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During a series of fireside chats, accomplished graduates representing an array of career paths and legal fields shared words of wisdom for law students and budding lawyers.

Harvard Law Today introduces you to a few incoming members of the Harvard Law School community.

Every time of the year in Cambridge has something to offer, and Harvard Law School wants to help you make the most of it.

Whether you are looking for something to do by yourself or with a friend, indoors or outdoors, Harvard Law Today has you covered with some fun — and frugal! — ways to spend your free time

Harvard Law expert Oren Bar-Gill helps deconstruct Disney’s argument for arbitration in a wrongful death lawsuit

Harvard Law digital privacy expert Leah Plunkett says that children’s data safety is just one of many problems with kids’ use of popular apps like TikTok.

Harvard Law constitutional scholar Ryan Doerfler says that President Biden’s Supreme Court reforms don’t go far enough to ‘return … decision-making authority to elected officials’

Neil Eggleston, an expert on presidential powers at Harvard Law School, explains a pivotal case against Richard Nixon and how it squares with the Court’s decision in Trump v. U.S.

Visiting professor Andrew D. Selbst, an expert in technology and the law, says the CrowdStrike snafu ‘illustrates … how fragile our infrastructure is.’

Harvard Law faculty members share their thoughts on where the Supreme Court justices ultimately landed on prominent cases — and on the longer-term implications of the Court’s decisions.

Harvard Law School visiting fellow Afrooz Maghzi shares insights on women’s struggles for equality and democracy in her home country of Iran.

Faculty members share the books they’re looking forward to devouring, from classic Italian literature to birds and dinosaurs, and even a Led Zeppelin biography.

In his Commencement address to the Class of 2024 on Thursday, Harvard Law School Interim Dean John C.P. Goldberg shared his gratitude for all that the 804 graduating J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. students had achieved so far – and implored them to continue to use their talents to foster a brighter future.

“Seize your newfound power, your influence, your hearts, and your expertise and put it to good use,” United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland urged graduating Harvard Law School students at the 2024 Class Day ceremony.

Harvard Law’s Jody Freeman, Richard Lazarus, Andrew Mergen, and Carrie Jenks discuss the impact alumnus Dan Emmett’s $15 million gift to establish the Emmett Environmental Law Center will have for students, faculty, staff, and environmental law practitioners nationwide.

Although basketball and the law may seem disparate, the throughline for former athlete and Ames Moot Court Competition winner Hayley Isenberg ’24 is the importance of teamwork.

While she was in the process of being officially admitted to the bar in her native Belgium, Salomé Van Bunnen LL.M. ’24 began to think about the direction she wanted to take in her legal career.

In the ’80s, Randolph M. McLaughlin and his colleagues devised a strategy that helped bankrupt the Ku Klux Klan. He continues to pursue creative approaches to civil litigation.

“Your class is special. You’re a unique class,” declared Nikolas Bowie ’14, the Louis D. Brandeis Professor at Harvard Law School during his Last Lecture…

Two Harvard Law experts explain why mediation skills are increasingly valuable for lawyers.

Harvard Law expert Carol Steiker explains how the Eighth Amendment will impact a Supreme Court decision on homelessness.