Student Spotlights

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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, 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.

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.

When she was pursuing her J.D., Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Hutton LL.M. ’21 knew that she wanted to enter public service, but wasn’t sure exactly how she would do so.

Given the strong possibility that Tuesday night’s presidential election will not go off without a hitch, a group of Harvard Law School students have launched a website that explores every other possible election scenario.

As HLS celebrates National Pro Bono Week, students speak on their commitment to pro bono legal work, and the challenges and opportunities of doing that work remotely.

Despite the pandemic, the 2020 Chayes International Public Service Fellows pursued projects around the world.

A few years ago as a financial analyst, Catherine Grace Katz ’22 found she sometimes needed a break from modeling Excel spreadsheets, so she’d take a few minutes to wander down to Chartwell Booksellers, a store specializing in books by and about Winston Churchill, located in the lobby of her midtown Manhattan office building.

New student podcast and project seed connections in remote world.

The LL.M. class of 2021 continues to find creative ways to come together to create a strong community despite the pandemic.

This fall, the Equal Democracy Project turns its focus to voter registration and engagement.

After COVID-19 erupted earlier this year, Sidharth Chauhan LL.M.’21, who grew up in the foothills of the Himalayas, helped lead a multi-layered effort to address the pandemic in rural India.

The Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law publishes special edition focused on the NCAA and the rights of student-athletes to profit from their own name, likeness or image.

In August, Harvard Law School officially kicked off the start of the fall 2020 academic year with a multi-day, highly interactive orientation for incoming students.

First Class, an organization started by Harvard Law students to offer community and resources for low-income and first-generation college students, hosted a welcome reception for incoming students this August.