U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer '64 talks with the Bulletin in chambers.
Inside HLS
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The Katrina connection: HLS contributes to flood relief
After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, many HLS students felt helpless watching news accounts of the unfolding devastation while beginning fall classes. The law school had posted links for the university's matching donations program and announced plans to host 25 law students from Tulane and Loyola tuition-free. But HLS students sought their own ways to donate their time and talents.
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Is the case for intelligent design designed intelligently?
Several school boards have recently mandated that science curricula include the teaching of intelligent design--the theory that all advanced life forms are so complex that they must have been designed by an intelligent force.
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“May it please the Court”
Harvard Law students hoping to learn how to argue before the Supreme Court need go no farther than the Ames Courtroom or a winter-term classroom.
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International criminal justice–at home and abroad
HLS students learn the lessons of Nuremberg in Cambridge, Arusha and The Hague.
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Trading places: Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side of the bench
Compared with that of a lawyer in private practice, a judge's schedule may be more flexible. But not when compared with the life of an academic, says Professor Charles Fried.
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Friendly fire
With a little help from your friends: Amicus briefs are meant to offer judges some extra information. But is amicus practice getting out of hand?
