Themes
Teaching & Learning
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The New World of Islamic Legal Studies
April 1, 2002
"We ordinarily don't try to respond to the news of the hour," said Frank Vogel, director of the HLS Islamic Legal Studies Program. But for Vogel, like for so many other people, everything changed on September 11.
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Class Distinction
October 1, 2001
When some of Alan Stone's colleagues learn that he is teaching a seminar on film at HLS, they wonder, frankly, what the heck he is doing. Students, however, know exactly what he is doing, Stone says. And they like it.
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Choice Law Schools
October 1, 2001
For many 1Ls starting this year, HLS was their first choice. But some found it harder to decide. More than 60 years ago, William Waldron was faced with a similar dilemma: Harvard or Yale.
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Not Your Father’s Harvard Law School
July 1, 2001
The current Strategic Plan builds on changes that have taken place at HLS over the last 30 years.
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Faculty Approves Strategic Plan
April 27, 2001
Proposal Would Reduce Class Sizes, Increase Financial Aid After more than two years of studies, committee meetings, and debate, the Harvard Law School faculty has…
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Board of Student Advisers Turns Ninety
April 27, 2001
Founded in 1910 to “educate and assist students,” the Board of Student Advisers, the Law School’s oldest service organization, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.
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All Politics Is Local at Appleseed
September 28, 2000
Harvard Law School's Appleseed Electorial Reform Project, inaugurated last summer seeks to increase voter participation and ensure that residents’ interests are represented through lawmakers and by the referendum process.
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HLS Expands Loan Forgiveness Program
July 25, 2000
Dean Robert Clark '72 announced this spring an extensive expansion of Harvard Law School's loan forgiveness program, making it one of the most generous programs of its kind in the country.
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Stuntz Brings Criminal Justice Focus to HLS
July 18, 2000
In what Dean Robert Clark '72 called a "stunning addition" to the criminal law faculty, University of Virginia Law School Professor William Stuntz will move north to Harvard in July.
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Rakoff Named First Dean of the J.D. Program
July 18, 2000
Todd Rakoff '75, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law since 1996 and a member of the faculty since 1979, will begin in July in the new position of dean of the J.D. program.
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A panel that included many former members of the Harvard Defenders marked the 50th anniversary of the group by examining the widely misunderstood role of the defender in the courtroom and in society.
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The Human Rights Program at fifteen
April 25, 2000
Professor Henry Steiner '55, founder of the program, reflects on the agenda of HRP at Harvard and beyond, and the HLS graduates "battling in the trenches" for the human rights movement worldwide.
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Revisiting Fuller’s Famous Spelunkers
July 28, 1999
Were four entrapped spelunkers, whose hunger ultimately drove them to eat the fifth member of their group, guilty of murder, and should their sentence—death by hanging—be upheld?
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Building in Cyberspace
June 24, 1999
The intrepid crew of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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Bok and Bowen: affirming affirmative action
February 25, 1999
Lance Liebman '67 offers a former law school dean's take on The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by Derek Bok '54, former Harvard president and HLS dean, and William Bowen, former Princeton president.