Latest from Rachel Reed
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Third year of Harvard Law’s Future-L program inspires the next generation of lawyers
September 8, 2023
Now in its third year, Future-L is helping more gifted young people around the country learn about the law, the legal profession — and how they could be part of it.
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How to unwind and find your ‘happy place’
September 8, 2023
Members of the Harvard Law community discuss their favorite ways to loosen up and find their “happy place.”
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Harvard Law’s Transactional Law Clinics help community members build businesses and long-term financial security
September 6, 2023
Harvard Law’s Business and Non-Profit Clinic, Real Estate Clinic, Entertainment Law Clinic, and Community Enterprise Project make a difference for community members in Boston and beyond.
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How I discovered my passion in the law
September 5, 2023
Professors, lecturers, and staff members share how they found their way to the subjects they are most passionate about — and why they stay there.
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Harvard Law’s Benjamin I. Sachs says the labor movement’s successes this year may be the ‘start of a virtuous cycle of union wins’.
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Meet the new class
August 29, 2023
Meet a few of the freshest faces on campus, from J.D. candidates to LL.M. students.
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If left unaddressed, Kansas newspaper raid could chill press freedom, says Harvard Law expert
August 17, 2023
A search of the Marion County Record offices may have violated the First Amendment and 1980’s Privacy Protection Act, says David McCraw, a lecturer on law and top New York Times lawyer.
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Providing cluster munitions has ‘changed the nature of U.S. involvement’ in Ukraine, says Harvard Law expert
August 7, 2023
Bonnie Docherty, scholar on humanitarian disarmament, says the weapons endanger civilians now and in the future.
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Incoming Harvard Law students gather across the nation to build community, friendships
August 1, 2023
The Dean of Students Office invites new students to meet and greets in New York, D.C., Los Angeles, and Cambridge.
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US faces serious risks of zoonotic disease, says report by Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program
July 17, 2023
A new report from the Animal Law and Policy Program contends that the country’s widespread and underregulated animal industries could lead to new animal-to-human pandemics.
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Fighting for the freedom to practice religion in prison
July 12, 2023
Inmates have long had the freedom to exercise their religion in prison, but Damon Landor, a practicing Rastafarian, had his dreadlocks shaved against his will.
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Harvard Law labor expert Sharon Block on the Hollywood writers strike, AI, and what comes next
July 11, 2023
Labor expert Sharon Block says the Writers Guild of America’s weekslong strike could heat up in the fall when production companies run out of stockpiled scripts
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A Changing Climate for Environmental Lawyers
June 27, 2023
A new course taught by Richard Lazarus examines the wide-ranging implications of law for climate change.
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Working for the People
June 27, 2023
Students in the Semester in Washington Clinic spend a spring semester in the nation’s capital, working full time at a government agency and attending classes on policymaking
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Working for the People: David Ryan ’17
June 27, 2023
David Ryan can’t get too specific about his work at the U.S. Department of Justice. And that’s probably a good thing,
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Working for the People: Demarquin Johnson ’20
June 27, 2023
Not everyone can say they are working at their dream job. Demarquin Johnson can.
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Working for the People: Vanessa Strobbe ’12
June 27, 2023
“There is no winning in a prosecution,” says Vanessa Strobbe ’12. “That’s someone’s father, that’s someone’s son, who’s going to jail.”
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Harvard Law School researcher Ashley Nunes says electric vehicles aren't a sure-fire climate change solution.
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Harvard Law School’s Carmel Shachar examines a lawsuit by pharmaceutical giant Merck contesting a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Poluru, a joint J.D./M.B.A. student from Chicago, Ill., has been awarded the 2023 Righeimer Prize, an honor that celebrates a graduating student in recognition of exceptional citizenship within Harvard Law School community.
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Barbara (Babs) Tsao ’23 and Irene Kwon ’23 are the recipients of this year’s Westfall Memorial Award, which recognizes a student or students with outstanding contributions to creating community within their first-year section and class.