Since the doors of College House Number 2 opened to the first six students in the fall of 1817, almost everything at Harvard Law School has changed. But in this collection of photos selected from the school’s Historical & Special Collections, the Harvard University Archives and the Harvard Law Bulletin, you will see threads of continuity, no matter which decade—or even which century—you arrived. A photo offers up a moment, and we hope this collection conveys something of the history of this place, its people and its ethos.

Credit: Joshi Radin 2012: A stroll in the hallways of the WCC is also a trip through time with HLS faculty, from Austin Wakeman Scott LL.B. 1909, who became professor of law in 1914, to Naz Modirzadeh ’02, who joined the faculty in 2016.