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  • Taking Ames

    March 17, 2021

    On March 10, two teams of HLS students faced off for the final round of the Ames Moot Court Competition. For the first time in its more than 100-year-old history, the competition was conducted virtually, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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    Calling the shots

    March 17, 2021

    Disheartened by tales from family and friends frustrated by his home state of Pennsylvania's vaccine distribution system, Seth Rubinstein ’22, a second year student at Harvard Law School, knew he wanted to get involved.

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    Turning personal struggle into a source of support

    March 3, 2021

    As president and co-founder of the nonprofit Pembe, Brice Ngameni ’21 is focused on supporting students of African descent succeed in American law schools.

  • Gavel in Ames Courtroom

    Countdown to Ames

    March 3, 2021

    On March 10, two teams of students will take part in the illustrious HLS' Ames Moot Court Competition. For the first time in its 110-year history, the competition will be conducted virtually, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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    BLSA mock trial team heads to national competition

    February 24, 2021

    BLSA team — the first from HLS — heads to the Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial National Competition.

  • Elena Chachko

    What does the growing individualization of U.S. foreign and security policy mean for national security?

    February 24, 2021

    Elena Chachko’s award-winning scholarship is informed by her work as a former Israeli intelligence analysis officer and diplomat.

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    Advocating from afar

    February 18, 2021

    Despite working remotely, first-year students with Harvard Law School's Tenant Advocacy Project gained meaningful skills and successfully helped clients during the fall semester student practice organization.

  • Sidharth Chauhan

    Rethinking digital education in a ‘global classroom’

    February 12, 2021

    As Harvard Law students across the world logged onto Zoom this fall to connect to their professors and peers, Sidharth Chauhan LL.M. ’21 took virtual education a step further.

  • Hassaan Shahawy

    Harvard Law Review elects Hassaan Shahawy ’22 as its 135th president

    February 5, 2021

    The Harvard Law Review has elected Hassaan Shahawy ’22 as its 135th president. Shahawy succeeds Michaeljit Sandhu ’21.

  • Independent Clinical students

    Laying the groundwork for real-life lawyering

    January 7, 2021

    Students in independent clinicals are making the most of a digital world.

  • A man wearing a face mask finds an eviction notice on the door of a house.

    Harvard Law students fight for families facing evictions

    December 17, 2020

    A Q&A with Harvard Legal Aid Bureau members Kiah Duggins ’21 and Sam Gilman ’22 on the CDC eviction moratorium and their work on local and national housing issues.

  • 2020–2021 Class Marshals

    Representing ‘The Super Class of 2021’

    December 15, 2020

    During a global pandemic when classes are remote and students are living around the country and the world, there is no such thing as business as usual. But this year’s class marshals are determined to do their part.

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    Pursuing U.S. accountability for child slavery abroad

    December 9, 2020

    In October, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of legal historians in the consolidated cases against two U.S.-based chocolate companies alleged to have aided and abetted child slavery in West Africa.

  • William Tong Zoom event

    Advocating for the Asian Pacific community at Harvard Law School and beyond

    December 9, 2020

    How APALSA is creating community when students are spread out around the world.

  • Bulungula South Africa

    Teaming up to promote access to water

    December 9, 2020

    As the only team members on their International Human Rights Clinic project, Laura Soundy ’22 and Rehab Abdelwahab ’21 have learned how critical it is to talk about subjects other than law. In doing so, they learned they were both quarantining in Texas, and have formed a plan to safely meet in person next year.

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    Harvard Law receives record number of Skadden Fellowships

    December 5, 2020

    Nine HLS students and alumni awarded prestigious Skadden Fellowship for public service.

  • Close up of leaves on campus

    The details of autumn

    November 23, 2020

    A look at campus as we head into the final weeks of fall.

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    Veterans of war and service

    November 6, 2020

    Harvard students who have served in the various branches of the Armed Forces represent a diverse range of backgrounds and experience, but all have at least one thing in common: a profound dedication to serving the nation.

  • Andrew Choi

    Andrew H. Choi ’23, Alaskan arctic warfare expert

    November 5, 2020

    Andrew H. Choi ’23 was eager for a serious challenge in his first Army posting, so he chose as radically different an environment as he could imagine: Fairbanks, Alaska.

  • Krissy Annunziata

    An intelligence past, a corporate law future

    November 5, 2020

    Krissy Annunziata, who is attending HLS virtually from her family’s farm in Ohio this semester, comes from a tradition of military service. Her parents met as students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and both Annunziata and her older sister are graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

  • Mtume Sangiewa

    Guarding POTUS

    November 5, 2020

    After training as a military police officer in the U.S. Marines, Mtume Sangiewa ’23 found himself with an extraordinary assignment: he was headed to Washington, D.C. to guard President Barack Obama ’91.