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22 unusual facts about Harvard Law School


Akhil Sharma

He then attempted to become a screenwriter, but, disappointed with his fortunes, left to attend Harvard Law School.

ALWD Citation Manual

It primarily competes with the Bluebook style, a system developed by the law reviews at Harvard, Yale, The University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia.

Andrew Orlowski

In December 2004, Orlowski was invited to a discussion panel on techno-utopianism at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Elaine Bernard

Elaine Bernard is the executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston

Born in Princeton, New Jersey, he served as an officer in the Marines during World War I, graduated from Princeton University in 1919, earned a master's degree in 1921 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1924.

George Frederick Thompson Gregory

He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, the son of Francis B. Gregory, and was educated at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Law School.

Giovannie Pico

Upon arriving in the United States, Giovannie Pico matriculated at Harvard Law School, intending to study advanced negotiation skills, but the pressures of her show business career constrained to keep her in Hollywood.

Goran Klemenčič

He completed a master’s degree at Harvard Law School after graduating from both Faculty of Law and Faculty of Computer Science at University of Ljubljana.

Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church

The Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church is a church located beside Harvard Law School near the Cambridge, Massachusetts common.

Ho Peng Kee

Ho had his early education at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and National Junior College, before going on to earn a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the National University of Singapore, and a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School.

Jonas Gahr Støre

Støre started his professional career as a teaching fellow in the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School in 1986.

Jonny King

Raised in New York City, King graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School and has been an attorney at a copyright practice.

Joseph A. Suozzi

After attending Harvard Law School, Suozzi was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York, where he joined with Glen Cove Mayor Luke Mercadante as a law partner, with an office in Glen Cove.

Juan Ponce Enrile

As a scholar at the Harvard Law School, he earned a Master of Laws degree with specialized training in international tax law.

LRP Publications

Graduating from Cornell University with his Bachelor’s degree in 1969, he obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School.

Myron Bolitar

Myron then proceeded to return to college, studying at Harvard Law School and eventually becoming a sports agent.

Raymond Pace Alexander

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Alexander opened his own firm in his hometown of Philadelphia, where he not only became one of the most prominent attorneys, but also stood at the forefront of the city’s civil rights struggle.

Ruth Feldman

She lived with her brother, Milton, who was attending Harvard Law School, while attending Wellesley College.

Sonny Angara

He continued his post-graduate legal studies and finished his Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in 2003.

Student Sponsorship Programme South Africa

Ms. Clarke holds a BA in Economics cum laude from Harvard College, an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Supreme Injustice

Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 is a book by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz.

Wolfe Perry

Additionally, he appeared in the controversial 1986 film Soul Man, which starred C. Thomas Howell as a Caucasian student who uses medication to disguise himself as an African American and obtain a Harvard Law School scholarship intended for African American students.


Alan Symonds

He was ubiquitous at Harvard, having his hands not only in the productions of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club, but also designing lights for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, being an integral part of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players, and giving technical advice to productions staged by the Harvard Law School.

Birgit Krawietz

After having finished her habilitation with Professor Joseph van Ess she left for the United States to work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and for the Islamic Studies Program at Harvard Law School.

Bruce E. MacDonald

After receiving a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1992, he was transferred to Seoul, Korea, where he served as Chief, Operational Law Division, on the staffs of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.

Burton Awards for Legal Achievement

The awards are selected, generally, by professors from Harvard Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of Michigan Law School, and a judge, among others.

Carl Braden

The Bradens had three children: James, born in 1951, a 1972 Rhodes Scholar, and a 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School (where he preceded Barack Obama as editor of the Harvard Law Review), has lived and practiced law for over 25 years in San Francisco, California.

Christopher Lydon

While a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2003, Lydon began recording in-depth interviews focused on blogging and politics, posting the downloadable audio files as part of his blog.

Comedy Central's Indecision 2008

Two guests appeared: Steve Forbes, former GOP candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000, and Charles Ogletree, Jr., teacher of both Barack and Michelle Obama (Michelle Robinson at the time) when they were both students at Harvard Law School.

