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Former Dean of the Law School Elena Kagan—fresh from her first appearance before the Supreme Court—appeared before a rapturous crowd at the Law School on Friday where she described her recent experiences in Washington and was lauded by her HLS colleagues. Kagan, the current solicitor general, appeared on a panel with her successor as Dean, Martha L. Minow; Professor Charles Fried, a former Solicitor General under President Reagan; and Professor John F. Manning ’82, who worked in the solicitor general’s office in the early 1990s. Kagan?...
...School, called Sunstein “a person whose judgments are typically quite balanced—sensitive to considerations offered on all ‘sides’ of an issue,” in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson. According to Tushnet, this year at HLS, visiting professor Michael P. Vandenbergh will teach Sunstein’s environmental law class, while various other faculty members in the field will cover his administrative law courses. There is no one, however, to teach the popular freshman seminar entitled “Extremism: Causes, Consequences, and Cures...
...came in response to a mandate to cut HLS’s clinical programs budget by 10 percent, according to McArdle. She said that LSC previously had a budget of roughly $2 to $3 million each year—10 times the amount of funding for most other HLS legal clinics.According to HLS spokesman Robb London, LSC previously received roughly 40 percent of HLS’s overall clinical funding, but only 20 percent of HLS’s clinical students worked at the Center. He said that of the funds cut from LSC, 22 percent would be reallocated...
...Veterans Affairs to pay up to half of the remaining tuition expenses with the VA matching that funding.While Harvard Law School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have agreed to fund the full cost of tuition with the VA under the program—meaning that HLS will contribute approximately $21,000 per student—the University's other professional schools instead opted to commit $5,000 a veteran, according to Suzanne Day, Harvard's director of federal relations. Harvard College and Harvard Extension School have agreed to contribute $3,000, and the American Repertory Theater will...
...think about the faculty of this university as an enormous stack of cards, a thousand in FAS alone. The cards are currently sorted into decks of varying sizes. Departments like English and Economics form some decks. Others correspond to the professional schools, such as HLS and HMS. Reshuffle these decks, and allow the faculty to form new groupings based on what they currently regard as their strongest and most exciting affinities. What is the likelihood that they will sort themselves into the original departments and schools...