Harvard Law School
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.
HLS Panel Discusses Gene Patents
Panelists at Monday’s discussion about the recent Supreme Court decision against gene patenting agreed that although patenting might provide incentives to aspiring innovators, it often hinders scientific progress, especially when it concerns the DNA sequences that are found within human bodies.
With Appointment of Islamic Law Specialist, Law School Makes Rare Lateral Tenure Offer
The hiring of Intisar A. Rabb as Harvard Law School’s newest tenured professor represents a rare tenure offer to a previously non-tenured hire at a school that tends to offer tenure to its own faculty members.
The Law School’s Newest Tenured Faculty Member
When she joins the Law School faculty in the spring, Intisar A. Rabb will teach Islamic law, comparative law, and advanced legislation. She will also serve as a faculty director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program.
Harvard Law School Discusses Human Rights at Conference
European human rights scholars and Harvard professors met Monday at Harvard Law School’s Milstein Conference Center to discuss the divergent European and American perspectives on human rights.