David G. Johnson

Johnson grew up in Fort Wayne Indiana and is a 1978 graduate of Yale College where he studied economics and a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School.

Debra Ann Livingston

Livingston was born in Waycross, Georgia, and received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1980 and a Juris doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Edward Tuckerman

He studied at Boston Latin School and then at his father's urging at Union College in Schenectady, which he entered as a sophomore and where he completed a BA in 1837 and to which he returned for his MA after taking a Law degree at Harvard in 1839, traveling in Germany and Scandinavia, and making the first of his botanical studies in the White Mountains.

Good Faith Collaboration

Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a 2010 book by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. (a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School), published by MIT Press.

Harvard Square

The 1970 film Love Story, by the late Harvard alumnus and Yale University professor of classics Erich Segal, takes place almost entirely in and around Harvard Square during its first two-thirds, while Harvard undergraduates Oliver Barrett and Jenny Cavalieri meet; finish college; get married; and Oliver goes to Harvard Law School while Jenny teaches school, living in a second-story walk-up in what looks like Watertown.

Jack Fairweather

He was educated at Rothesay Collegiate School, the University of New Brunswick and Harvard Law School.

Jamal Watson

While at The Boston Globe in 2001, Watson reported that Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree, and attorney Johnnie Cochran were planning a lawsuit on behalf of the descendants of African slaves.

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Two names initially came up as potential nominees: Judge William H. Hastie of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Harvard Law School Professor Paul A. Freund.

Joseph Story

Story County, Iowa was named in his honor, as was Story Hall, a dormitory at Harvard Law School, and the DePaul University College of Law chapter of the legal fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta.

Ken Liu

Liu earned his B.A. in English from Harvard College and worked in the technology field for several years before earning his J.D. at Harvard Law School and entering the field of patent law.

Landesa

Landesa was founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1967 by Professor Roy Prosterman, a Harvard Law School graduate who left his Wall Street career at Sullivan & Cromwell to teach at the University of Washington School of Law where he established the Law in Sustainable Development Program.

Lea Brilmayer

In addition to teaching at Yale, Chicago, and NYU, Brilmayer has taught at University of Texas School of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, Columbia Law School, and Harvard Law School.

Lloyd L. Weinreb

Lloyd L. Weinreb (born October 9, 1936) is the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (a chair once held by Joseph Story).

NAACP in Kentucky

William English Walling from Louisville, Kentucky (1877–1936), an American labor reformer and socialist educated at the University of Chicago, the Hull House and Harvard Law School, brought his interest in women's rights to his work with the American Federation of Labor and founded the National Women's Trade Union League.

Nell Minow

The daughter of Josephine (Baskin) and former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow, and sister of Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and library law expert Mary Minow, she is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (1974) and the University of Chicago Law School (1977).

Paul Byard

Byard graduated from Milton Academy in Massachusetts in 1957, from Yale College in 1961 and went on to receive degrees from Clare College, Cambridge, Harvard Law School, and from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture.

Promises to Keep

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment is a book written by William Fisher, the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School and the faculty director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It was released by Stanford University Press in August 2004.

R. Owen Williams

He was awarded the Raoul Berger Fellowship at Harvard Law School, the Samuel Golieb Fellowship at the New York University School of Law, the Fletcher Jones Fellowship at the Huntington Library, the Legal History Fellowship at Yale Law School, and the Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship in history at Yale University.

Robert N. Gorman

In the fall of 1918, Gorman entered the Harvard Law School, but had studies interrupted by enlistment in the United States Navy in December, 1918.

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.

Sullivan currently serves, in residence, as the master of Winthrop House at Harvard College, where he lives with his wife (fellow Harvard Law School instructor and Class of 1994 Harvard Law School alumna Stephanie Robinson) and two sons.

SafeSearch

A 2003 report by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society stated that SafeSearch excluded many innocuous websites from search-result listings, including ones created by the White House, IBM, the American Library Association and Liz Claiborne.

Wikimania 2006

Wikimania 2006 was the second Wikimania conference and was held at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States from August 6 to 8, 2006.

YouTube Poop

Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, referred to this behavior as an example of "call & response" within a remix culture.