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Widener Library at Harvard University.

Major outpouring of support for University in legal battle over admissions approach

Hundreds of social scientists, business executives, Nobel laureates, state attorneys general, colleges rebut group appealing judgment in favor of Harvard’s policies

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DateMay 22, 2020

Student in gas mask "smalls" a flower in New York on the first Earth Day.

The culture of Earth Day

How the event moved environmentalism into legislatures, the boardroom, and the living room

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DateApril 20, 2020September 21, 2020

Oliver Hart.

Oliver Hart named University Professor

Nobel-laureate economics leader awarded highest faculty honor

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DateMarch 2, 2020March 4, 2020

Thomas Abt walking on city street.

Halting urban violence seen as a key to ending poverty

Bringing peace to the streets makes a pivotal difference, Thomas Abt says in new book

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DateJune 25, 2019June 26, 2019

Harvard Law School Professor Glenn Cohen spoke at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of the Faculty Speaker Series.

Professor offers basics of bioethics and the law in 90 minutes

Harvard expert breaks down complex topic for Ed Portal and online audience

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DateSeptember 20, 2016March 12, 2019

"The current knowledge economy limits women’s work, leadership, and earning," Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University, told her Harvard audience at the fourth annual Anita Hill Lecture on Gender Justice. Hill, a professor at Brandeis University, is pictured on-screen.

Minding the gaps

Women still face unequal pay, acknowledgment, and opportunities, Harris-Perry says

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DateMarch 30, 2016

In light of Aaron's Law, Lawrence Lessig called for a closer examination of what constitutes major and minor violations in cyberspace.

Lessig remembers Swartz

Professor lauds late pioneer, says computer fraud laws lack subtlety

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DateFebruary 25, 2013May 21, 2019

Legal scholar and tireless defender of equal rights Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflected on her career during a discussion with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow on Monday before a packed room in Wasserstein Hall.

Ginsburg holds court

Supreme Court justice discusses career, cases during Harvard Law School session

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DateFebruary 6, 2013

Wellesley College Professor Susan Reverby (far left) discovered documents that revealed how U.S. researchers infected Guatemalans with syphilis during the 1940s in order to test new treatments. When the news came to light in 2010, no reparations were made. A Harvard Law School panel — including HLS Assistant Professor I. Glenn Cohen (right) and Holly Fernandez Lynch, executive director of the HLS's Petrie-Flom Center — discussed the case and highlighted options for reparations.

An experiment gone horribly awry

U.S. researchers helped to infect Guatemalans with syphilis to study disease

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DateNovember 14, 2012

Linda Greenhouse: "Basically, any hot button issue for the country ends up as a Supreme Court case. And that’s true right now in spades.”

High drama

Linda Greenhouse discusses history, influence of Supreme Court

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DateMay 29, 2012

Legalizing marijuana is one of very few “issues in America today where the voters are more enlightened than the elected officials,” said U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, who was invited to campus by the HLS American Constitution Society, where he addressed a packed crowd of law students in Pound Hall.

Frank look at marijuana laws

Congressman visits HLS to promote legalization easing strictures

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DateOctober 19, 2011May 15, 2019

In 1961, Newton Minow gave his famous speech in what he called “the television age,” when the government’s role, as he saw it, was to expand viewers’ choices, hoping that increased competition would lead to better programming in news, entertainment, and children’s education. Fifty years later, the topic was revisited at Harvard Law School at a discussion titled “News and Entertainment in the Digital Age: A Vast Wasteland Revisited.”

The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered

Scholars, journalists debate TV, Internet, and public interest

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DateSeptember 13, 2011June 17, 2019

Gregory Connolly, director of the HSPH Center for Global Tobacco Control and professor of the practice of public health, said he’d like to see the last cigarette stubbed out by a child by 2020.

Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

Conference lauds new FDA powers to regulate tobacco

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DateJune 24, 2011May 6, 2019

While on a sabbatical last year, supported by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Filiz Garip delved deeper into her research on migration patterns. “I wanted to know several things. Are there different types of migrants moving in different directions if the economy changes? What about if policy changes? Who is coming over now, as opposed to who was coming before them?”

