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  • Gerken Receives Sacks-Freund Teaching Award

    July 2, 2003

    Professor Heather Gerken has been named the 2002-2003 Sacks-Freund award winner. Presented each year on Class Day, the Sacks-Freund award recognizes teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns, and general contribution to student life at Harvard Law School.

  • Elena Kagan

    Kagan Becomes Dean of Harvard Law School

    July 1, 2003

    Today Elena Kagan became the 11th dean of Harvard Law School. Appointed in April by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, Kagan succeeds Robert Clark, who served as dean for 14 years.

  • Gustave and Rita Hauser on stairs

    A Conversation with Gustave and Rita Hauser

    July 1, 2003

    Gustave M. Hauser '53 met his future wife, Rita E. Hauser '58, at HLS when he was a teaching fellow and she a 1L.

  • Marlene Evans Putnam with her portrait of Soia Mentschikoff

    An Essay by Harold Putnam ’50-’51: The Woman in the Picture

    July 1, 2003

    The year 1989 wound down with the law school being painfully reminded that its portrait collection was still conspicuously all male.

  • Nifty Fifty

    July 1, 2003

    There's nothing noteworthy about being a female student at Harvard Law School today: About half of the students are women.

  • Two East Indian Birds

    Moving Beauty

    July 1, 2003

    This year two exhibits of art collected by Harvard Law School alumni are on the move. "Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection" toured London and Paris and is on display at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum through July 6.

  • HLS Receives $5.1 Million in Gifts Honoring Clark

    June 30, 2003

    Several Harvard Law School alumni have made gifts totaling $5.1 million in honor of Dean Robert C. Clark, who steps down from the deanship today. The gifts come from members of the Dean’s Advisory Board, a core group of alumni leaders who also act as advisers to the School.

  • Shah Awarded Fay Diploma

    June 23, 2003

    Harvard Law School has awarded the 2003 Fay Diploma to Michael Shah of Brookville, New York. The Fay Diploma is awarded each year to the graduating J.D. student with the highest combined grade point average for three years of study at the law school.

  • Minow Receives Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal

    June 18, 2003

    Harvard Law School Professor Martha Minow has received the 2003 Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal. The prize, given to women who have earned a Radcliffe or Harvard Graduate degree and have made an outstanding contribution to their field, was presented to Minow at the Radcliffe Day symposium on June 6.

  • HLS Launches Campaign to Raise $400 Million

    June 14, 2003

    Kicking off the most ambitious fund-raising drive in the history of legal education, Harvard Law School leaders gathered today in Cambridge to launch "Setting the Standard: The Harvard Law School Campaign." At a formal kickoff luncheon, the campaign’s chairman, Finn M.W. Caspersen, announced that $170.1 million in commitments have already been secured toward a $400 million goal. These initial gifts total more than the entire $150 million goal of the law school’s previous record-setting campaign.

  • Conference Examines Risk-Based Capital Standards

    June 10, 2003

    The Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems held a conference today that examined risk-based capital standards for financial institutions. The conference is the culmination of a two-year study on risk-based capital, supported by Swiss Reinsurance Company.

  • CNN's Larry King to Deliver Class Day Remarks

    May 29, 2003

    On June 4, CNN talk show host Larry King will deliver Harvard Law School's 2003 Class Day address. The Class Day exercises will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall. In addition to King's remarks, the 2003 Sacks-Freund teaching award and the 2003 staff appreciation award will be presented. For those unable to attend, the event will be webcast live.

  • HLS Receives $10M Grant from Olin Foundation

    May 29, 2003

    Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark has announced that the school has received a $10 million grant from the John M. Olin Foundation. The gift is the largest foundation grant in the law school's 186-year history.

  • HLS to Create Sutin Fellowship

    May 6, 2003

    Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark has announced the creation of the L. Anthony Sutin Public Service Summer Fellowship. Named in honor of the late dean of the Appalachian School of Law, the fellowship will provide funding each summer for a HLS student to conduct public interest work.

  • HLS to Celebrate 50 Years of Women Graduates

    April 30, 2003

    On the weekend of May 2-4, Harvard Law School will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first graduating class of women with an unprecedented gathering of prominent women in the worlds of government, law, business and academia. More than 700 alumnae are expected to attend the event, which will feature a wide range of speakers and panelists including Mary Robinson '68, Janet Reno '63, Pamela Thomas-Graham '88, Ruth Bader Ginsburg '56-'58, and Kathleen Sullivan '81. On Saturday morning (May 3) female members of the class of 1953 with gather for a discussion of their experience at the law school and in the workplace.

  • Panel to Explore Repatriation of Nazi-Looted Art

    April 28, 2003

    On Wednesday, April 30, the Harvard Law School ArtsPanel and the European Law Research Center will convene a panel discussion on the continuing efforts to repatriate art looted by the Nazis. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 3 p.m. in the Langdell South classroom.

  • Bernard Koteen '40

    A Conversation with Bernard Koteen ’40

    April 24, 2003

    Bernard Koteen '40 is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Holland & Knight. A telecommunications expert and member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, Koteen is also a strong supporter of public interest law.

  • John Jay Osborn Jr. ' 70

    An Essay by John Jay Osborn Jr. ’ 70: A Change in Professor Kingsfield — and His Creator

    April 24, 2003

    When I graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970, my feelings about the place were clear, sharp.

  • Bernard Nussbaum testifing

    The Role of a Counsel

    April 24, 2003

    Almost exactly 10 years ago, Bernard Nussbaum '61 began his job as Bill Clinton's White House counsel.

  • Illustration of a heart and money in scales of justice

    A Firm Cause

    April 24, 2003

    Ask most Harvard Law School students, and they are likely to tell you that social causes and law firms don't mix.

  • Trial Team Places 2nd in National Competition

    April 24, 2003

    The four-student Harvard Law School trial team has placed second in the National Criminal Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association and the John Marshall Law School. Twenty U.S. law schools and one from England competed in the event, which was held from April 3-5 in Chicago.