Two Centuries of Treasures in the Harvard Law School Library: A Bicentennial Exhibit

Collections and Connections Stories of the Harvard Law Library
March 29, 2018

Over the past 200 years, Harvard Law School has built a collection of primary and secondary law unsurpassed by any other academic law library in the world. The library has served as a repository for the papers, photographs and community ephemera that document the school’s history and traditions. In an exhibit at Langdell Hall’s Caspersen Room that runs until June, the library highlights a selection of material that emphasizes the connection between the library’s impressive collection and its community of users.

The Holberg Prize names Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein as 2018 Laureate

The Holberg Prize names Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein as 2018 Laureate
March 14, 2018

The Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, law or theology—named U.S. legal scholar Cass Robert Sunstein as its 2018 Laureate. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University.

Harvard Law celebrates ‘Women Inspiring Change’

Harvard Law celebrates ‘Women Inspiring Change’
March 8, 2018

To commemorate International Women’s Day, the Harvard Women’s Law Association hosted the  “Women Inspiring Change” portrait exhibit, which features portraits of inspiring women working in the fields of law and policy. Honorees were chosen by the International Women’s Day Exhibit Committee from nominations by HLS students, staff and faculty. The exhibit, held annually at HLS since 2014, will be on display this year through March 9.

Probing the past and future of #MeToo

Probing the past and future of #MeToo
By Colleen Walsh/Harvard Staff Writer, March 2, 2018

The #MeToo movement’s roots and its present and future impact were the focus of a discussion with Harvard scholars on Feb. 26 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, featuring HLS Prof. Jeannie Suk Gersen, Harvard Profs. Jill Lepore and Evelynn Hammonds, and Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, as moderator.

Trial Team wins Northeast Regional Championship

Trial Team Wins Northeast Regional Championship
February 16, 2018

The Harvard Law School trial team of Rahul Garabadu ’19 and Marilyn Robb ’18 won first place at the Northeast Regional Qualifiers of the National Trial Competition, sponsored annually by the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Texas Young Lawyers Association.

The need to talk about race

The need to talk about race
By Liz Mineo/Harvard Staff Writer, December 15, 2017

Bryan Stevenson has battled through the courts, defending the wrongly convicted and children prosecuted as adults, while condemning mass incarceration and racial bias in the criminal justice system; now, he is embarking on a fight to start a national conversation about the painful legacy of slavery, which he says “continues to haunt us today.”