Student Organizations

HLS Student Government

Student Government Blog

We are proud to announce that the HLS Student Government is BLOGGING! Question or concern? Leave us a message and we'll address it. It will be serving as a great spot to find out what is going on with the student government in real time. Be sure to bookmark the site!

Summer Contact Directory

Want to know which classmates are working in your city this summer?
Find out by checking out our summer contact directory. Click here to get started.

Unofficial Course Evaluation Guides

Unofficial course evaluation guides for Fall 2008 and Winter 2009 classes are available HERE. This is a new initiative, so your feedback is crucial. Please let us know if you find the guides useful, and please share any ideas you have for improving them. E-mail us at studentgov@law.harvard.edu.

About the Student Government

Our mission is to improve student life and to facilitate communication between students, faculty, and administrators. The Student Government comprises 42 student representatives: two 1L representatives selected from each of the seven 1L sections; nine 2L representatives; nine 3L representatives; four LL.M. representatives; two S.J.D. representatives; and the President, Vice President, Student Advocate, Treasurer, and Internal Affairs Coordinator. Elections are held in the fall and spring of each year. Click here to meet your current representatives.


Every Thursday from 8:00-9:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted), we host a Social Hour at the Hark Pub. We provide more than 100 free drink tickets, which can be redeemed for beer, wine, soda, or coffee. Whether you’d like to pre-party with a beer or take a study break with a cappuccino, we encourage you to stop by! Faculty-Student Lunch Program Each semester, we recruit many HLS professors to have lunch with small groups of students. Interested students rank their preferences, and seats are distributed via a lottery. This is a great opportunity for students and faculty to interact on a more informal level than usual. It also gives students the chance to meet faculty whom they might not encounter in the classroom.