Bringing Slavery’s Legacy to Light, One Story at a Time
Bryan Stevenson ’85 creates a memorial and museum to foster conversation on America’s original sin.
A call for a kinder capitalism
Speaking at Harvard Law School, U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III ’09 (D., Mass.) called Monday for a new national economic agenda based on “moral capitalism” that addresses the needs of embattled workers.
Bryan Stevenson ’85: ‘We can’t recover from this history until we deal with it’
Bryan Stevenson ’85 discusses the legacy of slavery and the vision behind creating the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in Montgomery Alabama.
Tackling a Big Job
When she was a girl, Megha Parekh’s parents expected her to come home with all A’s on her report card. And she did. Her mother also wanted her to play the flute. And she did … pretty much the exact opposite, banging on a drum set while listening to Metallica. She has been meeting and defying expectations ever since.
A ’60s Experiment with a Ripple Effect
During an event at Harvard Law School last year celebrating its 40 clinics and student practice organizations, Van Lanckton ’67 was delighted to hear about so many opportunities for students to work in the public interest today. But he also felt a sense of pride and nostalgia as he recalled the legal services experiment he and hundreds of other students had been part of more than 50 years earlier—at a time when clinical education did not exist at the school and change was in the air.
HLS in Congress
Harvard Law School graduates across the country won political victories in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives as part of the nation’s 2018 midterm elections.
A Conversation with Patti B. Saris ’76
A trailblazing career leads Patti Saris ’76 to cutting-edge science and criminal justice reform.
HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books Winter ’19
Alumni explorations, from the blockchain, to marriage counseling, to Guantanamo Bay
Empowered and Supported
HLSA President Dan Eaton ’89 wants to share the benefits of a remarkable experience.
Q&A with Norman Eisen ’91
An HLS education’s value for an author: One of the things I first learned how to do at HLS was how to assimilate large amounts of evidence, gather them up, find the thread that runs through them and tell a story. My message to aspiring authors out there is, this is a good additional utilization […]