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Students at the annual Student Activities Fair. Photo by T. Maquiling. As the scholastic, career and recreational needs of the massive HLS student body evolve from year to year, new student groups spring up to meet these needs. Prospective student organizations must abide by a process outlined on the DOS-CEEB website. Applications must demonstrate that the group is meeting an unfulfilled need and has garnered sufficient student interest.

Every year HLS students elect a new Student Government (SG), and with every year that SG brings a slate of ideas and faces a new set of challenges. Their work, like any school’s student government, can be hugely impactful or largely routine, in part depending on its leadership and in part on school-enforced constraints.

The Harvard Law Record has permitted the author to publish anonymously due to credible risks to their safety in the current political climate. Long before I enrolled in law school, I opened my notes app and titled a new document, “Future law jobs?” I jotted down a list of the organizations that most inspired me with their creative and impactful advocacy for underserved communities.

The individual Ms. JD Honorees, including Danielle Mikaelian, HLS '25 (far right), Samantha Wellington of eBay (second from the right), and Juliette Pryor of Lowe's (far left). (Olin & Milou Photography, 2025) Danielle Mikaelian, HLS ‘25, is a 3L involved in many different activities on HLS’ campus.

Photo of the etching atop of the front of a Langdell: "Non sub homine sed sub Deo et lege" which means "Not under man, but under God and the law." (J. Chukwuma, 2025) Etched above Langdell Hall, the symbolic heart of Harvard Law School where I’m currently a student, are the words: Non sub homine sed sub Deo et lege. Not under man, but under God and the law.

The Office of Career Services, where most students receive advising about their entrance into Big Law. (T. Maquiling, 2025) A Harvard Law School student (referred to as “JDX”) has alleged that the Eli Goldston Professor of Law, Matthew Stephenson, J.D. ‘03, provided negative responses to a potential employer’s inquiry while serving as a professional reference.

A snippet of Bharmal's first Critical Procedure review session. (I. Bharmal, 2022) As a doctrine more focused on form than substance, Civil Procedure is generally regarded as “separate from politics” or without controversy by law students. Ibrahim Bharmal, HLS/HKS ‘25, saw something different. In 2021, during his first year (he is a dual degree student) civil procedure course, he read the landmark case Ashcroft v.

Brione Merchant addresses the crowd to start the event. (O. Omotoso, 2025) On Wednesday, in Milstein East, Reciprocity Effect, a nonprofit focused on building relationships between students and support staff, and the Harvard Black Law Students Association (HBLSA) hosted the third annual Staff Appreciation Dinner.

Harvard Law School (Tobi Omotoso, 2024) UPDATE: This article did not initially reflect that the two emails shared by Mr. Kline were initially received by an indeterminate number of HLS students via their spam inbox. Subsequent to this, it appears that Mr. Kline added a more comprehensive list of names, including the entirety of the HLS student body, and seemingly in a different recipient order from the initial spam list.