Teaching & Learning

The Association of American Law Schools has named William P. Alford ’77, the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, as the recipient of the 2026 Section on East Asian Law and Society Jerome A. Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award.

Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard and former dean of Harvard Law School, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Social Sciences and Technology.

The American Bar Association has named Richard J. Lazarus ’79, the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard, the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental, Energy, or Resources Law and Policy.

Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice the Honorable Rosalie Silberman Abella, currently the Samuel LL.M. ’55 S.J.D. ’59 and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.

Andrew Mergen, faculty director of the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, has been named an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law School.

Noel Roycroft, director of the Transactional Law Clinics, has been named an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law School. 

Harvard Law School’s Environmental Moot Court Initiative empowers advocates and inspires students.

Students in Adriann Lanni’s class find the Greek philosopher Socrates not guilty (though just barely).

Harvard Law School’s Future-L gives talented high school students insight into the law and legal careers.

Textualists should consider legislative intent in interpreting the law, argues Harvard Law School’s 2025 Vaughan lecturer.

Harvard Law Today offers a look at the Harvard Law School Library's efforts to document the full archive of the Nuremberg trials, and much more.

Christine Desan co-hosts summit advocating for the return of public banks, which put capital to work for more than just profits.

Harvard Law School lawyers played pivotal roles in the 13 Nuremberg trials that began just six months after Germany surrendered in WWII.

Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.

A Harvard Law School panel debated approaches to research and access to hallucinogenic drugs.

UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh and Harvard Law School Dean John Goldberg discuss emerging trends in protest and public pressure civil claims.

Harvard Law Professor Ben Eidelson tapped into a childhood passion to build a tool for lawyers and law students.

A panel of veterans who experienced less-than-honorable discharges recount the many ways that Harvard Law’s Veterans Legal Clinic assisted them.