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Although Vaughn Carney’s new novel is about Harvard Law School students, his characters are not chasing paper. That’s not, after all, what most people go…

Can a Southern California sorority queen survive the rigors of Harvard Law School, overcome virulent anti-blondeism, triumph in class and in the courtroom, and get…

While Ralph Nader ’58 grabbed the spotlight in the presidential race, several other HLS alumni also sought elective office in the fall. Perhaps the most…

  In the dispute over the results of the 2000 presidential election, political affiliation could almost uniformly predict one’s position. While Laurence Tribe ’66, a…

The Harvard Law School library recently acquired a voluminous collection of papers from the Dalkon Shield litigation, a tort case involving nearly 400,000 claims. The…

Harvard Law School announced today that its library-the largest law library in the world-has received its most significant gift in more than 150 years, a major collection of rare English law books spanning 400 years of legal writing from 1481 to 1881. The books, which total more than 1,000 volumes, are a gift of the late Henry N. Ess III and include a treatise known as Abridgements of the Statutes, which some scholars believe is the first legal book ever printed in England.

On April 21, Harvard Law School will host one of the first academic symposia to analyze the fluctuating landscape of the music industry due to the growth of the Internet and online entertainment. The event, titled "All Shook Up: The Music Industry Confronts the Internet and Consolidation," will feature some of the most prominent executives in the online entertainment industry including Nicholas Butterworth, CEO of MTVi; Matt Oppenheim, head of anti-piracy litigation for the Recording Industry Artists Association; and Manus Cooney, Vice President for Corporate and Policy Development at Napster.

This Thursday, U.S. Sen. Thomas Daschle, the Senate Democratic Leader, will address the future of the Democratic Party in a speech at Harvard Law School. Daschle will examine topics ranging from the current budget battles to the possibility of Democrats recapturing the Senate in the 2002 mid-term elections. His speech will be followed by a question and answer period.

The election might be over, but on April 19, Harvard Law School students are offering an opportunity to bid on history. Among the items available at the annual Harvard Law School Public Interest Auction is an official Broward County election ballot signed by all four members of the canvassing commission, and Bush v. Gore legal briefs signed by authors Ted Olson and Laurence Tribe. The silent auction begins at 5:30 p.m. with the live auction following at 7 p.m. in Austin Hall.

The Harvard Law School Alliance of Independent Feminists will host a presentation by Christina Hoff Sommers on Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the Langdell South classroom. Sommers' address is titled "Gender Studies: Legitimate Academic Discipline or Political Agenda?" The event is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor Heather Gerken discusses the current Supreme Court session and expectations for the High Court's future.

More than 12 years after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, verdicts were handed down in the trial of the two men accused of the crime. On Wednesday, April 11, the Harvard International Law Journal will present a panel discussion to evaluate the aftermath of the verdict that sent one man, Abdel Baset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, to jail for the murder of 270 people, and another, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, home to Libya-his name cleared in a court of law, if not in the court of public opinion.

1920-29 | 1930-39 | 1940-49 | 1950-59 | 1960-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-1989 1920-1929 John R. Ramsey Jr. ’27-’29 of Marblehead, Mass., died September 13, 2000. An Episcopal priest, he…

Jonathan Zittrain, the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, discusses the recent Napster court decision and the prospects for copyright protection in the digital age.