Recent Highlights

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  If leaders had listened to Elizabeth Warren years ago, she wouldn’t have the job she has now

  It’s a Monday morning in early March, and Professor Elizabeth Warren’s latest interview on NPR is no sooner over than the phone in her Hauser office begins ringing. Fans call with messages of gratitude, and she is deluged by e-mails.

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  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addresses police union leaders at Harvard

  Officially, it’s the “Annual Police Union Leadership Seminar,” but it’s more memorably known as “The Big 50”—Harvard Law School’s convention of police union leaders from the fifty largest cities in the United States. 

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  Senate confirms Elena Kagan as solicitor general of the United States

  The United States Senate voted today to confirm Dean Elena Kagan ’86 as the 44th solicitor general of the United States. By a 61 to 31 vote, Kagan became the first woman solicitor general in U.S. history.

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  Glendon reflects on year as ambassador to the Holy See

  HLS Professor Mary Ann Glendon, the United States Ambassador to the Holy See during the past year, resigned her post in January to allow President Barack Obama to choose a new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

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  At public interest gathering, Weld touts the law as a means to bring about change

  Although he is best known for his time as governor of Massachusetts, William Weld '70 spoke about his career at a recent reunion of Harvard Law alumni and focused primarily on his experience as a U.S. attorney and Justice Department prosecutor.

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  ‘Ideas in our minds are not enough to create justice,’ Stevenson tells public service grads

  In his keynote address Friday at Harvard Law School’s Public Interest Celebration, prominent death row attorney Bryan Stevenson ’85 praised alumni who use the power of a Harvard Law education to speak out against injustice.

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  Granholm and Mulhern urge public service grads to 'be do-ers'

  During a luncheon event at Harvard Law School's recent Public Interest Celebration, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm ’87 and First Gentleman Daniel Mulhern ’86 offered advice about forming a career in public service, running for elected office, and being involved in government.

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  Harvard Law School launches new Public Service Initiative

  In a move that will further strengthen its commitment to public service, Harvard Law School is announcing that it will pay the third year of tuition for all future students who commit to work in public service for five years following graduation.

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  Cory Booker: Have courage to live your truth

  “Dare every day to manifest your authenticity.” So said Cory Booker, the 36th mayor of Newark, N.J., in an address to the graduating class of Harvard Law School. 

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  Michael Brown, speaking at HLS, urges others to support national service programs

  Michael Brown ’88 recently spoke about how his time at Harvard Law School inspired him and his classmate Alan Khazei ’87 to found City Year, a successful national service program that was the inspiration for the formation of AmeriCorps.

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  An escapee from poverty and abuse dedicates himself to those still trapped

  Lam Ho ’08 was 6 years old when he and his family emigrated from Vietnam to the hardscrabble city of Brockton, Mass., where his parents worked on assembly lines and the family ate in soup kitchens and wore hand-me-downs from relatives.

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  Student Spotlight: A young entrepreneur builds a startup to aid the neediest

  Last January, Andrew Klaber ’09 was invited to Davos, Switzerland, to participate in the World Economic Forum with the world’s elite business, political and intellectual leaders.