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Prof. Ogletree to Head Brown v. Board Commission
August 13, 2003
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree has been appointed to head the American Bar Association’s Brown v. Board of Education Commisssion. The commission will host a series of events across the nation to recognize the 50-year anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The anniversary will be on May 17, 2004
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Professor Frug’s Book Honored
August 7, 2003
Harvard Law School Professor Gerald Frug’s recent book, "City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls," has been named the 2003 Paul Davidoff Award winner by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. The Davidoff Award is presented every two years to a book that "promotes participatory democracy and positive social change, opposes poverty and racism as factors in society and reduces disparities between rich and poor, white and black, men and women."
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HLS Launches Nuremberg Trials Project
July 31, 2003
The Harvard Law School Library has launched a new website, the Nuremberg Trials Project, devoted to analysis and digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials. The site will make available on the web for the first time more than one million pages of documents related to the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany and other accused war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).
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Prof. Wolfman on Lawyers, Auditors and Ethics
July 18, 2003
Professor Bernard Wolfman discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, recent tax cuts and whether law school does a good enough job teaching ethics.
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Kaplow in American Academy of Arts & Sciences
July 14, 2003
Professor Louis Kaplow has recently been named a new fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary society of scholars based in Cambridge, Mass. A law and economics scholar, Kaplow joins 18 other current HLS professors who have been selected to become academy fellows in previous years.
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Corporate Law Professors Honored
July 8, 2003
Articles by Professors Lucian Bebchuk, John Coates, Guhan Subramanian, Reinier Kraakman and Mark Roe will be named among the top ten corporate and security law articles of 2002 in the upcoming issue of the Corporate Practice Commentator, a quarterly journal that reprints articles about corporations law. The articles were selected based upon a survey of corporate and securities law teachers across the nation.
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ITP Co-Sponsors Southern Africa Tax Institute
July 7, 2003
Harvard Law School's International Tax Program, working with a group of universities and international institutions, co-sponsored the second annual Southern African Tax Institute ("SATI") at the University of Pretoria from June 2 through June 27.
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Gerken Receives Sacks-Freund Teaching Award
July 2, 2003
Professor Heather Gerken has been named the 2002-2003 Sacks-Freund award winner. Presented each year on Class Day, the Sacks-Freund award recognizes teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns, and general contribution to student life at Harvard Law School.
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Kagan Becomes Dean of Harvard Law School
July 1, 2003
Today Elena Kagan became the 11th dean of Harvard Law School. Appointed in April by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, Kagan succeeds Robert Clark, who served as dean for 14 years.
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A Conversation with Gustave and Rita Hauser
July 1, 2003
Gustave M. Hauser '53 met his future wife, Rita E. Hauser '58, at HLS when he was a teaching fellow and she a 1L.
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Lady in Waiting
July 1, 2003
A lone woman joins a line of men in Langdell Hall to register for the start of the 1954-55 school year.
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The year 1989 wound down with the law school being painfully reminded that its portrait collection was still conspicuously all male.
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Nifty Fifty
July 1, 2003
There's nothing noteworthy about being a female student at Harvard Law School today: About half of the students are women.
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When I’m ’64
July 1, 2003
In her new book, Judith Richards Hope details the struggles and successes of the women classmates who "took the place of a man."
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A Class Unto Themselves
July 1, 2003
For many years after HLS began admitting women, male faculty still predominated. That's changed, and women faculty members talk about what their presence has meant for the school and for themselves.
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A Woman’s Place
July 1, 2003
Fifty years after the first women graduated from Harvard Law School, alumnae come together to look back at the progress and ahead to the possibilities.
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The Man of the Moment
July 1, 2003
Stepping down after 14 years as dean, Robert Clark ' 72 has changed the institution with the money he raised, the faculty he nurtured and the programs he shaped. Underlying it all is an unflagging devotion to Harvard Law School.
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We Are Where We Excrete
July 1, 2003
The urinal is the political. So are the toilet and the condom dispenser and the diaper changing station and everything else commonly found in men's and women's rooms (and even the fact that there are men's and women's rooms).
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Aural Fixation
July 1, 2003
Rest assured, Dean Blackwood '95 is not demanding a 45-foot trailer filled with cardamom incense sticks and candy bowls with all the green M&M's removed.
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Through a Filter, Darkly
July 1, 2003
Last year the Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched a project to determine the level and quality of Web filtering in nations around the globe-starting with Saudi Arabia and China, believed to be among the most restrictive blocking regimes in the world.