Graduate Program

S.J.D. students in residence are eligible to apply for limited funding to cover the expenses of conference travel related to their studies. For more detailed…

LL.M. Class of 2023 Meet five of this year’s LL.M. students with wide-ranging backgrounds from around the world. Destiny Ogedegbe – Nigeria Before coming to…

February 2025 Student Profiles Alumni Spotlight Collaborating on Climate Change Katalin Sulyok LL.M. ’16 and Jenny Sandvig LL.M. ’18 share a focus on climate…

Alumni Spotlight: Transforming legal education in Mexico Marcela Barrio-Olivas LL.M. ’01 and Luis Perez-Hurtado LL.M. ’01 have created a research-focused center to train law teachers…

Malene Alleyne, a graduate from the LL.M. Class of 2017, provides a student perspective on clinics at Harvard Law School.

Welcome to Course Selection!  We invite you to think about your first steps while you review our informal introduction to the course selection process.

Members of the Graduate Program Community provide you with some brief thoughts on what to expect in the year to come, and reflect “what they…

As you finalize the “course preferencing” process, review our informal conversation on some of the key questions and concerns surrounding the writing requirement.

Abhinav, LL.M. ’18 Graduate Program: How did you go about selecting your courses/preferences at this time last year? Abhinav: I began by painstakingly going through…

Sammy, LL.M. ’18 Graduate Program: How did you go about selecting your courses/preferences at this time last year? Sammy: I selected the courses I was…

A second video presentation from the Graduate Program, with insights from the perspective of a recent graduate. To turn on subtitles on the video below,…

A conversation with Catherine Pattanayak, Director of the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising. To turn on subtitles for video below, click the icon…

A conversation with recent LL.M. graduate, Radhika Kapoor, on her experience with the HLS Clinical Program. To turn on subtitles for video below, click the…

Part two of a conversation with recent LL.M. graduate, Nora Picasso, on her experience with the HLS Clinical Program. To turn on subtitles for video…

Part one of a conversation with recent LL.M. graduate, Nora Picasso, on her experience with the HLS Clinical Program. To turn on subtitles for video…

A conversation with recent LL.M. graduate, Hiba Thobani, on her experience at HLS and with course selection. To turn on subtitles for video below, click…

A second video presentation from the Graduate Program, with insights from the perspective of recent graduate Dan Rohde. To turn on subtitles for video below,…

A conversation with Catherine Pattanayak, Director of the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, and Marjorie Lichtenberger, Assistant Director & Director of International Advising,…

A conversation with LL.M. graduate Faith Adesua held on June 30, 2020. To turn on subtitles for video below, click the icon in the top…

A conversation with S.J.D. candidate Sam Bookman held on July 9, 2020. To turn on subtitles for video below, click the icon in the top…

Web Chat with Maggie Bay and Sheryl Dickey, Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs held on July 13, 2020. To turn on subtitles for…