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Prof. Charles Ogletree '78 has long served as an inspiration to HLS students interested in public service. He has advised South Africa and China on how best to meet the needs of indigent criminal defendants. And earlier this month, he offered his inspiration and guidance to a new group: Israel's public defenders.
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With the Strategic Plan calling for the hiring of up to 15 additional professors in the years to come, student organizations have redoubled efforts to inject greater student input into faculty hiring decisions. This month, the Law School Council (LSC) voted to support a campaign by the student group Ethics, Law and Biotechnology (E.
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My grand entrance to the Church Street screening of "Blow" was perfectly timed. The previews had just ended, and the screen was completely dark, forcing me to feel my way into the inky recesses of the stadium seating with a laptop computer on one shoulder and a duffel bag full of sweaty gym clothes on the other.
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Halfway through the 2001-2002 academic year, HLS is well into its 1L experiment. The school is currently test-driving changes to the first-year program that were recommended by last year's Strategic Plan in an effort to reinvigorate Harvard's approach to legal education.
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When the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) passed, Prof. Lawrence Lessig was not happy. CETA marked the 11th time that Congress had extended the copyright term in the past 40 years, and Lessig felt that that the practice of extending the copyright was robbing the public domain of works that would otherwise be lost.
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It disgusts me that a publication by Harvard Law students could have such minimal intellectual gravity as the RECORD has in recent weeks. How can you purport to cover issues of grave international importance when your word counts are only one-eighth that of most stories in The New Yorker? Take the letters section for example.
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Johnnie Cochran, who gained national fame as the lead attorney in O.J. Simpson's successful defense against murder charges, spoke at the Law School last Friday. In a speech sponsored by the Harvard Law School Forum, Cochran, a philanthropist, civil liberties advocate and lawyer for high-profile clients like Sean "Puffy" Combs and Michael Jackson, discussed deficiencies in the American justice system.
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According to a press release issued by the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), last Thursday about 150 members of an Israeli force backed by armored personnel carriers surrounded the home of Khader Shkirat, a visiting fellow at the Harvard Human Rights Program, sealing off the entire neighborhood in East Jerusalem and placing the residents under a military curfew.
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The Law School's recent hiring of two assistant professors signaled only the first step in HLS' plan vastly to increase the size of its faculty. Guhan Subramanian, a specialist in corporate law and negotiations who graduated from both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, and Ryan Goodman, an expert on public international law and human rights who holds both a J.
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After an intense, years-long campaign by HLS students, Harvard undergraduates and workers alike, Harvard's janitors finally have a pay raise. But the question remains whether they got the pay increase they wanted. By a vote of 270 to 8, Harvard janitors voted Friday to approve a newly negotiated contract which raises their hourly wage to $11.
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Food critic for Vogue magazine and author of "The Man Who Ate Everything," Jeffrey Steingarten was recognized before an audience of 80 as a "celebrated omnivore" and gastronomic explorer at a luncheon March 6 as part of the Traphagen Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series.
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They massed outside Dean Robert Clark's office. They carried their signs and placards. And they shouted their battle-cry: "Justice for Proctors!" With that, several dozen HLS exam monitors kicked off the University's latest living wage campaign yesterday, as they demanded the Law School administration respond to what they described as calls for true justice.