From law and forgiveness to politics and the integrity of the Supreme Court to an insider’s view on foreign policy, HLS faculty tackle big issues with scholarship, candor, and compassion
Sometimes making the greatest impact on a student’s life is as simple as changing his fifth-grade homeroom. That’s what Marina Volanakis ’99 did for 10-year-old Gabriel, and it was enough to turn him from a disrespectful troublemaker into a dedicated student.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health last fall has allowed gay marriage in the commonwealth–at least for now.
In their new book, Professor Elizabeth Warren and her daughter reveal the diminishing fortunes of middle-class families and show a way out of the “Two-Income Trap.”
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.
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.
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).