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Student Spotlights
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Laying the groundwork for real-life lawyering
January 7, 2021
Students in independent clinicals are making the most of a digital world.
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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.
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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.
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How APALSA is creating community when students are spread out around the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.