Making Herstory
Ayesha Malik LL.M. ’99 has used her position, inside and outside the courtroom, to advocate for women in the legal system. “This is not a burden,” she says. “This is my calling.”
‘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.
Class Notes: Summer 2022
1958 Phil Zeidman recently retired after an “uncommonly lucky and rewarding career” which allowed him to practice law, be involved in politics, and travel. He started out in government service for 10 years and then was in private practice for 54, many of those in a firm bearing his name. He writes that his definition […]
‘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.
At the Top of His Game
Ron Torbert ’88 had been preparing for the moment for more than 30 years.
An Ounce of Prevention
“Lawyers are supposed to be problem solvers,” says Justin Herdman ’01, “and that means identifying problems before they are at your doorstep.”
Justice Stephen Breyer returns to Harvard Law School
Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer returns to HLS faculty. Breyer will teach seminars and reading groups, write, and produce scholarship.
Commencement x 3
During the last week of May this year, three Harvard Law School classes celebrated a long-awaited Commencement. Members of the Class of 2022, who received their diplomas from Dean John F. Manning ’85 on the 26th, were followed over the weekend by returning graduates from the Classes of ’20 and ’21, whose in-person Commencement exercises […]
HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books Summer 2022
From “American Shtetl” to “South to America”