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John Coates Promoted to Professor of Law
September 28, 2001
John Coates, a corporate law expert and leader in the study of the legal profession, has been named a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School-a tenured position. Coates has served as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard since 1997.
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Elena Kagan Named Professor of Law
September 26, 2001
Elena Kagan, a former White House senior administrator and expert in administrative law, has been named a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School-a tenured position. Kagan served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School for the past two years.
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Jackson Addresses America's Response to Terrorism
September 25, 2001
In his first public address on the September 11 attack on America, the Reverend Jesse Jackson called for the country to rise from the tragedy and lead a new world of coalition, of faith, and of economic and political justice
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Watch the HLS Alumni Town Meeting
September 22, 2001
On Saturday, September 22 at 9:30 a.m., Harvard Law School will be hosted an alumni town meeting to discuss the school's Strategic Plan.
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Panel to Examine Law and the Media
September 20, 2001
On Friday, September 21 at 2 p.m. in the Austin North classroom, Harvard Law School will host a panel discussion on the intersection of law and the modern media.
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HLS Announces Sears Prize Recipients
September 17, 2001
Harvard Law School has awarded the Joshua Montgomery Sears, Jr. prize to four students for academic achievement. The prizes are awarded annually to the two students receiving the highest grade averages in the first year and to the two students receiving the highest averages in the work of the second year.
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Glendon on Roosevelt and Rights
September 12, 2001
Professor Mary Ann Glendon set out to write a straightforward history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But Eleanor Roosevelt would not let her do it.
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The French Connection
September 1, 2001
HLS Celebrates Second Worldwide Alumni Congress in the City of Light.
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Balancing Acts
September 1, 2001
After an editor at Oxford University Press read Unbending Gender, a book her own company published, she quit her job. In a way, it was the ultimate compliment for the author, Joan Williams '80, a professor at American University's Washington College of Law.
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Talking Liberties
September 1, 2001
Burt Neuborne '64 has often been in the public eye--leading the charge for ballot access in New York State, arguing for Holocaust reparations, presenting cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Harvard Law School Welcomes New Students
August 30, 2001
In his welcoming address, Dean Robert C. Clark called the incoming class, trailblazers as important as the Law School's first class in 1817. Clark noted that the incoming J.D. class will be divided into seven sections instead of the traditional four. This will result in smaller class sizes and greater student-faculty interaction.
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Ogletree Presented with Houston Medallion
August 29, 2001
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree has been awarded the 2001 Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit by the Washington Bar Association. The award was presented in honor of Ogletree's work promoting social justice and equality.
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A Conversation with Jenö Staehelin
July 12, 2001
Jenö Staehelin LL.M. ’65 is the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations. A member of the HLS Dean’s Advisory Board, Staehelin last fall hosted more…
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The Dean Saves the Day
July 1, 2001
For Dean Robert Clark ’72 it was just another day at the office when students in the Drama Society’s spring parody, License to Bill, called…
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Breaking the Chain
July 1, 2001
Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. '78 and Randall Robinson '70 want to educate Americans about the lasting impact of slavery. A lawsuit will be part of that education.
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Lillian R. Berkman
July 1, 2001
Lillian R. Berkman, who with her late husband, Jack Berkman ’29, established the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 1997,…
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The World Court
July 1, 2001
By the 20th time Wade Coriell ’01 argued for this year’s Philip C. Jessup International Moot Law Court Competition, he was certain he could respond…
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Harvard Law School is one of the few things that I have encountered in life that’s as good as it’s cracked up to be. For…
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The Censor and the Civil Libertarian
July 1, 2001
In two new books, a TV censor writes about what he saw and an anti-censorship attorney writes about what children should see.
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A Royall Find
July 1, 2001
An HLS treasure has found its way home. The iron seal, once used by Isaac Royall, who funded the University’s first chair in the law,…