Themes
Teaching & Learning
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Larry Schwartztol, White House lawyer focused on voting rights and democracy reform, has been named a professor of practice. He will serve as the faculty director of the Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic.
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Reckoning with a Painful Legacy
July 14, 2022
Harvard issues a report on the university’s connections to slavery and its long history of discrimination against Black people long after slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment.
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Ryan D. Doerfler ’13, who focuses his research on critically examining the place of the federal judiciary in the American legal and political order, has joined the Harvard Law faculty as a professor of law.
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Justice Stephen Breyer returns to Harvard Law School
July 2, 2022
Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer ’64 is returning to Harvard Law School, where he will teach seminars and reading groups, write, and produce scholarship.
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Summer 2022 beach reads
June 26, 2022
Harvard Law faculty and staff share their reading lists for beachside, poolside, or inside with the AC.
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Harvard Law School experts weigh in on the Supreme Court’s final decisions.
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Harvard Law lecturer and former Maine attorney general Jim Tierney wants to demystify the inner workings of the state attorney general's office with a 'living text' to help students better understand this definitively American structure.
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Keith Fogg, Clinical Professor of Law and avid advocate for low-income taxpayers, retires
June 16, 2022
Keith Fogg, a clinical professor of law and the inaugural director of the Federal Tax Clinic at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC), is retiring this summer after seven years of dedicated service to the Harvard Law School community and to hundreds of clients in need.
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Nikolas Bowie ’14, a scholar of constitutional law, local government law, and legal history, was named a professor of law at Harvard Law School.
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Jared Ellias, a specialist in the study of corporate bankruptcies, joins the Harvard Law faculty
June 9, 2022
Jared Ellias, a bankruptcy law expert and corporate governance scholar, is joining Harvard Law School as a professor of law.
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Anna Lvovsky, a scholar on American legal history and criminal procedure, named professor of law
June 9, 2022
Anna Lvovsky ’13 has been promoted to professor of law at Harvard Law School. A scholar of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and evidence, she joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2017.
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Culture Fest
June 8, 2022
Harvard Law School staff share art, music, stories, and more at second annual event.
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‘Do justice, Class of ’22, do justice!’
May 26, 2022
The Class of 2022 made Professor Jon Hanson a four-time winner of the Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence at Class Day. The award recognizes teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns and general contributions to student life.
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Kristi Jobson ’12, the assistant dean for admissions and chief admissions officer, received the Suzanne L. Richardson Staff Appreciation Award during Harvard Law School’s Class Day ceremony on May 25.
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The Petrie-Flom Center hosted ‘Roe in limbo: A town hall on the leaked Dobbs opinion.’
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Spring to campus
May 12, 2022
From Hastings to Hauser, pops of green and red leaves, as well as white, yellow, and pink blossoms, paint Harvard Law’s campus with true signs…
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Staying rooted while branching out
May 12, 2022
Stephen Ball ’10, Harvard Law’s new Dean of Students, encourages students to ‘take the time to learn the craft,’ ‘build lasting relationships,’ and ‘take risks.’
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At a recent public consultation, the U.N. Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity Victor Madrigal-Borloz, a senior visiting researcher at Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program, gathered testimonies on the well-being of LGBTI communities around the world.
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Learn to surf the storm
May 2, 2022
There were no surfboards in evidence when Stephanie Robinson ’94 delivered the final installment of this year’s Last Lectures. But Robinson, a Harvard Law…
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In this installment of “Cases in Brief,” Harvard Law Professor Richard Lazarus ’79 discusses the landmark citizen-suit case, Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992), which hindered the ability to bring environmental citizen suits for much of the 1990s.
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‘Change the world around you’
April 29, 2022
In a philosophical and wide-ranging Last Lecture, Harvard Law School Assistant Professor Nikolas Bowie ’14 reminded the Class of 2022 that they are on the verge of changing the world.