Alumni Focus

National Football League referee Ron Torbert ’88 reaches the pinnacle of his profession: Officiating the Super Bowl.

Elizabeth Warren offered advice and encouragement at a special in-person Commencement celebration for the Classes of 2020 and 2021.

A look at HLS Commencements from the 1950s to 2020s…

In a Harvard Law School reading group, entrepreneurs and legal operation specialists are sharing a road map for using technology to change the legal profession.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, a 1996 graduate of Harvard Law School, was confirmed today as the 116th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. With the Senate's confirmation, Jackson will become first Black female justice in the Court's 233-year history.

The Harvard Law School Democrats recently hosted a Q&A with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain ’87. who answered students' questions on the administration’s agenda on voting rights, student loan debt, global vaccine inequities, the war in Ukraine, and other hot topics.

Eric Tong-Sheng Wu LL.M. ’77 S.J.D. ’91, a Taiwanese business executive, legislator, and philanthropist, has received the inaugural Taiwanese Cultural Collaboration Medal from the Republic of China’s Ministry of Culture.

Former San Antonio mayor and HUD secretary Julián Castro ’00 was named the Klinsky Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress. He will teach a course next fall on leadership in urban communities.

75 years later, the Truman Doctrine is as relevant as ever, says former diplomat and World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

Robert Zoellick, the U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the end of the Cold War, says Vladimir Putin’s claims about Ukraine are part of a disinformation campaign.

Ayesha Malik LL.M. ’99 has become the first woman to serve as a Justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court in the country’s 75-year history.

Ashleigh Ruggles Stanley ’18 and Maclen Stanley ’18 use social media as a teaching opportunity to help people understand legal terms and current events.

Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Biden. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.

Jeffery Robinson ’81 has made challenging false narratives about racism his life’s work.

Harvard Law alum Esther Mulder ‘14 discusses her journey from foster care to a career in public defense.

John B. Bellinger III ’86, a former State Department and national security legal adviser, sees ‘echoes of the Cold War,’ and says Biden should make ‘crystal clear' to Putin the consequences of an invasion.

Hilary Charlesworth S.J.D. ’86, an Australian barrister and solicitor, law professor, and renowned scholar of international law, has been elected to serve as a judge on the International Court of Justice.

When Tibor Várady began looking through more than 100 years of files of his family’s law firm in a Serbian city in Eastern Europe, he found not only client information. He uncovered a history of the people of the region during world wars and under control of multiple states.

Caste is alive and well in the United States — and it starts with the very neighborhoods we call home. That’s the uncomfortable truth Sheryll Cashin asks us to confront in her new book.

Since 2007, Gabriel Swiney has served in the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser. His work in space law, he says, has allowed him to merge his experience and his passion to help future generations chart a safer, fairer path to the stars.

“There aren’t a lot of jobs where your only job is to figure out what the law is and apply it to the facts without anybody from the outside pressuring you to take a certain position or view it in a certain way,” says Jonathan Papik.