Expanding their horizons
This summer, nine HLS students, selected as Chayes International Public Service Fellows, worked with organizations based in as many countries. These profiles highlight the experiences of three of them.
‘A huge crisis that we’ve never experienced before’
Harvard Law Today recently spoke with Harvard Law School Professor Howell E. Jackson about what could happen if the United States defaulted on its debts for the first time in history.
Out of Afghanistan
Everything changed for Saeeq Shajjan LL.M. ’10, a lawyer from Kabul, Afghanistan, and his country when the Taliban entered the gates of the city.
Studying law while fighting illicit finance
Harvard Law student Michael Chang-Frieden ’23 discusses writing a global watchdog report on Japan’s ability to fight money laundering, terrorist financing, and nuclear proliferation financing.
Intisar Rabb has been appointed special adviser to ICC prosecutor
Professor Intisar Rabb, director of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School, was appointed as a special adviser on Islamic Law to the new chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Electric slide
Helping key players across Massachusetts — including the City of Boston and environmental nonprofits — reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 is a focus for the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
Harvard Law School welcomes its LL.M.s., S.J.D.s., and exchange students
On Wednesday, Harvard Law School officially welcomed the LL.M. Class of 2022. Representing 64 countries and jurisdictions, from Argentina to the U.S.A., the class includes 184 new students and 33 LL.M. candidates returning from the LL.M. class of 2020–2021 to complete their studies in person on Harvard’s reopening campus.
A rising tide?
Harvard Law Professor and Federal Reserve Board veteran Daniel K. Tarullo discusses inflation and the United States’ economic recovery.
‘I’m still trying to understand my role in this complex place’
Since January 2020, Rez Gardi has been living in Duhok, in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region.
Jeanne Tai, who influenced the careers of a generation of lawyers around the globe, retires
Jeanne Tai, who as a senior administrator at the HLS Graduate Program and International Legal Studies has deeply influenced the careers of thousands of lawyers and legal academics around the world, will retire on June 15 after 24 years at Harvard Law School.