Class of 2025

HLS Advocates for Human Rights hosted its third annual Global Advocacy Awards, a ceremony to honor human rights activists whose work inspires emerging practitioners to devote themselves to the advancement of human rights and human dignity.

During the Harvard Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law’s annual Harvard Sports Law Symposium, four students were celebrated for their contributions and dedication to the…

Part of the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, this clinic helps low-income taxpayers in dispute with the IRS and the state of Massachusetts.

As part of Harvard Law School’s annual pro bono spring break trip, a team traveled to North Carolina to provide legal aid to victims of…

Local student advocates in the Bluegrass state file education rights lawsuit with legal representation from Harvard’s Education Law Clinic.

Louis Lin '25 and Tamara Shamir '25 will soon embark on two-year fellowships pursuing public interest law on a full-time basis as recipients of the 2025 Skadden Fellowship.

For five decades, John Cratsley has placed students in state and federal judicial internships through HLS’s Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic.

Harvard Law students secure early win in challenge to Ohio’s buggy light law…

From cities to farms, tropics to tundras, Harvard Law students traveled near and far to do legal work in many corners of the globe this January. Through the independent clinical program, students have the opportunity to work in placements across the U.S. and the world during the winter term. 

Professional cellist Krysta Hyppolite '25 came to law school after seeing firsthand the challenges facing working musicians.

HLS students mix legal insights with music industry at Mondo NYC Conference.

A Boston-area collaboration supported by Harvard’s Transactional Law Clinics is bringing business skills to returning citizens…

"We wanted people to tell us about their humanity, and about the way that the incarceration experience changed them," says Déborah Aléxis ‘25.

According to students in Harvard Law School’s Tax Litigation Clinic, helping indigent clients resolve their tax problems is as much about social justice as it…

The Harvard Defenders held their annual Jack T. Litman Symposium on Friday, with a day-long agenda that endeavored to bring the voices of incarcerated people to campus through artistic expression.

In Clarke v. Wisconsin, the Harvard Law Election Law Clinic fought to restore voting power to Wisconsin residents – and won.

A project by Harvard Law School’s Dispute Systems Design, or DSD, Clinic is helping address a pressing justice issue in Brazil — the forced removal of…

SPOs are cherished by HLS students, as an opportunity to explore their own passions from human rights to the arts, and much more. Here’s what students had to say about some of their SPO experiences this year.