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The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog

Covers boards of directors, corporate elections, executive compensation, practice insights, legal developments, securities regulation, and Sarbanes-Oxley. Sponsored by the HLS Corporate Governance Program.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov

Jun 19
PBGC Initiates Pension Plan Termination in Leveraged Acquisition

PBGC Initiates Pension Plan Termination in Leveraged Acquisition

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Lawrence K. Cagney, partner and chair of the Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and is based on a Debevoise & Plimpton client update by…
Jun 19
Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Claudine Gartenberg of the Department of Management and Organizations at New York University and Julie Wulf of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In our paper, Pay Harmony: Peer…
Jun 18
How Well Do You Know Your Shareholders?

How Well Do You Know Your Shareholders?

Editor's Note: Mary Ann Cloyd is leader of the Center for Board Governance at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. This post is based on an edition of ProxyPulse™, a collaboration between Broadridge Financial Solutions and PwC’s Center for…

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Citizen Media Law Project Blog

Covers defamation, anonymity, copyright, trademark, SLAPP and other online journalism legal topics.

http://www.citmedialaw.org

Jun 18
The NSA's Spying Powers: Reading the Statute

The NSA's Spying Powers: Reading the Statute

[Ed. note -- We are pleased to feature a guest post today by Kit Walsh of the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic. More information on Kit and Kit's practice can be found here.] In the midst of confusion over the NSA's spying powers,…
Jun 11
A Response to Sandy Hook: Privacy Trumps Transparency in New Connecticut Bill

A Response to Sandy Hook: Privacy Trumps Transparency in New Connecticut Bill

At a time when citizens increasingly call for government transparency, the Connecticut legislature recently passed a bill to withhold graphic information depicting homicides from the public in response to records from last December's…
Jun 11
Craigslist v. 3tap

Craigslist v. 3tap

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Credit Slips

Discusses credit and bankruptcy. By Professors Bob Lawless, Angela Littwin, Katie Porter, John Pottow, Deborah Thorne and Elizabeth Warren.

http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/

Jun 18
Update -- The Sixth Circuit Rules IRAs Are Exempt

Update -- The Sixth Circuit Rules IRAs Are Exempt

A few weeks ago, I posted about an apparent movement to challenge the bankruptcy-exempt status of IRAs based on boilerplate language commonly found in the account agreements of many of the nation's largest brokerages. The legal argument…
Jun 17
Will the Supremes Trim Back Bankruptcy Courts' Powers?

Will the Supremes Trim Back Bankruptcy Courts' Powers?

In addition to the fair housing case that Alan noted, the Supreme Court also granted cert in a bankruptcy case, Law v. Siegel. Having listened to many bad jokes about my last name over the years, my initial reaction was...
Jun 17
Supreme Court to Hear Housing Discrimination Case

Supreme Court to Hear Housing Discrimination Case

The Supreme Court granted certiorari today in MOUNT HOLLY, NJ, ET AL. V. MT. HOLLY GARDENS CITIZENS, on the question whether Fair Housing Act claims of race discrimination in the sale, rental or financing of housing can be proven based...

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Info/Law

Covers information, law, and the law of information. By Professors William McGeveran, Derek Bambauer and Tim Armstrong.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw

Jun 17
The Law of Internet Intermediaries: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Bo

The Law of Internet Intermediaries: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Bo

I have a short essay, Middlemen, up at the Florida Law Review Forum. It’s a response to Jacqui Lipton‘s thought-provoking article, Law of the Intermediated Information Exchange (bonus: first page is at 1337!). And, it has a…
Jun 13
Gene Patents, Oil-Eating Bacteria, and the Common Law

Gene Patents, Oil-Eating Bacteria, and the Common Law

The Supreme Court issued its decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics today. A unanimous Court (with a short, quirky concurrence from Justice Scalia) held that the patent claims directed to isolated, purified DNA…
May 15
Search and the First Amendment

Search and the First Amendment

Jane and I are in Arlington, Virginia, for a conference on Competition Policy in Search and Social Media at George Mason University. Jane, Neil Richards, Dawn Nunziato, and Stuart Benjamin will discuss the interplay of the First Amendment,…

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Lawfare

Coveres actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions, including cybersecurity, Guantánamo habeas litigation, targeted killing, biosecurity, universal jurisdiction, the Alien Tort Statute, and the state secrets privilege. By Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith and Robert Chesney.

http://www.lawfareblog.com/

Jun 17
Guantanamo Disposition Lists Released

Guantanamo Disposition Lists Released

The Miami Herald has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the list of dispositions for Guantanamo detainees from the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force. Here’s Carol Rosenberg’s story on the…
Jun 17
6/17 Motions Session #6: Make That a MacDonald-Only Day

