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Harvard Law School appoints Dr. Heath Tarbert as a fellow of the Program on International Financial Systems
February 28, 2014
Dr. Heath Tarbert, a partner of the global law firm of Allen & Overy, has been appointed as a non-resident fellow of the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS).
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Wrestling with choices: David Otunga ’06
February 28, 2014
Professional wrestler David Otunga '06 was the keynote speaker at the Harvard Law School Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law’s 2014 symposium, which also include panel discussions with practicing lawyers, a presentation of student awards, and a recognition of Paul C. Weiler, LL.M. ’65, the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Emeritus.
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Massachusetts High Court rules warrants needed for cellphone tracking; Cyberlaw Clinic submits supporting brief
February 21, 2014
On Tuesday, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in Commonwealth v. Augustine that the Massachusetts constitution prohibits law enforcement officials from gathering cellphone records that…
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Sunstein among recipients of American Library Association award
February 20, 2014
The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies is this year’s recipient of the American Library Association’s James Madison Award. The Group, created last year by President Barack Obama ’91, includes Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein ‘78, who was administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2009 to 2012.
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Harvard Law School, the World Over
February 20, 2014
The Harvard Law School LL.M. Class of 2014 hosted the International Party on Feb. 15. An annual event at the law school for more than a decade, the international party is an opportunity for graduate students to share their culture with the entire HLS community. This year's event featured music from around the world, an array of traditional garb, from kimonos to sombreros, and a variety of international food, from Icelandic 'volcano cake' to Chinese spring rolls.
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Student Privacy and Cloud Computing in the K-12 Edtech Space: A new report from the Berkman Center
February 20, 2014
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Student Policy Initiative has released a new report, Student Privacy and Cloud Computing at the District Level: Next Steps and Key Issues, recommending next steps and priorities in the K-12 educational technology (edtech) space.
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Kids, defined by income: Panel examines rising educational disparities between haves, have-nots
February 19, 2014
At a recent Askwith Forum on income inequality and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, panelists including Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow discussed interventions that have proven effective and detailed a set of building blocks for an American solution.
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Historian of human rights joins Harvard Law faculty
February 18, 2014
Samuel Moyn '01, a leading historian and prize-winning author, will join the faculty of Harvard Law School starting July 1, 2014 as professor of law. Moyn currently serves as James Bryce Professor of European Legal History in the Columbia University history department.
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Shadowing the Supreme Court: Law School clinic gives students intense grounding in real-time cases
February 14, 2014
For the past several years, Harvard Law School students have spent their break time between semesters in Washington, D.C., parsing reams of heady data and crafting nuanced legal arguments to cases headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet received an award from the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar, in Doha, on Jan. 8, 2014. The award was presented by Sultan Hassan al Jamali, assistant secretary general of the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar.
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HLS students draft memorandum accompanying bill to restore immigrant trust in local law enforcement
February 13, 2014
Thirty-three professors from Massachusetts law schools have signed on to an important legal opinion drafted by Harvard Law students in support of the Massachusetts Trust Act. The bill seeks to restore the immigrant community’s trust in local law enforcement by limiting the role of local police authorities in the deportation process.
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The Snow-cratic Method …
February 13, 2014
A look at HLS in wintertime, through the years. View full gallery (17 images)…
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Hanson: On the frontier of teaching torts
February 12, 2014
Harvard Law School Professor Jon Hanson believes that the traditional casebook method employed in many law courses and classrooms has its limitations. Last year, he devised a project he called “Frontier Torts,” in which students in his first-year torts class explored several developing areas of tort law in a much more interactive fashion than the casebook method would allow.
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Law Professors urge Congress to support international adoption
February 10, 2014
34 Harvard Law School faculty members and 24 faculty from Boston College Law School have signed a letter urging the U.S. Congress to support the core principles in the pending legislation known as CHIFF (Children in Families First), S. 1530 and H.R. 3323.
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Harvard Law School students and alums awarded Skadden Fellowships
February 5, 2014
The Skadden Foundation recently announced the 2014 Class of Skadden Fellows, including six current students and recent graduates of Harvard Law School who are dedicating the next two years of their professional careers to public interest work.
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Miller-Ziegler Elected 128th President of the Harvard Law Review
February 5, 2014
The Harvard Law Review has elected Rachel Miller-Ziegler ’15 as its 128th president. Miller-Ziegler succeeds Gillian Grossman ’14. “The Law Review is going to…
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A decade ago, when people wanted to share vacation photos or muse about new movies online, they used MySpace or Friendster. Those star Internet destinations…
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Lessons on studying security: Sunstein discusses his work with panel tasked with reviewing U.S. surveillance (video)
January 31, 2014
On Tuesday, Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein, a member of a five-person advisory panel created by President Obama to make a sweeping review of U.S. surveillance activities, discussed the group’s efforts and the 46 recommendations it released last month, including major reforms to the way the intelligence community does business.
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Greiner, HLS students spearhead new Consumer Debt Relief Project
January 29, 2014
How best to assist people in financial trouble is the focus of the Consumer Financial Distress Project, a groundbreaking new study designed and led by Harvard Law School Professor Jim Greiner, Professor Dalié Jiménez at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Professor Lois Lupica at the University of Maine School of Law.
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Will the Supreme Court fundamentally alter the laws governing labor unions and collective bargaining? A Q&A with Benjamin Sachs
January 29, 2014
Harvard Law School Professor Benjamin Sachs, a labor law specialist who focuses on unions in politics, sat down with a reporter for the HLS News office to reflect on the Supreme Court's increased involvement in labor cases and the state of labor law today.
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Harvard Law School dominates SSRN 2013 citation rankings
January 27, 2014
Statistics released by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) indicate that, as of the end of 2013, Harvard Law School faculty members captured six of the top 10 slots among the top 100 law school researchers (in all legal areas) in terms of citations to their work.