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  • Anna Lvovsky ’13 to join Harvard Law as assistant professor

    April 19, 2017

    Anna Lvovsky ’13, a scholar of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law and evidence, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in July.

  • From analysis to (phone) application

    April 19, 2017

    When David Webb ’17 was approached with the opportunity to become a part-owner of Hiatus—an app that can scan users’ accounts to uncover auto-renewing charges that they may be unaware of—lessons from classes such as Consumer Contracts and Law, Economics, and Psychology, taught by Harvard Law Professor Oren Bar-Gill, immediately sprang to mind.

  • Adriaan Lanni

    Lanni named a Guggenheim Fellow

    April 17, 2017

    Adriaan Lanni, the Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has received a 2017 Guggenheim fellowship, an award that honors exceptionally impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

  • Jonathan Zittrain

    Zittrain elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

    April 14, 2017

    Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, was recently named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Vaughan Academic Panel

    Minding the Gap: Where law and politics don’t meet

    April 14, 2017

    In March, University of San Diego Law School Professor Lawrence Alexander visited HLS to deliver a talk titled "Law and Politics: What is their relation?" as part the Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture Series and Academic Panel, co-sponsored by the HLS Federalist Society.

  • Samantha Power

    Ambassador Samantha Power named to joint appointment at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School

    April 13, 2017

    Samantha Power, who served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 until 2017, has been named to a joint faculty appointment at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Thomas Brennan at podium

    Focus and Perspective in Taxation: Tom Brennan receives the Stanley S. Surrey Professorship of Law

    April 13, 2017

    In a lecture marking his appointment as the Stanley S. Surrey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Tom Brennan ’01 delivered a talk titled “Focus and Perspective in Taxation," which addressed the issue of defining economic ownership and also the issue of uncertainty in future tax rates.

  • Four students posing in front of a bust, one of them kissing it on it's cheek

    Harvard Law School scavenger hunt for public interest

    April 12, 2017

    More than 350 students raced through the halls of Harvard Law School solving clues, answering trivia questions, and taking selfies with professors as part of the school's first ever Public Interest Scavenger Hunt, which had students competing for prizes as the community came together to show support for students working in public interest law.

  • Justice Neil Gorsuch '91, left, stands with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy '61 in the Rose Garden of the White House, during Gorsuch's swearing-in ceremony.

    Neil M. Gorsuch ’91 sworn in as U.S. Supreme Court justice

    April 10, 2017

    Neil M. Gorsuch, a 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School, was sworn in today as the 113th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • Lauren Kuhlik

    Lauren Kuhlik ’17 wins Law Student Ethics Award

    April 7, 2017

    Harvard Law School student Lauren Kuhlik ’17 has won the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)-Northeast Law Student Ethics Award, an award created to recognize students who have demonstrated exemplary commitment to ethics.

  • Nazi defendants in the first of the 13 Nuremberg war crimes trials on Nov. 11, 1945.

    Nuremberg Trials Project receives grant from National Endowment for the Humanities

    April 7, 2017

    On March 31, the Harvard Law School Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project announced its selection as a recipient of a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

  • Gish Jen

    ‘Baggage’ claims Gish Jen

    April 5, 2017

    During a Library Book Talk at Harvard Law School, writer Gish Jen discussed her latest book, “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap,” making the case for the sociological and cultural patterns that influence many aspects of identity.

  • 2017 Cravath Fellows

    Cravath International Fellows explore law abroad

    April 5, 2017

    Harvard Law Today recently spoke with three of the 11 Harvard Law School students who were selected as Cravath International Fellows this year, who traveled during winter term to Bogotá, Colombia, Paris, France and Singapore to pursue clinical placements and independent research.

  • Spring 2017 Obituaries

    April 4, 2017

  • Robert Sitkoff

    Sitkoff appointed to Drafting Committee for Uniform Electronic Wills Act

    April 4, 2017

    Robert H. Sitkoff, the John L. Gray Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has been appointed to the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) drafting committee for an Act on Electronic Wills.

  • Portrait of William Coleman

    Counsel for the Situation: William T. Coleman Jr. ’46 (1920 – 2017)

    April 4, 2017

    William T. Coleman Jr. ’46, the former secretary of transportation and one of the lead strategists and co-authors of the legal brief for the appellants in Brown v. Board of Education, died March 31.

  • photo of Sally Yates

    Sally Yates is Harvard Law School’s 2017 Class Day Speaker

    March 31, 2017

    Sally Yates, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States, will be this year’s speaker for the Class Day ceremonies at Harvard Law School.

  • Five students in costume on stage, performing

    2017 Parody: Harry Palsgraf in Fantastic Briefs and Where to File Them

    March 31, 2017

    In February, the Harvard Law School Drama Society presented the 2017 HLS Parody: "Harry Palsgraf in Fantastic Briefs and Where to File Them,” year featuring Harry and his section mates on their quest to find the most powerful outline at Harvard while outwitting the Hark Lord and the professors who serve him.

  • Okediji

    Leading IP scholar Ruth Okediji joins Harvard Law faculty

    March 30, 2017

    Ruth Okediji, a leading scholar in international intellectual property law and global economic regulation, will join the faculty of Harvard Law School as a tenured professor in July.

  • Hillary Sale with students

    Bringing boardroom experts to the (seminar) table

    March 29, 2017

    In her Corporate Boards and Governance course at HLS, Hillary Sale ’93, Sullivan and Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law, invites a range of high-profile guest speakers to share their experiences with students and explore complex issues that decision-makers at the highest levels are faced with daily.

  • Mental Health Day flyer for March 28, 2017

    Harvard Law School observes ABA Mental Health Day

    March 28, 2017

    The ABA Law Student Division has selected March 28 as the official National Mental Health Day at law schools across the country. To observe the event, HLS is sponsoring a week of educational activities.