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This past April, 77 years after Clark W. Maser ’51 arrived in Marseille to help liberate France from Nazi occupation, he was proclaimed a knight of the Legion of Honor.

From “American Shtetl” to “South to America”

Harvard issues a report on the university’s connections to slavery and its long history of discrimination against Black people long after slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment.

It’s July, which means summer is in full swing in Cambridge. And with longer days and balmy temperatures, you might be looking for ways to…

Harvard Law faculty and staff share their reading lists for beachside, poolside, or inside with the AC.

Articles by four Harvard Law faculty were selected in an annual poll of corporate and securities law professors as three of the ten best corporate and securities articles of 2021.

Nikolas Bowie ’14, a scholar of constitutional law, local government law, and legal history, was named a professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Jared Ellias, a bankruptcy law expert and corporate governance scholar, is joining Harvard Law School as a professor of law.

Anna Lvovsky ’13 has been promoted to professor of law at Harvard Law School. A scholar of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and evidence, she joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2017.

Harvard Law School staff share art, music, stories, and more at second annual event.

From Orientation to Commencement, a look at a year at Harvard Law School over the 2021-2022 academic year.

Several student award recipients were recognized at the 2022 Class Day ceremony on Holmes Field. The Dean’s Awards for Community Leadership recognize a number of…

Emily Chazen and Ivanka Canzius are this year's recipients of the Westfall Memorial Award, presented annually to recognize student contributions to creating community within a first-year section and the wider class.

This year, Brianna Banks was named the 2022 winner of the William J. Stuntz Memorial Award for Justice, Human Dignity, and Compassion, which recognizes a graduating student who has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to the principles of justice, human dignity, and compassion while at Harvard Law School.

Professor Guy-Uriel E. Charles, the Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Three Harvard Law students — two current and one incoming — were among 30 recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants.

The Harvard International Law Journal recently hosted a discussion with Stavros Lambrinidis, ambassador of the European Union to the United States.

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has announced its Institute for Rebooting Social Media’s inaugural cohort of Visiting Scholars.