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Interim Dean John Goldberg, Professor Glenn Cohen, and Roop Patel ’25 welcome first generation students to Harvard Law School at the annual First Class dinner.

During an address at Sanders Theatre, interim Dean John Goldberg welcomed 700 new J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. students to Harvard Law School.

Every time of the year in Cambridge has something to offer, and Harvard Law School wants to help you make the most of it.

Whether you are looking for something to do by yourself or with a friend, indoors or outdoors, Harvard Law Today has you covered with some fun — and frugal! — ways to spend your free time

Harvard Law expert Oren Bar-Gill helps deconstruct Disney’s argument for arbitration in a wrongful death lawsuit

Harvard University President Alan M. Garber has announced that John F. Manning ’85 has been appointed the next provost of the University.

On Wednesday, August 14, Harvard Law School’s Graduate Program officially welcomed the LL.M. Class of 2025 to campus, along with nine candidates for the S.J.D. degree, and ten international exchange students.

Sondra M. Miller ’53, a pioneering member of the first class at Harvard Law School to admit women and a trailblazing jurist who served as a judge in New York courts for 22 years, passed away at age 95 on August 7, 2024.

Beginning in July 2025, Ihab Khatib will serve as Harvard Law School’s Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.

Lior Frankiensztajn will serve as Harvard Law School’s Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, beginning in September 2024.

Harvard Law digital privacy expert Leah Plunkett says that children’s data safety is just one of many problems with kids’ use of popular apps like TikTok.

Participants, faculty, and staff celebrate the completion of the inaugural cohort of individual learners to go through Harvard Law’s online legal fundamentals course, Zero-L.

Several of this year's Chayes International Public Service Fellows share snapshots from their time abroad.

Harvard Law constitutional scholar Ryan Doerfler says that President Biden’s Supreme Court reforms don’t go far enough to ‘return … decision-making authority to elected officials’

Neil Eggleston, an expert on presidential powers at Harvard Law School, explains a pivotal case against Richard Nixon and how it squares with the Court’s decision in Trump v. U.S.

Although prior Supreme Court precedent suggests a new law violates the First Amendment, Harvard Law scholar Sanford Levinson says that ‘with this Court, nothing is settled’

The Berkman Klein cohort of fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year will independently research topics that align with BKC’s three pillars of public programming: AI, social media, and university discourse.

Harvard Law elections expert Nicholas Stephanopoulos says that, if chosen by Democratic delegates, ‘Harris has the keys to the [Biden reelection] account.’

Visiting professor Andrew D. Selbst, an expert in technology and the law, says the CrowdStrike snafu ‘illustrates … how fragile our infrastructure is.’

Former White House counsel and Lecturer on Law Neil Eggleston offers his analysis of Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling in the Trump documents case and weighs what’s next in a conversation with the Harvard Gazette.

As the Supreme Court wraps up another blockbuster term, Harvard Law School faculty members reflect on the ways the justices’ most recent decisions might reshape the law.