Harvard Law School

===Alumni===
{{Main|List of Harvard Law School alumni}}

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Harvard's prestige and large class size have enabled it to graduate a large number of distinguished alumni.

[[Rutherford B. Hayes]], the 19th president of the United States, graduated from HLS. Additionally, [[Barack Obama]], the 44th [[president of the United States]], graduated from HLS and was president of the ''Harvard Law Review''. His wife, [[Michelle Obama]], is also a graduate of Harvard Law School. Past presidential candidates who are HLS graduates include [[Michael Dukakis]], [[Ralph Nader]] and [[Mitt Romney]]. Eight sitting [[United States Senate|U.S. senators]] are alumni of HLS: Romney, [[Ted Cruz]], [[Mike Crapo]], [[Tim Kaine]], [[Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)|Jack Reed]], [[Chuck Schumer]], [[Tom Cotton]], and [[Mark Warner]].

Other legal and political leaders who attended HLS include former president of [[Taiwan]], [[Ma Ying-jeou]], and former vice president [[Annette Lu]]; the incumbent [[List of prime ministers of Luxembourg|Prime Minister of Luxembourg]], [[Luc Frieden]]; the incumbent [[Chief Justice of India]], [[Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud]]; the incumbent [[Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal|Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong]], [[Andrew Cheung Kui-nung]]; former [[Chief Justice|chief justice]] of the [[Republic of the Philippines]], [[Renato Corona]]; [[Chief Justice of Singapore]] [[Sundaresh Menon]]; former president of the [[World Bank Group]], [[Robert Zoellick]]; former [[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|United Nations high commissioner for human rights]], [[Navanethem Pillay]]; the former [[president of Ireland]], [[Mary Robinson]]; [[Lady Arden]], [[Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]]; [[Solomon Areda Waktolla]], Judge of the [[United Nations Dispute Tribunal]], Judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the [[African Development Bank]] and Former Deputy Chief Justice of the [[Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia]]. He is also member of the [[Permanent Court of Arbitration]] at [[Hague]], [[Netherlands]].

[[Lobsang Sangay]] is the first elected [[sikyong]] of the [[Tibetan Government in Exile]]. In 2004, he earned a [[Doctor of Juridical Science|S.J.D.]] degree from Harvard Law School and was a recipient of the 2004 Yong K. Kim' 95 Prize of excellence for his dissertation "Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet's Government-in-exile".

[[List of law schools attended by United States Supreme Court Justices|Sixteen]] of the school's graduates have served on the [[Supreme Court of the United States]], more than any other law school. Four of the current nine members of the court graduated from HLS: the [[Chief Justice of the United States|chief justice]], [[John G. Roberts|John Roberts]]; [[Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court|associate justices]] [[Neil Gorsuch]]; [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]]; and [[Elena Kagan]], who also served as the [[dean of Harvard Law School]], from 2003 to 2009. Past Supreme Court justices from Harvard Law School include [[Antonin Scalia]], [[David Souter]], [[Harry Blackmun]], [[William J. Brennan]], [[Louis Brandeis]], [[Felix Frankfurter]], [[Lewis F. Powell Jr.|Lewis Powell]] (LLM), and [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]], among others. [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] attended Harvard Law School for two years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oyez.org/justices/ruth_bader_ginsburg|title=Ruth Bader Ginsburg|website=Oyez.org|access-date=December 17, 2017|archive-date=March 19, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319002445/http://www.oyez.org/justices/ruth_bader_ginsburg/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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Attorneys General [[Loretta Lynch]], [[Alberto Gonzales]], and [[Janet Reno]], among others, and noted federal judges [[Richard Posner]] of the [[Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals]], [[Michael Boudin]] of the [[First Circuit Court of Appeals]], [[Joseph A. Greenaway]] of the [[Third Circuit Court of Appeals]], [[Laurence Silberman]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]], [[Lawrence VanDyke]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]], and [[Pierre Leval]] of the [[Second Circuit Court of Appeals]], among many other judicial figures, graduated from the school. The former Commonwealth solicitor general of Australia and current justice of the [[High Court of Australia]], [[Stephen Gageler]], [[Senior Counsel|senior counsel]] graduated from Harvard with an LL.M.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://11thfloor.com.au/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723224520/http://www.11thfloor.com.au/barristers-stephengageler.shtml|title=Personal Injury Lawyers in Sydney, NSW &#124; 11th Floor|archivedate=July 23, 2008|website=11thfloor}}</ref>

Many HLS alumni are leaders and innovators in the business world. Its graduates include the current senior chairman of [[Goldman Sachs]], [[Lloyd Blankfein]]; former chief executive officer of [[Reddit]], [[Ellen Pao]]; current chairman of the board and majority owner of [[National Amusements]] [[Sumner Redstone]]; current president and CEO of [[TIAA-CREF]], [[Roger W. Ferguson Jr.]]; current CEO and chairman of [[Toys "R" Us]], [[Gerald L. Storch]]; and former CEO of [[Delta Air Lines]], [[Gerald Grinstein]], among many others.

Legal scholars who graduated from Harvard Law include [[Payam Akhavan]], [[Henry Friendly]], [[William P. Alford]], [[Rachel Barkow]], [[Yochai Benkler]], [[Alexander Bickel]], [[Andrew Burrows]], [[Erwin Chemerinsky]], [[Amy Chua]], [[Sujit Choudhry]], [[Robert C. Clark]], [[Hugh Collins]], [[James Duane (professor)]], [[I. Glenn Cohen]], [[Ronald Dworkin]], [[Christopher Edley Jr.]], [[Melvin A. Eisenberg]], [[Susan Estrich]], [[Jody Freeman]], [[Gerald Gunther]], [[Andrew T. Guzman]], [[Louis Henkin]], [[William A. Jacobson]], [[Harold Koh]], [[Richard J. Lazarus]], [[Arthur R. Miller]], [[Gerald L. Neuman]], [[Eric Posner]], [[Richard Posner]], [[John Mark Ramseyer]], [[Jed Rubenfeld]], [[Lewis Sargentich]], [[John Sexton]], [[Jeannie Suk]], [[Kathleen Sullivan (lawyer)|Kathleen Sullivan]], [[Cass Sunstein]], [[Laurence Tribe]], [[Edwin R. Keedy]], [[C. Raj Kumar]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/making-of-india-is-more-important/article8600626.ece|title='Making of India' is more important|first=Tabu|last=Agarwal|date=May 15, 2016|access-date=December 17, 2017|newspaper=The Hindu|archive-date=April 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404155033/https://www.thehindu.com/features/education/making-of-india-is-more-important/article8600626.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Tim Wu]].

In sports, [[David Otunga]] is the first and only Harvard Law alum to work for [[WWE]]. He is a two-time [[WWE Raw Tag Team Championship|WWE Tag Team Champion]].

Milton A. Rudin, a chief counsel and entertainment lawyer was a graduate of HLS in 1946, he had been working for 52 years with clients that included [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Lucille Ball]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]], [[Jackson family|the Jackson family]], and [[Frank Sinatra]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=HLS News |title=In Memoriam – Summer 2000 |url=https://hls.harvard.edu/today/memoriam-summer-2000/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Harvard Law School |language=en-us}}</ref>