Harvard University on July 8, 2020, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Law School had the lowest number of Black students enroll this fall since 1965.

She started at Harvard Law School in 1956, before transferring to Columbia Law School when her husband took a job in New York. She graduated from Columbia in 1959, tying for first in her class.

The Harvard Law Review, for only the second time in its 137-year history, will be led by a Black woman after the prestigious law journal elected a Virginian focused on studying racial and class ...

Harvard Law School posted the highest first-time bar exam passage rate in 2021, at 99.4%. All but three of the school’s 540 J.D. graduates who took the attorney licensing test for the first time ...