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Harvard Law School’s Community Enterprise Project has published a first-of-its kind guidebook for immigrant entrepreneurs. The guidebook offers a comprehensive analysis of the many legal implications of immigrant entrepreneurship.
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Brandeis University has selected Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow as the winner of the 2015-16 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize, presented annually to a person whose body of published work reflects scholarly excellence and makes a lasting contribution to racial, ethnic or religious relations.
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Harvard Defenders: 65 years of legal service to the community
October 9, 2015
85 Harvard Law students participate each year in Harvard Defenders, a student practice organization in which they represent low-income clients in criminal show-cause hearings.
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A Leader on National Security
October 5, 2015
After 15 years in Congress, Adam Schiff has emerged as a leading Democratic voice on national security.
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A Supreme Opera
October 5, 2015
“Scalia/Ginsburg,” a comic opera by Derrick Wang, had its world premiere this summer in Virginia. Among those in the audience for the premiere was Justice Ginsburg herself.
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As the law school’s Campaign for the Third Century kicks off Oct. 23, it finds itself in very able hands: One of its co-chairs is Jim Attwood J.D./M.B.A. ’84.
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The Right Fit?
October 5, 2015
Litigation is often seen as an either/or proposition. You either settle out of court or go to trial and leave the outcome entirely in the hands of a judge or a jury. But Professor Kathryn Spier has researched another option: whereby parties go to trial with an agreement in place on the ceiling and floor for the plaintiff’s recovery.
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Lasting Laughs
October 5, 2015
Jonathan Goldstein’s unconventional path helped propel him to success in the entertainment industry.
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Turning Over a New Leaf
October 5, 2015
The recent digitization of the Simon Greenleaf papers offers glimpses of the 19th century HLS professor who viewed the law as a fusion of scientific thought and moral experience.
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Lawyers, Ethics and Change
October 5, 2015
The HLS Center on the Legal Profession has been looking at ethical questions for lawyers in today’s new environment. How does law adjust to these…
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One year after a major win in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, will Obergefell herald a narrowing of space for those who oppose same-sex marriage to express their views?
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A Passion for Reform
October 5, 2015
Jeff Robinson ’81 worked as a Seattle criminal defense lawyer for 34 years—a span of time that, he notes, “basically coincided with the largest increase in our incarcerated population in the history of the United States.” Now, as the newly appointed director of the ACLU’s Center for Justice, he will be tackling that metastasis head-on.
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Considering ‘Religious Accommodation’
October 5, 2015
Scholarship stemming from the “Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights,” conference held in April 2014 at HLS explored tensions within constitutional and statutory civil rights commitments.
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The Power of the Outsider
October 5, 2015
As head of the primary government agency tasked with protecting the rights of consumers, Edith Ramirez has focused much of her efforts on digital privacy.
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Tenacity Rewarded
October 5, 2015
The Yukos case—with its largest-ever arbitration award—was the culmination of Yas Banifatemi's career in international arbitration, which took root at Harvard.
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HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books – Fall 2015
October 5, 2015
“Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle,” by Christopher T. Bayley ’66 (Sasquatch Books). In the early 1970s, as the newly…
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A European (Re)Union
October 5, 2015
This past May, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow joined HLSA President Salvo Arena LL.M. ’00 and more than 200 other alumni at a celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Law School Association of Europe, held at the Cercle de l’Union Interalliée in Paris.
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A Powerful Platform
October 5, 2015
Halfway into his term as president of the Harvard Law School Association, Salvo Arena LL.M. ’00 says one of the questions he hears most often when he meets with other alumni is, What exactly is the HLSA and what does it do?
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The first systematic empirical study of the career trajectories of Harvard Law School graduates, conducted by the HLS Center on the Legal Profession, has found that, among HLS graduates who work at law firms, men are significantly more likely to be equity partners and to be in positions of leadership than their female classmates—even though women work more hours, on average.
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In Memoriam – Fall 2015
October 5, 2015
1930-1939 Gilbert Helman ’39
July 2, 2015
(Obituary) 1940-1949 Hans H. Angermueller ’50
July 11, 2015
(Obituary) Robert A. Behrman ’50
July 16, 2015
(Obituary) Robert E. Bradney… -
When students walk across Harvard Yard with earbuds in, they could be listening to music or talking on the phone. But nowadays, there’s a good chance they’re listening to a podcast. What listeners may not know is that podcasts started right here at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society in 2003.