Harvard Law School
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Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a highly prestigious and respected American law school with about 2,000 students in Cambridge, Massachusetts. HLS routinely places first or second in various law school rankings. According to USNews, its entering class boasts the highest LSAT scores in the nation and its graduates have a higher bar passage rate and average salary upon graduation than do graduates of its closest rivals Stanford and Yale.
The school was established in 1817 and has operated continuously since then. This makes Harvard the oldest law school in the United States, although it was predated by the law faculty at the College of William and Mary. The current dean of the school is Elena Kagan, who took over for Robert Clark in 2003.
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Berkman Center for Internet & Society
The Harvard Law School includes the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. The Center sponsors conferences, visiting lecturers, and residential fellows. Members of the Center do research and write books, articles, and weblogs with RSS 2.0 feeds, for which the Center holds the specification. The Center's headquarters is a small Victorian wood-frame building next to the bigger brick-and-stone Harvard Law School buildings. Its newsletter, "The Filter (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/)", is on the Web and available by e-mail, and it hosts a blog community (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu) of Harvard faculty, students and Berkman Center affiliates. The Berkman Center is funding the Openlaw project.
see also: prof Jonathan Zittrain
Student activities
- The Harvard Law School Record is the nation's oldest law school newspaper.
Notable professors
Famous alumni
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See also: Harvard University people
U.S. presidents
U.S. Supreme Court justices
- Harry Blackmun
- Louis Brandeis
- William Brennan
- Stephen Breyer
- Felix Frankfurter
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Anthony Kennedy
- Antonin Scalia
- David Souter
U.S. Attorneys General
Members of U.S. Congress
- Brockman Adams
- Ralph Owen Brewster
- Anson Burlingame
- Tom Campbell
- Chris Cox
- Elizabeth Dole
- Russ Feingold
- Barney Frank
- Bob Graham
- George Frisbie Hoar
- Jim Jeffords
- Carl Levin
- Sander Levin
- Barack Obama
- Leverett Saltonstall
- Paul Sarbanes
- Brad Sherman
- Ted Stevens
- Charles Sumner
Other graduates
Business people
Educators
Lawyers
Politicians
- Elliott Abrams
- Dean Acheson
- Charles Francis Adams III
- Michael Dukakis
- Jennifer Granholm
- Robert Todd Lincoln
- Archibald MacLeish
- Ralph Nader
- Mitt Romney
- Surakiart Sathirathai
- Eliot Spitzer
- Mark R. Warner
- William Weld
Writers
Other
Harvard Law School in popular culture
The story of several movies takes partially place at the School. Most of them have scenes filmed on location at or around Harvard University. They include:
- Legally Blonde (2001)
- The Firm (1993)
- Soul Man (1986)
- The Paper Chase (1973)
- Love Story (1970s)
Many popular movies feature characters introduced as Harvard Law graduates. Some of these movies include: