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Klarman delivered his talk in Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Austin Hall East to a gathering of about 60 HLS students and professors. The event marked the beginning of the Law School’s week-long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Brown decision...
Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, who organized the celebration with HLS Dean Elena Kagan, called the Brown ruling the “most important decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on race relations.” He said it was important for Harvard to mark this anniversary in light of the contributions of HLS alums to the case...
...after the Pentagon threatened to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to Harvard under the Solomon Amendment, then-HLS Dean Robert C. Clark granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination pledge...
...House’s action Tuesday came amidst a flurry of litigation challenging the Solomon Amendment. In November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, a 1957 HLS graduate, ruled that the statute is constitutional, but questioned the Pentagon’s insistence that schools waive nondiscrimination requirements for military recruiters...
Lifland’s ruling came in a suit filed by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a network of 20 law schools challenging the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of FAIR, but a majority of the HLS faculty filed a friend-of-the-court brief on FAIR’s behalf in January, arguing that the school was in compliance with the amendment even before Clark granted the Pentagon a waiver...