Student Spotlights

As the Class of 2023 prepares to cross the commencement stage, we asked a few graduating students to share their favorite Harvard Law memories.

With the support of other immigrants and compassionate immigration lawyers, Ricardo Jimenez Solis ’23 is now achieving what his family hoped for when they left their home in El Salvador for the United States.

Barbara “Babs” Tsao ’23 was 13 years old when her family moved from a leafy suburb in California’s Bay Area to a ranch in a small Texas town where her stepfather raised alpacas and her mother opened her own sushi restaurant.

Members of the Class of 2023 reflect on their Harvard Law School experience and their plans after graduation

Army Captain Ryan Gunderman '23 hopes to use his legal training to bring restorative justice to military adjudication.

For as long as she can remember, Tushigjargal Bold LL.M. ’23 has enjoyed such a wide variety of interests that it’s been hard to focus on just one.

For Frances Williamson ’23, a childhood spent largely outdoors in South Texas inspired a career in environmental litigation.

Six members of the Class of 2023 delivered talks to their peers — final words of wisdom on everything from the power of community to familial pride to lessons learned from mushrooms.

First Gen Empower, founded by Arabi Hassan ’23, enables first-generation, low-income, and immigrant high school and college students to pursue their dreams.

At an event hosted by the Harvard Law School Library, several students discussed their experiences working with capital defense offices across the country as part of the Capital Punishment Clinic.

A friendly competition between four Harvard Law students in 1960 has grown into the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, with 700 students competing worldwide.

Alice Hu has been elected president of the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, an organization founded in 1981 to represent and support Asian Pacific American law students.

Ten Harvard Law students trekked to arctic Alaska during spring break to prepare tax returns for indigenous communities.

Harvard Law Students undertook a number of pro bono projects locally, nationally, and internationally during Spring Break this year.

At the “Teaching First-Generation Law Students” event, professors shared insights and recommendations for making law teaching more inclusive.

Four Harvard Law School students were selected this year as Salzburg Cutler Fellows in International Law and Public Service.

In honor of this global holiday, here are just a few international women who make up the Harvard Law School community.

Hassan is a UK lawyer and former chief trade negotiator at the World Trade Organization for the Federal Government of Somalia. She says her time…

Ásgerður Snævarr LL.M. ’23 is a legal adviser to the Prime Minister of Iceland and a part-time lecturer in administrative law at the University of…

Khawla Yassin Nassar LL.M. ’23 is a Palestinian Israeli lawyer. She completed her Bachelor of Laws degree at Tel Aviv University, graduating magna cum laude…

Students in Harvard Law’s Consumer Protection Clinic fight to eliminate debt for community members.