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Student Spotlights
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Sejal Singh ’20 is the recipient of the David Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award. She was recognized for her work on the Project on Predatory Student Lending, as well as her exemplary contributions to public-interest endeavors.
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Lauren Beck ’20, lowering barriers to entry
May 20, 2020
As the 133rd president of the Harvard Law Review, Lauren Beck ’20 has focused on making the journal more inclusive and accessible.
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Summations: Reflections from the Class of 2020
May 20, 2020
Members of the Class of 2020 reflect on their interests and share experiences they will take from their time at Harvard Law.
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Dylan Asafo LL.M. ’20 plans to use his HLS education to help address the inequalities facing communities of color in New Zealand and the wider Pacific region.
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Team of 1Ls win international negotiation challenge
May 15, 2020
Deftly adapting to a shift in both venue and format, and applying skills from their J-Term negotiation workshop, Harvard Law 1L students Adira E. Levine, Noopur Sen, and Adam J. Toobin were able to negotiate their way to victory in The Negotiation Challenge—an international contest drawing competitors from around the world.
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At year-end celebration, Petrie-Flom student fellows present their independent research projects
April 27, 2020
Student fellows at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics recently celebrated their fellowships’ end virtually when their capstone meeting moved to Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Born and raised in Nepal, Sabrina Singh ’20 has been speaking out about how the COVID-19 pandemic could exacerbate conditions in her home country.
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For the Clinical Program at Harvard Law School, the past weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic have been a time to mobilize. As the clinics have moved to working remotely, their work has continued with new urgency.
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Waste not, want not
April 1, 2020
Harvard Law School Professor Emily Broad Leib ’08, director of the HLS Food Law and Policy Clinic, and her students have been working furiously to ensure that the most vulnerable—and ultimately the rest of us—are fed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Animal Law & Policy Program files amicus brief in Supreme Court challenging border wall
March 19, 2020
Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program filed its first Supreme Court brief challenging the Trump administration’s waiver of laws regarding the U.S.-Mexico border wall construction. Ashley Maiolatesi ’20 recently corresponded with Harvard Law Today about what is at stake, the specific ramifications of these waivers, and her own personal connection to the project.
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During Winter Term, 12 Harvard Law School students traveled to 12 countries as Cravath International Fellows to pursue clinical placements or independent research with an international, transnational, or comparative law focus.
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Patients are often subjected to nonconsensual procedures and other mistreatment during the birthing process; Alexa Richardson, a student fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, is working to bring this situation to light.
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Chol Soo Lee and his fight for freedom
February 28, 2020
For the fourth consecutive year, the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) welcomed the Honorable Judge Denny Chin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for a reenactment of a key trial that shaped Asian American history.
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Gallery: The LL.M. Class of 2020 celebrates at Harvard Law School’s annual International Party
February 26, 2020
On Feb. 15, Harvard Law School LL.M. Class of 2020 celebrated the annual International Party in Wasserstein Hall.
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Winter term around the world
February 11, 2020
HLS students traveled to 25 countries over winter term with the support of the Winter Term International Travel Grant Program.
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Michaeljit Sandhu ’21 elected 134th Harvard Law Review president
February 11, 2020
The Harvard Law Review has elected Michaeljit Sandhu ’21 as its 134th president. Sandhu succeeds Lauren Beck ’20.
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First Class
February 6, 2020
An organization started by Harvard Law students offers community and resources for low-income and first-generation college students at the school.
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Students showcase films on tort law and justice
December 19, 2019
A night of glamour at HLS to celebrate student films on tort law and justice.
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Mail priorities: Madelyn Petersen ’19 works to keep communities connected in rural Iowa
December 6, 2019
As a member of Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, Madelyn Petersen '19 and several other students traveled to northwest Iowa to study how the federal government’s plan to potentially privatize the U.S. Postal Service might affect the small, largely rural communities there.
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Ben Miller-Gootnick ’21 wins the Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Competition.