6/17 Motions Session #6: Make That a MacDonald-Only Day

The Unsurprisingly Abaya-ed Cheryl Bormann’s logistical issues go unaddressed, despite our ongoing “recess in place.” Non-resolution of her complaint gives the military judge an idea: David Nevin will ask his…
Jun 17
6/17 Motions Session #5: Definitely a MacDonald-Focused Day

6/17 Motions Session #5: Definitely a MacDonald-Focused Day

Next to explore Admiral Bruce MacDonald’s actions during the pre-referral phase is James Harrington. He’s a lawyer for Ramzi bin Al Shibh. When questioned by Harrington, the witness acknowledges that prior to appointment, he…

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Harvard JD Admissions

The Official JD Admissions Blog at Harvard Law School.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/admissions

Jun 17
Inaugural Public Service Venture Fund Grant Recipients Announced

Inaugural Public Service Venture Fund Grant Recipients Announced

This year I had the pleasure of serving as an interviewer for the Public Service Venture Fund. The PSVF will award up to $1 million each year to HLS grads to help them obtain their ideal jobs in public service. The recipients of the…
Apr 19
Update on ASW

Update on ASW

We are relieved that the situation in the Boston area today has come to a close. The no-travel advisories that were issued by law enforcement authorities earlier today have been lifted. Accordingly, Harvard Law School will reopen on…
Apr 19
Further Update on the ASW

Further Update on the ASW

We have continued to monitor the events in the Boston and Cambridge area all morning and Harvard University remains closed at this time. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing uncertainty of the situation, we are asking that you cancel any travel…

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MediaBerkman

Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society Podcast.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman

Jun 11
Laura Amico on Jazz and Journalism: Reporting with Improvisation

Laura Amico on Jazz and Journalism: Reporting with Improvisation

Improvisation theories, drawn mostly from jazz, have increasingly been applied to entrepreneurship, new product development, and other fields, but rarely, if ever, to journalism. Yet journalism is an industry built on improvisation, from the…
Jun 11
Laura Amico on Jazz and Journalism: Reporting with Improvisation [AUDIO]

Laura Amico on Jazz and Journalism: Reporting with Improvisation [AUDIO]

Improvisation theories, drawn mostly from jazz, have increasingly been applied to entrepreneurship, new product development, and other fields, but rarely, if ever, to journalism. Yet journalism is an industry built on improvisation, from the…
May 28
Dorothea Kleine on ICTs, Development and the Capabilities Approach

Dorothea Kleine on ICTs, Development and the Capabilities Approach

ICT for development (ICT4D) scholars claim that the internet, radio, and mobile phones can support development. Yet the dominant paradigm of development as economic growth is too limiting to understand the full potential of these…

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John Palfrey's Blog

Covers intellectual property, politics and teaching. By Harvard Law Professor and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society John Palfrey.

http://jpalfrey.andover.edu

May 9
Khan Academy meets Phillips Academy

Khan Academy meets Phillips Academy

Sal Khan and his traveling team of six teachers and developers from Khan Academy are on campus at Phillips Academy this morning. We are delighted to welcome them to a special faculty meeting this morning. We are also pleased to…
Apr 18
The Launch of the Digital Public Library of America

The Launch of the Digital Public Library of America

My favorite tweet in a long time, courtesy of @electriclit: It’s going to be a good day. The Digital Public Library of America opens at noon: j.mp/15hTf0w // @dpla Today is launch day for the DPLA. Hooray! So many people…
Mar 26
“Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA”

“Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA”

Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA. An enthusiastic take by Sarah Barbrow on Dan Cohen’s appointment as the founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, which I share.

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Harvard Law & Policy Review Blog

Explores law and policy from new angles, and aims to make unique contributions to discussions unfolding in the national media, local news, and the blawgosphere. Bloggers are progressive law students and lawyers from around the country. The Harvard Law & Policy Review is the official journal of the American Constitution Society.

http://hlpronline.com

Apr 30
Hawaii reporter’s shield bill would protect a narrow class of traditional outlets, journalist

Hawaii reporter’s shield bill would protect a narrow class of traditional outlets, journalist

Follow me @jonathanwpeters on Twitter. A panel of Hawaii lawmakers approved last week a reporter’s shield bill that would eliminate all protections for free newspapers and magazines and for newspapers that distribute content…
Apr 6
Panel 3: The Future of Law and Policy

Panel 3: The Future of Law and Policy

2:20 — Jacqui Bowman of Greater Boston Legal Services kicks off the final panel of the day with a picture of a day at GBLS. 2:24 — Bowman: GBLS makes difficult choices between serving people in dire circumstances, gives example of…
Apr 6
HLPROnline Symposium, Keynote Address: Lessons from Gideon and The Struggle for Access to Justice, by Gene Nichol

