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Ten Harvard Law School staff members — seven individuals and one three-person team — received the 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence on May 15 for their workplace contributions that embody the spirit of excellence within the Harvard Law School community.
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What Harvard Law profs are reading this summer
May 31, 2024
Faculty members share the books they’re looking forward to devouring, from classic Italian literature to birds and dinosaurs, and even a Led Zeppelin biography.
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Day to remember: Graduates pause to reflect
May 24, 2024
One journey behind them, grads pause to reflect before starting the next.
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Robert Clinton ’24 discusses delivering the Graduate English Address at Harvard University Commencement.
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Larry Bacow J.D./M.P.P. ’76, Harvard University president emeritus, was awarded an honorary degree along with five other recipients at this year's University Commencement exercises.
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Interim Dean John Goldberg praises the Class of 2024
May 23, 2024
In his Commencement address to the Class of 2024 on Thursday, Harvard Law School Interim Dean John C.P. Goldberg shared his gratitude for all that the 804 graduating J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. students had achieved so far – and implored them to continue to use their talents to foster a brighter future.
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Reflections of the Class of 2024 (video)
May 23, 2024
Members of the Harvard Law School Class of 2024 reflect on their time at HLS and share messages to their classmates as they look ahead to next steps.
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‘I have finally found my work home at Harvard’
May 23, 2024
Pamelyn Bennett, event operations coordinator at Harvard Law School, receives the Suzanne L. Richardson Staff Appreciation Award
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Christine Desan, the 2024 recipient of Harvard Law School’s Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, congratulated the nearly 800 graduating students and thanked them from the bottom of her heart for the honor.
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‘Anything worth having is worth working hard for’
May 22, 2024
“Seize your newfound power, your influence, your hearts, and your expertise and put it to good use,” United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland urged graduating Harvard Law School students at the 2024 Class Day ceremony.
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HLS memories: The year in review
May 21, 2024
Harvard Law Today invites you to take a look back at some notable campus moments, from move-in to the month of May.
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After a decades-long career, Brian Price, clinical professor of law and founding director of Harvard Law School's Transactional Law Clinics, will retire this summer.
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Campus Leadership in Transition
May 3, 2024
Professor John C.P. Goldberg is serving as interim dean while John F. Manning takes on the role of interim university provost.
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How to Live Life as a Win-Win
May 3, 2024
Robert Mnookin has had a force multiplier effect in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution.
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Alvin Warren’s leadership in tax law has transformed the field and illuminated a generation of students
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In their Last Lectures to the Class of 2024, Alan Jenkins, Sharon Block, Christopher Bavitz, and Nikolas Bowie delivered words of wisdom to soon-to-be graduates.
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“Your class is special. You’re a unique class,” declared Nikolas Bowie ’14, the Louis D. Brandeis Professor at Harvard Law School during his Last Lecture…