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Catherine Peshkin, assistant dean for Harvard Law School’s Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, looks back on her career and life-changing travels — and forward to a fun and productive year ahead.

In recent weeks, the Harvard Law School community has welcomed new cohorts of J.D., LL.M., S.J.D., and transfer students. Here is a selection of Harvard Law Today's coverage of orientation activities in, around — even beyond — the Cambridge campus.

Harvard Law alumna Debbie Dickinson ’95 and her daughter have created a wearable device that can help treat two of the most bothersome symptoms of menopause — hot flashes and night sweats.

Move-in day, receptions, dogs, and picnics: incoming students jump right into campus life.

Harvard Law Dean John F. Manning welcomes incoming law students, telling them the law offers “endless opportunities for lives of meaning and purpose.”

The Harvard Law School community welcomed the latest group of first-generation students to begin their studies.

Harvard Law Today spoke to attendees of the Dean of Students welcome event in Southern California, who told us why they wanted to study at Harvard Law School — and what they are most looking forward to about the year ahead.

Research by Ashley Nunes, Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program fellow, found that many electric vehicle owners are doing more environmental harm than good.

This year, Jonathan Zittrain and Jordi Weinstock published Torts! Third Edition as the first in their Open Casebook series of high-quality, low-cost text books designed to make these primary texts affordable to law students across the United States.

As Orientation begins, Harvard Law School welcomes the LL.M. Class of 2023, along with new cohorts of S.J.D. and international exchange students.

Scholars offer new expertise across a broad spectrum of legal fields

Across the country and throughout the world, Harvard Law School Dean of Students events welcome incoming students to the Harvard Law community.

Harvard Law Professor Carol Steiker ’86 discusses Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 landmark Supreme Court decision that declared the death penalty unconstitutional.

Keith Fogg, clinical professor of law emeritus at Harvard Law School, says that IRS audits of two former FBI officials deserve an investigation, but he doubts tampering.

Clinical Professor Deborah Anker LL.M. ’84, ‘one of the architects of modern refugee law’ and founder of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, moves to emerita status.

This past April, 77 years after Clark W. Maser ’51 arrived in Marseille to help liberate France from Nazi occupation, he was proclaimed a knight of the Legion of Honor.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s book recounts the remarkable — and too little-known — life and achievements of civil rights lawyer and judge Constance Baker Motley

In the world of formal debate from which Harvard Law student Bo Seo ’24 hails, disagreement is not a faux pas; It’s the whole point

“Lawyers are supposed to be problem solvers," says Justin Herdman ’01, "and that means identifying problems before they are at your doorstep.”

With Beyond Legal Aid, Lam Ho ’08 establishes a new model for public interest law

From “American Shtetl” to “South to America”

"My hope is that workers bank power for when things aren’t as good and build unions to protect themselves," says Sharon Block.

Ayesha Malik LL.M. ’99 has used her position, inside and outside the courtroom, to advocate for women in the legal system. “This is not a burden,” she says. “This is my calling.”

Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 becomes the first Black woman to serve on the Court

The Election Law Clinic, led by Ruth Greenwood, visiting assistant clinical professor, focuses on voter suppression, gerrymandering, and the challenges money poses to democratic participation.

During the last week of May this year, three Harvard Law School classes celebrated a long-awaited Commencement

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‘Everyone is struggling to understand what this new world is going to look like’

The exhibition, organized by metaLAB, reflected on the many ways social media influences our lives and the world around us — for good or for ill.

For one day in the 2019–2020 academic year, Harvard Law Today followed just a handful of Harvard Law's 47 legal clinics to see their work — and their efforts to advance justice — in action.

National Football League referee Ron Torbert ’88 reaches the pinnacle of his profession: Officiating the Super Bowl.

Adrian Vermeule proposes an approach to constitutional interpretation rooted in classical legal tradition

Remembering Lloyd Weinreb: 1936-2021 Credit: John Chapin In 1968 I was a second-year law student and my wife was in her final year at Radcliffe.

An election law course examines doctrine and asks students to consider ‘the way things ought to be, and how to make them happen’

Remembering Alan Stone 1929–2022 Alan A. Stone, the Touroff- Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry Emeritus in the faculty of…

Larry Schwartztol, White House lawyer focused on voting rights and democracy reform, has been named a professor of practice. He will serve as the faculty director of the Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic.

Harvard issues a report on the university’s connections to slavery and its long history of discrimination against Black people long after slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment.

Harvard Law School’s fellowship and seed grant program celebrates a decade of exponential impact for public interest careers, nonprofits, and the world.

It’s July, which means summer is in full swing in Cambridge. And with longer days and balmy temperatures, you might be looking for ways to…

Ryan D. Doerfler ’13, who focuses his research on critically examining the place of the federal judiciary in the American legal and political order, has joined the Harvard Law faculty as a professor of law.

Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer ’64 is returning to Harvard Law School, where he will teach seminars and reading groups, write, and produce scholarship.

From the Hughes Court to stock market short-termism to the U.S.'s "defend forward" cyber strategy

Harvard Law faculty and staff share their reading lists for beachside, poolside, or inside with the AC.

Harvard Law School experts weigh in on the Supreme Court’s final decisions.

Articles by four Harvard Law faculty were selected in an annual poll of corporate and securities law professors as three of the ten best corporate and securities articles of 2021.

Harvard Law lecturer and former Maine attorney general Jim Tierney wants to demystify the inner workings of the state attorney general's office with a 'living text' to help students better understand this definitively American structure.

Keith Fogg, a clinical professor of law and the inaugural director of the Federal Tax Clinic at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC), is retiring this summer after seven years of dedicated service to the Harvard Law School community and to hundreds of clients in need.

Nikolas Bowie ’14, a scholar of constitutional law, local government law, and legal history, was named a professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Jared Ellias, a bankruptcy law expert and corporate governance scholar, is joining Harvard Law School as a professor of law.

Anna Lvovsky ’13 has been promoted to professor of law at Harvard Law School. A scholar of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and evidence, she joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2017.