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Harvard Law Professor Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert.

Harvard Law School today announced the appointment of L. Tracee Whitley as its new dean for administration, the School’s chief administrative officer.

Harvard Law Visiting Professor Sanford Levinson puts the storming of the Capitol in historical perspective.

Harvard Law School’s James Tierney says police would have treated Black Lives Matter protesters differently.

Guy-Uriel Charles will join the Harvard Law faculty as the inaugural Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law, effective July 1. He will also serve as faculty director of HLS’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.

Students in independent clinicals are making the most of a digital world.

An interview for a job she didn’t apply for turned out to be a career-defining opportunity for Natasha Onken, who has since devoted her life to helping students succeed.

A look back at the year at HLS.

The Harvard Association for Law and Business hosts Mark Cuban — businessman, Shark Tank investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks — for a conversation as part of its Dream Big Speaker series.

Harvard Law School's most liked images of the year.

After her first interview in Afghanistan, Nicolette Waldman ’13 realized she had found the career she was meant to pursue.

Happy Holidays and warm wishes from Harvard Law School!

Frosted branches, glowing lights, glimmering icicles near a gargoyle’s gaze — signs of winter at Harvard Law.

A Q&A with Harvard Legal Aid Bureau members Kiah Duggins ’21 and Sam Gilman ’22 on the CDC eviction moratorium and their work on local and national housing issues.

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis intensifying discussions about corporate purpose duties to stakeholders, the European Corporate Governance Institute and the London Business School Centre for Corporate Governance recently hosted a virtual debate on stakeholder capitalism between Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. ’80 S.J.D. ’84 and London Business School Professor Alex Edmans.

The music industry is no stranger to legal dispute. From high-profile cases involving Napster, Inc. to the many legal trappings that accompany artists throughout the creative process, the law has continued to evolve along with music. That's Student Practice Organization the Recording Artists Project (RAP) come in.

In the unusual year of 2020, Harvard Law authors continued to do what they always have: Write.

During a global pandemic when classes are remote and students are living around the country and the world, there is no such thing as business as usual. But this year’s class marshals are determined to do their part.

In October, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of legal historians in the consolidated cases against two U.S.-based chocolate companies alleged to have aided and abetted child slavery in West Africa.

Christopher Lewis, a political philosopher and scholar of the criminal legal system, has been named an assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School, effective Jan. 1.

How APALSA is creating community when students are spread out around the world.