Latest from Carolyn Kelley
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Harvard report compares NFL’s health policies and practices to other pro sports leagues’
May 15, 2017
While the NFL’s player health policies and practices are robust in some areas, there are opportunities for improvement in others, according to the findings of a new report by researchers at Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center -- the first comprehensive comparative analysis of health policies and practices across professional sports leagues.
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Klemen Jaklič LL.M. ’00 S.J.D. ’11 has been elected judge of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia by the Slovenian parliament after being nominated by the president of Slovenia earlier this spring. His nine-year term officially started on March 27.
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Battling blight with big data
May 9, 2017
HLS student Bradley Pough ’18 and Qian Wan, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate at Harvard's Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, have co-written “Digital Analytics and the Fight Against Blight: A Guide for Local Leaders,” a paper that provides data-driven recommendations city officials can use to battle urban housing blight.
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Anna Lvovsky ’13 to join Harvard Law as assistant professor
April 19, 2017
Anna Lvovsky ’13, a scholar of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law and evidence, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in July.
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Lauren Kuhlik ’17 wins Law Student Ethics Award
April 7, 2017
Harvard Law School student Lauren Kuhlik ’17 has won the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)-Northeast Law Student Ethics Award, an award created to recognize students who have demonstrated exemplary commitment to ethics.
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‘Baggage’ claims Gish Jen
April 5, 2017
During a Library Book Talk at Harvard Law School, writer Gish Jen discussed her latest book, “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap,” making the case for the sociological and cultural patterns that influence many aspects of identity.
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As Harvard Law School's Public Service Venture Fund enters its fourth year, HLS is looking back on all that its awardees have accomplished since the first awards were conferred in 2013.
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On Dec. 7, Professor Lawrence Lessig participated in a debate hosted by Intelligence Squared U.S. on whether or not states should call a convention to amend the Constitution.
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Student exhibit shines a light on diversity in the law
November 17, 2016
A photo exhibit featuring portraits of legal scholars who represent traditionally marginalized voices will be displayed in Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall from Nov. 17-22.
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Election 2016: A look back, the road ahead
November 9, 2016
Harvard Law Today presents a recap of the 2016 election season in images, words, and photos.
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Examining Election 2016: Faculty and scholars weigh in
November 9, 2016
The 2016 presidential race -- and the many events and controversies surrounding it -- have prompted HLS scholars to share their viewpoints, to examine the political landscape and to address issues that will have national and global consequences far beyond November 8.
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Program on International Financial Systems celebrates 30 years of research and influence on global financial policy
October 19, 2016
In October, The Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS) at Harvard Law School celebrated its 30th anniversary by holding the kind of symposium it has been hosting for three decades — convening financial leaders, high-ranking government officials, and distinguished academics from around the world to discuss the most pressing issues in international finance.
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Library Innovation Lab leader talks ‘unbinding the law’ with the Caselaw Access Project
September 2, 2016
Historically, libraries have been collections — books, multimedia materials and artwork. But increasingly they're about connections, linking digital data in new and different ways, but Harvard Law's Caselaw Access Project is a state-of-the-art example of that shift.
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Accepting the Daniel P.S. Paul Constitutional Law chair, Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivered a lecture titled, "On Being First: Judge Constance Baker Motley and Social Activism in the American Century," which focused on 20th century social reform through the life of the civil rights advocate who became the first female African American federal judge in 1966.
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Chayes Fellow Michael Jung ’18 recently wrote about his experience working with UNICEF in Bangkok, Thailand, researching and gaining an overview of the current and future landscape of juvenile justice in the region.
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Harvard Law Library, fashion forward
August 8, 2016
The latest exhibit from the Harvard Law School Library, "What Not to Wear: Fashion and the Law," looks at some of the intersections of fashion and the law, from historic laws setting strict class distinctions for fashion, to modern intellectual property law’s approach to protecting those who design and create fashion.
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Bob Bordone encourages students to settle for nothing less than the ‘Best. Job. Ever.’
August 4, 2016
As the final speaker in this year's "Last Lecture" Series was Bob Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal clinical professor of law and director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, who spoke about a how simple Facebook status update from 2013 led him to consider the elements of a successful career today.
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Summation
June 1, 2016
This year, as they prepared to graduate, five members of the Class of 2016 took time to reflect on their interests and share experiences they will take from their time at Harvard Law.
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Martha Minow’s next chapter
May 12, 2016
Martha Minow's 8-year tenure as dean of Harvard Law School has been nothing short of transformative: Among many other things, she has overseen the expansion of clinical programs and public service initiatives at the school; engendered diversification of faculty, staff and the student body; and supported the pursuit of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures--changes that will have a lasting impact on the school and legal scholarship for many years to come.
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Harvard Law School students Amanda Mundell '17 and Joe Resnek '17 won first place at the 41st Annual National Trial Competition in Dallas, Texas. Resnek also received the competition's Best Advocate Award for his outstanding performance in the final round.
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On March 29, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School celebrated its first decade and kicked off the next with a conference that focused on the future of health law and policy.