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Harvard Muslim Law Students Association launches #yourvoicematters community-building campaign
December 23, 2015
The Harvard Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) started a social media campaign to create a network of mentorship for Muslim American youth who are harmed and discouraged by Islamophobic sentiment. Using the hashtag #yourvoicematters, the students hope to generate a positive dialogue focused on reclaiming and celebrating Muslim identity.
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Death Penalty 2015: Lowest number of executions in 25 years, but marked by disability and impairment
December 23, 2015
In 2015, America had the lowest number of executions in 25 years, according to a new report released by Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice. But of the 28 people executed, 68% suffered from severe mental disabilities or experienced extreme childhood trauma and abuse.
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Dean Minow at Michigan Commencement: ‘The world needs more upstanders’
December 21, 2015
During a commencement address at the University of Michigan, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow urged students to address the serious challenges of our time and take action against injustice by being 'upstanders' instead of bystanders.
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Harvard Law School: 2015 in review
December 17, 2015
Supreme Court justices, performance art, student protests and a vice president. A look back at 2015, highlights of the people who visited, events that took place and everyday life at Harvard Law School.
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Disclosures on fracking lacking, study finds
December 16, 2015
As the growth of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” transforms more rural landscapes across the heartland into industrial zones, companies are less willing to disclose the chemicals they inject into the ground, Harvard researchers have found.
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Participants in a recent gathering at Harvard Law School are hoping to spark the growth of a nationwide student network for making significant contributions to the emerging field of food law and policy.
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Walter Leonard, an educator and leader who played a critical role in expanding diversity at Harvard Law School and then at Harvard University in the late 1960s and 1970s, died on December 8, 2015, at the age of 86.
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At HLS, DOJ’s top national security lawyer discusses U.S. vulnerability to cyberterrorism
December 8, 2015
John P. Carlin ’99, assistant attorney general for National Security, spoke last week at Harvard Law School on the National Security Cyber Threat, at an event hosted by the Harvard National Security Journal.
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Company’s remedies for rape in Papua New Guinea deeply flawed
December 4, 2015
A controversial process created by one of the world’s largest gold mining companies to compensate women for rapes and gang rapes in Papua New Guinea was deeply flawed, said human rights investigators and legal experts at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools in a study released in November.
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Freeman, Lazarus author amicus motion on behalf of former EPA Administrators to back Clean Power Plan
December 3, 2015
Former United States EPA Administrators William D. Ruckelshaus and William K. Reilly formally moved today to participate in pending litigation in support of the legality of the President’s Clean Power Plan. The motion seeking leave to file a friend of the court brief was written by Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus of Harvard Law School.
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Lessons from Lessig: After presidential bid, HLS professor talks fairness in politics
December 1, 2015
When Lawrence Lessig ended his issue-oriented quest for the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, he vowed to continue his campaign to reform election finance practices and reduce the influence of money in politics.
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Panel on ‘Spotlight’ film explores priest sex abuse scandal, institutional cover-up and advocacy for victims
December 1, 2015
A recent panel discussion of the movie "Spotlight" at Harvard Law School touched on legal issues, secrets and shame, and even a potential lawsuit against the filmmakers.
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Committee exploring whether Harvard Law School shield should be changed
November 30, 2015
Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow has announced the creation of a committee to research if the school should continue to use its current shield. The shield is the coat of arms of the family of Isaac Royall, whose bequest endowed the first professorship of law at Harvard.
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The plight of the Roma: Activists press to end centuries of European discrimination
November 25, 2015
Taking a leaf out of the American Civil Rights Movement’s book, Roma rights activists undertook a legal battle in European courts to challenge the pervasive discrimination that has kept them living on the fringes of society.
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In Scalia lecture, Kagan discusses statutory interpretation
November 25, 2015
On Nov. 17, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Elena Kagan ’86, former dean of Harvard Law School, discussed statutory interpretation in a conversation with Professor John Manning ’85 as part of the Scalia lecture series at Harvard Law School.
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Jacqueline Berrien ’86, former EEOC chair: 1961- 2015
November 25, 2015
Jacqueline Berrien ’86, a leading civil rights lawyer and former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, died on Nov. 9, 2015. She was 53. Berrien,…
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Remembering Jackie Berrien: Stephanie Moore ’85 recalls the civil rights attorney who was her lifelong friend
November 25, 2015
On November 9, 2015, the world lost a warrior for justice with the death of Jacqueline Ann Berrien. I lost a lifelong friend, confidante and…
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The final round of Harvard Law School’s 2015 Ames Moot Court Competition, one of the most prestigious competitions for appellate brief writing and advocacy in the country, took place on Nov. 16 in Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall.
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For law students, a cautionary tale
November 24, 2015
Accompanied by his lawyers Lisa Kavanaugh '00 and Andrea Petersen, Victor Rosario--a man who served 32 years in prison for a crime he said he didn’t commit--discussed his case, the state of criminal forensics, and innocence litigation at Harvard Law School.
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2015 Ames Moot Court Competition Gallery
November 24, 2015
A look behind the scenes of the final round of Harvard Law School’s 2015 Ames Moot Court Competition, one of the most prestigious competitions for appellate brief writing and advocacy in the country.
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Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow responds to the defacement of African American faculty portraits
November 19, 2015
This morning, Harvard Law School discovered that portraits of some African American faculty had been defaced with black tape. The Harvard University Police Department is investigating the incident as a hate crime.