Tag: Harvard Law School

  • Nation & World

    Film explores military tribunal

    A short film based on military tribunals held at Guantanamo Bay examines the legality and morality of the U.S. justice system.

    5–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Language of learning

    With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.

    7–11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Matters of life and death

    As part of a series of talks sponsored by Harvard Law School, criminal justice scholar Carol Steiker offered final words of advice to the parting class.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Treading the green carpet

    One day after Earth Day, Harvard continued to celebrate the environment, rolling out a green carpet for the individuals, teams, projects, and Schools that have advanced the cause of sustainability.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Earth Day at 40

    Harvard celebrates 40th anniversary of Earth Day with dinners, fairs, films, and discussions.

    5–8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sumner M. Redstone donates $1M

    Harvard University today (April 23) announced that Sumner M. Redstone has contributed $1 million to be used by Harvard College and Harvard Law School. This contribution by Redstone, a graduate of both Schools, will establish scholarships for 20 Redstone Scholars to attend Harvard College for the 2010–11 academic year.

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Sumner Redstone donates $1 million to Harvard University

    Harvard University today announced that Sumner M. Redstone has contributed $1 million to be used by Harvard College and Harvard Law School. This contribution by Mr. Redstone, a graduate of both schools, will establish scholarships for 20 Redstone Scholars to attend Harvard College for the 2010–2011 academic year.

    3–5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

    John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School team up in this all-star collaboration on cyberspace. Whether the subjects are online censorship or surveillance, the wild frontier of the Web gets tamed in this tome.

    1–2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being

    Government and happiness? Not so strange bedfellows, says Derek Bok, former president of Harvard and professor at Harvard Law School, who investigates how happiness research could affect policy.

    1–2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Out of Africa

    Harvard Africa Focus opens series of panels, lectures, and performances highlighting the continent’s life and culture.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Bill Lee to join Harvard Corporation

    William F. Lee, A.B. ’72, a Boston-based intellectual property expert and former Harvard Overseer who leads one of the nation’s most prominent law firms, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today (April 11).

    5–8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Seeing Harvard from all sides

    Bill Lee, who is the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, has seen Harvard from many vantage points: He attended the College, has taught at the Law School, served as an Overseer and has been a proud Harvard parent – twice. As he prepared to join the Corporation, Lee sat down with the Gazette to…

    9–13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Doctor examines torture

    Author and Harvard doctor Atul Gawande explored the practice of solitary confinement in a lecture at Harvard Law School.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    The greening of the Law School

    Harvard Law School moves aggressively to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and save resources.

    4–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Super consumer advocate

    Elizabeth Warren, head of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, spoke at Harvard Law School about her efforts to establish a consumer financial protection agency.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    House masters appointed

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, announced the appointment of three House masters: Douglas Melton, Christie McDonald, and Rakesh Khurana.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Three HLS students recognized for outstanding writing

    Three Harvard Law School students have been awarded prizes for outstanding written work.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    East Asian Legal Studies announces Yong Kim Memorial Prize for 2010

    The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School is accepting submissions of papers for the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize, awarded to the author of the best paper concerning the law or legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia or concerning issues of law as it pertains to U.S.-East…

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Looking ahead

    On Junior Parents Weekend, students’ mothers and fathers began to ponder what life might be like after graduation from Harvard.

    3–4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Passionate advocate of human rights

    Canadian Supreme Court judge, child of Holocaust survivors, argues passionately that nations should value human rights over simple laws, and that the United Nations should step up.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Harvard Law School

    Harvard Law School is losing a faculty member to the federal government, even as it regains one.

    1–2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace

    Holder of dual appointments in Harvard’s Business and Law Schools, Subramanian utilizes theories of negotiating and auctioning to deliver this guide to successful transactions in today’s marketplace.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Contrasts between past and present

    In a series of interviews, 15 veterans discussed the startling contrasts between past and present.

    6–9 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Over there, over here

    On the Harvard campus, as many as 150 students have an untraditional academic past, as present or former members of the U.S. military, many of whom have had multiple combat tours.

    8–13 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Fight or flight

    Robert Mnookin’s new book looks at how to negotiate.

    1–2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HLS creates public service fund

    Harvard Law School today (Feb. 9) announced the creation of the Public Service Venture Fund, which will start by awarding $1 million in grants every year to help graduating students pursue careers in public service.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    David Souter to speak at 359th Commencement

    David H. Souter, a native New Englander and Harvard alumnus who served nearly two decades on the U.S. Supreme Court before stepping down in 2009, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 359th Commencement.

    2–4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Judging the campaign finance ruling

    In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling striking down corporate limits on campaign financing, several Harvard faculty members weigh in on what the ruling means and where it’s likely to lead.

    5–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A snapshot of Harvard’s emission reductions

    In 2007, Harvard University pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, inclusive of growth, 30 percent by 2016, with 2006 as the baseline year. University-wide, GHG reductions are around 5 percent so far, including growth. The reductions are due to changes in Harvard’s energy supply and to activities and projects at Schools and units.

    4–6 minutes