Post Types
Feature
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Drum Major for Justice
May 4, 2015
Bryan Stevenson ’85 on race, poverty and the things worth fighting for
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Will Corporate ‘Speech’ Undermine Productivity?
May 4, 2015
John Coates argues that extending speech protections to corporations is bad—not just for democracy but for capitalism.
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Prosecutor with a Calling
April 23, 2015
Loretta Lynch ’84 becomes the 83rd attorney general of the United States.
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Tax Turnaround Time?
November 24, 2014
Proposals for reversing the corporate inversion trend bring home the need for tax reform.
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In It Together?
November 24, 2014
Do recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on class actions mean less security in numbers?
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How to Grow a Law Professor
November 24, 2014
A fellowship for lawyers who want to teach and study law helps to cultivate the next generation of law professors.
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Keeping FAITH
November 24, 2014
A nonprofit law firm whose clients have ranged from Hobby Lobby to a Santeria priest
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For the Children Who ‘Fell Through the Cracks’
November 24, 2014
From the statehouse to the schoolhouse, an HLS initiative changes the paradigm for educating young people who have experienced trauma.
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Stock in Trade: Ingenuity
May 15, 2014
An immigration lawyer impresses the MacArthur Foundation (Even the General would have been impressed).
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Ruling out Risk?
May 15, 2014
Banks can no longer make bets with their own money. Some say the reform makes us safer; others say it simply transfers the risk.
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Taking Care of Business (and Nonprofits, too)
May 12, 2014
We follow 5 clinical students into the lab, the barbershop and the labyrinth of condominium governance.
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Martha Minow’s sense of purpose
April 23, 2014
Dean Martha Minow of the Law School follows E.O. Wilson in the Harvard Gazette's Experience series, interviews with Harvard faculty covering the reasons they became teachers and scholars, and the personal journeys, missteps included, behind their professional success.
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One Woman’s Weeds
January 1, 2014
Tama Matsuoka Wong ’83 was a securities lawyer in Hong Kong when her toddler began to suffer from such severe allergies that she was hospitalized. When it became clear that the problem was related to processed foods, Wong and her family returned to the U.S., where they could have better control over what they ate.
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Leading Women
January 1, 2014
This fall, more than 600 alumnae from around the country and the world came back to Harvard Law School for “Celebration 60: Leaders for Change—Women Transforming our Communities and the World.” We interview four participants on their experiences effecting change.
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Victory Gardener
January 1, 2014
First Lady Michelle Obama ’88 on cultivating a healthier future for children.
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The Paper Chase Post-Paper
January 1, 2014
At Harvard Law School and its library, digital experts are busy inventing the future of textbooks, the classroom and information access.
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With more and more people deeply concerned about what they’re eating and what it means for our health, the economy, the environment, social justice, and even national security, Harvard Law School has created a new focus on food law.
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Destination: Asia
January 1, 2014
In June, a delegation from Harvard Law School led by Dean Martha Minow embarked on a 15-day, five-stop visit to East Asia and to the fore of fast-moving developments and challenges across the region.
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‘Inexcusable Wrongs’
December 16, 2013
In many areas of law, excuses can defeat liability. Criminal law recognizes duress or provocation as excuses to reduce a criminal defendant’s punishment. In Contracts,…