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...truth is that we consider Class Day to be very much a part of Commencement—in fact, it’s the day that is personalized to HLS and, in my own opinion, the most meaningful for our class,” Mattson wrote in an e-mail...
Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School (HLS) Boskey Professor of Law and the first black woman tenured at HLS, urged blacks in the audience to “take control of your environment” and to confront issues such as the lack of a constitutional provision—as opposed to just an amendment—that grants all citizens the right to vote...
...only did Kagan demonstrate resolve with her outspokenness, but her words were matched with actions. In January, Kagan and 50 other Harvard Law School (HLS) professors filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of 20 law schools challenging the constitutionality of the Defense Department’s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment. For years the Amendment, which was introduced in 1996, had never posed a problem for Harvard, which has a long-standing policy of requiring employers to sign an anti-discrimination pledge in order to recruit on campus...
Harvard’s lack of initiative—combined with its quiet acquiescence to the U.S. government’s shameful tactics—is an embarrassment. The University’s conspicuous absence from FAIR—particularly when so many HLS faculty members have signed on in support—implies that a crude political judgment has taken precedence over standing up for principle. Harvard’s prestige and financial resources could make a significant impact on this case. By not pursuing litigation when there is so little at stake, the University has sent a message...
...events, it is important not to conflate them. In Dershowitz’ case, for example, the charges against him—that he improperly omitted a secondary source from which he ostensibly obtained certain primary source citations—do not unambiguously point to plagiarism. On the other hand, HLS Dean Elena Kagan has labeled Ogletree’s offense “a serious scholarly transgression.” Ogletree defended his errors by explaining that the mistake resulted from an editing mix-up caused by his assistants. After Ogletree failed to recognize that he had never written...