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David Paul ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 David A. Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award. Paul is honored for his exceptional achievements in the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic of the Legal Services Center (LSC) and the Criminal Prosecution Clinic.

On May 14, 1874, the first inter-collegiate “foot-ball” game was played on the Harvard Law School campus, on what is today the Belinda Sutton Quadrangle.

Although basketball and the law may seem disparate, the throughline for former athlete and Ames Moot Court Competition winner Hayley Isenberg ’24 is the importance of teamwork.

While she was in the process of being officially admitted to the bar in her native Belgium, Salomé Van Bunnen LL.M. ’24 began to think about the direction she wanted to take in her legal career.

After a decades-long career, Brian Price, clinical professor of law and founding director of Harvard Law School's Transactional Law Clinics, will retire this summer.

Through clinics and a Skadden Fellowship, Julio Quiroz Colby ’24 aims ‘to assist immigrant workers every step of the way.’

English medieval law expert Elizabeth Papp Kamali explores the roots of modern criminal procedure through papal precedent and the story of Saint Veronica.

The legal underpinnings of integrating submarine service led Phoebe M. Kotlikoff MPP/JD ’24, one of the first female U.S. Navy submariners, to study law.

A child star, Nicholas Gonzalez ’24 found his vocation for the law through his love for acting.

Startup founders inspire a global audience at the 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Awards ceremony.

In their Last Lectures to the Class of 2024, Alan Jenkins, Sharon Block, Christopher Bavitz, and Nikolas Bowie delivered words of wisdom to soon-to-be graduates.

“Your class is special. You’re a unique class,” declared Nikolas Bowie ’14, the Louis D. Brandeis Professor at Harvard Law School during his Last Lecture…

James Pollack ’20 discusses the impact of first-ever federal rules on “forever chemicals” in drinking water.

Two Harvard Law experts explain why mediation skills are increasingly valuable for lawyers.

Julio Colby ’24 and Sara Kamouni ’24 have been selected as recipients of the Skadden Fellowship.

Experts from law, philosophy, and spiritual care discuss issues surrounding research and the safer use of psychedelics, kicking off a Divinity School initiative.

David Herwitz ’49, Royall Professor of Law, Emeritus, died April 8, 2024. He was 98. A scholar of tax and business law, Herwitz, who taught on the Harvard Law faculty for more than 50 years, is remembered as a beloved teacher colleague and mentor.

After 22 years as a beloved colleague and mentor to students and staff, Susana Arteta will retire from her role as administrative director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in May.

IP and media law expert Christopher Bavitz focused on the potential perils and possibilities of generative AI in a Last Lecture to the graduating class.

Harvard Law expert Carol Steiker explains how the Eighth Amendment will impact a Supreme Court decision on homelessness.

Richard Lazarus sees the Supreme Court's conservative majority as threat to environmental protections developed over past half century.