In their honor
To mark Veterans Day, Harvard Law Today highlights a few of the profiles and stories that illustrate the profound commitment of those in the HLS community to service and the law.
In a potentially precedent-setting case, Veterans Clinic students work to help LGBTQ widower secure VA benefits
Members of the Veterans Legal Clinic at Harvard Law School are representing a same-sex widower in his appeal before the VA and in federal court in a potentially precedent-setting case.
Veteran perspectives
Harvard Law students who have served in the various branches of the Armed Forces represent a diverse range of backgrounds and experience, but all share a profound dedication to serving the nation.
Boston Mayor-elect Michelle Wu ’12 joins long line of Harvard Law educated city leaders across the nation
In a historic victory, Michelle Wu ’12 was elected mayor of Boston on Tuesday, making her the first woman and the first person of color elected to lead Boston.
‘The journey is the whole point. You can’t just look at the end point, you have to love everything in the middle.’
In the fall of 2010, Brad Carney ’24 couldn’t stand what he saw in the mirror. Then he discovered that he could go further than he thought he could.
‘If I graduate helping one person better understand the military and how national security issues inform that perspective, I will be happy.’
An Air Force veteran, community organizer, and counselor to homeless teens, Kristi L. Tanaka ’24 says service will always be part of her plans.
‘I felt almost like I had a responsibility; people my age were getting blown up, and I’m sitting here in college.’
As a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan, Nathan Lowry ’24 led a team of counterterrorism intelligence specialists targeting Taliban operations.
‘What drew me to the Navy, was the ability to move all around the world.’
A 12-year Naval JAG career has taken Lt. Cmdr. Shawn Brennan LL.M. ’22 to Afghanistan, Japan and, most recently, the Pentagon.
Investigating mask mandate bans
Michael Ashley Stein ’88, executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, says the Department of Education should go beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act in investigating state bans against mandating face coverings in schools.
John B. Bellinger III ’86: ‘I really mostly worry about the future’
Former legal adviser to the National Security Council during the Bush administration says 20 years after 9/11, he’s frustrated there hasn’t been more progress toward an international legal framework for dealing with terrorism.