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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.