Latest from Elaine McArdle
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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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International Justice Corps
May 3, 2024
Harvard Law School LL.M. graduates form common bonds and bolster the rule of law around the globe
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Outsized Control and Outsized Risk
December 20, 2023
A few financial firms now own a significant portion of the American economy, to their peril and the peril of our democracy, argues John Coates.
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Keeping It Real
December 14, 2023
Jeanne Charn ’70, who played a central role in creating and developing what would become Harvard Law's Clinical Program, retired last summer
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‘We Don’t Think a Court Should Be Handcuffed’
December 14, 2023
Harvard Law’s Tax Litigation Clinic laid the groundwork for recent wins that allow lower courts to be more responsive to challenges faced by taxpayers
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A Century of Helping Students Master the Law
December 5, 2023
On the 100th anniversary of Harvard’s Master of Laws, or LL.M., program, students and faculty reflect on its evolution and global impact
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From homelessness to Harvard Law, Logan Lathrop ’25 credits the military for his unexpected trajectory
November 8, 2023
Having grown up in chaos, Logan Lathrop ’25 credits the military with setting him on a technology-related litigation career path.
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‘The best three years of my life’
May 17, 2023
For Robb Dehney ’23, who launched an intramural league for Harvard graduate schools, sports have always been a fun way to create community
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His American Dream
May 12, 2023
With the support of other immigrants and compassionate immigration lawyers, Ricardo Jimenez Solis ’23 is now achieving what his family hoped for when they left their home in El Salvador for the United States.
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Army Captain Ryan Gunderman '23 hopes to use his legal training to bring restorative justice to military adjudication.
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‘Education can change ordinary people’s lives’
May 9, 2023
For as long as she can remember, Tushigjargal Bold LL.M. ’23 has enjoyed such a wide variety of interests that it’s been hard to focus on just one.
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An indelible experience with deep Harvard roots
April 5, 2023
A friendly competition between four Harvard Law students in 1960 has grown into the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, with 700 students competing worldwide.
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Ten Harvard Law students trekked to arctic Alaska during spring break to prepare tax returns for indigenous communities.
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‘A Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’
February 14, 2023
Kimberly J. Robinson argues for a federal right to education
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The End of the Death Penalty?
February 14, 2023
‘Unintended consequences’ and the legacy of of the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia
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‘When it feels like your country really doesn’t like you … is that the time to pull away or lean in?’
November 8, 2022
Casey Nakamura, whose relatives had been forced into internment camps during WWII, helped train the Army’s largest air defense battery.
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Blair Kuplic of the US Navy JAG Corps: ‘I get a huge sense of fulfillment out of this job’
November 7, 2022
Blair Kuplic most recently advised operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet; she’ll next advise operations for outer space.
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‘One Generation … from Segregation to the Supreme Court’
July 15, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 becomes the first Black woman to serve on the Court