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Sunstein advocates for further disclosure in credit industry
August 21, 2008
The following article, "Disclosure Is the Best Kind of Credit Regulation," co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein '78 and University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler, was published in the Wall Street Journal on August 13, 2008.
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The following article, Buildup to the next war, written by Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman, was published in the New York Times Magazine on August 8, 2008.
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John Goldberg to join HLS faculty
August 21, 2008
Vanderbilt University Law School Professor John Goldberg, an expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a tenured professor this fall.
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Kagan is honored for her work to encourage public service
August 21, 2008
Dean Elena Kagan ’86 has been awarded the 2008 John R. Kramer Outstanding Law Dean Award from Equal Justice Works for her extensive efforts to promote and support public service.
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Sunstein studies partisanship on the Supreme Court
August 21, 2008
The following article, "Judicial Partisanship Awards," written by Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein '78, was published in the Washington Independent on July 31, 2008.
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Vermeule says many minds are not necessarily better than one
August 15, 2008
During a recent conference on collective wisdom organized by Professor Jon Elster of the College de France in Paris, Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 presented a working paper debunking the idea that several minds are always better than one in legal decision-making.
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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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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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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