Martha Minow

Harvard Law School soon will allow students to apply for admission using their scores from the GRE standardized test, a break from tradition that's meant to draw a wider range of candidates to the school. For decades, Harvard and other law schools have required students to take the Law School Admissions Test, known as the LSAT, to be considered. Other graduate programs often rely on the Graduate Record Examination, commonly called the GRE..."Harvard Law School is continually working to eliminate barriers as we search for the most talented candidates for law and leadership," Martha Minow, the school's dean, said in a statement. "For many students, preparing for and taking both the GRE and the LSAT is unaffordable."

An op-ed by Martha Minow and Robert Post. Last Saturday, President Trump tweeted, “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” In mocking Judge James L. Robart, the federal district court judge who stayed the president’s executive order banning travel for individuals from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Trump risks making an enemy of the law and the Constitution. He then expressed contempt for the deliberations of the three-member appellate court convened to review Robart’s order, calling the legal argument “disgraceful,” and remarking that a “bad high school student would understand this” — before the appellate panel unanimously left Robart’s order in place. Now Trump is attacking anyone who calls him to account — senators, scientists, the civil service, the media, and the Democratic Party, to name a few.

Martha Minow recently announced that she will step down as the dean of Harvard Law School at the end of this academic year. She began her tenure in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis. In the intervening years, the law school faced serious questions of diversity and racism. Minow ends her tenure this year, as parts of the legal profession is feeling a new ripple of energy around the Presidency of Donald Trump.

After eight years as the head of Harvard Law School, Dean Martha Minow is stepping down from her role to return to teaching and research at the Law School. Her resignation is effective as of this July. The Record talked to Dean Minow about her thoughts looking back and looking forward. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and organization. The Record: What made you decide to step down as dean? Dean Minow: I made the decision just before the holidays. I want to participate in the events of the day. And I’m late in a contract for a book. So I’m looking forward to working on all of that.

Harvard Law School has confirmed that dean Martha Minow will step down from her post at the end of the current academic year. Ms Minow has served at the helm of arguably the most prestigious law school in the United States for the last eight years. A statement released via a spokesperson said that Ms Minow intends to remain an ‘active member’ of the Harvard Law faculty after she steps down from her role as dean in May: ‘I also want to devote more time studying and speaking about issues of inequality, access to justice, and discrimination in the current economic and social climate – issues that have been at the centre of my life’s work and are more pressing than ever,’ she said. Harvard University president Drew Faust said in a statement released yesterday that the university would ‘welcome advice from across the law school community’ as the search for Ms Minnow’s successor begins.

On Tuesday, Harvard Law School announced that Martha Minow, its 62-year-old dean, would step down from her role after the end of the academic year. Minow, over an eight-year tenure, was known for adding clinics in areas such as criminal law, policy, immigration and needs of military veterans, the school said. Over the past year, a group of law students protested the school’s logo, a shield which is modeled on the family crest of an 18th century slaveholder. Minow recommended to retire the shield in 2016 and the school approved the change. Big Law Business posed a number of questions to Minow, via, email about her career, diversity in the legal profession, her future plans and more.

Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law School, will step down at the end of the academic year, the school announced Tuesday. Minow, 62, said she plans to return to teaching and advocacy, and will complete a book about law and alternative ways to resolve disputes. She has been a member of the Harvard Law faculty since 1981. "My plan was to do five years," Minow said in an interview Tuesday. "I've had the unbelievable privilege and good fortune since I was a young professor to be devoted to teaching and scholarship. I was surprised to be asked to be dean when Elena Kagan left for Washington. I was willing to step in at that time. Obviously, that was a time of transition for the school and a time of great challenges, given the economic crisis. I was glad to do that, but I stayed longer than planned."

Dean of Harvard Law School Martha L. Minow will step down at the end of the academic year to return to teaching full-time, ending an eight-year tenure as dean that spanned a global financial crisis, federal Title IX scrutiny, and widespread student protest...“Being a scholar and a teacher was my highest aspiration. I’ve loved it and I am eager to return to it,” Minow said in an interview...“I cannot imagine as good a dean for the Law School [as Minow],” Law School professor Laurence H. Tribe said. “I think that Drew Faust made a wise and brilliant selection in persuading Martha to become dean of the law school and I look forward to working with President Faust to finding a successor, but I think Martha’s shoes are impossible to fill.”...Nino Monea, the Law School’s student body president, said he enjoyed working with Minow, even as he challenged her and the administration to address student concerns...Law School professor Bruce H. Mann said he regarded Minow as someone who lives by her principles and has done a terrific job of leading the Law School.

In a report released today, Harvard University details the path it took to achieving its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2016 from a 2006 baseline, inclusive of campus growth....Harvard is funding a three-year, multidisciplinary graduate-level Climate Solutions Living Lab course as well as research projects to design and analyze various off-site means to achieve carbon neutrality. Research findings will inform the University’s approach to coupling off-campus emissions reduction opportunities with on-campus efforts to meet its long-term climate commitment.“Not only will this course and others like it provide students with the opportunity explore real law and policy challenges related to climate change, it will be a model for collaborative learning by leveraging the expertise of faculty, students, and staff across our many Schools to devise solutions together,” said Martha Minow, the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

President Barack Obama will award Chicago’s legendary Newton Minow a Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, coming full circle from when Minow met him as a law student spending a summer at his Loop law firm...He is the former Federal Communications Commission chairman who famously called television a “vast wasteland” in a 1961 speech about broadcasting and the public interest. “He found a path that dealt always with mass communications as a way to enhance democracy,” Martha, one of Minow’s three daughters, told me on Monday.