An endowed gift provides lasting support for Harvard Law School and creates a permanent impact on its students, faculty, and future. Endowments can help:
- Expand financial aid and ensure the most talented students can pursue an HLS education.
- Advance innovative teaching, scholarship, and learning with world-renowned faculty.
- Strengthen experiential learning through clinics and other hands-on educational opportunities.
- Enhance the spaces where students and faculty learn, collaborate, and build community on campus.
Giving Opportunities
Financial aid: Access for All
Harvard Law School is committed to enrolling exceptional students regardless of their financial circumstances. As one of only two U.S. law schools to provide exclusively need-based financial aid, HLS helps make a legal education more accessible while reducing student debt.
Endowed, named scholarship funds provide lasting support for current and future generations of students. Donors can also advance public interest careers by supporting summer fellowships, the Low Income Protection Plan (LIPP), and other public service initiatives.
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Many different paths, one Harvard Law School
Meet some of the J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. students joining our community this year.
September 2, 2026
Professorships: Advancing Teaching, Scholarship, and Innovation
Faculty are at the heart of the Law School experience, inspiring students through exceptional teaching, groundbreaking scholarship, and mentorship. With more than 300 faculty members and a 7:1 student-faculty ratio, HLS offers students unparalleled access to leading legal scholars and practitioners.
Endowed professorships help Harvard Law School attract and retain outstanding faculty while providing enduring support for their teaching, research, and public engagement. Naming opportunities are available for professorships, clinical professorships, professorships of practice, and visiting professorships.
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Harvard Law scholars debate constitutionalism, democracy, and the limits of judicial power
As part of a panel on his new book, Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet and his co-author weigh the pros and cons of the elastic governing principle.
October 6, 2026
Clinical programs: Real-world Training
Harvard Law School is a global leader in experiential legal education, offering more clinical placements than any other law school and opportunities across more than 35 areas of the law. Through its clinics, students work alongside faculty and practitioners to provide meaningful legal assistance while gaining hands-on experience serving clients and communities.
Endowed gifts for clinical programs strengthen HLS’s clinical programs by supporting clinical faculty, expanding experiential learning opportunities, and providing lasting resources for clinics addressing today’s most pressing legal and societal challenges.
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Rebecca Chapman ’15 returns to Harvard Defenders as Clinical Instructor
Rebecca Chapman ’15, who spent her own law school years arguing show-cause hearings as a Defenders student attorney, has returned to the SPO as its new Clinical Instructor.
October 6, 2026
Physical spaces on campus
Named spaces are an opportunity to not only support the experience of our students and faculty by creating places to learn, teach, and gather, but also to honor an individual, family member, friend, or organization.
Physical space naming opportunities on campus range from single rooms to entire buildings to outdoor courtyards.
Ways to Give
Endowed Gifts
An endowed gift is an investment in current and future generations at Harvard Law School. Learn more about Harvard’s endowment.
Pledges
You have the option to make your gift over time through a multi-year pledge. Contact us to learn more.
Current-Use Gifts
You may also choose to make a current-use gift, which can be spent immediately and in its entirety to support an area of your choice.
If you are interested in making a gift or exploring naming opportunities at Harvard Law School, please contact Francisco Martinez, Director of Development.