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  • Woman in a crowd of men

    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.

  • Marlene Evans Putnam with her portrait of Soia Mentschikoff

    An Essay by Harold Putnam ’50-’51: The Woman in the Picture

    July 1, 2003

    The year 1989 wound down with the law school being painfully reminded that its portrait collection was still conspicuously all male.

  • 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.

  • One woman in a class full of men

    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."

  • Martha Field at chalkboard

    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.

  • Six women in Harvard classroom

    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.

  • 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.

  • Illustration of stethoscope on women's bathroom door

    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).

  • Dean Blackwood with records

    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.

  • Illustration of electronics in a strainer

    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.

  • Melissa Lumberg Zagon and her daughter

    Breathing Lessons

    July 1, 2003

    Hannah Zagon knows her mommy now gets tired easily because of the ouchies in her head and lungs called cancer.

  • Two East Indian Birds

    Moving Beauty

    July 1, 2003

    This year two exhibits of art collected by Harvard Law School alumni are on the move. "Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection" toured London and Paris and is on display at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum through July 6.

  • Illustration of stone man carrying giant book

    Tough Books

    July 1, 2003

    No one puffed on a Gauloises or sipped red wine, but people in the room had things to say about Kant.

  • Brett Dakin '03

    Our Man in Laos

    July 1, 2003

    When Brett Dakin '03 was living in Laos, he sneaked into a performance not meant for foreigners, commemorating the founding of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

  • HLS Receives $5.1 Million in Gifts Honoring Clark

    June 30, 2003

    Several Harvard Law School alumni have made gifts totaling $5.1 million in honor of Dean Robert C. Clark, who steps down from the deanship today. The gifts come from members of the Dean’s Advisory Board, a core group of alumni leaders who also act as advisers to the School.

  • Shah Awarded Fay Diploma

    June 23, 2003

    Harvard Law School has awarded the 2003 Fay Diploma to Michael Shah of Brookville, New York. The Fay Diploma is awarded each year to the graduating J.D. student with the highest combined grade point average for three years of study at the law school.

  • Minow Receives Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal

    June 18, 2003

    Harvard Law School Professor Martha Minow has received the 2003 Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal. The prize, given to women who have earned a Radcliffe or Harvard Graduate degree and have made an outstanding contribution to their field, was presented to Minow at the Radcliffe Day symposium on June 6.

  • HLS Launches Campaign to Raise $400 Million

    June 14, 2003

    Kicking off the most ambitious fund-raising drive in the history of legal education, Harvard Law School leaders gathered today in Cambridge to launch "Setting the Standard: The Harvard Law School Campaign." At a formal kickoff luncheon, the campaign’s chairman, Finn M.W. Caspersen, announced that $170.1 million in commitments have already been secured toward a $400 million goal. These initial gifts total more than the entire $150 million goal of the law school’s previous record-setting campaign.

  • Conference Examines Risk-Based Capital Standards

    June 10, 2003

    The Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems held a conference today that examined risk-based capital standards for financial institutions. The conference is the culmination of a two-year study on risk-based capital, supported by Swiss Reinsurance Company.

  • CNN's Larry King to Deliver Class Day Remarks

    May 29, 2003

    On June 4, CNN talk show host Larry King will deliver Harvard Law School's 2003 Class Day address. The Class Day exercises will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall. In addition to King's remarks, the 2003 Sacks-Freund teaching award and the 2003 staff appreciation award will be presented. For those unable to attend, the event will be webcast live.

  • HLS Receives $10M Grant from Olin Foundation

    May 29, 2003

    Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark has announced that the school has received a $10 million grant from the John M. Olin Foundation. The gift is the largest foundation grant in the law school's 186-year history.