Student Spotlights
Six students reflect as Commencement approaches
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.
Stephen Breyer for the Defense
In a new book, the former Supreme Court justice and current Harvard Law School professor champions his pragmatic approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation against the forces of textualism and originalism
Parting thoughts: Faculty deliver Last Lectures to the Class of 2024
In their Last Lectures to the Class of 2024, Alan Jenkins, Sharon Block, Christopher Bavitz, and Nikolas Bowie delivered words of wisdom to soon-to-be graduates.
The Latest
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Cases in Brief Faculty discuss some of the most notable cases in the history of the Supreme Court
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