Themes
Faculty Scholarship
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At Home Abroad
April 24, 2003
HLS faculty and students look to other countries to better people's lives and increase their own understanding of the world of law.
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Both Sides Now
April 24, 2003
By the time Guhan Subramanian J.D./M.B.A. '98 left the Harvard Business School faculty for the HLS faculty last summer, Harvard Law School had transformed the 1L experience from when he was a student.
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Book of the Times
September 24, 2002
Most of us accept our experience of time as “natural,” when in fact it’s shaped by society and its laws, says Professor Todd Rakoff, author of what may be the first book on the topic.
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To Serve and to Honor
September 24, 2002
On Flag Day this year, when Irene Englund's ashes were placed at Arlington National Cemetery, soldiers fired a rifle salute, a bugler played taps, and an American flag was presented to Englund's daughter Julie.
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Risky Business
September 24, 2002
Not many people have to specify that they don't think it's a good thing that cigarettes kill people. But W. Kip Viscusi mentions it nonetheless because his work--and its subject matter--can be oversimplified, he says. Not to mention vilified.
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Hearsay: Summer 2002
July 1, 2002
“[I]f we approve torture in one set of circumstances, isn’t every country then free to define its own exceptions, applicable to Americans as well as…
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A Word of Trouble
July 1, 2002
A hypothetical: A reporter is going to interview Professor Randall Kennedy. The reporter says to a group of coworkers: "That is one righteous nigger." A colleague complains. The reporter, whose intent was to compliment the professor, is fired for using grossly offensive language.
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Hearsay: Spring 2002
April 1, 2002
Several HLS faculty members have written about the response to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Excerpts from selected opinion pieces follow.
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Glendon on Roosevelt and Rights
September 12, 2001
Professor Mary Ann Glendon set out to write a straightforward history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But Eleanor Roosevelt would not let her do it.
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Breaking the Chain
July 1, 2001
Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. '78 and Randall Robinson '70 want to educate Americans about the lasting impact of slavery. A lawsuit will be part of that education.
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Jolls and Roe Appointed Professors of Law
July 1, 2001
Harvard Law School has named two members of its faculty tenured professors. Assistant Professor Christine Jolls '93, a leader in the emerging field of behavioral law and economics and a scholar of employment law, and Mark Roe '75, a Columbia Law School professor who currently teaches corporate law as a visiting professor at HLS, will assume their new posts July 1.
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Presidential Politics
July 1, 2001
The search committee that ultimately chose Lawrence Summers as the 27th president of Harvard University originally considered hundreds of candidates for the job. One of…
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The Cart Before the Court
July 1, 2001
Casey Martin’s legal battle to use a golf cart during PGA tournaments will not affect many other golfers. Yet the case could affect the lives…
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Air Unfair
July 1, 2001
Adjunct Professor Michael Levine likes to see airlines compete. After all, he helped deregulate the airline industry two decades ago before serving as an executive…
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HLS Makes Its Mark on Presidential Contest
April 27, 2001
In the dispute over the results of the 2000 presidential election, political affiliation could almost uniformly predict one’s position. While Laurence Tribe ’66, a…
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Byse Receives HLSA Award
September 28, 2000
Clark Byse received the Harvard Law School Association Award in June 2000.
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Recent Faculty Honors
September 28, 2000
Professor William Alford ’77 has been named an honorary fellow of the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, honorary professor of…
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HLS Appoints New Faculty
September 28, 2000
In addition to Janet Halley, HLS has appointed five new professors to the faculty, the largest addition of new faculty members during Robert Clark’s deanship,…
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Sander Steps Down as Associate Dean
September 28, 2000
Since 1987 the size of the Law School curriculum has increased by nearly 20 percent. And the job of putting the teaching program together each…
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Stanford’s Halley Named Professor at HLS
September 28, 2000
Janet Halley, an authority on legal issues surrounding gender, identity, and sexual orientation, has been appointed professor of law at HLS. “Janet Halley is one…
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Bargain Hunting
September 28, 2000
In his new book, Professor Robert Mnookin '68 urges lawyers to negotiate with the aim of solving problems without resorting to hard-bargaining tactics.