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  • HLS Professors Jacob E. Gersen and Adrian Vermeule '93

    Gersen and Vermeule on ‘Delegating to Enemies’ in Columbia Law Review

    July 31, 2012

    In their recently published paper, “Delegating to Enemies” (Columbia Law Review, forthcoming), Harvard Law School professors Jacob E. Gersen and Adrian Vermeule ’93 examine the longstanding practice of leaders who choose to delegate to ideological “enemies” whose viewpoints differ greatly from their own.

  • Case studies developed at HLS available through new website

    July 31, 2012

    Harvard Law School has launched a new program to develop and distribute case studies, role plays, hypothetical problems and other experiential tools for the classroom. The centerpiece of the program is a website designed as a one-stop-shop for all participant-centered teaching tools developed and sponsored by HLS.

  • Namibian women living with HIV report violations of sexual and reproductive rights

    July 30, 2012

    Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic has co-released a report documenting the Namibian health care system’s maltreatment of women living with HIV. A joint product of the clinic, the Namibian Women’s Health Network and Northeastern Law School, the 49-page report, entitled “At the Hospital There Are No Human Rights,” was released on July 26 during the International AIDS Conference, in Washington, D.C.

  • Protest and Assembly Rights Project flyer

    Protest and Assembly Rights Project releases report on human rights violations during Occupy Wall Street

    July 26, 2012

    Under the leadership of Harvard Law School Clinical Instructor Deborah Popowski, HLS’s International Human Rights Clinic is participating in the Protest and Assembly Rights Project, formed in January 2012. On July 25, the first report in the Protest and Assembly Rights Project series was released, calling on New York City authorities to stop the pattern of abusive policing of Occupy Wall Street protests.

  • The Supreme Court

    Seven Harvard Law School grads are U.S. Supreme Court clerks for 2012-2013

    July 26, 2012

    Of the 39 law school graduates serving as clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court justices and retired justices in the 2012-2013 term, seven hail from Harvard Law School.

  • Harvard Law School Media Roundup: From Gun Control to the Roberts’s Court to the Arab Spring

    July 26, 2012

    Over the past week, a number of HLS faculty members shared their viewpoints on events in the news. Here are some excerpts.

  • HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig

    Lessig testifies against Citizens United and the rise of Super PACs

    July 24, 2012

    On Tuesday, July 24, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights at an open-session hearing titled “Taking Back Our Democracy: Responding to Citizens United and the Rise of Super PACs.”

  • Nancy Gertner

    Gertner honored by National Association of Women Lawyers

    July 18, 2012

    The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) has awarded its highest honor, the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award, to Harvard Law School Professor of Practice Nancy Gertner.

  • Visiting Professor Michael Stein

    Bostonians changing the world: Michael Stein

    July 17, 2012

    Michael Stein ‘88, Harvard Law School visiting professor and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, was one of a dozen people featured in the July 15, 2012, Boston Globe Magazine article, “12 Bostonians Changing the World.”

  • Bebchuk named among most influential people in finance

    July 17, 2012

    Professor Lucian Bebchuk has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in finance by Treasury & Risk magazine. The list prepared by the magazine puts together individuals who had significant impact on the world of finance this year.

  • Joel Alicea ’13 in Public Discourse: Chief Justice Roberts and the changing conservative legal movement

    July 13, 2012

    In a July 10 article featured in the Witherspoon Institute’s online publication Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Common Good, Harvard Law School student Joel Alicea ’13 assesses “Chief Justice Roberts and the Changing Conservative Legal Movement” in light of the Supreme Court’s late June decision on the Affordable Care Act.

  • Professor Benjamin Sachs

    Sachs gains tenure as professor of law at Harvard

    July 11, 2012

    The Harvard Law School faculty has voted to promote Benjamin Sachs, a specialist in labor and workplace law, from assistant professor to professor of law – a tenured faculty position.

  • Greiner promoted to professor of law at Harvard

    July 10, 2012

    Following a vote of the Harvard Law School faculty, D. James Greiner, a specialist in the application of modern quantitative thinking to legal questions, has been promoted from assistant professor to professor of law—a tenured faculty position.

  • HLS Thinks Big

    Five ideas in 50 minutes: HLS Thinks Big

    July 9, 2012

    “HLS Thinks Big,” inspired by the global TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) talks and modeled after the college’s “Harvard Thinks Big” event, was held at Harvard Law School on May 23 in Austin North. During the event, five professors presented some of their favorite topics.

  • Professor Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95

    Freeman in NYT: ‘The Wise Way to Regulate Gas Drilling’

    July 6, 2012

    The op-ed "The Wise Way to Regulate Gas Drilling," by Professor Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95, appeared in the July 6, 2012, edition of the New York Times.

  • Jonathan Zittrain

    Zittrain appointed chair of FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee

    July 5, 2012

    In late May, Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain '95 was appointed chair of the Open Internet Advisory Committee. The committee was called for by the Federal Communications Commission to track and evaluate the effects of the FCC’s Open Internet rules and to provide recommendations to the FCC regarding policies and practices related to preserving the open Internet.

  • Rethink Music’s Genesis Project Winners

    Students win start-up competition at Rethink Music conference

    July 5, 2012

    Two HLS students, Adam Gottesfeld '12 and Joey Seiler '12, recently won Rethink Music’s Genesis Project, a startup competition that aims to encourage and support creativity in the music industry. The duo will receive $10,000 in legal services from the firm Duane Morris, additional in-kind consulting and at least three meetings with venture capitalists.

  • Visual diagram tracing the network of HLS graduates at the top levels of the U.S. national security infrastructure

    The Matrix

    July 1, 2012

    A diagram tracing the network of some of the HLS graduates at the top levels of the U.S. national security infrastructure in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama ’91.

  • A Conversation with Jody LaNasa ’94

    July 1, 2012

    In 2007, Joseph “Jody” LaNasa ’94 launched Serengeti Asset Management, an opportunistic hedge fund that focuses on value investments in the debt and equity of public and private companies.

  • HLS faculty maintain top position in SSRN citation rankings

    The Way We Live Now: A day in the life

    July 1, 2012

    Since January, when the Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, Clinical Wing Building opened its doors, it’s become Harvard Law School’s hub. Its state-of-the-art learning and living spaces range from the lofty to the intimate. This photo essay captures a glimpse of the activity, the quiet, the light—from dawn to dusk.

  • Recent Faculty Books – Summer 2012

    July 1, 2012

    “After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory” (Duke), edited by Professor Janet Halley and Andrew Parker. Contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the potential and limitations of the field, asking to what extent it is defined by a focus on sex and sexuality.