Harvard Law School Orientation 2019
As new Harvard Law students settle into life on campus, we feature highlights from the beginning of the academic year.
Dean Manning welcomes new students to HLS
At Harvard University’s ornate Sanders Theatre, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’85 imparted several pieces of advice meant to help new students navigate law school, their careers in the law, and their lives beyond.
New this year for HLS faculty
With the start of the academic year, four new scholars have joined the ranks of the Harvard Law School faculty and two have been promoted to professor of law.
Like a fish out of a war zone
In an excerpt from her just-released memoir, Samantha Power recalls her experience going from Balkans war correspondent to Law School student — and her stumbles along the way.
The man who killed Jim Crow: The legacy of Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston was an inspiring figure in American legal history, and a sometimes controversial one as well. Both sides of his legacy were examined in a lively lecture and Q&A discussion at Harvard Law School this week, to coincide with the 124th anniversary of his birth on September 3, 1895.
If at first you don’t succeed…
Elena Kagan was ‘petrified’ when a Law School professor called on her on her first day of class. She blew her first exams, which situated her in ‘the bottom third of the class.’ And then, in her second semester at Harvard Law School, things started to change.
Paras Shah ’19, fostering inclusion and creativity in human rights
In his work with Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic and beyond, Paras Shah ’19 has always centered his approach to human rights on inclusion.
Roxanne Armbruster joins HLS as chief human resources officer
Last month, Roxanne Armbruster joined Harvard Law School as assistant dean and chief human resources officer. In a conversation with Harvard Law Today, she talks about her wide-ranging career experiences, from tending buoys in Maine to building an HR business partner model in Boston.
Welcoming new students
On August 19, Harvard Law School’s Graduate Program officially welcomed the LL.M. Class of 2020 to campus, along with eight new S.J.D. candidates and 10 international students from six of the law school’s exchange partner schools.
A look back at new beginnings
As new HLS students begin to move in this weekend for orientation next week, we take a look at how some past students began their lives at Harvard Law School.