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Yale Law School Professor Yochai Benkler, a renowned expert on cyberspace law and policy, has accepted a tenured offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty, according to a press release from HLS. He will also serve as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a subdivision of Harvard Law focusing on cyberspace research...
...this time of commencement and recollection, I feel grateful to have had so many different ways of gathering memories at Harvard. As a student at Harvard Law School (HLS), a Teaching Fellow for several courses at Harvard College, and a resident tutor of the beautiful and vibrant Eliot House, I have had the opportunity to observe and take part in many of the connections that Harvard offers from many different perspectives. It has been a tremendous privilege not only to be able to study at one of Harvard’s graduate schools, but also to play the role...
...HLS is, for many good reasons, a revered institution. It has nonetheless not always proved to be a place where passion and camaraderie and creativity can flourish. The sometimes perilous combination of a high-stress environment with a large, competitive student body is certainly not peculiar to HLS. However, HLS often seems somewhat lacking in the encouragement of non-competitive, meaningful connections among its student, and this can make for a volatile environment. HLS is a place where memory is easily lost...
...don’t mean this merely literally—three years of studying case law could make anyone lose their memory, if not their mind—but in the sense of forgetting passions and interests not strictly related to legal training. The HLS experience induces a kind of “perpetual deferral” state, in which students are always forced to think at least one step ahead for their career, so much so that it is not unusual for us to find ourselves at the end of three years wondering when, exactly, we would have time...
...course many people at HLS are kind, generous, and passionate about the world, and there are individuals within the administration who make truly admirable efforts to cultivate a sense of community and respect among the students. But it is a seemingly perpetual struggle...