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Oct. 17, 2024

Harvard Law School Master of Laws celebrates 100 years

Harvard Law SchoolHarvard Law School is celebrating the 100-year anniversary of its LLM degree program.

As part of the celebrations, hundreds of Harvard’s LLM alumni from every continent around the globe returned to campus in September 2024 to mark the centennial of the school’s Master of Laws program.

Harvard Law School’s former Dean and the Harvard University Provost, John F Manning welcomed the returning alumni, saying, “I’m delighted to celebrate the 100th anniversary of our LLM program,” he said. “The LLM program is a big part of what makes Harvard Law School an international law school.”

Manning, who currently serves as the school’s Dane Professor of Law, addressed 850 people, representing 53 years of the LLM program, saying, “My math suggests that that’s more than half of the century of LLM classes, 70 countries. That’s amazing.”

Harvard Law School has produced many lawyers who have gone on to serve as justices on the US Supreme Court, including four during its current term. Harvard LLM alumni also serve on the highest courts of nations and jurisdictions around the globe, including: Australia, Colombia, Denmark, India, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Namibia, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Taiwan and the UK.

The 100th anniversary program featured more than 80 speakers and panellists from across the globe, including more than 20 current members of the Harvard Law faculty.

Vice Dean for Harvard Law’s Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, Gabriella Blum said, “The LLM program is extraordinary. It can be said without blushing that it is the Formula One of graduate programs. It is fast paced, packed, incredibly challenging, and if you do it even half right, extraordinary, rewarding, indeed transformative.”

Discussing how the program admitted the brightest students, regardless of their financial resources, by offering sufficient need-based financial aid to enable them to enrol, Blum explained, “It is the only large LLM program in the country that is committed to need blind admissions, allowing us to attract the very best from around the world, to build a truly diverse class in backgrounds, experiences, ambitions, and have a phenomenal group of lawyers teach each other and learn from each other.”

Harvard’s LLM program has grown since its early-20th century beginnings, from just four graduates in the first class to more than 180 students from more than 60 jurisdictions in the Class of 2025.

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Content added on 17th October 2024.

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