A Different Voice
Richardson is founder and executive director of the Chicago-based nonprofit organization The HistoryMakers.
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.”
The Great Pretender
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Harvard Law School should be honored. For when Frank Abagnale decided to be a lawyer–in addition to an airline pilot, doctor and professor–he knew exactly which degree would open the door.
A Man of Letters
John Knox LL.M. ’36 was not short on confidence. “My name will survive as long as man survives,” he wrote while an HLS student, “because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written.”
The Sorrow and the Hope
Benjamin Ferencz ’43 had an opportunity Eli Rosenbaum could never have–to bring Nazis before a criminal tribunal. In 1947 Ferencz served as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial of 22 SS officers, including six generals, accused of mass murder.
Never Forget
Eli Rosenbaum ’80 is driven to bring Nazis to justice before it’s too late.
The New 1L
For the first time in decades, HLS has changed the basic structure of its first-year experience, and students and faculty are singing the praises of The New 1L.
Glendon on Roosevelt and Rights
Professor Mary Ann Glendon set out to write a straightforward history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But Eleanor Roosevelt would not let her do it.
Book Gift Makes HLS Preeminent Resource for Anglo-American Legal History
Surviving a journey of centuries, about 1,000 volumes of rare English law books spanning 400 years of legal writing were delivered to Langdell Library this spring, a gift of the late Henry Ess III ’44. “This is probably the most important gift of books to an American law school in 150 years,” said Professor Daniel […]
Dalkon Shield Litigation Papers Donated to HLS
The Harvard Law School library recently acquired a voluminous collection of papers from the Dalkon Shield litigation, a tort case involving nearly 400,000 claims. The papers were donated last summer by the Ohio law firm Brown & Szaller, whose managing attorney, James Szaller, has been involved in the suit since 1975. The Dalkon Shield litigation […]