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  • A Royall Find

    July 1, 2001

    An HLS treasure has found its way home. The iron seal, once used by Isaac Royall, who funded the University’s first chair in the law,…

  • Harvard Schools Host First JD/MBA Reunion

    July 1, 2001

    They called themselves orphans, pearls without a string, and the lost graduates. But on April 5 and 6, these wayward souls found a home, when…

  • LIPP Program Expands

    July 1, 2001

    Beginning in July, Harvard Law School graduates will have a greater opportunity for loan forgiveness due to recently announced changes in the Low Income Protection…

  • Naming Rights…and Wrongs

    July 1, 2001

    Certain lawyers might say that it depends on what the definition of “at” is. Technically, the National College for DUI Defense was held “at” Harvard…

  • A Lodge Out West

    July 1, 2001

    In the land of the bean and the cod (that’s Boston for those of you who have forgotten), it was once said that the Cabots…

  • Power to the People

    July 1, 2001

    Matthew Freedman ’99 is all charged up. Just ask him about the deregulation of California’s utilities. He’ll tell you in passionate detail the tortuous story…

  • The Times According to William Proctor

    July 1, 2001

    William Proctor ’66 recognizes the New York Times’s preeminence as the country’s newspaper of record. That’s why he reads it every morning, and why he’s…

  • Bush Taps HLS Grads for Administration

    July 1, 2001

    A new president may occupy the White House, but Harvard Law remains well represented at the top of government. So far, President George W. Bush…

  • Jolls and Roe Appointed Professors of Law

    July 1, 2001

    Harvard Law School has named two members of its faculty tenured professors. Assistant Professor Christine Jolls '93, a leader in the emerging field of behavioral law and economics and a scholar of employment law, and Mark Roe '75, a Columbia Law School professor who currently teaches corporate law as a visiting professor at HLS, will assume their new posts July 1.

  • Presidential Politics

    July 1, 2001

    The search committee that ultimately chose Lawrence Summers as the 27th president of Harvard University originally considered hundreds of candidates for the job. One of…

  • The Cart Before the Court

    July 1, 2001

    Casey Martin’s legal battle to use a golf cart during PGA tournaments will not affect many other golfers. Yet the case could affect the lives…

  • Air Unfair

    July 1, 2001

    Adjunct Professor Michael Levine likes to see airlines compete. After all, he helped deregulate the airline industry two decades ago before serving as an executive…

  • Public Interest Auction a Sight to Behold

    July 1, 2001

    “Bid, Justin, bid!” the crowd chanted. In the end, Justin Lerer ’02 did just that, bidding $1,800 on dinner and a poker game for four,…

  • Harvard Law Survivor

    July 1, 2001

    Credit: Courtesy of CBS Nick Brown competes in one of the challenges on the CBS show Survivor. What’s the difference between Harvard Law School and…

  • Book Gift Makes HLS Preeminent Resource for Anglo-American Legal History

    July 1, 2001

    Surviving a journey of centuries, about 1,000 volumes of rare English law books spanning 400 years of legal writing were delivered to Langdell Library this…

  • HLS Launches Digital Divide Policy Initiative

    June 28, 2001

    Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society today announced a new project to create public policies that support digital entrepreneurship. The project, Open Economies, will support developing nations seeking to embrace digital technology and digitally-enabled entrepreneurship as a means to economic development.

  • HLS Receives Gift to Study Animal Rights Law

    June 13, 2001

    Harvard Law School has received a $500,000 gift to establish the Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of Animal Rights. The Fund will support teaching and research at the Law School in the emerging field of animal rights law. The income generated by the gift will fund periodic courses and seminars at the Law School on animal rights taught by visiting scholars with a wide range of views and perspectives. In addition to classroom instruction, the gift will assist visiting and permanent faculty members in conducting research in this emerging field.

  • Commencement 2001

    June 7, 2001

    Today, at 10 a.m., the Sheriff of Middlesex County gaveled in order the 2001 Harvard University Commencement exercises.

  • Christine Jolls Appointed Professor of Law

    May 10, 2001

    Christine Jolls, a pioneer in the emerging field of behavioral law and economics and a scholar of employment law, has been named a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School-a tenured position. Jolls, a 1993 graduate of Harvard Law School, has served as an assistant professor since 1994, with a two-year hiatus when she served as a law clerk first for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, then for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

  • Harvard Colloquium to Focus on U.S. Foreign Policy

    May 2, 2001

    Beginning May 3, world leaders, scholars, journalists, and business executives will join high-level U.S. government officials for the 2001 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs. The three-day event, co-sponsored by Harvard Law School, will focus on regions and issues most important to American foreign policy.

  • Faculty Approves Strategic Plan

    April 27, 2001

    Proposal Would Reduce Class Sizes, Increase Financial Aid After more than two years of studies, committee meetings, and debate, the Harvard Law School faculty has…