At the end of October, some 3,000 members of the HLS community participated in Harvard Law School’s Bicentennial Summit: HLS in the World. If you attended, you were in the company of HLS legislators, governors, judges, public interest leaders, entrepreneurs, financiers and journalists from around the globe.
It began with a spirited conversation among six members of the U.S. Supreme Court, all HLS alumni, moderated by Dean John Manning ’85. During the event in Sanders Theatre, the justices shared memories, humor and even a little advice for advocates. The summit continued the next day with an abundance of offerings, including panel discussions with HLS senators and representatives, a forum on national security and privacy, and a highly entertaining reargument of Marbury v. Madison by two eminent Supreme Court advocates—to name just a few of the 62 events. In between sessions, you might have run into the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a governor or three, or the president of the EU’s highest court, and have lifted a glass to the next 100 years.
![Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79 (top center) with Justices Anthony M. Kennedy ’61, Stephen G. Breyer ’64, Neil Gorsuch ’91, David H. Souter ’66 (retired), and Elena Kagan ’86, surrounded by faculty and students on the steps of Langdell Hall before the procession to Sanders Theatre](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19774-f17.jpg)
![U.S. Senators Tom Cotton ’02, Mark Warner ’80, Tim Kaine ’83, Elizabeth Warren, Jack Reed ’82](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19775-f17.jpg)
![Executive Vice Presidents and General Counsel Laura Stein ’87 (Clorox) and Deirdre Stanley ’89 (Thomson Reuters) addressing the role of in-house counsel during a session at the HLS in the World Bicentennial Summit.](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19842-f17.jpg)
![Andrew McLaughlin ’94, Matt Olsen ’88, Daphna Renan during a discussion on national security, privacy, and the rule of law.](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19840-f17.jpg)
![Patrick Fitzgerald ’85, George T. Frampton Jr. ’69, and Michael Bromwich ’80 speaking during a session.](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19788-f17.jpg)
![Loretta Lynch ’84, former U.S. attorney general, in conversation with HLS Professor Annette Gordon-Reed ’84](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19781-f17.jpg)
![Clinical Professor Dehlia Umunna speaks during a session on effective client representation](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19780-f17.jpg)
![Bryan Stevenson ’85, speaking during a session at HLS in the World Bicentennial summit.](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19777-f17.jpg)
![HLS Assistant Professor Mark Wu; U.S. Rep. Sandy Levin ’57; Michael Froman ’91, former U.S. trade representative; Robert Zoellick ’81, former president, World Bank speaking during a panel.](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19776-f17.jpg)
![Karen Freeman-Wilson ’85, and Jorge Elorza ’03 speaking during a panel discussion](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19843-f17.jpg)
![Peggy Kuo ’88 participates on the panel “International Criminal Law from Nuremberg to the ICC and Beyond”](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19835-f17.jpg)
![Barney Frank ’77, former U.S. congressman, speaking during a session at the HLS in the World Bicentennial Summit](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19834-f17.jpg)
![Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79 with Justices Anthony M. Kennedy ’61, Stephen G. Breyer ’64, Neil Gorsuch ’91, David H. Souter ’66 (retired), and Elena Kagan ’86 on the Sanders Theatre stage with Dean John Manning](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19832-f17.jpg)
![Former Congresswoman and ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security intelligence subcommittee Jane Harman ’69 speaking during a session at the HLS in the World Bicentennial Summit.](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19783-f17.jpg)
![William K. Reilly ’65, speaking with Professor Jody Freeman in Wasserstein Hall](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19782-f17.jpg)
![Jennifer Granholm and Michael Dukakis stand and talk to each other](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19838-f17-crop.jpg)
![Dean Manning with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79, Justices Anthony M. Kennedy ’61, Stephen G. Breyer ’64, Neil Gorsuch ’91, David H. Souter ’66 (retired), and Elena Kagan ’86 on the stage at Sanders Theatre](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19837-f17.jpg)
![Harold Koh and Samantha Power stand together smiling](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19836-f17-crop.jpg)
![Wide angle shot of Ames Courtroom during the Marbury vs. Madison event](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19792-f17.jpg)
![HLS 200 Banners hang on poles around campus](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HLB-19841-f17.jpg)
Soundbites from the Summit
“This afternoon underscores … the notion that graduates of this school should be citizen-lawyers.”
—David Gergen ’67
“To be able to have people trust you with [their] pain or their story means a great deal.”
—Loretta Lynch ’84
“It takes restraint to listen rather than speak, to consider rather than dismiss, to follow new wisdom rather than familiar doctrine.”
—Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79