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Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree has been awarded the 2001 Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit by the Washington Bar Association. The award was presented in honor of Ogletree's work promoting social justice and equality.

1920-29 | 1930-39 | 1940-49 | 1950-59 | 1960-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 1920-1929 William W. Johnson ’22-’23 of Aurora, Ind., died January 28, 2001. He worked for Union…

Beginning in July, Harvard Law School graduates will have a greater opportunity for loan forgiveness due to recently announced changes in the Low Income Protection…

Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society today announced a new project to create public policies that support digital entrepreneurship. The project, Open Economies, will support developing nations seeking to embrace digital technology and digitally-enabled entrepreneurship as a means to economic development.

Harvard Law School has received a $500,000 gift to establish the Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of Animal Rights. The Fund will support teaching and research at the Law School in the emerging field of animal rights law. The income generated by the gift will fund periodic courses and seminars at the Law School on animal rights taught by visiting scholars with a wide range of views and perspectives. In addition to classroom instruction, the gift will assist visiting and permanent faculty members in conducting research in this emerging field.

Today, at 10 a.m., the Sheriff of Middlesex County gaveled in order the 2001 Harvard University Commencement exercises.

Christine Jolls, a pioneer in the emerging field of behavioral law and economics and a scholar of employment law, has been named a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School-a tenured position. Jolls, a 1993 graduate of Harvard Law School, has served as an assistant professor since 1994, with a two-year hiatus when she served as a law clerk first for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, then for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Beginning May 3, world leaders, scholars, journalists, and business executives will join high-level U.S. government officials for the 2001 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs. The three-day event, co-sponsored by Harvard Law School, will focus on regions and issues most important to American foreign policy.