Advocating from afar
Despite working remotely, first-year students with Harvard Law School’s Tenant Advocacy Project gained meaningful skills and successfully helped clients during the fall semester student practice organization.
Rethinking digital education in a ‘global classroom’
As Harvard Law students across the world logged onto Zoom this fall to connect to their professors and peers, Sidharth Chauhan LL.M. ’21 took virtual education a step further.
Harvard Law Review elects Hassaan Shahawy ’22 as its 135th president
The Harvard Law Review has elected Hassaan Shahawy ’22 as its 135th president. Shahawy succeeds Michaeljit Sandhu ’21.
Laying the groundwork for real-life lawyering
Students in independent clinicals are making the most of a digital world.
Harvard Law students fight for families facing evictions
A Q&A with Harvard Legal Aid Bureau members Kiah Duggins ’21 and Sam Gilman ’22 on the CDC eviction moratorium and their work on local and national housing issues.
Representing ‘The Super Class of 2021’
During a global pandemic when classes are remote and students are living around the country and the world, there is no such thing as business as usual. But this year’s class marshals are determined to do their part.
Pursuing U.S. accountability for child slavery abroad
In October, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of legal historians in the consolidated cases against two U.S.-based chocolate companies alleged to have aided and abetted child slavery in West Africa.
Advocating for the Asian Pacific community at Harvard Law School and beyond
How APALSA is creating community when students are spread out around the world.
Teaming up to promote access to water
As the only team members on their International Human Rights Clinic project, Laura Soundy ’22 and Rehab Abdelwahab ’21 have learned how critical it is to talk about subjects other than law. In doing so, they learned they were both quarantining in Texas, and have formed a plan to safely meet in person next year.
Harvard Law receives record number of Skadden Fellowships
Nine HLS students and alumni awarded prestigious Skadden Fellowship for public service.