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Brenna Phillips ’24 has been awarded the 2024 Righeimer Prize, an honor that celebrates a graduating student in recognition of exceptional citizenship within the Harvard Law School community.

Harvard Law Today invites you to take a look back at some notable campus moments, from move-in to the month of May.

Morgan Carmen ’24 was named the winner of the 2024 William J. Stuntz Memorial Award for Justice, Human Dignity, and Compassion. 

A roundup of Harvard Law School's 2024 Commencement coverage.

Gabrielle Grossman ’24 and Alexandra Kersley ’24 are the recipients of the 2024 Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Awards.

Arjun Gananathan ’24 is the winner of the 2024 Ralph D. Gants Access to Justice Award, honored for his leadership in the Youth Advocacy and Policy Lab and the Criminal Justice Institute.

Bridget Pranzatelli ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award. She is recognized for her outstanding contributions to the Crimmigration Clinic, leadership in Harvard Defenders, and her extraordinary commitment to pro bono service.

Harvard Law’s Jody Freeman, Richard Lazarus, Andrew Mergen, and Carrie Jenks discuss the impact alumnus Dan Emmett’s $15 million gift to establish the Emmett Environmental Law Center will have for students, faculty, staff, and environmental law practitioners nationwide.

A gift by alumnus Dan Emmett ’64 and the Emmett Foundation will bolster the work of the law school’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Environmental and Energy Law Program.

As they prepare to graduate, several members of the Class of 2024 reflect on the interests they brought to — and the experiences and lessons they will take from — their time at Harvard Law.

Brenna Phillips ’24 spent the past three years helping create community on the Harvard Law School campus, and plans to use her degree to promote education reform.

David Paul ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 David A. Grossman Exemplary Clinical Student Award. Paul is honored for his exceptional achievements in the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic of the Legal Services Center (LSC) and the Criminal Prosecution Clinic.

On May 14, 1874, the first inter-collegiate “foot-ball” game was played on the Harvard Law School campus, on what is today the Belinda Sutton Quadrangle.

Although basketball and the law may seem disparate, the throughline for former athlete and Ames Moot Court Competition winner Hayley Isenberg ’24 is the importance of teamwork.

While she was in the process of being officially admitted to the bar in her native Belgium, Salomé Van Bunnen LL.M. ’24 began to think about the direction she wanted to take in her legal career.

After a decades-long career, Brian Price, clinical professor of law and founding director of Harvard Law School's Transactional Law Clinics, will retire this summer.

Through clinics and a Skadden Fellowship, Julio Quiroz Colby ’24 aims ‘to assist immigrant workers every step of the way.’

English medieval law expert Elizabeth Papp Kamali explores the roots of modern criminal procedure through papal precedent and the story of Saint Veronica.

The legal underpinnings of integrating submarine service led Phoebe M. Kotlikoff MPP/JD ’24, one of the first female U.S. Navy submariners, to study law.

A child star, Nicholas Gonzalez ’24 found his vocation for the law through his love for acting.

Startup founders inspire a global audience at the 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Awards ceremony.