Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a privateIvy Leagueresearch university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States. For the class of 2028 9.2% of applicants were accepted, the school extending offers to 816 of 8917 applicants. Harvard Law School boasts an LSAT median of 174, which is a score in the 98.4th percentile .

Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest law schools in the United States. The first-year class is broken into seven sections of approximately 80 students, who take most first-year classes together. Aside from the JD program, Harvard also awards both LLM and SJD degrees.

HLS has the world's largest academic law library. The school has an estimated 115 full-time faculty members. According to Harvard Law's 2020 ABA-required disclosures, 99% of 2019 graduates passed the bar exam. The school's graduates accounted for more than one-quarter of all Supreme Court clerks between 2000 and 2010, more than any other law school in the United States.