News from classrooms, clinics and campus
A panel that included many former members of the Harvard Defenders marked the 50th anniversary of the group by examining the widely misunderstood role of the defender in the courtroom and in society.
Professor Henry Steiner ’55, founder of the program, reflects on the agenda of HRP at Harvard and beyond, and the HLS graduates “battling in the trenches” for the human rights movement worldwide.
Were four entrapped spelunkers, whose hunger ultimately drove them to eat the fifth member of their group, guilty of murder, and should their sentence—death by hanging—be upheld?
The intrepid crew of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Lance Liebman ’67 offers a former law school dean’s take on The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by Derek Bok ’54, former Harvard president and HLS dean, and William Bowen, former Princeton president.
