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Five Harvard Law School students and recent graduates have been awarded Skadden Fellowships to support their work in public service.
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Law School committee recommends retiring current shield
March 4, 2016
A committee of Harvard Law School faculty, students, alumni, and staff established in November by Dean Martha Minow has recommended to the Harvard Corporation that the HLS shield — which is modeled on the family crest of an 18th century slaveholder — no longer be the official symbol of Harvard Law School.
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HLS faculty awarded Climate Change Solutions Fund grants for multidisciplinary research
March 3, 2016
Ten research projects driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.
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The force was with the 2016 Harvard Law School Parody, "Law Wars: Attack of the Loans." The Parody is an annual production of the Harvard Law School Drama Society.
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Fifth in a Harvard Gazette series on what Harvard scholars are doing to identify and understand inequality, in seeking solutions to one of America’s most vexing problems.
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On Feb. 24, a panel of Harvard Law School professors, all of whom had personal or professional connections to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, gathered to remember his life and work.
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Justice Antonin Scalia’s death and the battle over selecting his successor have raised the prospect of an extended period with a Supreme Court split 4-4 between conservative and liberal justices--'In short, a mess' for the legal future of the Clean Power Plan, according to Richard Lazarus.
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Award-winning actor, producer, businesswoman and philanthropist Sarah Jessica Parker will be this year’s speaker for the Class Day ceremonies at Harvard Law School.
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A Writer in the Spotlight
February 29, 2016
Being an in-demand Hollywood screenwriter was not something Josh Singer '01 expected when he was at Harvard Law School.
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Around the world at HLS: 2016 International Party
February 26, 2016
On Feb. 13., while offering up their native foods and dressed in traditional garb (or as rabid fútbol fans), the Harvard Law School (HLS) LL.M. class of 2016 welcomed faculty, students and staff to the annual International Party in Wasserstein Hall.
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Case for reparation gains international force
February 26, 2016
During a talk Monday at Harvard Law School, Sir Hilary Beckles, a distinguished historian, scholar, and activist from Barbados, made the case for reparations, a discussion that has been re-energized in the U.S. by the Black Lives Matter movement .
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Baltimore Corps wants to make Baltimore the social change capital of America; recently, its co-founder Fagan Harris shared his vision with 40 students at Harvard Law School.
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Transforming unions: A view from labor leader Lee Saunders
February 24, 2016
In a recent talk at Harvard Law School, labor leader Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employers (AFSCME), delivered remarks on the current state of unions and the need for them to adapt to face contemporary challenges.
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Apple bites back: Zittrain, Sulmeyer on the privacy-security showdown between the tech giant and FBI
February 19, 2016
Apple Inc.’s refusal to help the FBI retrieve information from an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., has thrust the tug-of-war on the issue of privacy vs. security back into the spotlight.
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Harvard Law clinic files amicus brief defending employees’ access to no cost preventive health care
February 18, 2016
Harvard Law School’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Zubik v. Burwell, an Affordable Care Act (ACA) challenge set for argument on March 26. The brief asks the Court to affirm Court of Appeals’ decisions upholding the federal policy of maintaining access to free preventive care, including contraceptive services, in employer-sponsored health plans.
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Harvard Law School remembers Justice Antonin Scalia
February 17, 2016
With the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia has come an outpouring of remembrances and testaments to his transformative presence during his thirty years on the Court.
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Antonin Scalia ’60 (1936-2016)
February 13, 2016
"Justice Scalia will be remembered as one of the most influential jurists in American history -- he changed how the Court approaches statutory interpretation, and in countless areas introduced new ways of thinking about the Constitution and the role of the Court that will remain important for years to come."
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Clinic files cert petition in final attempt to hold corporations accountable for supporting Apartheid
February 12, 2016
Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic and its partners have filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court in the In re South African Apartheid Litigation suit, asking the Court to clarify the circumstances under which defendants may be held accountable in U.S. courts for human rights violations.
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Love in the crosshairs
February 12, 2016
With Valentine’s Day near, experts in negotiation, mediation, and lasting marriage shared that advice to a rapt audience at a panel called “Negotiating Love: Interpersonal Negotiation and Romantic Relationships,” held at Harvard Law School (HLS).
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Food Law and Policy Clinic releases short film on food waste in America
February 12, 2016
The Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), in partnership with Racing Horse Productions, has released a short film, "EXPIRED? Food Waste in America," that explores how the variety of date labels on food products contributes to food waste in America.
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Harvard Gazette: The costs of inequality — Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest
February 10, 2016
Second in a Harvard Gazette series on what Harvard scholars are doing to identify and understand inequality, in seeking solutions to one of America’s most vexing problems.