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As new arrivals settle in, we roundup Harvard Law Today's coverage of the start of the 2025-2026 academic year.

From a morning jog and moving into dorms and residence halls to ice cream socials, campus tours, section dinners, Dean John Goldberg's welcoming remarks at Sanders Theatre, team-building activities, LAWn games, section photos, and more — orientation week for new Harvard Law School students was jam-packed from start to finish!

According to environmental and energy law expert Ari Peskoe, the public is paying for the energy infrastructure used to power Big Tech.

Obligations XI brought together scholars and practitioners from across the common law world to discuss current issues in areas such as contracts, torts, property, equity, unjust enrichment, and private law theory.

Dispute Systems Design Clinic alums Tanishk Goyal LL.M. ‘25, Lynn Monzer [HKS MPA ‘25], and Abby Elder ‘25 authored a report titled "Strengthening Somalia’s Seed Sector," on indigenous seed practices in the region.

Harvard Law School’s Dean John Goldberg urges incoming students to ‘engage seriously and respectfully ideas with which one disagrees, not to mention the people who espouse them.’

Alejandro Castro ’26 and Deans Goldberg, Cohen, and Monroe welcome incoming first-gen students to Harvard Law School at annual First Class reception.

Josh McDaniel of Harvard Law’s Religious Freedom Clinic argues that religious plaintiffs help secure secular rights.

Catherine Peshkin, who has served as interim dean of student services since October 2024, has been appointed dean of student services for Harvard Law.

On Wednesday, August 13, Harvard Law School’s Graduate Program officially welcomed 188 new Class of 2026 LL.M. students to campus.

This summer, Harvard Law students spent time in 12 countries, working as Chayes International Public Service Fellows with non-profit organizations and inter-governmental agencies.

Nancy Pinn, who joined the law school in 2001 as assistant director for LL.M. affairs, has been appointed assistant dean for Harvard Law's Graduate Program and International Legal Studies.

Airlines and other companies are increasingly using data to determine pricing, says a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Harvard Law Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos explains the national laws at stake in the Texas gerrymandering dispute.

Harvard Law Professor William Rubenstein explains why class action lawsuits may replace universal injunctions as the hot legal tool for challenging federal policy.

Six members of the Harvard Law School Association Executive Committee discuss their law school time and what it means to maintain their Harvard ties and make new ones.

Harvard Law Professor Howell Jackson says GENIUS Act brings an increasingly popular form of cryptocurrency within the regulatory perimeter, potentially establishing a model for global regulation of stablecoins.

In June, students and staff from the WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC) advocated at the Massachusetts State House for two pending bills that will help make it easier for people to have their criminal records sealed.

Amanda Watson of the Harvard Law School Library says the release of Harvard’s digitized collection is only the beginning of collaborations between libraries and tech firms.

With the 2025 July bar exam approaching, seven Harvard Law School faculty members take time to share their bar exam experiences and to advise and celebrate the Harvard Law School Class of 2025 examinees.

The founders of Harvard Law School Project on Disability discuss the program’s ethos and evolution over the past 20 years.