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Nov 28, 2016 · Nov 28, 2016. By Christina Pazzanese/Harvard Staff Writer. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office in January, the legal community has begun to ponder and prepare for the changes the incoming administration may make. During a panel discussion Tuesday, analysts at Harvard Law School (HLS) discussed the scope and limits of a ...
Mar 4, 2021 · It was founded about 40 years ago by a bunch of law students, nerds really, who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of their conservative views. Since then it’s grown to become the most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come.
Harvard Law School's founding is traced to the establishment of a 'law department' at Harvard in 1819. [13] Dating the founding to the year of the creation of the law department makes Harvard Law School the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
- 1817; 206 years ago
- John F. Manning
- Lex et Iustitia (Law and Justice)
The Federalist Society was founded in 1982 by a group of students from Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and The University of Chicago Law School with the aim of challenging liberal or left-wing ideology within elite American law schools and universities.
- April 23, 1982; 41 years ago
- Eugene B. Meyer
- ≈70,000 (2019)
- Legal advocacy
Sep 13, 2017 · L-R: Harvard Law School Professors Annette Gordon-Reed ’84, Bruce Mann, Randall Kennedy and Janet Halley. Credit: Jon Chase. By 1827, however, the law school was down to one professor and one student. Nathan Dane, a wealthy legal publisher, offered to build a new building and endow a chair for Joseph Story, a brilliant young Supreme Court ...
Feb 4, 2020 · He co-founded Lawfare in 2010 with Jack Goldsmith of HLS and Robert Chesney, who teaches at the University of Texas School of Law. Hennessey and Wittes spoke about Trump’s anticipated upcoming acquittal in the impeachment proceedings, how he’s “unmaking” the office, and what it could mean for the country.
To explain executive privilege, where it came from, and how it might apply to former President Trump’s records, Harvard Law Today turned to former White House Counsel Neil Eggleston. A lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, Eggleston has also served as deputy chief counsel for the congressional committee investigating Iran-Contra and ...
