Harvard Law School
Summary
Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University and is among the most prestigious institutions of legal education in the world. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. Currently, the Social Science Research Network and the Princeton Review's Gourman Report rank HLS first; and the U.S. News and World Reports ranks the school second, behind Yale Law School.The current Dean of Harvard Law School is Martha Minow, who assumed the role on July 1, 2009.
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A proposed Texas law would promote correcting incorrect news, online and off
Editor’s note: Our friends at Harvard’s Digital Media Law Project — recently renamed from the Citizen Media Law Project — noted a bill in Texas that could have significant implications for what happens when false information is published online — whether by a news organization or by a private citizen. We thought you’d be interested, so we’re republishing it here.
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Obama to Name Edith Ramirez to Chair Federal Trade Commission
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Edith Ramirez as the next chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, according to several reports.
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For the First Time, Women Could Head FTC, FCC
President Obama has the chance to make history again, this time by naming the first woman chair of the Federal Communications Commission as well as one to head the Federal Trade Commission.
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For the First Time Ever, Women Could Head FTC, FCC
President Obama has the chance to make history again, this time by naming the first woman chair of the Federal Communications Commission as well as one to head the Federal Trade Commission.
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Free Harvard class teaches non-lawyers about copyright
Would you like to invoke the authority of Harvard the next time you debate authors’ rights or file-sharing? You might have your chance thanks to a new 12-week copyright course that seeks to mimic the experience of a Harvard law school class.
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Ifill: ‘Can we stop already with attacking the moderators?’
PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill defended debate moderators on Twitter today, after her colleague Jim Lehrer was criticized for his lack of engagement with presidential candidates at last week’s debate. Ifill may also have been pre-emptively protecting ABC’s Martha Raddatz,… Read more.
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Fareed Zakaria: ‘People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta’
The Washington Post | The Daily Beast | The Panic Virus | The Washington Post | American Thinker | The Atlantic | The Huffington Post | The Boston Globe Fareed Zakaria’s Washington Post column has been suspended for a month. … Read more.
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Apps Rush: Premier League 20 Seasons, Google Currents, Asda, Football Manager Handheld and more
Good news for football fans in England: the Premier League now has an official iOS app that "relives the past 20 seasons", with 100 videos of "iconic moments", quizzes and competitions. The idea is to update the app with five moments per season, so five more will be added in July 2012. It's the work of IMG Media.
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FCC to Vote on Moving TV Political Ad Files Online
Ever since the 2010 Citizens United case opened the gate for political action committees to raise money for candidates, Democrats have been pushing for more disclosures around political advertising. So it makes sense that during an election year, a Democrat-controlled Federal Communications Commission would schedule a vote over an order that calls for TV stations to move public files online, including political disclosure reports.
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MJ Rosenberg: The Right Plays Politics With the Holocaust
A couple of years ago my wife and I made the first of three trips to Poland to visit her family's ancestral home. As far as anyone knows, the Gruenbaum/Ellenbogen family had been living in the Galicia area of Poland for centuries.
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