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  • LL.M. 100: Celebrating a century

    October 11, 2024

    Hundreds of Harvard’s LL.M. alumni returned to campus in September to mark the centennial of the school’s Master of Laws program. See our full coverage of the occasion.

  • Panelists share a light moment

    At LL.M. program centennial, alumni talk bridging difference

    October 10, 2024

    At a panel on bridging cultures, alumni of the Harvard Law LL.M. program discussed challenges and lessons, and how bridging difference affected their thinking and their careers.

  • A woman and two men sitting in chairs on a stage in front of an audience

    Harvard ‘taught me how to govern’

    October 7, 2024

    At a panel featuring the current leader of Luxembourg, and the former leaders of Peru and Taiwan, Harvard Law’s 100-year-old LL.M. program was praised for its global perspective and for emphasizing ‘how to be kind even when you have strong disagreements.’

  • A portrait of a women sitting outside leaning on a table.

    ‘I’m All About Hope’

    September 30, 2024

    Mona Susan Power’s fiction reflects the trauma, joy, and resilience 
of Native American life.

  • A portrait of Michael Adams sitting in a tall leather care in front of a marble fireplace.

    Election Defender

    September 30, 2024

    Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams wins award for his bipartisan efforts to expand voting rights in the face of fierce opposition.

  • A portrait of a woman

    Open Market

    September 30, 2024

    Evita Grant is building a global trading network for African small businesses.

  • Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez.

    Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez ’17: ‘A lot of progress can be made by seeking to become better listeners’

    June 25, 2024

    Throughout his varied career, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez ’17 has operated under one uniting principle: The law should function as a tool for justice to empower clients.

  • President's Innovation Challenge Awards.

    Turning ideas into impact

    May 3, 2024

    Startup founders inspire a global audience at the 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Awards ceremony.

  • International Justice Corps

    May 3, 2024

    Harvard Law School LL.M. graduates form common bonds and bolster the rule of law around the globe

  • Portrait of woman speaking into a microphone at the front of a crowd

    Charting a Path

    May 3, 2024

    Kim Miner is using her
experience with the Boston
Red Sox to bring professional women’s soccer to Boston.

  • A portrait of a man sitting speaking into a microphone

    The Son Also Rises

    May 3, 2024

    D.Y. Chandrachud came to Harvard Law from India to forge his own path.
He found it close to home.

  • Portrait of a man wearing a blue suit and tie leaning against a wall in a corridor

    Doing Well and Doing Good

    May 3, 2024

    In the ’80s, Randolph M. McLaughlin and his colleagues devised a strategy that helped bankrupt the Ku Klux Klan. He continues to pursue creative approaches to civil litigation.

  • A man running in a race

    Off to the Races and Back Again

    May 3, 2024

    This past April, Scott Kline, at age 61, completed the Boston Marathon, for the second time — something that anyone could be proud of. But for Kline it was a recovery run of sorts.

  • Tor Krever.

    Tor Krever ’12, coming full circle

    May 2, 2024

    A graduate of the HLS-University of Cambridge JD/LL.M. Joint Degree Program, Tor Krever ’12 is now teaching at Cambridge.

  • Celebration 70

    April 12, 2024

    At the Celebration 70+ event, Harvard Law School welcomed back more than 200 alumnae to celebrate 70 years of women graduates.

  • Portrait of Ann Kirby

    Ann Pfohl Kirby on the ‘family tradition’ of taking on a challenge

    April 9, 2024

    For one of the first female law students at Harvard, the experience wasn’t daunting; it was merely a natural extension of her desire to get the best education she could.

  • Chattanooga Five newspaper clipping from 1981.

    A plan to beat the Klan

    February 28, 2024

    Harvard Law alumnus Randolph McLaughlin pioneered an enduring strategy to get justice for victims and bankrupt the Ku Klux Klan.

  • Kenneth C. Frazier.

    Kenneth Frazier ’78 elected to Harvard Corporation

    February 5, 2024

    Kenneth C. Frazier ’78, former chairman, CEO and general counsel of Merck & Co., will join the Harvard Corporation as one of its two newest members.