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Harvard Law School (HLS) will allow school-sanctioned visits by military recruiters, after the Air Force informed the school that keeping a decade-old prohibition on such recruiting would cost Harvard $328 million in federal funding...
...move, detailed to the school in a memo sent Friday by HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, came after the Air Force determined in May that the school’s ban on employers who fail to adhere to a nondiscrimination policy was not in compliance with a federal statute...
Congress required in a 1996 law—commonly known as the Solomon Amendment—that federal funding be withheld from schools that do not provide adequate access to military recruiters. Until this year the military had not found HLS in violation of the statute...
Military recruiters have been able to gain access to the Law School’s campus for the past several years by the invitation of the Harvard Law School Veterans Association, an HLS student group. An Air Force review in 1998 had found that this mechanism provided the military adequate access to the Law School and put the University in compliance with the Solomon Amendment...
Benjamin G. Edelman ’02, the sole plaintiff in the case, has already spent more time in federal court that most of his fellow rising first-year students at Harvard Law School (HLS). He has worked at the HLS Berkman Center for Internet and Society for more than four years and previously gave expert testimony in a federal case about the constitutionality of the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which mandated that libraries use Internet filters...