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Fenno's browser history was full of URLs ending in .co.uk, and he felt properly boned up on London's legal landscape. The firms he should be aiming for, he learned, were part of the so-called "Magic Circle," which sounded appropriately mysterious for the country that inspired the Lord of the Rings and harbored Stonehenge.
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While another election cycle nears its end, the debate over regulating campaign finance is far from over. Last week, Professor Bradley Smith '90 of Capital University Law School and Visiting Professor Daniel Tokaji of The Ohio State University Law School shared their views about the underlying values and the future course of campaign finance regulation with a packed house in Austin Hall.
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On October 15, 2008, journalist, photographer and filmmaker Nir Rosen spoke about his field experience and overarching impressions covering key current conflict zones.
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On Wednesday, October 8, the Law School played host to Professor John Nagle of Notre Dame Law School, who discussed Evangelical Christianity and its intersection with environmentalism and the law.
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In his lecture on the occasion of his recognition as the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Yochai Benkler asked how the creative commons could be harnessed as a social and economic force for change.
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With the global economy in the midst of a historic crash, the finance ministers of the G20 gathered in Washington over the weekend to design the next international strategy for restoring confidence in the global financial markets. What resulted was a plan to recapitalize the core financial institutions of Europe and America with direct investments and provide central bank support for inter-bank lending.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party won a plurality of seats in Tuesday's Canadian federal election, but failed to secure a hoped-for majority in parliament. The widely-expected result will most likely be a minority Conservative government, forcing Canada's right wing to reach across the aisle and forge compromises with the opposition parties of the left.
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The Harvard Natural History Museum has opened a new exhibition which explores color throughout the natural world, examining the source, purpose, and perception of color in a wide range of fauna. Admission is free for Harvard students and one guest; the exhibition will shown until September 2009.
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Harvard Law School lecturer Jacqueline Bhabha has signed a petition in support of Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist who was an early supporter of Senator Barack Obama '91 in the 1990s. Obama's relationship with Ayers has been criticized by Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin.
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As the presidential candidates clamored for votes in swing states across the country, HLS students joined with faculty last Thursday to explore the problems we're likely to see at the polls this Election Day. Assistant Professor Jim Greiner and Visiting Professor Dan Tokaji spoke at the event, which was sponsored by the American Constitution Society.
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The recent announcement that the incoming Class of 2012 would be graded according to a Pass/Fail system sent shockwaves through Harvard Law School last week as current students debated whether the same system should apply to their own classes.
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The White House, Capitol Hill, and the Federal Reserve have mobilized their full arsenal of intervention strategies to resolve the barriers impeding the free flow of credit in the global financial markets.