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The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association recently awarded Harvard Law School Lecturer on Law Alexander Chen ’15, founding director of the law school’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic, its Best Under 40 award.

Kathryn E. Spier, the Domenico De Sole Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, received an honorary doctorate from BI Norwegian Business School, in November.

On November 29, Sherrilyn Ifill delivered a talk titled “Reimagining American Democracy: Becoming Founders & Framers” to mark her appointment as this year's Steven and Maureen Klinsky Visiting Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress.

A year ago this past week, on November 18, 2022, Syrian survivor and refugee Nujeen Mustafa spoke to delegates at the signing ceremony of the …

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, received the 2023 the Order of the Coif award for her book “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.”

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died Dec. 1. She was 93.

On the 100th anniversary of Harvard’s Master of Laws, or LL.M., program, students and faculty reflect on its evolution and global impact

Lecturer on Law Neil Eggleston has received a 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer.

Nigeria’s UN Ambassador Abiodun Richards Adejola and Dr. Victor Oladokun, a senior African Development Bank Group adviser, discussed multilateral challenges and opportunities at a recent event.

A project by Harvard Law School’s Dispute Systems Design, or DSD, Clinic is helping address a pressing justice issue in Brazil — the forced removal of…

Students gathered at Harvard Law School on Nov. 17 for the seventh annual Tortys, the Oscars-style film festival examining important issues of justice and tort law.

At Harvard Law, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the 2023 Ames Moot Court competitors their “devotion to craft” inspired her

A project by Harvard Law School’s Dispute Systems Design Clinic is helping address the forced removal of vulnerable communities from occupied land in Brazil.

Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law Ruth L. Okediji LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’96 has received a 2023 Barry Prize from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of her intellectual excellence and courage.

In a Harvard Law School Library book talk, Professor Alan Jenkins ’89 discusses his graphic novel series about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

On Nov. 1, Stephen Sachs celebrated his appointment as the inaugural Antonin Scalia Professor of Law with a lecture titled “Life After Erie.”

This October, Harvard Law School celebrated National Pro Bono Week 2023, an annual moment to recognize the tremendous pro bono contributions that law students and attorneys make in their local and global communities.

On the occasion of her appointment as Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law, criminal justice expert Alexandra Natapoff delivered a lecture titled "Redistributing Law: A View from Below."

Ahead of the holiday travel season, Harvard Law graduate Ganesh Sitaraman argues in a new book that deregulating the airline industry has led to higher costs, less choice, and more misery for the flying public.

Gerald E. Frug ’63, a pathbreaking scholar who reinvented the field of local government law, and a superb teacher and mentor, died Nov. 7 after a long illness. The Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School was 84.

With the final round of Harvard Law School’s 2023 Ames Moot Court Competition upon us, meet the two teams who are competing, and take a look back at the history of Ames.