News from classrooms, clinics and campus
On a recent afternoon, the Harvard Gazette sat down with Susan Carney ’77, current president of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and Michael Brown ’88, president-elect for 2019-20, to discuss their roles and the challenges that face higher education.
For his ‘last lecture’ to graduating J.D.s and LL.M.s, Professor Michael Klarman invoked two inspiring figures in legal history: Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Addressing the Harvard Law School graduating class, former Dean Martha Minow focused on the art of asking good questions—a talent she told the students would be key to their work in the future, and a skill that they should ‘cherish and cultivate.’
Think of an honest used car salesperson. The very idea might seem like an oxymoron. That’s not because no honest people ever sell cars. It’s because the profession as a whole is not considered trustworthy by the public. What if that sense of mistrust were not limited to the used car lot but had spread to institutions the public relies on every day? It has, according to Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig.
This Law Day, we reflect on the theme of “Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society” with two writers’ takes on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s life and impact.
New Zero-L online course helps prime incoming law school students for success.
Library event provides unique opportunity for faculty-student interaction.
On April 5, Harvard Law School’s Legal Services Center celebrated its 40th Anniversary of training more than 4,000 attorneys and law students and providing pro bono civil legal services to thousands of Greater Boston’s most vulnerable residents.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Special Olympics, HLS presented an inspiring conversation with Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan and Special Olympics medalist Melissa Joy Reilly.
Animal law advocates from a variety of disciplines and perspectives come together at Harvard Law School for the fifth annual Animal Law Week.
