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Afghanistan Reunion
January 7, 2020
Classmates seek to bring peace and progress to a war-torn country
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Justice for All
January 7, 2020
Fern A. Fisher ’78, an agent of change in the judiciary, serving the public interest
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‘The Best Parts of Being a Lawyer’
January 7, 2020
In August 2017, after her nomination by President Donald Trump and unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Beth Williams ’04 became assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice. At HLS, she was president of the Harvard Federalist Society. Williams recently received a top award from the Harvard Federalist Society and was designated a 2019 D.C. Rising Star by The National Law Journal. The Bulletin interviewed Williams in the fall.
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A Legal Warrior in the Field of Technology
January 7, 2020
Marvin Ammori ’03, a net neutrality advocate, explores the power of the decentralized web
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‘Not Pollyanna’
January 7, 2020
Judge Rya Zobel ’56 of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts was among 23 women appointed in 1979 to the federal judiciary, more than double the number of women appointed as federal judges in the previous 190 years. In a group of pioneering women lawyers, her journey to the federal bench was perhaps the most remarkable.
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HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books Winter ’20
January 7, 2020
From Imani Perry’s “Breathe” to Ben Shapiro’s “The Right Side of History”
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Heard on Campus
January 7, 2020
From a U.S. Supreme Court justice to the president of Germany to a senator from Utah to a Hiroshima survivor: “I speak because I feel it is my responsibility.”
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Faculty Books in Brief: Winter 2020
January 7, 2020
From conformity and the power of social influences to felony and the guilty mind in Medieval England
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Pursuing justice, freedom and peace
January 7, 2020
Nasredeen Abdulbari LL.M. ’08 discusses the significant role he has now undertaken as Sudan's Minister of Justice. In September, he was sworn in as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Sudan’s new Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok.
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To Serve Better: Benet Magnuson ’09
December 23, 2019
When Benet Magnuson joined Kansas Appleseed in 2013 as its executive director he pretty much had only himself to supervise. But within a couple of years the social justice nonprofit had a dozen staffers working all over the state.
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Students showcase films on tort law and justice
December 19, 2019
A night of glamour at HLS to celebrate student films on tort law and justice.
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Minow, Gordon-Reed probe what impeachment means and where it leads
December 19, 2019
To gain a better understanding of the issues in play following the House impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Harvard Gazette asked faculty and affiliates in history, law, politics, government, psychology, and media to offer their thoughts.
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Shedding light on fraudulent takedown notices
December 12, 2019
What happens if bad actors deliberately falsify and submit court documents requesting the removal of content? Research using the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society’s Lumen database shows the problem is larger than previously understood.
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Martha Minow on the power of forgiveness
December 12, 2019
The Harvard Gazette recently sat down with Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and former dean of Harvard Law School, to talk about her book new book, "When Should Law Forgive?," and why she thinks forgiveness could make the law more just.
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Health care general counsels explore pressing health policy and legal issues at Harvard Law School
December 11, 2019
The General Counsels Roundtable helps influential health law attorneys stay on top of or even ahead of changes in health law and policy. The roundtable connects GC to experts at HLS and the broader university, while also strengthening ties between faculty and legal practice.
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Mail priorities: Madelyn Petersen ’19 works to keep communities connected in rural Iowa
December 6, 2019
As a member of Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, Madelyn Petersen '19 and several other students traveled to northwest Iowa to study how the federal government’s plan to potentially privatize the U.S. Postal Service might affect the small, largely rural communities there.
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Video: Feldman testifies on the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment
December 4, 2019
On Wednesday, Dec. 4, Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, testified before the House Judiciary Committee at a public hearing on the constitutional grounds for impeaching the president.
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Human rights seminar tackles barriers to women’s leadership
December 3, 2019
This fall, Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Susan Farbstein ’04 is teaching "Human Rights Careers: Strategic Leadership Workshop," a seminar focused on advocacy and leadership for students interested in careers in human rights or social justice.
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‘The move away from federalism and separation of powers has had lasting impacts on American democracy’
December 3, 2019
Senator Mike Lee offered his perspective on the current state of constitutional law in America at a recent event organized by the Harvard Federalist Society.
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Ben Miller-Gootnick ’21 wins the Gellhorn-Sargentich Law Student Essay Competition.
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David L. Shapiro 1932–2019: The ‘heart and soul’ of federal courts and the federal system
November 26, 2019
David L. Shapiro ’57, an icon of federal courts jurisprudence, died last week at the age of 87.