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As a member of Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, Madelyn Petersen '19 and several other students traveled to northwest Iowa to study how the federal government’s plan to potentially privatize the U.S. Postal Service might affect the small, largely rural communities there.

On Wednesday, Dec. 4, Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, testified before the House Judiciary Committee at a public hearing on the constitutional grounds for impeaching the president.

This fall, Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Susan Farbstein ’04 is teaching "Human Rights Careers: Strategic Leadership Workshop," a seminar focused on advocacy and leadership for students interested in careers in human rights or social justice.

Senator Mike Lee offered his perspective on the current state of constitutional law in America at a recent event organized by the Harvard Federalist Society.

Ben Miller-Gootnick ’21 wins the Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Competition.

David L. Shapiro ’57, an icon of federal courts jurisprudence, died last week at the age of 87.

At a packed Brattle Theatre last week, five short films created by 12 Harvard Law students from eight countries debuted. The documentaries, ranging across topics from gentrification to climate change, are the results of an innovative January term workshop taught by Martha Minow, former Harvard Law dean and 300th Anniversary University Professor.

Stephenson, an expert in anticorruption law, legislation, and administrative law, commemorated his appointment as the Eli Goldston Professor of Law with a lecture at Harvard Law School titled, “Corruption and Anticorruption.”

Two teams of 3Ls competed for the coveted recognition of their advocacy skills in the final round of the 2019 Ames Moot Court Competition on November 12 at Harvard Law School.

In a Q&A, Elizabeth Papp Kamali ’07 discusses her new book, trial by ordeal, medieval juries and "felonies committed feloniously."

Former Arizona senator Jeff Flake made a case for a return to the Republican Party's fiscal roots in a discussion entitled "The Future of Conservatism" at Harvard Law School.

Toby Merrill '11, founder and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, has been named to the first-ever TIME 100 Next list, an expansion of the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

Follow a student in the Federal Tax Clinic as he prepares to argue an appeal on behalf of a military veteran forced to pay back taxes on $500K he didn't know his wife had embezzled.

Harvard Law School has announced plans to eliminate the application fee and reduce other application costs for college juniors applying through the School’s Junior Deferral Program, changes that will save each applicant more than $300.

The Harvard Gazette recently published an excerpt from, "Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law," a memoir by Haben Girma that tells the story of her journey from isolation to the world stage.

Watch the story of how Harvard Law School's Veterans Legal Clinic helped Paul, a man who served his country in one of the longest and deadliest wars in U.S. history, gain access to vital benefits denied him for decades.

The Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School recently announced the launch of a new statewide initiative aimed at helping close the significant gap between low-income veterans in Massachusetts and the financial assistance they are eligible for under state law.

Professor Allen Ferrell ’95 paper, "Socially Responsible Firms," has been ranked number two on the Journal of Financial Economics' list of the most cited articles since 2016.

In his new book, "They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy," Lawrence Lessig writes about the issues undermining American democracy, such as big money in politics, gerrymandering, vote suppression, and the inequities of the Electoral College system.

At a recent Harvard Law School Library book event, Martha Minow and panelists discussed her recent release, "When Should Law Forgive?", which explores the complicated intersection of the law, justice, and forgiveness.

Four of the 26 current and former members of the U.S. armed forces in this year’s entering class at Harvard Law School share their experiences in the military and at HLS.