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Harvard Law School
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. According to the college and university rankings published annually by U.S. News and World Report, in 2005 HLS was ranked second in the country, behind Yale Law School.
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.
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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", is on the Web and available by e-mail, and it hosts a blog community of Harvard faculty, students and Berkman Center affiliates. The Berkman Center is funding the Openlaw project.
Famous alumni
See also: Harvard University people
U.S. presidents
U.S. Supreme Court justices
- Harry Blackmun
- Louis Brandeis
- William Brennan
- Stephen Breyer
- Felix Frankfurter
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- 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
- Christopher Cox
- Elizabeth Dole
- Russ Feingold
- Barney Frank
- Bob Graham
- George Frisbie Hoar
- Jim Jeffords
- Carl Levin
- Sander Levin
- Barack Obama
- Paul Sarbanes
- Brad Sherman
- Ted Stevens
- Charles Sumner
Others
- Elliott Abrams
- Dean Acheson
- Randy Barnett
- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
- Clive Davis
- Avery Dulles
- Jennifer Granholm
- George Stillman Hillard
- Charles Hamilton Houston
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
- Reginald Lewis
- Robert Todd Lincoln
- Alfred Lee Loomis
- Archibald MacLeish
- John J. McCloy
- Ralph Nader
- Richard Posner
- William L. Prosser
- Sumner Redstone
- Mitt Romney
- Eliot Spitzer
- Samuel Underhill
- Mark R. Warner
- William Weld
- Henry Wheaton
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:
External links
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