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Current Issue: April 2008
Feature Stories
Harvard Law School launches new Public Service Initiative
In a move that will further strengthen its commitment to public service, Harvard Law School announced that it will pay the third year of tuition for all future students who commit to work in public service for five years following graduation. Dean Elena Kagan ’86 announced the new program following a three-day “Celebration of Public Interest,” which brought more than 600 alumni back to the HLS campus.
Student Spotlight: A young entrepreneur builds a startup to aid the neediest
Last January, Andrew Klaber '09 was invited to Davos, Switzerland, to participate in the World Economic Forum with the world’s elite business, political and intellectual leaders. In a panel discussion about innovations in leadership, Klaber brought his message of social entrepreneurship to the world stage.
Faculty Q&A: Untangling the Web
Since its inception, Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has helped foster innovation on the Web, especially as the Internet has evolved into a more interactive medium. Executive Director John G. Palfrey Jr. '01 talked to HLT about the center's role in developing "Web 2.0."
FCC comes to HLS for hearing on Internet openess
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission was on the Harvard Law School campus today to hear testimony about whether or not Internet service providers deliberately blocked users from sharing files online. In a packed Ames Courtroom, the five commissioners heard from representatives of Comcast and Verizon about their network management practices, as well as from academics and small business owners who urged more freedom on the Internet.
HLS supplies legal ammunition in Supreme Court case
When the U.S. Supreme Court took up a landmark case on the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban in March, a trio of Harvard Law students could claim modest credit for helping shape the argument. The students assisted lawyers arguing for preserving the ban in the gun-control case—D.C. v. Heller—as part of their work in a new clinical course this year, Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation.
Additional Content
Michael Klarman to join HLS faculty
Sunstein to join HLS faculty
Ann Alstott, expert on tax law and social welfare to join HLS faculty
Justice Kennedy swings by for a visit
Elhauge book forum brings Breyer to HLS
Transactional practices threatened
On being a corporate lawyer
The quality of mercy explored