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Dean John Goldberg welcomed Harvard Law School’s newest students, urging them to approach their legal education with intellectual openness, compassion, and a commitment to engaging seriously with different views and the people who hold them.

As orientation begins, Harvard Law School welcomes the LL.M. Class of 2027, along with international exchange students and new S.J.D. candidates.

Susan M. Davies, who served as deputy White House counsel to President Barack Obama, has been named a professor of practice at Harvard Law School.

W. Tanner Allread, a legal historian whose research spans federal Indian law, tribal law, Indigenous legal history, and constitutional law, has been named an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Harvard Law School's Office of Public Interest Advising has announced increased funding for graduates pursuing public interest internships and careers.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Harvard Law community gathered to celebrate the unsung from across the school at the annual Support Staff Awards Dinner.

The Harvard Law Review has elected Alex Zhao ’27 as its 140th president. Zhao succeeds G. Terrell Seabrooks ’26.

Tucked under the entrance of the newly renovated Reginald F. Lewis Law Center building on the Harvard Law School campus stands a marble bench inscribed…

Several members of the Harvard Law faculty have recently been recognized for their scholarship and contributions to the field.

Harvard Law School faculty members feature prominently on the Social Science Research Network's latest list of the 50 most-cited law school faculty, according to the latest data from the research platform.

The Association of American Law Schools has named William P. Alford ’77, the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, as the recipient of the 2026 Section on East Asian Law and Society Jerome A. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award.

Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard and former dean of Harvard Law School, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Social Sciences and Technology.

The American Bar Association has named Richard J. Lazarus ’79, the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard, the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental, Energy, or Resources Law and Policy.

Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice the Honorable Rosalie Silberman Abella, currently the Samuel LL.M. ’55 S.J.D. ’59 and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.

Andrew Mergen, faculty director of the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, has been named an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law School.

Noel Roycroft, director of the Transactional Law Clinics, has been named an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law School. 

Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.

Catherine Peshkin, who has served as interim dean of student services since October 2024, has been appointed dean of student services for Harvard Law.