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The author of the award-winning book “Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement,“ sees education as the civil rights frontier.
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Crossing Boundaries to Enforce Boundaries
May 15, 2014
When Elise Young ’14 describes the work she is doing with the Digital Problem Solving Initiative, or DPSI, it almost sounds as if she is telling a joke. Three Harvard Law School students, several computerscientists, a physicist and a design student walk into a room.
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Privacy (TBD): In the online space, what is private may depend on who you are and where you live
May 15, 2014
As Professor of Practice Urs Gasser sets up his PowerPoint and students deploy their notebooks and laptops, a riff of music drifts by. The tune soon reveals itself as a jazz version of the Beatles classic “Here, There and Everywhere”—a title that’s evocative of the global subject covered in this seminar, Comparative Online Privacy.
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Recent Faculty Books – Summer 2014
May 15, 2014
In two new books, Professor Cass Sunstein, former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, addresses human behavior and how government should best respond to it.
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Stock in Trade: Ingenuity
May 15, 2014
An immigration lawyer impresses the MacArthur Foundation (Even the General would have been impressed).
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Ruling out Risk?
May 15, 2014
Banks can no longer make bets with their own money. Some say the reform makes us safer; others say it simply transfers the risk.
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Cautious about the Precautionary Principle
May 15, 2014
When writing laws, trying to prevent official abuse can actually create or exacerbate the very risks they are intended to avoid, argues Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 in his new book, “The Constitution of Risk.”
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In Memoriam – Summer 2014 Bulletin
May 15, 2014
1930-1939 Morris Gamm ’33
Feb. 3, 2014 (Obituary) John B. Dolan ’36
Feb. 15, 2014 (Obituary) Walter D. Harris ’39
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Harvard Gazette: A Q&A with Ronald Sullivan on the economic and social costs of rising U.S. incarcerations
May 14, 2014
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., clinical professor of law and director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, recently spoke with the Harvard Gazette about racial and national sentencing disparities, the economic and social costs of mass incarceration, and the sentencing reforms now under consideration.
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Koh receives 2014 Great Negotiator Award (video)
May 13, 2014
Ambassador Tommy Koh LL.M. ’64 of Singapore was recently presented with the 2014 Great Negotiator Award by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Harvard Law School Professor Kenneth Mack ‘91 delivered a talk, “The Sit-In Cases After Fifty Years: A Reappraisal,” on the occasion of his appointment as the inaugural Lawrence Biele Professor of Law.
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Taking Care of Business (and Nonprofits, too)
May 12, 2014
We follow 5 clinical students into the lab, the barbershop and the labyrinth of condominium governance.
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A Visible Difference
May 9, 2014
In a transition from corporate law, an attorney focuses on increasing opportunities for women.
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Siblings in the Struggle
May 9, 2014
Inspired by legendary lawyers, a brother and sister set out to change the world.
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For three decades, Deborah Anker has encouraged students to pursue a more generous immigration policy.
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Main Injustice
May 9, 2014
Without prosecutions, the risk of another financial crisis is greater,says a prominent federal judge.
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Of Sammelbands, Coutumes and Broadsides
May 6, 2014
A current exhibit in HLS Library’s Historical & Special Collections department highlights some new and unusual acquisitions, many of which were meant to be accessible to people untrained in the law.
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A conversation with Bertram Fields ’52
May 5, 2014
There is no one in Hollywood—indeed, throughout the entire entertainment industry—who doesn’t know the name Bert Fields.