{"id":598,"date":"2017-06-15T18:52:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/?p=598"},"modified":"2017-06-15T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:36:04","slug":"hls-thinks-bigger-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/tlc\/hls-thinks-bigger-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"HLS thinks bigger than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Faculty carry on annual tradition of sharing scholarship, shorthand<\/h2>\n

Originally publish by Harvard Law Today<\/a><\/p>\n

June 8, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

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Credit: Martha Stewart (from left) Bob Bordone, Christine Desan, Phil Heymann, Brian Price and Henry Smith joined the ranks of faculty who have shared their “big ideas” — in a small amount of time — at the annual “HLS Thinks Big” event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Each May since 2011, Harvard Law School has presented\u00a0\u201cHLS Thinks Big,\u201d a TED Talks-style event that invites faculty members to present a \u201cbig idea\u201d in front of an audience of faculty, students and staff. While the big idea in question can be\u00a0a distillation of some fully-formed scholarship, faculty members have also presented germs of\u00a0ideas floated for the first time, hypotheticals up for discussion, and sometimes, topics that look at areas of interest at a more macro level. Whatever the subject, there is only one rule presenters are bound by: Each must deliver their talk in\u00a010 minutes or less.<\/p>\n

This year, the event, which is hosted annually by the Dean\u2019s Office and the Office of Human Resources, featured talks by Clinical Professor Bob Bordone<\/a>,\u00a0director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program<\/a>; Professor Christine Desan<\/a>, co-founder of Harvard\u2019s Program on the Study of Capitalism<\/a>; Phil Heymann<\/a>, James Barr Ames professor of law, emeritus; Brian Price<\/a>, clinical professor of law and director of HLS\u2019\u00a0Transactional Law Clinics<\/a>; and Professor Henry Smith<\/a>, director of the Project on the Foundations of Private Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Desan\u2019s talk, \u201cThe Dollar as a Democratic Medium,\u201d which explored how society can \u201cre-design\u201d money to create \u201cfairness in a world where inequality is escalating,\u201d to Smith\u2019s discussion of \u201cProperty as a Complex System,\u201d which focused on the burgeoning field of complex systems in law, the speakers provided their listeners with a great deal of food for thought, guiding\u00a0them through\u00a0unfamiliar intellectual terrain, and truly embodying the spirit of the event, which, said\u00a0Dean Martha Minow (who inaugurated the Thinks Big tradition at Harvard Law School), \u201cunderscor[es] the basic idea that learning really happens from many minds \u2014 people sharing ideas and actually moving across boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bob\u00a0Bordone, \u201cBuilding Conflict Capacity: It\u2019s not\u00a0just\u00a0about problem-solving.\u201d<\/h2>\n

Engagement need not be about finding a common ground, but simply being present in conflict.<\/p>\n