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  • A man stands next to a white column

    Composing a Path, Bar by Bar 

    December 20, 2023

    Michael Cheng ’24 on harmonizing his passions for music, science, and law

  • A portrait of a woman

    All the World

    December 20, 2023

    Claudia Salomon ’94 on her work as the first woman elected president of the International Chamber of Commerce's International Court of Arbitration — the culmination of a career in international arbitration

  • A portrait of a man standing outside on a porch with greenery behind him

    The Fixer

    December 4, 2023

    For Cam Findlay ’87, no-drama fundamentals mark a career in corporate legal reform

  • Tammy Albarran

    High Gear

    June 27, 2023

    Tammy Albarrán ’99, an expert changemaker, is chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Peloton.

  • Portrait of Suzanne Nossel

    Speak Freely

    February 14, 2023

    At PEN America, Suzanne Nossel leads the charge to ensure freedom of expression for all

  • Portrait of a man sitting at a desk in an office

    ‘Life Can Change at the Snap of a Finger’

    February 9, 2022

    A second-year law student on second chances, building community, and trying to find his place in the grand scheme of things

  • Illustration Lincoln in the center surrounded by symbols of government with the words of the U.S. constitution

    Preserve, Protect, and Defend

    February 8, 2022

    In his new book, Noah Feldman offers a fresh perspective on the decisions Abraham Lincoln made regarding the U.S. Constitution — many of which he describes as legally indefensible.

  • Woman with short black hair with raised right hand and other hand on a bible held by a man

    Katherine Tai represents

    July 23, 2021

    In her new role as U.S. trade representative, Tai ’01 brings legal expertise, political savvy, and a deep commitment to American workers.

  • woman standing in a large room with lots of long tables

    ‘I’m still trying to understand my role in this complex place’

    June 14, 2021

    Since January 2020, Rez Gardi has been living in Duhok, in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region.

  • Woman standing in front of a building in Berlin, Germany

    An activist at home in the world

    June 14, 2021

    Ais has been immersed in a blend of advocacy, legal scholarship, and community building.

  • Illustration set in forest. A red while and blue quilt on the ground which shows the state of Texas and below it roots in red white and blue

    A Sense of Place

    June 11, 2021

    In the newly published “On Juneteenth,” Gordon-Reed presents a 360-degree view of the history leading up to the holiday and beyond, weaving in her perspective as a Black woman with Texas roots that run deep.

  • Photo of the three daughters Sarah Churchill, Anna Roosevelt and Kathleen Harriman

    On the Front Lines of History

    October 20, 2020

    A few years ago as a financial analyst, Catherine Grace Katz ’22 found she sometimes needed a break from modeling Excel spreadsheets, so she’d take a few minutes to wander down to Chartwell Booksellers, a store specializing in books by and about Winston Churchill, located in the lobby of her midtown Manhattan office building.

  • A Women standing in front of a cartoon

    No Time Like the Present

    July 23, 2020

    Talia Gillis’ work cuts a wide swath, one focus being the intersection of artificial intelligence and consumer loan discrimination. It’s driven by a question: “What does it mean for a credit pricing algorithm to discriminate?”

  • Military forces working at computers to address the Covid-19 crisis

    Pivot Point

    July 21, 2020

    HLS sectionmates Phil Caruso ’19 and Gareth Rhodes ’19 unexpectedly found themselves working to address the COVID-19 crisis in their home state of New York less than a year after graduation. Caruso became a Department of Defense liaison to the New York City Emergency Management Department and Rhodes was a member of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 task force.

  • Talia Gillis

    Talia Gillis LL.M. ’13 S.J.D. ’20: No Time Like the Present

    May 27, 2020

    Talia Gillis’ work cuts a wide swath, one focus being the intersection of artificial intelligence and consumer loan discrimination. It’s driven by a question: “What does it mean for a credit pricing algorithm to discriminate?”

  • A young man at a podium with micr

    Coming Full Circle

    February 12, 2020

    The Harvard Law School Forum was born in 1946, when Jerome “Jerry” Rappaport approached Harvard Law School Dean James Landis with an idea: What if Harvard Law School sponsored a speaker series on issues that would shape the post-war world?

  • Monika Bickert '00 teaching a class at HLS

    Status Update

    January 15, 2020

    How can regulation prevent social media from doing serious harm? A new course in fall 2019, Social Media and the Law, took on that inherently complex question.

  • Samantha Power '99 standing outside her house in Boston

    The Journey of an Idealist

    January 7, 2020

    Ambassador Samantha Power ’99 reflects on her life and career in her new memoir "The Education of an Idealist."