‘Every drop in the ocean counts’
After COVID-19 erupted earlier this year, Sidharth Chauhan LL.M.’21, who grew up in the foothills of the Himalayas, helped lead a multi-layered effort to address the pandemic in rural India.
HLS sports law journal tackles publicity rights in college sports
The Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law publishes special edition focused on the NCAA and the rights of student-athletes to profit from their own name, likeness or image.
Harvard Law School Orientation 2020
In August, Harvard Law School officially kicked off the start of the fall 2020 academic year with a multi-day, highly interactive orientation for incoming students.
‘Mix the stuff of your lives together until you find what shines’
First Class, an organization started by Harvard Law students to offer community and resources for low-income and first-generation college students, hosted a welcome reception for incoming students this August.
Making lemonade from lemons
When the coronavirus pandemic handed him lemons, Stefan Martinić LL.M. ’21 made lemonade—literally—and invited his Harvard Law School LL.M. classmates around the globe to join him for an online lemonade party, sparking the class to create a variety of virtual social events that have already bonded them closely.
Student Voices: Why law?
Students from the incoming classes of J.D.s and LL.M.s talk about what inspired them to pursue a legal education.
Orientation 2020: Welcome to Harvard Law School!
Faculty and staff kick off Orientation 2020 with a big welcome to incoming students.
Human Rights Clinic team submits amicus brief in Chiquita Brands lawsuit
After months of delays, the International Human Rights Clinic filed an amicus brief in June in Doe. et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, a suit that seeks accountability for Chiquita’s actions during the Colombian armed conflict from 1997 to 2004.
Baking to support racial justice is ‘a labor of love’
Harvard Law School student Sarah Rutherford ’21 recently co-founded Black Bakers for Black Lives, an initiative to raise money for, and awareness of, organizations fighting for racial justice.
No Time Like the Present
Talia Gillis’ work cuts a wide swath, one focus being the intersection of artificial intelligence and consumer loan discrimination. It’s driven by a question: “What does it mean for a credit pricing algorithm to discriminate?”