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Harvard Law School professor emeritus Bernard Wolfman, a leading tax law expert, has written a strong critique of an emerging trend: the patenting of specific tax strategies.
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Harvard’s Good Servant
August 8, 2008
John H. Mansfield ’56 retires after instilling a “desire to respond” in generations of Harvard Law students By James A. Sonne ’97 John Mansfield has…
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The Ultimate Cafeteria
July 29, 2008
With the help of Harvard Law School’s new curriculum reforms, it’s getting easier for law students to take part in Harvard University’s intellectual feast.
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At Home in the World
July 29, 2008
The new curriculum embraces law’s increasingly transnational nature
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Students participate in historic apartheid litigation
July 29, 2008
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a case that nearly 20 Harvard Law School Human Rights Program clinical students have worked on over the last three years.
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Berkman Center celebrates 10th anniversary with major conference exploring the future of the Internet
July 29, 2008
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week at its Berkman@10 Conference entitled “The Future of the Internet.”
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Lam Ho ’08 was 6 years old when he and his family emigrated from Vietnam to the hardscrabble city of Brockton, Mass., where his parents worked on assembly lines and the family ate in soup kitchens and wore hand-me-downs from relatives.
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Cory Booker: Have courage to live your truth
July 29, 2008
“Dare every day to manifest your authenticity.” So said Cory Booker, the 36th mayor of Newark, N.J., in an address to the graduating class of Harvard Law School.
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Eric Nguyen '09 has just had a paper published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal about how hard parents fight to keep their family homes in times of economic distress.
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Exit Interview
July 29, 2008
They took different paths to get here and are headed in different directions as they leave. Here, a look at six graduates in the Harvard Law School Class of 2008.
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Visionary of the Visayan Sea
July 28, 2008
For the sake of the planet, a lawyer wins the right to sue on behalf of future generations
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War Crimes Through the Looking Glass
July 28, 2008
This January, when the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumed in The Hague, much of the world was watching. So were 11 Harvard Law students—from about 20 feet away.
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What Will It Take?
July 28, 2008
Eleven leaders in environmental law and policy consider what can be done to slow global warming
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HLS students travel to Auschwitz to teach diplomats about negotiation in the face of genocide
July 28, 2008
On May 16th, two HLS students, René A. Pfromm LL.M. '08 and Ines Wu '09, together with Stephan Sonnenberg '06, Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Program (HNMCP) clinical fellow and lecturer on law, delivered a one day workshop on negotiation in the context of genocide and mass atrocities.
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Startup for an Ailing Planet
July 28, 2008
Harvard Law School’s new program, and its faculty director, aim to change the way we think about environmental law
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Jacobs’ Ladder
July 28, 2008
A new clinic lets students step up to environmental challenges—and onto the first rungs of their careers
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Hands On
July 25, 2008
There are now 16 clinics at HLS, enabling students to do fieldwork at home and abroad. Here are stories from three of them, taking students inside inner cities and inner sanctums.
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The Slugfest, in Historical Perspective
July 25, 2008
Some say the Clinton-Obama fight reflects a historical tension between blacks and women in the struggle for equality. A legal historian says the truth is not so simple—and far more interesting.
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The Clinical Exponent
July 25, 2008
The number of students learning by doing at Harvard Law School has more than doubled over the past five years. In 2002-03 there were 291 clinical placements; in 2006-07 there were nearly 800 students doing clinical work. Since Professor Gary Bellow ’60 founded the school’s first clinical practice program 30 years ago in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, the WilmerHale Legal Services Center has provided placements in a variety of subject matter areas and now has 14 sub-clinics. But there are now also 15 other clinical options at HLS—five of them new this year—offering students a wide variety of hands-on experiences in addition to the provision of direct legal services and representation to low-income clients.
