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Harvard Law Today: July 2013

Tony Rinaldo

Dean Martha Minow told the graduating class: “You, the Harvard Law School Class of 2013, will be counsel for situations to come. You will define law, business, policy, leadership, in the days and years ahead. Will you take risks? Will you grab challenges? Will you invent new approaches to tough problems? Your influence reflects what Harvard Law School is and who you are and who you will become. I ask you to use your influence to better your communities and the world.”

Public Service Venture Fund confers grants

A first-of-its-kind program at a law school, the Public Service Venture Fund invites law students and recent alumni to identify unmet legal needs and develop new initiatives to meet them.
A question of balance: Are law school faculties too liberal?

At Harvard Law School on April 5, a panel of leading legal scholars examined a single question: Is there a lack of intellectual diversity at law schools?
Harvard Law study finds legal fractures

A registry intended to provide information to the public about the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing is not an acceptable regulatory measure, according to a recent report by Harvard Law School’s Environmental Law Program Policy Initiative.
Briefs

Whiting, Gasser professors of practice; Shavell receives law and economics medal; Manning elected to Academy of Arts & Sciences; and Featured on PBS: Professors Freeman, Goldsmith, Lessig and Gordon-Reed
On campus

Shay testifies at Apple hearing; Experts and judges convene on intellectual property; An oath to the Constitution, aboard the Constitution; Dukakis on the importance of building consensus; Morgan and Helen Chu commit $5 million to Harvard Law School; and Playing hardball
Class of 2013

The Harvard Law School Class of 2013 assembled at Holmes Field, in front of Langdell Library, on May 29 and 30 to commemorate the completion of their studies. This year the law school conferred 740 degrees: 571 J.D.’s, 158 LL.M’s and 11 S.J.D’s.
Richard Lazarus: “Environmental law has fallen ‘in arrears’”

Environmental lawlessness was the topic of discussion on April 10, as Richard Lazarus ’79, one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental law, gave a lecture marking his appointment to the Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professorship of Law.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin on the new Law and History program of study

This spring, HLS launched the Law and History program of study headed by two faculty leaders: Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin, who is also a professor of history in the faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor Kenneth Mack ’91.
Giving back: A century of learning and service

One hundred years ago, a small group of Harvard Law students formed an organization to provide legal aid to the poor. In the 10 decades since its founding, the Legal Aid Bureau—the oldest student-run legal services program in the country—has helped thousands of clients.