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  • Berkman Klein 2017-2018 community

    Berkman Klein Center announces 2017–2018 community

    July 13, 2017

    The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today announced the incoming and returning fellows, faculty associates, affiliates, and directors who together will form the core of the Center’s networked community in the 2017-2018 academic year.

  • James Bass with his sons, Warner (far left) and James Jr.

    The full life of a larger-than-life lawyer

    July 12, 2017

    Born in 1910 in Nashville, Tenn., James O. Bass '34, by all accounts, has always been an impressive man. Large in stature and even more so in spirit, he was widely known from a young age for his commanding charm and quiet intelligence.

  • Two Hard Times

    July 6, 2017

    The ALCU presidency is no rest cure. Within months after I became president in late 1976, we agreed to represent a small group of self-styled American “Nazis” who wanted to hold a rally, wearing Stormtrooper regalia, in Skokie, Illinois.

  • Norman Dorsen

    Norman Dorsen ’53: 1930-2017

    July 6, 2017

    Norman Dorsen ’53, president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 to 1991, died on July 1. Active in many of the most prominent civil rights and civil liberties cases of the last 50 years, Dorsen regularly went against popular opinion to fight for fundamental freedoms.

  • Kate Konschnik

    Kate Konschnik named executive director of Harvard Environmental Law Program

    July 6, 2017

    Kate Konschnik, a lecturer on law and the founding director of Harvard Law School’s Environmental Policy Initiative (EPI), has been named the executive director of the Environmental Law Program (ELP).

  • Antonin Scalia

    Harvard Law School establishes professorship in honor of Justice Antonin Scalia ’60

    June 30, 2017

    Harvard Law School announced that it has established the Antonin Scalia Professorship of Law in recognition of the historic tenure of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ’60. The professorship is endowed by the Considine Family Foundation.

  • photo of Samuel Pisar

    Pisar family establishes professorship and fund for International Human Rights Clinic

    June 30, 2017

    Harvard Law School has announced that the family of the late Samuel Pisar LL.M. ’55 S.J.D. ’59, has endowed a professorship and a fund to support the International Human Rights Clinic.

  • Summer 2009

    Michael Klarman: ‘The cause of social justice needs you as much as it ever has before’

    June 30, 2017

    Drawing on his interests in constitutional law, constitutional history, and racial equality, Professor Michael Klarman’s Last Lecture explored the obstacles faced — and in many ways, overcome — by feminist lawyers and African-American civil rights lawyers in the middle of the last century.

  • venn diagram of blocked content types

    New Berkman Klein Center study examines global internet censorship

    June 29, 2017

    A sharp increase in web encryption and a worldwide shift away from standalone websites in favor of social media and online publishing platforms has altered the practice of state-level internet censorship and in some cases led to broader crackdowns, a new study by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University finds.

  • Tabitha Cohen

    PLAP court victory helps disabled parolees

    June 28, 2017

    In May 2017, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court extended the American with Disabilities Act to mentally and physically disabled prisoners seeking parole, ruling that the state must help them get support systems in place in the community—thanks to years of work by students with Harvard's Prison Legal Assistance Project.

  • Refugee kid among tents

    HIRC releases report offering critical recommendations for resettling refugees

    June 28, 2017

    The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program has released a far-reaching report, “Fulfilling U.S. Commitment to Refugee Resettlement,” that offers critical recommendations for resettling refugees, and recommendations for Congress and the Executive Branch on enhancing security, job creation, and equal treatment for all.

  • HLS staff group photo

    A toast to 200!

    June 26, 2017

    On June 14, the Harvard Law School community gathered to celebrate the school's 200th birthday with food, games and fun at the Bicentennial Bash.

  • Khiara Bridges

    Khiara Bridges’ simple advice: ‘Be true to yourself. That’s it.’

    June 22, 2017

    In her Last Lecture to the Class of 2017, Professor and professional ballet dancer Khiara Bridges described her family’s roots in the Jim Crow South, and growing up in a family of doctors as a child who loved reading and writing, and knew, early on, that she wanted to become a lawyer instead.

  • A view of the bench of an empty courtroom

    Tournament of Champions

    June 21, 2017

    In January, it was as if the U.S. Supreme Court were playing host to a tournament of champions for past winners of the Ames Moot Court Competition, with three attorneys who argued Midland Funding, LLC v. Johnson having been on teams that won the competition within four years of each other at Harvard Law School.

  • Bob Bordone’s last lecture: The seven elements of resiliency in hard times

    June 16, 2017

    Professor Bob Bordone began his talk to the Class of 2017 with words of appreciation: Getting to know them, he said, ‘has been a tremendous gift.” But then he apologized, explaining that he would follow last year’s lecture, “Best Job Ever,” with one with the more sobering title of “Worst Year Ever.”

  • Nancy Gertner, senior lecturer on law at HLS and a retired federal judge in Massachusetts

    What Comey’s testimony means

    June 9, 2017

    Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge in Massachusetts who is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Law School, spoke with the Gazette about the legal issues swirling around President Donald Trump and FBI Director James Comey's testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

  • Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Stephen Breyer at Harvard.

    For Supreme Court justices, faith in law

    June 9, 2017

    The mood was festive, rather than disputatious, on Friday evening as Supreme Court Associate Justices Stephen G. Breyer, J.D. ’64, and Neil M. Gorsuch, J.D. ’91, sat down to discuss “the rule of law,” capping off a Harvard Marshall Forum dinner in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the trans-Atlantic scholarship.

  • HLS Thinks Big 2017 attendees stand beside poster

    HLS thinks bigger than ever

    June 8, 2017

    Each May since 2011, Harvard Law School has presented "HLS Thinks Big," a TED Talks-style event that invites faculty members to present a "big idea" in front of an audience of faculty, students and staff.

  • Professor Mark Wu at podium

    Wu honored by Class of 2017

    June 8, 2017

    The Class of 2017 selected Professor Mark Wu for the prestigious Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence for his work as a dedicated professor and mentor who cares not only about the intellectual development of his students, but also their emotional well-being.

  • Martha Minow delivering her last lecture

    Martha Minow’s last lecture: ‘The mistakes that I’ve made have been the touchstones for learning’

    June 5, 2017

    As she prepares to step down as Dean, Martha Minow focused in her Last Lecture to this year’s graduating class on mistakes she has made — “these are all pre-Deanship,” she quipped, “because we only have an hour” — and the lessons she has learned from them.

  • Einer R. Elhauge

    Elhauge to receive the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship

    June 2, 2017

    Harvard Law School Professor Einer Elhauge ’86 will receive the prestigious Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship from the American Anititrust Institute at their annual conference on June 21.