International Law

A Harvard Law conference and project focuses on Indigenous traditional knowledge and modern justice.

Four Harvard Law School students were selected this year as Salzburg Cutler Fellows. This annual program brings together students from 14 leading U.S. law schools to foster skills and forge connections through their common interest in international law.

Two years after the full-scale invasion, Harvard Law’s Laurence Tribe and Robert Zoellick argue that the U.S. and Europe should transfer $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.

During January, more than 100 HLS students pursued independent clinicals, research and writing projects, or coursework abroad.

Clinical Instructor Aminta Ossom ’09 and Taryn Shanes ’25 traveled to Geneva to present recommendations from the International Human Rights Clinic’s recent report, “When the Water Runs Dry: Human Rights, Climate Change and Deepening Water Inequality in Delhi, India,” at the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights.

Human rights specialist Bonnie Docherty lays out the legal and ethical problems of military weapons systems that attack without human guidance.

Michael Ashley Stein ’88, executive director of Harvard Law School’s Project on Disability (HPOD) and Harvard Law visiting professor, received the prestigious Dole-Harkin award from the United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD).

Megan Jane Davis, a leading constitutional lawyer on Indigenous constitutional recognition, will visit Harvard as the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University and visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Nigeria’s UN Ambassador Abiodun Richards Adejola and Dr. Victor Oladokun, a senior African Development Bank Group adviser, discussed multilateral challenges and opportunities at a recent event.

Having grown up in chaos, Logan Lathrop ’25 credits the military with setting him on a technology-related litigation career path.

As a Chayes Fellow, Izza Drury ’24 drafted a complaint to the UN Committee against Torture on behalf of a survivor seeking international protection in Greece.

Berkman Klein Center affiliate Asaf Lubin points up the need for a legal framework to govern peacetime intelligence operations.

Susan Farbstein ‘04 explains the importance of the lawsuit that HLS' International Human Rights Clinic and its students filed in 2007 against the former president of Bolivia seeking justice on behalf of Bolivian citizens whose families were killed by the military in 2003.

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency reflects on the agency’s challenges, including in North Korea and Iran, as well as Ukraine and Japan.

Sir David A.R. Williams LL.M. ’66, One of the first practitioners of international arbitration in New Zealand, recently retired after more than five decades as a litigator, environmental advocate, author, law professor, judge, and international arbitrator.

Bonnie Docherty, scholar on humanitarian disarmament, says the weapons endanger civilians now and in the future.

As we approached midsummer, several Chayes International Public Service Fellows offered updates on their projects abroad.

Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, a legal historian whose research examines the relationship between international law and global inequality, has joined the Harvard Law School faculty.