflict outside the courtroom
April 29, 2024
Two Harvard Law experts explain why mediation skills are increasingly valuable for lawyers.
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Immigration clinic students receive Skadden Fellowships
April 26, 2024
Julio Colby ’24 and Sara Kamouni ’24 have been selected as recipients of the Skadden Fellowship.