Profiles

The HLS community—students, faculty, and alumni—is made up of incredibly diverse, endlessly motivated, and extraordinarily intelligent individuals.

We invite you to meet some of the members of our community on the pages below. From students to faculty to alumni, members of our community can be found all over the globe, making their voices—and the voices of those they work with—heard.

Students

• Scott Paltrowitz: Spent the summer in Kenya interviewing refugees hoping for a home.
• Aman Solomon: Discovering home by studying law
• Paul Lettow: HLS student writes book on Reagan's nuclear record
• Ganesh Sitaraman: Advocates for a national program to inspire public service
• Rebecca Richman Cohen: Focusing on war crimes through law and film
• Sajjad Khoshroo: Accompanying Khatami to a conference at the JFK School of Government
• Raquel Ferreira Dodge LL.M.: A Brazilian prosecutor builds a case—and a prison—to last 100 years
• Princess Sonam Wangchuck LL.M.: In Bhutan, a constitution is in the offing. Will it raise the “gross national happiness”?
• Rebecca Hamilton: Working to stop genocide now
• Pranvera Recica LL.M.: Using legal knowledge to help the homeland
• Martin Kurzweil: Education values
• Alex Wong: A crash course in diplomacy
• Justin Walker: In a time of war, first-year student wields the pen behind America's sword

Faculty

• Professor David Wilkins on recent trends in the legal profession
• Professor Jody Freeman on environmental law
• Professor Elizabeth Bartholet '65: Faring well for children
• Professor Randall Kennedy asks who can lay claim to blackness
• Assistant Professor Jeannie Suk '02 takes a critical look at the use of protection orders
• Professor Lucian A. Bebchuk LL.M. ’80 S.J.D. '84 is trying to change the way corporations are governed
• Professor Gerald L. Neuman '80 asks why immigration reform is so difficult to accomplish
• Professor Laurence Tribe '66 argues his 35th case before the supreme court
• Professor Healther Gerken dissenting by descision
• Professor David Barron '94 and the not-so-eminent domain
• Professor Mark Tushnet sets his sights on the gun issue
• Professor Richard H. Fallon on medical marijuana
• Professor Adrian Vermeule '93 on security, liberty and the courts
• Professor Kenneth Mack '91 argues for a broader history of civil rights lawyering
• Professor William Stuntz examines intelligent design
• Professor Andrew Kaufman '54 asks what should a Justice do
• Professor John Palfrey on Internet Law
• Professor Laurence Tribe '66 reflects on Supreme legacies
• Professor Heather Gerken on the 2005 election
• Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84 explores executive compensation

Alumni

• F. Paul Bland Jr., '86: Top Dog for the Underdog
• Stephen G. Breyer '64: A Supreme Court justice offers a view from the top
• Elizabeth Saylor '01: You can fight City Hall
• Glenn A. Fine '85: the Department of Justice’s inspector general
• Tony Rossman '71: A River Runs Through It
• Juliette Kayyem '95: First Undersecretary of Homeland Security
• Hill Harper '92: Letters to a Young Brother
• Peter Carfagna '79: The Natural
• Diana Daniels '74: A Layer at her Post
• James O'Neal '82: Taking the 'A' Train
• Zia Mody LL.M. '79: blazes a trail for women
• Melvin Kraft '53: Armed with the Truth
• Fred Shapiro '80: Who Said It?
• Lori Wallach '90: Founder of Global Trade Watch
• Will Pryor '81 and Mike Whalen '78: The ballot chase
• Col. Mark Martins '90: Letter from Baghdad
• Richard Owen '50: Courtrooms and Dramas
• Scott Worden '00: Cable from Kabul
• Samuel Pisar LL.M. '55 S.J.D. '59: Blood and Hope
• Kenneth Scott '79: Lawman Abroad
• Ruth Ellen Fitch '83: Tougher Goals, Softer Style
• Lance Morgan '93: Building Homes on the Range
• George Leighton '43: American Journey
• Richard Frank'62: Selling Health to the Third World
• Peter Ferrara '79: crusading to privatize Social Security
• Larissa Behrendt LL.M. '94 S.J.D. '98: speaks for aboriginal rights
• Paul V. Applegarth J.D./M.B.A. '74: Government Startup
• Linda Singer '91: Social Change Inc.
• Frederick P. Hitz '64: I Spy
• Steven Wax '73: Defending One, for All
• Col. Will Gunn '86: Leading Defense Enemy Combatants
• Katherine Locker '98: Advocating for Foster Childern with Disabilities
• Terry Lenzner '64: Corporate Sleuth
• Paul Steven Miller '86: Equal Signs
• Marina Volanakis '99: delivers on the promise of public education

For more student, faculty, and alumni profiles, please visit the Harvard Law Bulletin.