Themes
Teaching & Learning
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World-Class Support
September 10, 2008
HLS continues to expand its international focus—and its graduates are taking notice.
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A Curriculum of New Realities
September 2, 2008
At Harvard Law School, some new answers to the question, What do future lawyers need to know?
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Research with Impact
September 1, 2008
The visionaries who supported these programs can already see results Established by HLS Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ’78 in 2005, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute…
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Langdell’s Guardian Angel
September 1, 2008
Having Harry “Terry” Martin at the helm of the Harvard Law Library was a comfort and an inspiration not only for me, when I was director of the Boston College Law Library, but also for the other law library directors in New England and in the profession generally.
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Harvard’s Good Servant
September 1, 2008
Beginning as a student over a half century ago—and with the notable exception of successive clerkships for Justice Roger Traynor of the Supreme Court of California and Justice Felix Frankfurter—Professor Mansfield’s journey in law has taken place entirely at the Harvard Law School, as he is fond of calling it. Impressive as such longevity is, he has left a mark on Harvard—and on my life as well—that is even deeper than it is wide.
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Daryl Levinson, the Fessenden Professor of Law, joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 2005. He teaches and writes primarily about constitutional law and theory. He has been tasked by Dean Elena Kagan ’86 with helping students and alumni who want to become law professors. In the latest issue of Harvard Law Today, he answered some questions about how students -- and alumni -- can become legal academics.
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Greiner trains litigators to get the most from number crunchers
August 22, 2008
Jim Greiner, an HLS assistant professor of law, created a unique course as a joint endeavor between HLS and the Harvard statistics department, where Greiner, who holds a Ph.D. in statistics, is an affiliate. The 13 law students will be taking and defending two depositions each, one involving a political redistricting hypothetical and the other involving an employment discrimination case.
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Harvard’s Good Servant
August 8, 2008
John H. Mansfield ’56 retires after instilling a “desire to respond” in generations of Harvard Law students By James A. Sonne ’97 John Mansfield has…
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Cory Booker: Have courage to live your truth
July 29, 2008
“Dare every day to manifest your authenticity.” So said Cory Booker, the 36th mayor of Newark, N.J., in an address to the graduating class of Harvard Law School.
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The Ultimate Cafeteria
July 29, 2008
With the help of Harvard Law School’s new curriculum reforms, it’s getting easier for law students to take part in Harvard University’s intellectual feast.
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At Home in the World
July 29, 2008
The new curriculum embraces law’s increasingly transnational nature
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Startup for an Ailing Planet
July 28, 2008
Harvard Law School’s new program, and its faculty director, aim to change the way we think about environmental law
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Jacobs’ Ladder
July 28, 2008
A new clinic lets students step up to environmental challenges—and onto the first rungs of their careers
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War Crimes Through the Looking Glass
July 28, 2008
This January, when the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumed in The Hague, much of the world was watching. So were 11 Harvard Law students—from about 20 feet away.
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Hands On
July 25, 2008
There are now 16 clinics at HLS, enabling students to do fieldwork at home and abroad. Here are stories from three of them, taking students inside inner cities and inner sanctums.
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The Clinical Exponent
July 25, 2008
The number of students learning by doing at Harvard Law School has more than doubled over the past five years. In 2002-03 there were 291 clinical placements; in 2006-07 there were nearly 800 students doing clinical work. Since Professor Gary Bellow ’60 founded the school’s first clinical practice program 30 years ago in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, the WilmerHale Legal Services Center has provided placements in a variety of subject matter areas and now has 14 sub-clinics. But there are now also 15 other clinical options at HLS—five of them new this year—offering students a wide variety of hands-on experiences in addition to the provision of direct legal services and representation to low-income clients.
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“Here, Have a Seat”
July 1, 2008
Often, there’s a bond between the donor of a new chair and the scholar who occupies it.
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Intermission
July 1, 2008
The past five years have brought remarkable growth and change to Harvard Law School. Here, the Bulletin takes a time-out for a brief recap and puts five questions to Dean Elena Kagan ’86.
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HLS International Human Rights Clinic co-releases report assessing prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes
June 20, 2008
The International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at Harvard Law School and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) have joined together to release "Prosecuting Apartheid-Era Crimes? A South African Dialogue on Justice," a report examining recently intensified questions about prosecuting crimes committed during apartheid.
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society received some major media recognition this week with the publication of a June 10 article in USA Today headlined "Berkman pioneers steer the course of cyberspace."