A Woman’s Place
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.
Nifty Fifty
There's nothing noteworthy about being a female student at Harvard Law School today: About half of the students are women.
When I’m ’64
In her new book, Judith Richards Hope details the struggles and successes of the women classmates who "took the place of a man."
A Class Unto Themselves
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.
Inside HLS
-
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.
-
No one puffed on a Gauloises or sipped red wine, but people in the room had things to say about Kant.
-
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.
-
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Harvard Law School should be honored. For when Frank Abagnale decided to be a lawyer--in addition to an airline pilot, doctor and professor--he knew exactly which degree would open the door.
-
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.
Alumni Notes and Newsmakers
-
Hannah Zagon knows her mommy now gets tired easily because of the ouchies in her head and lungs called cancer.
-
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.
-
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).
-
The year 1989 wound down with the law school being painfully reminded that its portrait collection was still conspicuously all male.
-
Gustave M. Hauser '53 met his future wife, Rita E. Hauser '58, at HLS when he was a teaching fellow and she a 1L.
