Today Posts

On Dec. 15, 2014, 34 Harvard Law alumni, from the Classes of 1971 to 2010, gathered at the U.S. Supreme Court to join the bar for the highest court in the nation.

From London to Iran and beyond, Barton J. “Bart” Winokur ’64 has had a robust career as an international deal-maker and expert in mergers and acquisitions.

Sareta Ashraph documents violations of international law for the U.N.

For Freshman Senator Tom Cotton, politics and patriotism are nothing new.

In March, Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice sponsored a dance performance at HLS titled “Dying While Black and Brown.” Presented one day before the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march, it dramatized the disproportionate incarceration and execution of people of color.

A central purpose of law is accountability. But who holds law itself to account? Law is designed to expose and sanction people, organizations, and nations…

Kannon Shanmugam on making his case before the Supreme Court

For Lani Guinier, the mission of higher education is—or should be—democracy.

Craig Gentry has developed ways to to keep data secure and accessible that may broaden the use of cloud computing.

In July, HLS Professor Daniel Halperin, will retire after after more than a half-century as a tax lawyer, professor and government official as will Duncan Kennedy who in 30 of his years on the faculty has taught one-fourth of every HLS entering class contracts, property or torts.

John Coates argues that extending speech protections to corporations is bad—not just for democracy but for capitalism.

In a new world of technology, Gabriella Blum and Benjamin Wittes argue, we are more powerful and more vulnerable than ever

Childhood friends train together to fight Uganda’s draconian anti-gay laws

The Global Anticorruption Lab, taught by HLS Professor Matthew Stephenson ’03, offers law students an unusual opportunity to hone concise writing skills through the crafting of blog posts that are read and commented on by high-level stakeholders around the world.

800 years later, the ‘great charter’ still fascinates

When HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig was named as the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard in 2008, he…

On April 20, Harvard Law School honored two members of its community—Donna Harati ’15 and Laura Maslow-Armand ’92—with the Gary Bellow Public Service Award, established in 2001 to recognize commitment to public interest work.