Latest from Kim Wright
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Noah Feldman and Richard Lazarus ’79 discuss public health and civil liberties in the time of COVID-19 on Feldman's Deep Background podcast.
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A Q&A on Harvard Law School’s response to coronavirus
March 13, 2020
Harvard University and Harvard Law School will shift to remote teaching and learning on March 23 as part of efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus in the community while continuing to educate its students. Matt Gruber, Harvard Law School dean for administration, discusses the “unprecedented move to deal with unprecedented circumstances.”
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Veterans Legal Clinic report documents VA’s systemic denial of health care to veterans with ‘bad paper’ discharges
March 6, 2020
A report published by HLS' Veterans Legal Clinic finds that inadequate training at VA puts more than 400,000 veterans at risk of being unlawfully turned away from treatment for service-related mental health conditions.
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Chol Soo Lee and his fight for freedom
February 28, 2020
For the fourth consecutive year, the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) welcomed the Honorable Judge Denny Chin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for a reenactment of a key trial that shaped Asian American history.
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Winter term around the world
February 11, 2020
HLS students traveled to 25 countries over winter term with the support of the Winter Term International Travel Grant Program.
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Michaeljit Sandhu ’21 elected 134th Harvard Law Review president
February 11, 2020
The Harvard Law Review has elected Michaeljit Sandhu ’21 as its 134th president. Sandhu succeeds Lauren Beck ’20.
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Students showcase films on tort law and justice
December 19, 2019
A night of glamour at HLS to celebrate student films on tort law and justice.
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Ben Miller-Gootnick ’21 wins the Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Competition.
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Clinic Stories: Prepping for the U.S. Court of Appeals
November 14, 2019
Follow a student in the Federal Tax Clinic as he prepares to argue an appeal on behalf of a military veteran forced to pay back taxes on $500K he didn't know his wife had embezzled.
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Ferrell’s article ranked as the second most cited by the Journal of Financial Economics
November 7, 2019
Professor Allen Ferrell ’95 paper, "Socially Responsible Firms," has been ranked number two on the Journal of Financial Economics' list of the most cited articles since 2016.
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Celebrating National Pro Bono Week
October 22, 2019
As part of National Pro Bono Week, Harvard Law School's Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs is highlighting the work of outstanding attorneys engaged in critical pro bono legal work to inspire law students and attorneys to use their talents to exemplify the legal profession’s ideals of public service.
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To Serve Better: Magnolia state blooming
October 21, 2019
Emily Broad Leib ’08 wanted to help Mississippi Delta residents through public policy, but what they needed first was a woodchipper.
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Gallery: From the atomic bomb to the Nobel Peace Prize
October 4, 2019
Photo exhibit traces the history of nuclear weapons from the devastation of early use and testing to the current global effort to eliminate them.
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A look back at new beginnings
August 23, 2019
As new HLS students begin to move in this weekend for orientation next week, we take a look at how some past students began their lives at Harvard Law School.
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‘Broadsides’ and the history of the criminal mind
August 12, 2019
Students in Professor Elizabeth Papp Kamali’s seminar, Mind and Criminal Responsibility in the Anglo-American Tradition, spend the semester reading and analyzing primary and secondary sources—beginning with Jewish scriptures and excerpts from Roman law through the end of the 21st century—to study the history of mens rea in English common law.
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A walk through a work of art
July 12, 2019
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus with a tour of Harvard Law School’s Bauhaus-built spaces.
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HLS staff honored for excellence
June 10, 2019
Harvard Law School staff recognized for outstanding contributions to the Harvard community.
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Landfill-free lunch
June 6, 2019
Harvard Law School Green Team leads the way to zero waste Commencement.
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Snapshots: Harvard Law School Class Day 2019
May 29, 2019
The Class of 2019 celebrated Class Day with friends and family, faculty and staff, and special guests on Harvard Law School's Holmes Field.
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HLS students spent their spring break working in legal organizations in the Boston area and across the United States and Puerto Rico, often responding to crises or disasters in local areas.
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Collaboration zone
April 26, 2019
Library event provides unique opportunity for faculty-student interaction.