Winter term around the world
HLS students traveled to 25 countries over winter term with the support of the Winter Term International Travel Grant Program.
Finding human solutions to global problems
With headlines declaring 2019 the year that the world woke up to climate change, Aminta Ossom ’09 sees hope in approaching the issue from a specific angle: human rights.
New book looks at how Trump has remade the presidency
In “Unmaking the Presidency,” HLS lecturer on law Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey ’13 say Trump has bucked norms and expanded power, but whether others will follow his lead is unclear.
Civil rights complaint filed on behalf of deported Iranian student
On Jan. 29, attorneys from HIRC submitted a complaint to the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of their client, an Iranian student who was denied entry to the U.S. despite having a valid visa.
Leading scholars bring new expertise
Effective Jan. 1, three faculty members were promoted and two new scholars joined the HLS faculty.
Daniel Tarullo joins Harvard Law faculty as the Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice
Daniel Tarullo, a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board, was appointed the Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice.
Sabrineh Ardalan named clinical professor of law and faculty director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
Sabrineh Ardalan ’02, who teaches in the fields of immigration and refugee law and advocacy, was appointed a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program.
The Journey of an Idealist
Ambassador Samantha Power ’99 reflects on her life and career in her new memoir “The Education of an Idealist.”
Letting Go
"Ours is an unforgiving age, an age of resentment," writes Martha Minow in "When Should Law Forgive?," a compassionate yet clear-eyed reexamination of law’s basic aims.
Geehyun Sussan Lee ’15
It helped that she was a first-generation immigrant herself. Sussan Lee could settle into a conversation with her client, a West African immigrant, about the oddities of everyday American life. They had that kind of newness in common. But the similarities ended there. Lee had emigrated from Korea easily as a child. Her client was […]