News from classrooms, clinics and campus
During a daylong visit organized by the American Secretaries of State Project, former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered his take on global leaders and hotspots, from Iran and Saudi Arabia to North Korea and Syria.
With the help of Harvard Law School’s Transactional Law Clinics, Democracy Brewing has become the first brewery in Massachusetts to launch as a worker-owned business.
As new Harvard Law students settle into life on campus, we feature highlights from the beginning of the academic year.
As new Harvard Law students settle into life on campus, we feature highlights from the beginning of the academic year.
Elena Kagan was ‘petrified’ when a Law School professor called on her on her first day of class. She blew her first exams, which situated her in ‘the bottom third of the class.’ And then, in her second semester at Harvard Law School, things started to change.
In his work with Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic and beyond, Paras Shah ’19 has always centered his approach to human rights on inclusion.
Last month, Roxanne Armbruster joined Harvard Law School as assistant dean and chief human resources officer. In a conversation with Harvard Law Today, she talks about her wide-ranging career experiences, from tending buoys in Maine to building an HR business partner model in Boston.
Zero-L, a new online course, is meant to help all incoming students, including those who don’t have any pre-law background. Featuring an array of Harvard Law School professors, it covers topics ranging from the separation of powers to how to speak in class in response to a cold call.
On August 19, Harvard Law School’s Graduate Program officially welcomed the LL.M. Class of 2020 to campus, along with eight new S.J.D. candidates and 10 international students from six of the law school’s exchange partner schools.
Through a sweeping array of new, hands-on courses, Harvard Law School’s January Experiential Term, or JET, gives 1L students a chance, early in their time on campus, to learn by doing, to work in teams, and to explore—or discover—what inspires their passion in the law.
