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Civil Rights
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Elizabeth Reese: The making of a modern warrior
May 23, 2016
Being Native American defines Elizabeth Reese ’16. Then again, so does being the granddaughter of a Lutheran minister from Pennsylvania. Together, the two have helped shape a woman and a lawyer.
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Solutions from Cincinnati
May 10, 2016
Now in its 14th year, a compact on policing in Cincinnati, Ohio, focused on building strong police-community relationships is a lauded model nationwide. John Cranley ’99, now the city’s mayor, was there from the start of the landmark agreement known as the Collaborative.
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Facing Down Discrimination
May 10, 2016
Raheemah Abdulaleem ’01 was standing on a Washington, D.C., street corner in 2009 on her way to work at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division when a man yelled at her from his car to “go back to your country.” An African-American who grew up in Philadelphia in a family whose roots in the United States are nearly as old as the country, Abdulaleem was wearing a hijab, the traditional headscarf worn by some Muslim women.
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A Senior Rookie
May 10, 2016
Bert Rein '64 came to Supreme Court advocacy later in life and has focused on litigation challenging race-based protections.
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Seizing the Opportunity
April 28, 2016
Since graduating from Harvard College in 1985 and then getting his law degree, Alan Jenkins '89 had been on a career fast track, but he felt frustrated about the forces of injustice and inequality he saw around him.
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This Spring four members of the Harvard Law School community received the Gary Bellow Public Service Award, established in 2001 in memory of the late Professor Gary Bellow ’60, a pioneering public interest lawyer who founded and directed Harvard Law School’s clinical programs.
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In an event at Harvard Law School on March 10, leading feminist scholar Catharine MacKinnon commented on the state of gender equality law in a conversation with Ron Suskind, Pulitzer-winning journalist and lecturer on law at HLS.
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Aya Saed named a 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow
April 13, 2016
Harvard Law student Aya Saed ’17 was among 30 recipients selected to receive the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants.
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Each year, teams of Harvard Law School students are given the opportunity to spend their Spring Break experiencing legal services work with clinics and legal organizations in the Boston area, or working on projects around the country and abroad--here, a few students share their accounts, reflecting on the significance of their service.
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‘Last Lecture’: Annette Gordon-Reed traces her journey from Texas childhood to lawyer and historian
April 6, 2016
As part of the Last Lecture Series presented every year by the HLS Class Marshals, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed ’84 spoke about her experiences combining legal analysis and historical research.
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On March 9, as part of the Herbert W. Vaughan series at Harvard Law School, a panel of experts featuring Yuval Levin, founding editor of policy journal National Affairs, discussed the role of religious liberty in modern American life.
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This is the last in the Harvard Gazette's series on inequality, one of America’s most vexing problems, examining Harvard’s ground-level efforts to make a difference in the surrounding communities, and beyond.
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The Harvard Law School Women’s Law Association 10th annual conference, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Women,” opened with a panel focused on politics.
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Counsel from a councilor: An interview with Michelle Wu ’12
March 23, 2016
Earlier this year, Michelle Wu '12 was elected president of the Boston City Council, making her the first Asian American to hold that role. Wu recently spoke with Harvard Law Today about her time at HLS, her experience as a woman in politics, and vision for her new role on the Boston City Council.
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Harvard Corporation agrees to retire HLS shield
March 14, 2016
The Harvard Corporation has approved the recommendation of the Harvard Law School Shield Committee to retire the HLS shield, which is modeled on the family crest of an 18th century slaveholder.
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At HLS symposium, military and academic leaders explain legal and cultural issues in counterterror operations
March 11, 2016
Harvard Law School hosted the first-ever Legal, Cultural and Strategic Issues in Counterterror Operations Symposium bringing together military officers from the 3rd Legal Operations Detachment and academic scholars whose work focuses on areas of Islamic and human rights law as well as on cultural and international security issues.
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Law School committee recommends retiring current shield
March 4, 2016
A committee of Harvard Law School faculty, students, alumni, and staff established in November by Dean Martha Minow has recommended to the Harvard Corporation that the HLS shield — which is modeled on the family crest of an 18th century slaveholder — no longer be the official symbol of Harvard Law School.
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Fifth in a Harvard Gazette series on what Harvard scholars are doing to identify and understand inequality, in seeking solutions to one of America’s most vexing problems.
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Case for reparation gains international force
February 26, 2016
During a talk Monday at Harvard Law School, Sir Hilary Beckles, a distinguished historian, scholar, and activist from Barbados, made the case for reparations, a discussion that has been re-energized in the U.S. by the Black Lives Matter movement .
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Baltimore Corps wants to make Baltimore the social change capital of America; recently, its co-founder Fagan Harris shared his vision with 40 students at Harvard Law School.
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Reconciling perspectives: New report reframes encryption debate
February 3, 2016
A new report by The Berklett Cybersecurity Project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University,“Don’t Panic: Making Progress on the ‘Going Dark’ Debate,” examines the high-profile debate around government access to encryption, and offers a new perspective.