‘If the world’s a stage, then being a lawyer is a tremendous role to play’
If all the world’s a stage, Frankie Troncoso ’21 has an outsized role to play.
Harvard Law School’s 2021 Last Lecture Series
The Last Lecture Series at Harvard Law School, sponsored annually by the 3L and LL.M. class marshals, is an HLS tradition in which selected faculty members impart insight, advice, and final words of wisdom to the graduating class.
The art of being a lawyer
Like artists, lawyers must interpret and decipher the world around them, said Andrew Manuel Crespo ’08, Professor of Law, during his Last Lecture for graduating Harvard Law School students.
La Alianza provides students space for professional development and activism
During a remote year, the group launched a mentoring program, hosted alumni panels, and created innovative ways to connect with members around the world.
President Biden appoints 16 Harvard Law School faculty and alumni to panel studying Supreme Court reform
President Biden appointed 16 members of the Harvard Law School community — seven faculty and nine alumni — to a new presidential commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Banking on crime: The economic contours of policing in America
Experts discuss the myriad ways money and wealth influence criminal processes and outcomes as part of the yearlong “Policing in America” colloquium series, led by Harvard Law Professors Alexandra Natapoff and Andrew Manuel Crespo.
Premal Dharia joins Harvard Law School as inaugural executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration
Premal Dharia, founder and director of the Defender Impact Initiative, is joining Harvard Law School as the inaugural executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration.
2020 in pictures
A look back at the year at HLS.
‘This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for change’
HLS faculty on COVID-19 and the pressing questions of racism, racial injustice, and abuse of power that have driven this difficult year—and that are the focus of three new lecture series at the school.
A ‘reckoning’ for policing in America
In the first of a seven-part series about policing in America, experts discuss how this moment may be an inflection point.