Nifty Fifty
There’s nothing noteworthy about being a female student at Harvard Law School today: About half of the students are women.
When I’m ’64
In her new book, Judith Richards Hope details the struggles and successes of the women classmates who “took the place of a man.”
A Class Unto Themselves
For many years after HLS began admitting women, male faculty still predominated. That’s changed, and women faculty members talk about what their presence has meant for the school and for themselves.
A Woman’s Place
Fifty years after the first women graduated from Harvard Law School, alumnae come together to look back at the progress and ahead to the possibilities.
We Are Where We Excrete
The urinal is the political. So are the toilet and the condom dispenser and the diaper changing station and everything else commonly found in men’s and women’s rooms (and even the fact that there are men’s and women’s rooms).
Patricia S. Schroeder
Known for her tart tongue and her tears (when she announced that she wouldn’t run for president in 1988), Patricia Schroeder knew how to get things done in Congress, including the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
A Common Good
Cynics call them do-gooders, hopelessly naïve people disconnected from the real world. These days, the cynical view could easily prevail.
The Right of Women
Do you expect Harvard Law women to be card-carrying liberals? Then you haven’t met Cameron Casey ’03 or other members of the Alliance of Independent Feminists.
A Portrait of Diversity
Sometimes a painting is not just a work of art. That’s the case with the most recent addition to the HLS collection, praised not only for its style but for all it represents.
Lessons of the Heart
Eugene Wade graduated from Morehouse College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. But he almost flunked out of high school. And that experience drove him to start his own charter school company, helping kids like himself–poor minority children in inner cities.