Michael Chertoff ’78: ‘What are we going to do to make sure it doesn’t arise again?’
The former head of Homeland Security and co-author of the USA Patriot Act says the U.S. needs a strategy for dislodging terrorist groups.
Jamie Gorelick ’75: ‘The need for both vigilance and imagination remains high’
A co-author of the 9/11 Commission report, who served on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, says engaged citizenry united in its efforts will make this country safer.
Making connections — and a difference — through Student Practice Organizations
Each year, half of HLS’ first-year J.D. students and around a quarter of LL.M. students participate in at least one of HLS’ 11 Student Practice Organizations, with some involved in multiple organizations at once.
Fourteen selected as Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows
This academic year, 14 Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows have been named at Harvard Law School.
Vice Age
“There’s no question that policing was a major shadow in the lives of essentially anyone living a socially active life in gay or lesbian circles, particularly in gay circles,” says Anna Lvovsky of the period her new book “Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall” covers.
Off the bench and into the breach
Merrick Garland ’77 made the unusual choice to leave a lifetime appointment on the nation’s second most influential court to instead lead a federal agency with roughly 115,000 employees. Unusual, but not surprising, say those who know him well.
‘What can we do to help create 150 years of change in 10 years?’
Andrew Manuel Crespo ’08 and Premal Dharia, leaders of the ambitious new Institute to End Mass Incarceration, take aim at ‘one of the defining civil rights issues of our time’
HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books Summer 2021
“American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason,” by Brett Dakin ’03 (Chapterhouse) When Brett Dakin set out to learn more about Lev Gleason, his great-uncle who died five years before he was born, he was stunned to find many references to him in The New York Times index under the heading “U.S. […]
Justice for all
A Harvard Law School clinic works to overturn a federal policy in D.C. that advocates say leads to racial injustice and contributes to mass incarceration.
Nora McDonnell ’21 receives the inaugural Kristin P. Muniz Memorial Award
Nora McDonnell ’21 is the inaugural winner of the Kristin P. Muniz Memorial Award.