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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.