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  • Deborah Anker

    Anker on Immigration Rights: ‘We need civil Gideon’

    May 9, 2014

    For three decades, Deborah Anker has encouraged students to pursue a more generous immigration policy.

  • Judge Jed S. Rakoff '69

    Main Injustice

    May 9, 2014

    Without prosecutions, the risk of another financial crisis is greater,says a prominent federal judge.

  • The account of Elizabeth Brownrigg, executed after she was found guilty of causing the death of a servant she had been torturing

    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.

  • Bert Fields

    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.

  • Conor Ahern ’15, Molly Cohen ’14 and Maurica Thomas

    Two Harvard Law students present winning policy proposals to Boston mayor

    May 5, 2014

    Two Harvard Law School students and a Suffolk Law student were the winners of the “Memo to the Mayor” writing competition. The three winners had the opportunity to present their winning proposals to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh at City Hall on April 18.

  • The Alien Tort Statute: In Pursuit of Corporate Accountability

    May 2, 2014

    On the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and American…

  • The Meat We Eat: HLS hosts a forum on industrial animal farming (video)

    May 2, 2014

    The Harvard Food Law Society hosted The Meat We Eat: 2014 Forum on Industrial Animal Farming, on Friday, April 4. The forum, co-hosted with the HLS Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, explored the legal and policy aspects of industrial animal farming and related effects on public health, the environment and animal welfare.

  • Three from HLS named Ford Fellows; Harris is keynote speaker

    May 1, 2014

    Three graduating Harvard Law School students, Samuel Weiss ’14, Catherine B. Cooper ’14, and David Baake ’14, recently received Ford Foundation Law School Public Interest…

  • HLS Authors: Selected Alumni Books

    May 1, 2014

    Although common-law jurisdictions have the same legal origins, in practice they exhibit major differences from one another as shown by varied corporate governance systems, according to Bruner. The professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law examines the power of shareholders in public companies, emphasizing that those in the United States have less influence than those in places such as the United Kingdom and Australia.

  • School network consortium partners with Cyberlaw Clinic to create privacy toolkit for school systems

    May 1, 2014

    With the help of the Cyberlaw Clinic, the Consortium of School Networks (“CoSN”) released the Protecting Privacy in Connected Learning Toolkit. The toolkit, issued in March as part of CoSN’s new Protecting Privacy in Connected Learning initiative, provides an in-depth, step-by-step privacy guide is to help school system leaders navigate complex federal laws and related issues.

  • HLS Professor Mark Tushnet

    Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights (video)

    April 30, 2014

    “Religious Accommodation in the Age of Civil Rights,” a conference held at Harvard Law School April 3–5, brought together a group of distinguished legal scholars to discuss a broad range of controversies that have developed in recent years as marriage equality and anti-discrimination laws have prompted some religious organizations and private companies to assert claims of religious liberty and exemption from compliance with the law.

  • Group photo of the volunteers and administrators

    Spring break road trips lead to the clinic, the delta, and the desert

    April 30, 2014

    From March 15-23, many Harvard Law students used their spring break to learn about the law outside the classroom.

  • HLS’s Party Central

    April 27, 2014

    In a theater district alley in downtown Boston, dozens of Harvard Law students line up to get into the New Orleans-themed Big Easy club. At…

  • Vorenberg Law Books Donated to South African University

    April 27, 2014

    Betty Vorenberg has donated nearly 60 boxes of law books from the library of her late husband, professor and former dean James Vorenberg ’51, to…

  • Tomiko Brown-Nagin portrait at her desk

    Brown-Nagin reflects on Schuette and justices’ differences on racial discrimination

    April 25, 2014

    Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, upholding Michigan’s ban on the use of race in university admissions, Harvard Law School Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin appeared on MSNBC’s “Last Word” to discuss the divide in the Supreme Court’s on race.

  • Esme Caramello

    Esme Caramello appointed clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School

    April 25, 2014

    Esme Caramello '99 has been appointed Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Caramello has been a lecturer on law and clinical instructor at the law school as well as deputy director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

  • Christopher Bavitz

    Christopher T. Bavitz appointed clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School

    April 25, 2014

    Christopher T. Bavitz has been appointed Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Bavitz has been a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at HLS and is Managing Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

  • Professor Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95

    Tackling Climate Change through Law and Policy: A Q&A with Jody Freeman

    April 24, 2014

    n the spirit of Harvard University President Drew Faust’s recent focus on addressing the problem of climate change, we interviewed HLS Professor Jody Freeman, who served in the Obama administration as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change and is the co-author of a forthcoming book on global climate change and U.S. law.

  • David Singleton and Jessica Frisina posing with their award plaques

    Two receive the Gary Bellow Public Service Award

    April 24, 2014

    In an April 16th ceremony, Harvard Law School student Jessica Frisina ’14 and alumnus David Singleton ’91 were honored with the Gary Bellow Public Service Award.

  • Jackson named 2019 president of the Association of American Law Schools

    Jackson elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    April 23, 2014

    Vicki C. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, and an expert in constitutional law, federalism, and gender equality, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Martha Minow’s sense of purpose

    April 23, 2014

    Dean Martha Minow of the Law School follows E.O. Wilson in the Harvard Gazette's Experience series, interviews with Harvard faculty covering the reasons they became teachers and scholars, and the personal journeys, missteps included, behind their professional success.