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  • Group of students wearing face masks and wearing Halloween costumes posing for the camera.

    Hairy hands and brutal broadsides

    October 29, 2021

    The Harvard Law School Library showcases its creepiest collections during annual Haunted Halloween Tour.

  • Photograph of a woman looking at her painted portrait as a man claps and others in the audience look on.

    Portraits in Leadership

    October 27, 2021

    From the late 1800s to today artists have created portraits of Harvard Law School's deans, preserving a visual history of the school's leaders.

  • Harvard Law School unveils official portrait of former Dean Martha Minow

    October 27, 2021

    On October 22, Harvard Law School dedicated the decanal portrait of Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor.

  • Smiling woman with black hair and black jacket and gray sweater

    Annette Gordon-Reed receives Governor’s Award from Mass Humanities

    October 22, 2021

    Harvard Law Professor Annette Gordon-Reed ’84, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard, has been recognized by Mass Humanities with its Governor’s Award in the Humanities

  • Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville sign

    Supreme Court preview: Ramirez v. Collier

    October 20, 2021

    Josh McDaniel, director of Harvard’s Religious Freedom Clinic, explains the Supreme Court's upcoming Free Exercise case — and how his clinic is involved.

  • Close up of chickens in cages

    Animal Law & Policy Clinic assists in a victory for the Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary

    October 15, 2021

    The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Farm Sanctuary, represented by Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic, scored a victory this week when a judge ruled that a lawsuit filed against the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service will move forward.

  • Illustration of a colorful mind

    The obstacles to decriminalizing psychedelic drugs are political, not legal, say experts

    October 13, 2021

    The new Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at Harvard Law School recently convened a conference on the future of psychedelics law and regulation.

  • One woman and two men speaking at a meeting (one of the men is President Obama)

    In the Situation Room

    October 5, 2021

    Professor David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, recently sat down with Jeh Charles Johnson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP who served as the secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017 during the Obama Administration.

  • David French

    Moderating free speech

    September 27, 2021

    At a Federalist Society event, David French ’94 says government “should keep its hands off” social media and argues that support for free speech is waning across the political spectrum.

  • Supreme Court of the United States at night

    Pay no attention to the justices behind the curtain

    September 23, 2021

    Charles Fried, Richard Lazarus ’79, Tejinder Singh ’08, and Carol Steiker ’86 discuss the Supreme Court’s increasingly important emergency powers known as its “shadow docket.”

  • A glass flower on exhibit at Harvard University.

    Harvard beyond the Yard

    September 23, 2021

    Harvard Law faculty and staff reveal beloved spots for work and play at America’s oldest institution of higher learning.

  • Illustration showing alternative clean energy sources: hydro energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, and solar energy.

    Electric slide

    September 21, 2021

    Helping key players across Massachusetts — including the City of Boston and environmental nonprofits — reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 is a focus for the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.

  • L.O. Natt Gantt

    Gantt named executive director of Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies at HLS

    September 13, 2021

    L.O. Natt Gantt, II ’94 has been appointed the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Law School Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies and a lecturer on law at HLS.

  • Group of elementary children studying with a teacher at school during coronavirus pandemic

    Investigating mask mandate bans

    September 13, 2021

    Michael Ashley Stein ’88, executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, says the Department of Education should go beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act in investigating state bans against mandating face coverings in schools.

  • Eviction notice document with gavel and N95 face mask on a table.

    Harvard Law School clinics redouble efforts to assist after eviction moratorium’s end

    September 10, 2021

    As many people are left wondering what will happen with the end of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related moratorium on evictions, Harvard Law School clinics and programs have reaffirmed their commitment to helping individuals and families navigate the housing system and their legal options.

  • Two female students --one shedding tears—sit among members of the campus community holding lit candles at night

    Remembering 9/11

    September 9, 2021

    Looking back: A photo gallery of images of campus vigils on September 11, 2001 and ten years later.

  • Students walk by the side of the WCC in the evening

    Making connections — and a difference — through Student Practice Organizations

    September 9, 2021

    Each year, half of HLS’ first-year J.D. students and around a quarter of LL.M. students participate in at least one of HLS' 11 Student Practice Organizations, with some involved in multiple organizations at once.

  • A community of belonging

    September 2, 2021

    At this year's First Class dinner, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning, faculty, and students offer support and advice to first-generation students.

  • Man at a wooden podium on a stage speaking to a room of students

    ‘Being a lawyer is a superpower’

    September 2, 2021

    In his welcome address to incoming Harvard Law students this year, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’85 made the case that lawyers and the legal profession will be central to resolving many of the challenges facing the nation and the world today.

  • A group of ten students pose outside at granite bench on the Harvard Law School campus.

    Tips for law school success

    August 31, 2021

    Harvard Law School faculty and staff share what they wished they’d known about doing well and staying well in law school — useful whether you’re a first-year student just beginning your journey, an LL.M., S.J.D., or a 3L preparing to make your mark on the world.

  • Three banners hanging outside between columns on Langdell Hall. Two read Harvard Law School. Middle one reads Veritas and Lex Et Iustitia.

    Harvard Law School unveils new shield

    August 27, 2021

    The new Harvard Law emblem is the result of extensive consultations by a working group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni led by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed.