Latest from Liz Mineo
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Friends, colleagues remember Charles Ogletree
August 11, 2023
Tributes to Harvard Law Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ’78 echoed across the Harvard campus and in capitols, city halls, courthouses, and private conversations around the nation.
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A Law School analysis of the Dedicated Docket in Boston says the biggest problem is lack of legal representation.
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As he prepares to graduate, Rehan Staton gives thanks for sacrifices by his dad, brother, and help from pals, professors — and Tyler Perry.
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Putting children first legally, politically, economically
April 26, 2023
Drexel University Professor Adam Benforado ’05 says the nation disregards children's rights, and fails to protect them and create conditions so they can thrive.
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Time for Supreme Court to adopt ethics rules?
March 30, 2023
Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner says a lack of transparency and recent incidents involving justices, spouses, and activists have tarnished the Court's public standing.
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Not-so-innocent bystanders
March 13, 2023
Journalist Géraldine Schwarz shares the story of her grandparents who ‘followed the current’ in Nazi Germany.
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Student of history makes history
November 23, 2021
Inspired by family, Samantha Maltais, first Wampanoag to attend Harvard Law School, plans a future focused on Indigenous rights and environmental justice.
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As the trial of Donald Trump takes place in the Senate on charges of inciting the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, renowned journalist Bob Woodward wondered during a Harvard Law School-sponsored webinar on Wednesday whether Trump also could have been impeached for his role in the COVID-19 crisis.
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Harvard scholars ponder putting an end to Columbus Day
October 9, 2020
The Harvard Gazette recently asked Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law Robert Anderson, and other members of the Harvard community, “Is this the end of Columbus Day, and how can America best replace it?”
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How and why the Supreme Court made climate-change history
April 22, 2020
The Gazette sat down with Lazarus, a Supreme Court advocate and the Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, before the coronavirus quarantine to talk about his book, his passion for environmental law, and the legal strategy behind the environmentalists’ victory.
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If at first you don’t succeed…
August 30, 2019
Elena Kagan was 'petrified' when a Law School professor called on her on her first day of class. She blew her first exams, which situated her in 'the bottom third of the class.' And then, in her second semester at Harvard Law School, things started to change.
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On a recent afternoon, the Harvard Gazette sat down with Susan Carney '77, current president of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and Michael Brown '88, president-elect for 2019-20, to discuss their roles and the challenges that face higher education.
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Making it big behind the scenes
March 11, 2019
With the help of Harvard Law's Entertainment Law Clinic and Recording Artists Project (RAP), students with a passion for music and the arts are following their dream careers in showbiz.
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‘They’re representing individuals who are in need’
March 7, 2019
Law students help young immigrants start anew
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Back to Myanmar with fresh insights
November 27, 2018
When Myanmar’s military junta tightened its grip in the late ’80s to quash a nationwide democracy movement, Yee Htun fled the brutal crackdown on dissent along with her mother, a doctor turned human rights activist, and three siblings. After five years in a refugee camp in Thailand, they immigrated to Canada as government-sponsored refugees, unsure of when they might return home.