Themes
Teaching & Learning
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Harvard Law faculty summer book recommendations
July 30, 2020
Looking for something to add to your summer book list? HLS faculty share what they’re reading.
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Striving for equality in the law
July 27, 2020
Shirley Bayle, who turns 100 today, looks back at her life in the law.
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PLAP students secure release of two prisoners with mental disabilities, and set new judicial precedent under the Americans with Disabilities Act
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Distance Learning Up Close
July 23, 2020
Teaching and learning at Harvard Law School in the first months of the pandemic
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A Killing in Broad Daylight
July 23, 2020
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, legal scholars see a moment of reckoning.
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No one in legal academia has ever combined the roles of constitutional teacher, scholar, advocate, adviser, and commentator with the dazzling breadth, depth, and eloquence of Larry Tribe ’66. And no constitutional law professor has ever so seamlessly integrated all these roles for his students’ benefit.
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It is one thing to find someone who combines stunning intellect, subject matter mastery, confidence and courage in his or her decision-making, but it is exceedingly rare to find one who possesses all those qualities together with a thoroughly genuine humbleness of spirit. But that is Robert Clark.
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Mary Ann Glendon communicated an ideal that as students of the law, we were participants in a vast, complex and immensely important human enterprise. [Yet] She never lost sight, with clear-eyed realism, of law as a sociological fact—subject to interests and powers—and of the fragility and flaws of every human undertaking.
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Reading Frederick Douglass together
June 30, 2020
In a July 2019 Q&A, David Harris, managing director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, discussed the annual public reading of Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, virtual this year for the first time in its 12-year history.
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Beatrice Lindstrom, clinical instructor and supervising attorney in the International Human Rights Clinic, has been working for nearly a decade to secure accountability from the U.N. for a devastating cholera outbreak caused by UN peacekeepers in Haiti in 2010.
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HLS professors and other associates condemn President Trump’s statements about recent protests
June 7, 2020
In an open letter to the community, Harvard Law School professors and other associates condemn President Trump’s statements about recent protests
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To better ensure the health and safety of its community amid the global pandemic, Harvard Law School programming will be remote for the Fall 2020 semester, Dean John F. Manning ’85 announced Wednesday.
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Harvard Law School 2019-2020 year in pictures
May 28, 2020
A look back at the 2019-2020 academic year, from summer orientation for incoming students and campus events and celebrations, through the changes brought on by a global pandemic, sending everyone away from campus. But still keeping everyone together thanks to online teaching, learning, and community.
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The Intrepid Class of 2020
May 28, 2020
Addressing graduating S.J.D.s, LL.M.s, and the first class of J.D.s he welcomed as dean three years ago, Dean John F. Manning ’85 saluted them for showing “resilience, strength, adaptability, and purpose,” and urged them to build “career[s] of meaning and purpose.”
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Stevenson: “We have to find ways to create more equality, more opportunity, more justice”
May 28, 2020
This year's commencement speaker, renowned public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson ’85 urged HLS graduates to keep their hopes intact and work to change the narratives that sustain inequality.
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The Class of 2020 chose Professor David B. Wilkins ’80 to receive the Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence.
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Jordana Arias receives staff appreciation award
May 28, 2020
Jordana Arias, program administrator of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, received the Suzanne L. Richardson Staff Appreciation Award during Harvard Law School’s Virtual Commencement on Thursday, May 28.
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Goodbye, good luck to the Class of 2020
May 27, 2020
Harvard Law School faculty and staff share virtual goodbyes with graduating students.
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Professor Glenn Cohen discusses how Harvard Law course can help prepare incoming law students across America
May 20, 2020
Harvard Law Today recently spoke by email with Zero-L’s faculty director, Professor I. Glenn Cohen, about the program, the decision to make it available for free to interested American law schools this year, and how he expects it can help them and their students prepare for the fall semester.
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Harvard makes online course for incoming students available to all law schools for free this summer
May 20, 2020
Amid COVID-19, Harvard Law School will offer Zero-L this year for free to any interested U.S. law school to help them and their incoming students bolster student success rates and overcome COVID-related pre-matriculation educational challenges.
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Harvard Law School Professor of Practice Naz Modirzadeh combines levity with earnestness in last lecture to the graduating class.