HLPROnline Symposium, Keynote Address: Lessons from Gideon and The Struggle for Access to Justice, by Gene Nichol

1:50: Gene Nichol, setting a modest tone for his address: “If George Bush taught us anything, it’s the importance of diminished expectations.” 1:52: Nichol won’t be measuring things, “The bigger I get, the less…

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Et Seq. - The Harvard Law School…

Et Seq. - The Harvard Law School Library Blog

Covers library legal issues, legal information sources, and notices for the Harvard Law community. From the law librarians of Harvard Law School.

http://etseq.law.harvard.edu/

Nov 26
852 RARE: A Unique and Heartfelt Tribute to Sir Edward Coke

852 RARE: A Unique and Heartfelt Tribute to Sir Edward Coke

Title page, The Recorde of Honor and Vertue ...
Nov 20
Thanksgiving – A Round Up of Link

Thanksgiving – A Round Up of Link

As you get ready to depart for Thanksgiving, take some time to learn a little bit about the laws surrounding this holiday:
Nov 14
Financial Times now Online at Harvard

Financial Times now Online at Harvard

The Financial Times (FT) is now available to the Harvard community. Sign up for premium accounts to FT.com, which include: Unlimited FT.com article access The LEX column Unlimited mobile and tablet access ePaper access 5 year company…

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Law School Innovation

Covers teaching, curriculum, and classroom technology. Edited by Professors Douglas A. Berman, Anupam Chander, Gene Koo and Mark W. Osler.

http://lsi.typepad.com/lsi/

Oct 20
Unkind Cuts: Shrinking the law school budget

Unkind Cuts: Shrinking the law school budget

Legal education is under strain: Fewer people are applying to law school, and those who apply are less qualified. One result of this dynamic is that law schools are admitting fewer students, in order to keep qualifications up, but that...
Sep 19
Mentoring-- innovative, practical, and achievable

Mentoring-- innovative, practical, and achievable

One of the things we do well here at St. Thomas is establish mentor relationships for our students with lawyers in the community-- every student has a mentor. Neil Hamilton and Verna Monson have done some significant and important work...
Aug 16
Dean searches and new idea

Dean searches and new idea

It appears that there are about 30-some dean searches going on this year, which strikes me as a high number. I suspect that every single candidate for every one of those searches (a group that I am, thankfully, not a...

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Less than the Least

Covers crime and criminal justice (Stuntz), corporate governance, credit, and bankruptcy (Skeel), the culture wars, politics, literature and the arts, and other topics. By Professors David Skeel and William Stuntz.

http://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/dskeel/

Feb 26
Less than the Least

Less than the Least

This blog nearly didn’t begin.  Right after we first started talking about the blog four years ago, Bill got his cancer diagnosis.   Bill already had endured eight years of excruciating back problems, and…
Feb 26
The Latest on Bill and his Work

The Latest on Bill and his Work

Here is a lovely article in the Boston Globe about Bill's rush to finish The Collapse of American Criminal Justice in the final months of his life.Adam Gopnik discusses Bill's book in some detail in the a New Yorker piece...
Feb 26
Odds and Ends--2012

Odds and Ends--2012

In case anyone might be interested, here are a few recent op-eds and articles:Op-Eds:A recent op-ed on the mortgage settlements is here.An op-ed from the beginning of the contraception crisis (before the more recent…

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Meg Kribble

Covers law librarianship and technology.

http://megkribble.net/

Apr 13
Professor Katherine Porter on the CFPB

Professor Katherine Porter on the CFPB

I went to a great brownbag talk today by Professor Katherine Porter (visiting HLS this year from the University of Iowa) on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Because I know this is a topic of interest to many--and because I was…
Nov 3
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

This is a quick post on a topic I intend to write about in more detail later.
Jul 19
Lessons from AALL2010: Keep It Real, Vendor

Lessons from AALL2010: Keep It Real, Vendor

Imagine you're at the AALL 2050 Business Meeting in San Francisco, CA: A librarian no one in 2010 has met, because he hasn't started his career yet, presides as president. After the treasurer's report, it's time to award the president's…

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Center for Citizen Media Blog

Covers issues related to grassroots media and citizen journalism. From the Center for Citizen Media, affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism & the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

http://citmedia.org/blog

Jun 5
Citizen Media Business Issues: Traffic Rankings, Search Engines, and Search Engine Optimization

Citizen Media Business Issues: Traffic Rankings, Search Engines, and Search Engine Optimization

(This is the seventeenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent…
Jun 3
Citizen Media Business Issues: Web Statistic

Citizen Media Business Issues: Web Statistic

(This is the sixteenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent…
Apr 23
Investigative Blogger Raising Fund

Investigative Blogger Raising Fund

Firedoglake is raising money to pay for investigative blogging.

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