TikTok’s ‘Harvard Law Spouses’ explain legal jargon for the masses
Ashleigh Ruggles Stanley ’18 and Maclen Stanley ’18 use social media as a teaching opportunity to help people understand legal terms and current events.
President Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 for Supreme Court
Ketanji Brown Jackson ’96 was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Biden. If confirmed, Jackson would be the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.
Who we are
Jeffery Robinson ’81 has made challenging false narratives about racism his life’s work.
‘Grateful for it all’
Harvard Law alum Esther Mulder ‘14 discusses her journey from foster care to a career in public defense.
Russian incursion into Ukraine ‘very likely,’ says John B. Bellinger III ’86
John B. Bellinger III ’86, a former State Department and national security legal adviser, sees ‘echoes of the Cold War,’ and says Biden should make ‘crystal clear’ to Putin the consequences of an invasion.
Hilary Charlesworth S.J.D. ’86 elected to the International Court of Justice
Hilary Charlesworth S.J.D. ’86, an Australian barrister and solicitor, law professor, and renowned scholar of international law, has been elected to serve as a judge on the International Court of Justice.
HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books Winter 2022
When Tibor Várady began looking through more than 100 years of files of his family’s law firm in a Serbian city in Eastern Europe, he found not only client information. He uncovered a history of the people of the region during world wars and under control of multiple states.
Race and Place
Caste is alive and well in the United States — and it starts with the very neighborhoods we call home. That’s the uncomfortable truth Sheryll Cashin asks us to confront in her new book.
To Infinity and Beyond
Since 2007, Gabriel Swiney has served in the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser. His work in space law, he says, has allowed him to merge his experience and his passion to help future generations chart a safer, fairer path to the stars.
Home Court
“There aren’t a lot of jobs where your only job is to figure out what the law is and apply it to the facts without anybody from the outside pressuring you to take a certain position or view it in a certain way,” says Jonathan Papik.