‘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.

Power to the People

With Beyond Legal Aid, Lam Ho ’08 establishes a new model for a public interest law organization built around community partnerships and empowering the people they serve.

Up for Debate

In the world of formal debate from which Harvard Law School student Bo Seo ’24 hails, disagreement is not a faux pas, something uncomfortable to suppress or avoid. Instead, it’s the whole point.

Cases in Brief: Furman v. Georgia with Carol Steiker

In this installment of “Cases in Brief,” Harvard Law Professor Carol Steiker ’86 discusses Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 landmark Supreme Court decision that declared the death penalty unconstitutional.

‘The Beyoncé of asylum law’

Clinical Professor Deborah Anker LL.M. ’84, ‘one of the architects of modern refugee law’ and founder of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, moves to emerita status.

‘The odds are long … but not impossible’

Keith Fogg, clinical professor of law emeritus at Harvard Law School, says that IRS audits of two former FBI officials deserve an investigation, but he doubts tampering.

Might Elon Musk be forced to buy Twitter?

Harvard Professor Guhan Subramanian says it’s ‘likely’ a court will make billionaire Elon Musk ‘close the deal’ with Twitter.

Practicing Law in the Wake of a Pandemic

When the COVID-19 pandemic brought the global economy to a near halt in March 2020, lawyers — like everyone else — wondered how the crisis would affect not only their health and personal lives but also their work lives.

‘One Generation … from Segregation to the Supreme Court’

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.

‘Living by Protocol’ meditates on the impact of social media and its future

The exhibition, organized by metaLAB, reflected on the many ways social media influences our lives and the world around us — for good or for ill.