Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 took a historic step on June 30, when she was sworn in as the 116th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first Black woman to ascend to the nation’s highest court. Continue Reading
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Inside HLS
Vote of Confidence
“How could you hold your politicians accountable if they are making it harder for you to vote?” This is among the questions addressed by election law, says Guy-Uriel Charles, questions that are "core to any modern democracy.”
Writ Large
The Civil Rights Queen and Her Court
Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s book recounts the remarkable — and too little-known — life and achievements of civil rights lawyer and judge Constance Baker Motley
Brown-Nagin hopes that current and future generations will learn Motley’s story, which showcases her resilience and the many different ways one can make contributions over the course of a career. Continue Reading
A Blast from the Past
Adrian Vermeule proposes an approach to constitutional interpretation rooted in classical legal tradition
“Common Good Constitutionalism" offers a fundamental critique of both leading approaches to the debate over constitutional law and interpretation. Continue Reading
From the Hughes Court to stock market short-termism to the U.S.'s "defend forward" cyber strategy Continue Reading
Alumni Notes & Newsmakers
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Making Herstory
Ayesha Malik LL.M. ’99 has used her position, inside and outside the courtroom, to advocate for women in the legal system. “This is not a burden,” she says. “This is my calling.”
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An Ounce of Prevention
“Lawyers are supposed to be problem solvers," says Justin Herdman ’01, "and that means identifying problems before they are at your doorstep.”
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‘A Good Time to Serve One’s Country’
This past April, 77 years after Clark W. Maser ’51 arrived in Marseille to help liberate France from Nazi occupation, he was proclaimed a knight of the Legion of Honor.
Letters
In 1968 I was a second-year law student. It was the middle of a very cold winter and a raging snowstorm. It was the night we had invited one of my Harvard Law professors, Lloyd Weinreb, to dinner. Continue Reading
As a mere foot soldier in the trenches of the law all these years (now retired), I previously could only marvel at the accomplishments of my former classmates as the Bulletin trumpeted their achievements. Continue Reading
There is no denying that the internet’s democratization of publishing has made it more challenging for Americans to discern legitimate news reporting sources from biased, subjective, and even deceptive opinion platforms. But that doesn’t compel throwing up our hands in surrender. Continue Reading
Class Notes
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Commencement x3
During the last week of May this year, three Harvard Law School classes celebrated a long-awaited Commencement. Members of the Class of 2022, who received their diplomas on the 26th, were followed over the weekend by returning graduates from the Classes of ’20 and ’21, whose in-person Commencement exercises had been postponed due to the pandemic.
In. Memoriam
Credit: John Chapin
Alan Stone 1929–2022
For more than 50 years, Alan Stone, an expert on law and psychiatry, invited Harvard students to answer life’s difficult questions.