Via HLS News This fall, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, issued a challenge to students across the university to come up …
Update from Geneva: UN Committee Against Torture’s Review of the United States
Via the International Human Rights Clinic Earlier today in Geneva, in advance of the UN Committee Against Torture’s formal review of the United States, Morgan Davis, JD ’15, spoke to the U.S. …
HLS alumn appointed Executive Director of GLAD
Via GLAD Janson Wu, HLS '03, deputy director and senior staff attorney for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), has been appointed the organization’s new executive director. Wu, who …
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Fighting a “Strategy of Evictions”
Via the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau It sounds absurd – tenants fighting for years for the right to pay rent and a landlord who refuses to take their money. Too many families living in foreclosed homes …
HLS legal clinic lands victories for veterans
Via the Harvard Gazette Standing in near-frozen water while guarding a bridge during the notorious Battle of the Bulge in 1945, the infantryman sustained such severe frostbite he almost lost a foot. …
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In Photos: Ben Ferencz, ’43, Receives HLS Medal of Freedom
Via the International Human Rights Clinic The great Ben Ferencz, ’43, received Harvard Law School’s highest honor on Friday: the Medal of Freedom. Humble, hilarious, and altogether inspiring, Ben …
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