Latest from Julia Hanna
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The Fixer
December 4, 2023
For Cam Findlay ’87, no-drama fundamentals mark a career in corporate legal reform
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High Gear
June 27, 2023
Tammy Albarrán ’99, an expert changemaker, is chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Peloton.
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Speak Freely
February 14, 2023
At PEN America, Suzanne Nossel leads the charge to ensure freedom of expression for all
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‘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
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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.
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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.
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Since January 2020, Rez Gardi has been living in Duhok, in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region.
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An activist at home in the world
June 14, 2021
Ais has been immersed in a blend of advocacy, legal scholarship, and community building.
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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.
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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.
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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?”
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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.
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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?”
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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?
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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.
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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."
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For India, a New Era in LGBTQ Rights
July 8, 2019
Constitutional lawyer Menaka Guruswamy LL.M. ’01 successfully argued against a colonial-era law that criminalized gay sex in India. The ruling by India's Supreme Court last year went beyond decriminalizing gay sex to acknowledge the individual rights of LGBTQ people and apologize for past mistreatment.
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Collecting on Dreams
June 21, 2019
An HLS project is fighting on behalf of thousands whose lives have been upended by predatory student lending.