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Public Service Venture Fund announces two ‘seed grant’ recipients for 2014-15 academic year
March 6, 2015
Two recent Harvard Law School graduates, Shannon Erwin ’10 and Alana Greer ’11, have been selected as recipients of grants from the Public Service Venture Fund, a unique program that awards up to $1 million each year to help graduating Harvard Law students and recent graduates obtain their ideal jobs in public service.
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After Ferguson, the ripples across Harvard
March 5, 2015
National concerns over racial justice lead to campus introspection, discussion, research, and action They are short, stark sentences, seared into the public consciousness in recent…
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Six from Harvard Law School awarded Skadden Fellowships
March 3, 2015
Six Harvard Law School students and recent graduates have been chosen to receive Skadden Fellowships to support their work in public service.
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New study on liability of online intermediaries by the Global Network of Internet and Society Centers
February 25, 2015
The Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers (NoC) and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University recently announced the release of a new report, which examines the rapidly changing landscape of online intermediary liability at the intersection of law, technology, norms, and markets, and is aimed at informing and improving Internet policy-making globally.
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Vicki Jackson to serve on ALI’s project on campus sexual assault
February 25, 2015
Harvard Law School Professor Vicki C. Jackson will serve as reporter for a project, sponsored by the American Law Institute, that will examine college and university procedures surrounding allegations of sexual misconduct on campus.
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Criminal Justice and Policing after the Events in Ferguson, Staten Island, Cleveland and Elsewhere (video)
February 12, 2015
On Friday, Feb. 6, after several town hall meetings in which Harvard Law students and faculty shared their experiences and observations of discrimination and systemic injustice, as well as hopes for pedagogical and cultural shifts at the law school, the HLS community convened to discuss a somewhat more familiar law school topic: legal and policy reforms.
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Harvard convenes international meeting on clinical trial recruitment
February 6, 2015
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program of Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center convened an international panel of experts at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland for a workshop entitled “Clinical Trial Recruitment: Problems, Misconceptions, and Possible Solutions,” on Jan. 19-21.
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The recent report "Arab Religious Skeptics Online: Anonymity, Autonomy, and Discourse in a Hostile Environment," authored by Helmi Noman and published by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Internet Monitor project examines the emergence of religious skeptics in Arab cyberspace.
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Center For Health Law and Policy Innovation files amicus brief calling for preservation of federal subsidies under the ACA
January 29, 2015
The Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation has spearheaded the filing of an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting that the Court affirm a court of appeals decision upholding the nationwide provision of federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
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Fletcher named executive director of HLS Executive Education
January 21, 2015
Carrie Fletcher has been appointed as the new executive director of Harvard Law School Executive Education, where she works with faculty and an administrative team to develop leadership programs that serve law firm managing partners, emerging law firm leaders, and general counsel from across the globe.
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Too big to fail or too hard to remember? The triumph, tragedy, and lost legacy of James M. Landis ’24
January 21, 2015
On Nov. 24, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard hosted “Too Big to Fail or Too Hard to Remember: Lessons from the New Deal and the Triumph, Tragedy, and Lost Legacy of James M. Landis,” a discussion of the legacy of scholar, administrator, advocate and political adviser known for his seminal contribution to the creation of the modern system of market regulation in the United States.
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Multistakeholder as Governance Groups: New Study by Global Network of Internet and Society Centers
January 15, 2015
The Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers (NoC) and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University have released a new report on Multistakeholder Governance Groups, which informs the debate about Internet governance models and mechanisms.
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And discussions have continued into the new year about the policy and procedures of police, prosecutors and the community at large.
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Thousands enroll in Charles Fried’s online contracts class
January 8, 2015
Starting this month, Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, who has been teaching the intricacies of the law to HLS students for nearly 50 years, is expanding his student body dramatically with the start of his online ContractsX course, a seven-week study of contracts for nonlawyers.
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You can govern in a polarized America: Olympia Snowe and Jason Grumet on channeling differences in productive ways (video)
January 6, 2015
Dean Martha Minow welcomed former Senator Olympia Snowe and Jason Grumet ’98 to Harvard Law School on Oct. 30 to discuss their work at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and the recent report, Governing in a Polarized America: A Bipartisan Blueprint to Strengthen our Democracy.
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From politics to pop music: A look back at fall 2014 at HLS
December 23, 2014
A former NBA All Star turned humanitarian. Supreme Court justices. Student protests. Take a look at some highlights of the people who visited and events that took place this semester at Harvard Law School.
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Steiker, Whiting launch new Criminal Justice Program of Study, Research and Advocacy at HLS
December 8, 2014
At a time when policing, prosecutorial discretion, the death penalty, and criminal justice as a whole are under tremendous scrutiny in the United States, a new initiative at Harvard Law School seeks to analyze problems within the U.S. criminal justice system and look for solutions.
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District attorneys discuss Vera Institute findings on racial disparity in criminal cases (video)
December 8, 2014
Addressing racial disparities in criminal prosecutions was the focus of discussion at Harvard Law School on Nov. 20 at an event sponsored by the new Criminal Justice Program of Study, Research and Advocacy at Harvard Law School.
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At a December 2 event sponsored by Harvard Law School's Brazilian Studies Association and its Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law, experts convened at to discuss digital media's place in the future of the global sports business model.
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The Lee and Li Foundation establishes a fund for the public interest at Harvard Law School
December 2, 2014
Harvard Law School is pleased to announce that The Lee and Li Foundation, based in Taiwan, has made a generous gift to establish The Lee and Li Foundation Fund for the Public Interest at Harvard Law School.
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New head of VA looks to put system’s troubles behind
November 26, 2014
At the inaugural Disabled American Veterans Distinguished Speaker Series at Harvard Law School, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald said the troubled agency is making progress in getting its house in order, citing more — and more timely — appointments and authorizations to see private doctors for veterans who live far from VA hospitals.