Harvard Law School
HLS Conference Celebrates 100 Years of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau commemorated 100 years of service and debated possible avenues for the organization’s future at conference at Harvard Law School this weekend.
Peter Singer Advocates for Animal Rights
Moral philosopher and Princeton professor Peter Singer described what he called a “momentous revolution in thinking” regarding animal welfare during a talk in the Ames Courtroom at the Harvard Law School on Friday.
Queen of Jordan Opens Pan-Arab Conference
Royalty graced the streets of Cambridge on Thursday when Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan and Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco gave speeches to crowds in Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall during the opening night of the seventh annual Harvard Arab Weekend Conference.
50 Percent of URL Citations in Supreme Court Cases are 'Rotted,' Harvard Researchers Say
Whether you're a Con Law student prepping for your next paper or a 1L cramming for Civil Procedure, be careful while you research—your materials might very well be rotting away.
PSA: A New Way Out of Law School Debt
Don't worry Harvard Law Class of 2014, there's still hope that you can take that non-profit or government job after all. Even with those law school loans piling up, you may not have to sell your soul to the giant law firms—just your Hot Wheels collection. Just like this student, who is apparently trying to sell 240 die cast cars from his childhood on eBay in order to pay off the debts from his legal education, you, too, can find a way to make it work.
Noah Feldman Master Class
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman '92 lectures on the 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell. The master class was sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center.
Harvard Law Review Gender Breakdown over Time
In addition to expanding the size of the board to 46 editors, the Law Review instituted a new gender component to its affirmative action policy. The newest board has more female editors than any volume since volume 122 in 2007.
Number of Female Harvard Law Review Editors Nearly Doubled in First Gender-Based Affirmative Action Cycle
In the first cycle since the Harvard Law Review incorporated gender-based affirmative action into its admissions process, 17 out of 46 editors are women, nearly double last year’s 9 female members of 44 overall.
HLS Professor Predicts Future of Supreme Court
Harvard Law School Professor Mark V. Tushnet ’67 hypothesized that, in the event of an appointment to the Supreme Court in 2016, the judge appointed will be either Asian-American or African-American. This hypothesis came after Tushnet claimed to have accurately predicted the appointment of Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor in 2008.
Celebration 60
Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow presents the Harvard Law School Association Award to U.S. Senator Elizabeth A. Warren. Celebration 60 celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first women graduates of Harvard Law School.
Harvard Law School Celebrates 60 Years of Female Alumnae
Over 600 alumni representing decades of Harvard Law School classes converged on the school’s campus this past weekend to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first female graduates from the school.
2+2, 2+3
This year, the junior class is getting a taste of the fun, thanks to a new deferred admission program that offers Harvard students the chance to apply to Harvard Law School during their junior year. Known as the Junior Deferral Pilot, or 2+3, the new initiative was introduced last spring and is modeled along the same lines as Harvard Business School’s 2+2 Program, which began in 2007.
Ted Cruz's Ultra-Exclusive HLS Study Group
As any seasoned Law School student knows, the key to surviving the Socratic method and the mountains of reading assigned weekly is a study group in which you can bounce ideas off of some of your peers who were also brilliant enough to get into Harvard Law. But when Senator Ted Cruz—a 1995 Harvard Law School graduate and Republican from Texas—was a student at HLS, his own study groups had an admissions standard almost as inflated as his own ego. According to one of his colleagues, the now-infamous senator refused to study with any student who did not attend college at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. "He said he didn't want anybody from 'minor Ivies' like Penn or Brown," Damon Watson, one of Cruz's roommates at the time, recently told GQ.
Legal Scholars Debate Right to Peaceful Assembly
The Harvard Law School affiliates could not reach a consensus about whether the right to peaceful assembly is in fact an inviolable human right during an event at the Law School on Wednesday.
Petition Urges Harvard to Rescind Ted Cruz's Law Degree
After Ted Cruz, the Republican Senator from Texas, completed his more than 21-hour speech slamming the Obama administration's healthcare policies, an online petition was started urging Harvard to rescind the Senator's degree. Cruz, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1995, recently made headlines when news broke that he preferred to study only with graduates from Harvard, Princeton and Yale while he worked towards his J.D.
HLS Professor Chairing Email Privacy Policy Task Force Nominated to U.S. Appeals Court
David J. Barron ’89 must have his confirmation approved by the Senate before he can take a seat on the First Circuit bench.