Martha Minow

2008 was a prolific year for HLS scholars. Here is a roundup of this year’s faculty books.

At Harvard Law School, some new answers to the question, What do future lawyers need to know?

With the help of Harvard Law School’s new curriculum reforms, it’s getting easier for law students to take part in Harvard University’s intellectual feast.

The new curriculum embraces law’s increasingly transnational nature

Harvard Law School Professor Martha Minow is co-editor of "Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference," a new book exploring ways to create more equal schools in an increasingly multicultural America.

At a February 12 event, Harvard Law School faculty members joined juvenile court judges and experts in child development to discuss how neuroscience can be better used in the courtroom to break the cycle of child maltreatment.

What [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad’s conference [of Holocaust deniers] proclaims is that truth has no place in the world of politics; that if your ends are just, you can say anything, no matter how far-fetched.

HLS students learn the lessons of Nuremberg in Cambridge, Arusha and The Hague.

With a little help from your friends: Amicus briefs are meant to offer judges some extra information. But is amicus practice getting out of hand?

BEFORE NUREMBERG…
Included in a recent HLS library exhibit, these illustrations from a 16th-century book show instruments of torture and a criminal on the way to…

“People are rightly concerned that [the Supreme Court decision, in Kelo v. City of New London] will give cities license to take private homes just…

HLS professor seeks to make copyrighted works accessible to students with disabilities.

HLS faculty and students look to other countries to better people's lives and increase their own understanding of the world of law.

Professor Philip Heymann “[I]f we approve torture in one set of circumstances, isn’t every country then free to define its own exceptions, applicable to Americans…

Guided by their professors, students find HLS a training ground for academic careers.

For the first time in decades, HLS has changed the basic structure of its first-year experience, and students and faculty are singing the praises of The New 1L.

Professor William Alford ’77 has been named an honorary fellow of the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, honorary professor of…

Since the first alumnae of 1953, more than 5,000 women have claimed their place at HLS. Hundreds came back to the School in November to applaud Attorney General Janet Reno '63 as she accepted the Celebration 45 Award, and to connect with the other remarkable women of Harvard Law.