Getting it right
So, what, exactly, is an "activist judge"? Most judges say they don't have time to think about it.
The bus driver’s daughter
When Navi Pillay LL.M. '82 S.J.D. '88 was growing up in South Africa, there was no international court in which apartheid could be prosecuted as a crime against humanity. Now there is--and she's on it.
Countdown
A day-by-day account of the run-up to the Ames Moot Court Finals--and some thoughts afterward from the chief justice of the state of Ames (aka David Souter '66)
All in the game: Improving law by understanding the choices we make
Imagine a game in which two people--strangers--are told they will be given $100 to share, and that one of them will have the power to decide how much to offer the other.
Inside HLS
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After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, many HLS students felt helpless watching news accounts of the unfolding devastation while beginning fall classes. The law school had posted links for the university's matching donations program and announced plans to host 25 law students from Tulane and Loyola tuition-free. But HLS students sought their own ways to donate their time and talents.
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Several school boards have recently mandated that science curricula include the teaching of intelligent design--the theory that all advanced life forms are so complex that they must have been designed by an intelligent force.
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Harvard Law students hoping to learn how to argue before the Supreme Court need go no farther than the Ames Courtroom or a winter-term classroom.
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With a little help from your friends: Amicus briefs are meant to offer judges some extra information. But is amicus practice getting out of hand?
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Compared with that of a lawyer in private practice, a judge's schedule may be more flexible. But not when compared with the life of an academic, says Professor Charles Fried.
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HLS students learn the lessons of Nuremberg in Cambridge, Arusha and The Hague.
Alumni Notes and Newsmakers
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James O’Neal ’82 knows it goes through Harlem and on to college While most of his classmates were busy searching for jobs during their third…
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Zia Mody LL.M. ’79 blazes a trail for women When Zia Mody LL.M. ’79 started her own law practice in India in the mid-1980s, clients…
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At the top of his game, Melvin Kraft ’53 switched to a new one A few years ago, HLS Professor Richard D. Parker ’70 sat…
