A community of belonging
At this year’s First Class dinner, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning, faculty, and students offer support and advice to first-generation students.
‘Being a lawyer is a superpower’
In his welcome address to incoming Harvard Law students this year, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’85 made the case that lawyers and the legal profession will be central to resolving many of the challenges facing the nation and the world today.
Rachel Viscomi named clinical professor of law
Rachel A. Viscomi ’01 has been appointed clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School. Viscomi, who was appointed director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) in 2018, was most recently an assistant clinical professor of law.
Property law scholar Maureen ‘Molly’ Brady named to the tenured faculty at Harvard Law School
Maureen E. “Molly” Brady, an expert in property law, was named a professor of law, effective July 1.
Sheila Heen appointed professor of practice
Sheila Heen ’93, negotiation expert and trainer, has been appointed professor of practice at Harvard Law School, effective July 1, 2021. She has been a lecturer on law at HLS since 1995.
Harvard Law School unveils new shield
The new Harvard Law emblem is the result of extensive consultations by a working group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni led by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed.
Harvard Law School J.D. class is most academically accomplished, diverse in school history
Today, Harvard Law School welcomed to campus its most diverse class of J.D. students in school history — with record-breaking test scores and grade point averages, to boot.
Paul C. Weiler LL.M. ’65, 1939–2021: North America’s foremost labor law scholar and the founder of ‘sports and the law’
Paul C. Weiler LL.M. ’65, the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, renowned as North America’s foremost labor law scholar and the founder of sports law, died July 7 after a long illness.
Joshua McDaniel appointed director of Harvard Law School’s Religious Freedom Clinic
Harvard Law School has appointed Joshua C. McDaniel to serve as a visiting assistant clinical professor and as the director of its Religious Freedom Clinic.
Christopher Bavitz appointed Harvard Law School’s vice dean for experiential and clinical education
Harvard Law School’s Christopher T. Bavitz, the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law, has been appointed as vice dean for experiential and clinical education.