Legally Green
Coming soon, a big building with a small carbon footprint
Malone and Jacobs appointed clinical professors of law
Phil Malone and Wendy Jacobs ’81 have been appointed clinical professors of law, Dean Elena Kagan ’86 announced today.
Kerry at HLS: U.S. must act now on global climate change
In a Harvard Law School classroom today, Senator John Kerry (D – Mass.) stressed the urgency of the climate change problem, arguing that the federal government needs to take action immediately to combat global warming.
Online and on the road
A quarter-century after “Getting to Yes,” Harvard’s Program on Negotiation is refining the art and sharing it with the world.
Cooling Off the Planet
Which works better–regulation or market-based initiatives? We ask Jody Freeman, who joined the HLS faculty this year.
A New Development
For 25 years, Douglas Foy ‘ 73 served as head of the Conservation Law Foundation, a New England-based environmental advocacy group whose frequent lawsuits changed the landscape of the region, literally. But now Foy has jumped from the courthouse to the State House, named by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ‘ 75 as the first chief of Commonwealth Development.
Law of the Land … and the Water and the Air
Growing up in Oregon in the 1960s and 1970s, Bern Johnson ’87 saw wild rivers dammed and forests denuded by clear-cut logging. As a camper and fisherman, he quickly understood the need for protecting the resources he was enjoying.
A Common Good
Cynics call them do-gooders, hopelessly naïve people disconnected from the real world. These days, the cynical view could easily prevail.
Earth First
In 1993 Dick Roy ’70 walked away from his position as a high-powered attorney, intent on never again collecting a paycheck. Roy had decided, after more than 20 years practicing law, to cash in his six-figure salary to save the earth.
At Loggerheads
For Minneapolis-based lawyer Stephen Young ’74, a tree is just a tree. Yet for others, he contends, trees are sacred objects. Last October, Young brought a suit in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, on behalf of Minnesota loggers, against two nonprofit environmental groups and the U.S. Forest Service. He contended that the environmentalists believed in […]