Why the immigrants come

Professor analyzes data, says groups cross border for varied reasons

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DateMay 26, 2011

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became president of Liberia in 2006, the culmination of a career of public service in Liberia that has seen her endure death threats, incarceration, and exile, and an achievement that made her the first woman head of state ever elected in an African country.

Harvard awards 9 honorary degrees

President Faust to present degrees during Morning Exercises

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DateMay 26, 2011June 26, 2019

Richard Lazarus named professor of law

Says Dean Martha Minow: 'Richard is an all-star'

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DateApril 21, 2011July 22, 2019

Bishop Bryant Robinson Jr. of the Macedonia Church of God in Springfield, Mass., speaks to the Harvard students who helped rebuild his church after it was torched on the night of Barack Obama's election. The students traveled to Springfield on the Phillips Brooks House Association's Alternative Spring Break, which promotes public service.

Making a difference

Across the University, public service programs are thriving

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DateApril 6, 2011July 19, 2019

“At some point, nobody outside the scientific community had ever heard of stem cells. Suddenly they were politicized within about 30 seconds of being mentioned in public discourse. Genomics doesn’t have that partisan valence — yet. We are convinced it’s going to,” said political scientist Jennifer Hochschild, who is researching how the politics surrounding genomics will develop.

To catch a killer

Examining the policy implications of genomics

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DateFebruary 17, 2011May 21, 2019

HLS appoints Gertner, Shay as professors of practice

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DateFebruary 7, 2011May 3, 2019

Law firm honors deceased partner

Creates endowed HLS fund

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DateDecember 14, 2010

Edmond J. Safra graduate fellowships in ethics 2011-12

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DateOctober 6, 2010June 19, 2019

A pre-eminent copyright scholar, Benjamin Kaplan co-wrote the first casebook on copyright, with Yale Law School professor Ralph Brown, LL.B. ’57, in 1960.

Copyright scholar Kaplan dies

Benjamin Kaplan, Royall Professor of Law Emeritus, was 99

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DateAugust 23, 2010July 22, 2019

“I think it is a good signal that strict disciplinary lines are breaking down and open minds are prevailing in many scholarly societies,” said Weatherhead Center Director Beth A. Simmons of her award-winning interdisciplinary book "Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics." Simmons was one of three Harvard affiliates recognized by the American Political Science Association. Also recognized were Steven J. Kelman, the Albert J. Weatherhead III & Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management in the Kennedy School of Government, and Mikhail Pryadilnikov, associate of the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Excellence honored

Three recognized by American Political Science Association

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DateAugust 17, 2010July 19, 2019

Elena Kagan, who was named the newest U.S. Supreme Court justice today, began her weeklong hearing process in June.

Colleagues recall Kagan’s years at Harvard

New justice remembered for her work as student, professor, dean

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DateAugust 5, 2010June 19, 2019

John G. Roberts (left) was nominated in 2005 by President George W. Bush. Roberts graduated Harvard College in 1976 and Harvard Law School in 1979. Harold Andrew Blackmun (right) studied under Felix Frankfurter at Harvard Law School before graduating in 1932. He was nominated by President Richard Nixon in 1970 and served the court until 1994. Antonin Scalia (bottom) is the longest-serving justice. A 1986 nominee of President Ronald Reagan, Scalia is still serving. He is a 1960 graduate of Harvard Law School.

Harvard’s historic mark

Kagan becomes 23rd justice to hail from Harvard

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DateAugust 5, 2010July 18, 2019

HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain appointed to SEAS faculty

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DateJuly 16, 2010June 19, 2019

Harvard’s Institute of Politics announces fall fellows

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DateJune 25, 2010

Lisa Kelly, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School, has been awarded a $180,000 Trudeau Foundation scholarship for 2010-11.

Trudeau Foundation awards scholarship to Lisa Kelly of HLS

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DateMay 18, 2010July 19, 2019

“For the audience of the mass public, the FDA’s reputation is compelling because people believe that the agency has kept them safe, and that the FDA generally ‘gets it right,’” says author and Harvard professor Daniel Carpenter.

Peering into gearworks of FDA

Harvard author examines federal agency too often labeled simply ‘great or horrible’

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DateApril 29, 2010June 26, 2019

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

<h4>MIT Press, April 2010</h4><h5>By Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain</h5>

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DateApril 15, 2010

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