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Graduate Program

  • LL.M. 100th Anniversary Program Details

    August 13, 2024

    LL.M. 100: Transforming Lives and Law Around the World The overarching theme of the event is the transformative power of the LLM program, both in…

  • 100 Years of LL.M.s

    July 17, 2024

    *More highlights of LL.M. classes forthcoming*…

  • Anna Toniolo

    June 21, 2024

    S.J.D. Candidate
    atoniolo at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Corporations in the Public Discourse Fields of Research and Supervisors Additional Research Interests Education Academic Appointments and Fellowships Representative…

  • Hamad Swaid

    June 21, 2024

    Hamad Swaid
    S.J.D. Candidate
    hswaid at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation The Law and Political Economy of Internet Infrastructure in the United States My research analyzes the law…

  • Wei Xuan Timothy Chan

    June 21, 2024

    S.J.D. Candidate
    wchan at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation A Humean Theory of Property Law In my thesis, I aim to develop and defend a fully…

  • Arnaaz Nizami Ameer

    June 21, 2024

    S.J.D. Candidate
    Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Advisor
    aameer at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Waging Peace: A Reimagination of War-Time Remedies and Reparations, and Lessons from Private…

  • Registration and Event Details

    February 5, 2024

    Registration Information Registration is now open for LL.M. 100: Transforming Lives and Law Around the World, the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the…

  • World Class: February 2024

    January 25, 2024

    Registration is now open for the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the LL.M. Program! The two-day program will be held September 27-28,…

  • Dana Zuk

    July 13, 2023

    Dana Zuk
    S.J.D. Candidate
    dzukreifer at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation The Making and Unmaking of the Modern American Middle Class My SJD dissertation investigates the historical formation…

  • Apply for S.J.D. Conference Travel Funding

    May 22, 2023

    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…

  • World Class: June 2023

    May 18, 2023

    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…

  • World Class: News and profiles for the Graduate Program community

    December 13, 2022

    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…

  • World Class: January 2023

    December 13, 2022

    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…

  • Student Perspective on HLS Clinics – Malene Alleyne

    September 23, 2022

    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 – Graduate Program Video Presentation from June 27, 2017

    September 23, 2022

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

  • An Informal Introduction to the Year Ahead

    September 23, 2022

    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…

  • The LLM Writing Requirement – Live Video Presentation from July 20, 2017

    September 23, 2022

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

  • A Q&A with Abhinav

    September 23, 2022

    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…

  • A Q&A with Sammy

    September 23, 2022

    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…

  • Graduate Program Video Presentation from July 3, 2018

    September 23, 2022

    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,…

  • Public Interest Presentation from July 19, 2018

    September 23, 2022

    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…