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    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.’

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    ‘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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  • A woman leaning against a desk in a spacious office near a painting of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Supreme Advocate

    December 20, 2023

    As solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar ’08 faces long odds before a skeptical court

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    Pioneering Path

    December 20, 2023

    Joyeeta Gupta LL.M. ’88's multidisciplinary career leads to national science honor and funding for ‘justice lab’