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  • Tessa Platt '05

    A practical good

    April 1, 2005

    Harvard law students have always felt the pressure to do well, but the Class of '05 is the first that has to do good.

  • Getting real

    September 1, 2004

    Ever since Professor Philip Heymann '60 began teaching a class on terrorism in the winter of 1988, it's drawn a crowd.

  • Meeting of men in cowboy hats

    South of the Border

    September 1, 2004

    Charlotte Sanders '05 and José Rodriguez '06 did legal outreach this summer to help workers who pick America's produce. They reached out all the way to Mexico.

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    Book Smart

    July 1, 2004

    HLS professor seeks to make copyrighted works accessible to students with disabilities.

  • Chu and Flugman consulting with Brian Price

    In Tune With the Law

    July 1, 2004

    HLS Recording Artists Project focuses on the legal side of the music industry.

  • Professor David Kennedy

    Darkness Visible

    July 1, 2004

    In his more than 20 years working and teaching in the field of international law, Professor David Kennedy '80 observed something he thought no one was talking about--the negative consequences of good intentions. Kennedy discusses his book on the topic, "The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism," published by Princeton University Press this spring.

  • Why Harvard Law School Needs Your Money

    April 1, 2004

    With newly launched $400 million campaign, HLS seeks to modernize its facilities, globalize its programs, and energize its students and faculty.

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    A Paperless Society

    April 1, 2004

    Unbound, HLS's first online journal, opened up shop in cyberspace in the fall and plans to take advantage of what the neighborhood has to offer, like streaming video, discussion boards and links to related sites for legal activism.

  • Richard Parker standing in front of an American flag

    Stand for the Flag

    April 1, 2004

    Because of two 5-4 Supreme Court decisions, physical desecration of the American flag is legal. Professor Richard Parker ' 70 supports a constitutional amendment that would change that.

  • Erica Fox

    Getting to Wisdom

    April 1, 2004

    Last spring, Erica Fox started the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative at HLS's Program on Negotiation to explore "what mindfulness and the great wisdom traditions have to teach us in the negotiation and dispute resolution field."

  • Woman speaking at podium

    Coming out party

    April 1, 2004

    Participants in the school's first GLBT reunion recount the changes in their lives and on campus.

  • Martha Field at chalkboard

    A Class Unto Themselves

    July 1, 2003

    For many years after HLS began admitting women, male faculty still predominated. That's changed, and women faculty members talk about what their presence has meant for the school and for themselves.

  • Six women in Harvard classroom

    A Woman’s Place

    July 1, 2003

    Fifty years after the first women graduated from Harvard Law School, alumnae come together to look back at the progress and ahead to the possibilities.

  • Illustration of stone man carrying giant book

    Tough Books

    July 1, 2003

    No one puffed on a Gauloises or sipped red wine, but people in the room had things to say about Kant.

  • Brett Dakin '03

    Our Man in Laos

    July 1, 2003

    When Brett Dakin '03 was living in Laos, he sneaked into a performance not meant for foreigners, commemorating the founding of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

  • At Home Abroad

    April 24, 2003

    HLS faculty and students look to other countries to better people's lives and increase their own understanding of the world of law.

  • A Business of Beauty Is a Joy Forever

    April 24, 2003

    Avon calls itself the company for women, and for senior counsel Laura Quintano '95, it's not just a slogan.

  • Guhan Subramanian

    Both Sides Now

    April 24, 2003

    By the time Guhan Subramanian J.D./M.B.A. '98 left the Harvard Business School faculty for the HLS faculty last summer, Harvard Law School had transformed the 1L experience from when he was a student.

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    The Year of the Copyright

    April 24, 2003

    In October, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the constitutionality of a law extending copyright by 20 years. But the question posed by the case, says Assistant Professor Jonathan Zittrain '95, is whether copyright can last forever.

  • Ahmed el-Gaili

    Visa Not American Express

    April 1, 2003

    A Harvard Law School student works a few weeks in a London firm over the summer and can’t get back to the United States in time for his fall semester.

  • Book of the Times

    September 24, 2002

    Most of us accept our experience of time as “natural,” when in fact it’s shaped by society and its laws, says Professor Todd Rakoff, author of what may be the first book on the topic.