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  • Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick ’82 signs legislation to protect tenants from losing their homes after foreclosure

    Massachusetts enacts landmark foreclosure protections drafted by Harvard Law School students (video)

    August 10, 2010

    Groundbreaking legislation originally drafted by students from the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) to protect tenants from losing their homes after foreclosure was signed into law on August 7 by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick ’82, former president of HLAB.

  • In Brown's Wake

    ScotusBlog: Dean Minow on her new book “In Brown’s Wake”

    July 29, 2010

    Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow’s new book, “In Brown’s Wake,” which examines the legacies of Brown v. the Board of Education, was released last week by Oxford University Press. In an interview on ScotusBlog, Minow discusses the book and the reverberations of Brown in American schools.

  • Professor David Wilkins '80

    Wilkins in USA Today: USDA official victim of ‘high-tech lynching’

    July 22, 2010

    Today’s edition of USA Today includes an op-ed by HLS Professor David B. Wilkins '80, “USDA official victim of ‘high-tech lynching,’” on the firing of U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law at Harvard and the director of the Program on the Legal Profession.

  • Michael Klarman

    Klarman, taking Kirkland & Ellis Chair, examines ‘Racial Equality in American History’ (video)

    July 20, 2010

    Harvard Law School Professor Michael Klarman gave a talk discussing “Racial Equality in American History” to mark his appointment as the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law. The wide-ranging talk, given on April 12, touched upon civil rights history, legal history, and cultural history in order to uncover, as Klarman said, “the racial attitudes and practices in American history, and how and why they change over time.”

  • Professor Charles Nesson LL.B. '63

    Judge reduces penalties in file-sharing case defended by Nesson

    July 16, 2010

    A Boston University graduate student who is being  represented pro bono by Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson ’63 in a much-publicized copyright dispute will face a drastically reduced penalty for his illegal file-sharing activity, a federal judge has ruled.

  • Last Lecture: Paul Butler urges HLS students to use their privilege to resist--and call out--injustice

    A Case for Reform

    July 1, 2010

    Former prosecutor Paul Butler ’86 now argues for jury nullification in cases of nonviolent offenders—even if they are guilty.

  • Jan Fiala LL.M. ’10

    Disability rights victory in Europe won by alum with help from HPOD

    June 22, 2010

    On May 20, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that blanket disenfranchisement of people with disabilities is contrary to the European Convention of Human Rights.

  • Ogletree, Tribe bestowed with honorary degrees

    June 7, 2010

    Professors Laurence H. Tribe ’66, and Charles J. Ogletree both received honorary degrees at law school commencement ceremonies this spring.

  • The Supreme Court

    Students in Supreme Court Litigation Clinic assist in brief-writing and case summaries

    May 17, 2010

    During the winter term, 10 Harvard Law students participated in the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, led by Lecturers Thomas Goldstein, Amy Howe, and Kevin Russell—all of whom are leading Supreme Court practitioners and experts on appellate litigation. The clinic gave students the opportunity to spend the month of January in Washington, D.C., working on actual cases that would be heard before the Court.

  • Levi, Minow elected Chair and Vice Chair of Legal Services Corporation

    April 9, 2010

    Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, John Levi ’72 LL.M. ’73, and four other presidential appointees to the Legal Services Corporation’s Board of Directors were sworn in to office on April 7. At the LSC’s inaugural Board meeting, the members elected Levi, a partner in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin, as chairman, and Minow as vice chair.

  • Minow delivers 2010 Hesburgh lecture at Notre Dame

    March 30, 2010

    The 16th annual Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., lecture in Ethics and Public Policy was delivered by HLS Dean Martha Minow at Notre Dame University on March 16th. Her talk focused on education as a tool in preventing violent conflict, as well as the role of the International Criminal Court in jumpstarting and promoting education as a tool in fostering coexistence and peace.

  • Mack in the Boston Globe: A measure of history

    March 25, 2010

    "A measure of history," an op-ed by Professor Kenneth Mack '91, appeared in the Mar. 25 issue of the Boston Globe.

  • Professor Benjamin Sachs

    Faculty scholarship: Sachs on enabling employee choice

    March 24, 2010

    The Harvard Law Review published “Enabling Employee Choice: A Structural Approach to the Rules of Union Organizing,” by Professor Benjamin Sachs on January 19, 2010.

  • Martha Minow

    Minow, Levi confirmed to board of Legal Services Corporation

    March 19, 2010

    The U.S. Senate confirmed Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow’s appointment to the board of the Legal Services Corporation, a bi-partisan, government-sponsored organization that provides civil legal assistance to low-income Americans, today. Minow was joined by five other nominees in the confirmation by Executive Session, including John Levi '72 LL.M. '73.

  • Professor Kenneth Mack ’91

    Mack delivers talk on NAACP at Library of Congress symposium (video)

    March 18, 2010

    The symposium "The NAACP: Reflections on the First 100 Years," explored both the history of the NAACP, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009, and its future. The Feb. 26 event was held at the library’s Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C.

  • Dean Martha Minow

    Minow, four other law school deans urge Armed Services Committees to support ending "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" policy

    March 18, 2010

    Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and four other law school deans have urged key lawmakers on Capitol Hill to end the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. “The effects of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ are marginalization, exclusion, and denigration,” wrote the law school deans in a March 18 letter to the Armed Services committees in the House and Senate.

  • Professor Michael Klarman delivers address on the Supreme Court and race at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

    March 18, 2010

    “The conventional wisdom is that the Supreme Court is an heroic defender of the rights of racial minorities … I want to argue to the contrary. The Supreme Court has been a foe, rather than a friend to racial minorities in general, and African Americans specifically.” That was the opening message delivered by Harvard Law School Professor Michael Klarman in a lecture titled “The Supreme Court and Race” at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences on March 10.

  • Change in the Community: A panel discussion

    March 11, 2010

    On Friday, Feb. 19, the Women’s Law Association of Harvard Law School hosted the panel discussion “Change in the Community” as part of its fourth annual conference.

  • At HLS, Perrelli details DOJ efforts to stop violence against women

    March 11, 2010

    On March 8, Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli ’91 returned to Harvard Law School to discuss the Department of Justice’s new violence against women initiative. Perrelli’s visit marked the first stop on a month-long college campus tour sponsored by DOJ.

  • Women in the Courtroom: A panel discussion

    March 10, 2010

    Advocacy and litigation on behalf of women’s interests has expanded the rights and protections available to women, according to a group of panelists assembled for a recent women’s law conference, “Women for Women: Advocating for Change,” hosted by the HLS Women’s Law Association at Harvard Law on Feb. 19.

  • At Women’s Law Association conference, Jarrett and Madigan encourage public service

    March 10, 2010

    “Put yourself in the path of lightning,” was the advice of Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, speaking at the Harvard Law School Women’s Law Association spring conference on February 19, 2010. The conference, entitled “Women for Women: Advocating for Change,” brought together leaders in the legal profession to discuss the challenges that women face in the courtroom, the workplace, and in the community.