Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez finds his passion and fulfillment working at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, one of the School’s clinical programs and the oldest student-run organization in the United States.

Three nations, all from Africa, have announced that they will no longer work with the International Criminal Court, intensifying a longstanding debate over whether it is biased against the continent.

Learn ways to identify a school that prepares law students for international legal careers, whether their dream job is to be a human rights lawyer that pursues justice for victims of war crimes, or an in-house attorney at a multinational firm.

Representatives from NASA, Space Systems Loral, and SpaceX discussed the future of laws governing outer space during a panel at Harvard Law School.

As public support for the death penalty continues to decline, the signs of capital punishment’s impending demise are all around.

The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights recently selected 13 students to participate in the inaugural Human Rights Studies Working Group, which will expose students to resources at Harvard and beyond that focus on human rights work.

Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants says the courts are taking steps to study and address Massachusetts' high racial disparity in incarceration rates.

The sister-and-brother team of Carol S. Steiker ’82, J.D. ’86, RI ’11, and Jordan M. Steiker, J.D. ’88 work to change how America thinks about capital punishment.

Mary T.W. Robinson, former president of Ireland and current United Nations Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate, spoke about the need for international policies promoting sustainability at a discussion at Harvard Law School on Thursday evening.

Florida's Supreme Court rules in favor of severe restrictions to the use of the death penalty in Florida, a state which ranks fourth in the country in total number of executions in the last 40 years.

Jake Howard did not follow what most would call a conventional path to the law. In many ways, that’s exactly what has made his story such an interesting one.

After trading his slacks and tie for boots and a uniform, Nathan Williams ’18, a cadet once more, gained a different kind of education.

Some Big Law baby boomers pursue pro bono opportunities instead of retiring because they still love practicing law.

Alex Abdo (HLS '06) tackles difficult privacy cases for the ACLU.

An ex-prosecutor learns that becoming a defense lawyer means defending people, not defendants.

Lawyers in public interest fellowships use their legal skills to affect real change. However, every year, exceptional young talents are turned away due to lack of funding.

Capital punishment is on the decline in the US, except in a small fraction of the country.

The Mitchell Hamline School of Law retrofitted a recreational vehicle into a mobile pro bono law office. The RV, called Wheels of Justice carries students across Minnesota to perform pro bono legal services for those in need.

The Justice Department files a brief arguing that holding a defendant in jail because they cannot afford bail is unconstitutional.

Law students are discussing current events in class in order to prepare them for how race, class, and economics influence law in the real world.

Fordham, Stanford and other institutions are working to lessen the legal system's limitations.