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Is the Law a Creature of Corporations?
… How have corporations influenced the way law is taught, practiced, and discussed, as well as … At a January 27-28 Harvard Law School conference, critics of contemporary law—students, attorneys, legal commentators, … by which law students can challenge this “corporate capture of the law.” The conference sprang from Stone professor of …
Off the Shelf
… by Daniel Altman '96, Ph.D. '00 (Public Affairs, $26.95). "The neoconomists' revolution has one goal: to increase the … for the Economist and the New York Times. The chosen path of these economists and the Bush administration "could … real revolution in which the nation's tax-paying laborers rise up against a class of wealthy free-riders." Copies in …
Issue: September-October 2004
The New Histories
… In May 1968 , the university’s students wanted to change the world. … that is because the May 1968 unrest at the University of Dakar in Senegal was part of the same general mood around … now see that the same patterns—colonialism, or the rise of small elites controlling vast resources—emerge …
Issue: November-December 2014
The Changing Nexus of Success
… What made the success of this grassroots movement possible? Certainly the leadership, effort, and energy of a few extraordinary individuals played a major role. The …
Issue: September-October 2006
To the Rescue
… On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban—August 15, 2021—Omaid … Sharifi was in his usual place: on the street with a team of artists, painting a mural on one of the concrete blast … by David Peterson Still, August 15 took Sharifi by surprise. He and fellow activists spent half the day painting in …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Constancy of Change
… Great Universities endure —in the United States, none more so than Harvard. It is startling to read through the list of 102 academic symposiums presented during the University’s … to inquiries into the origins of life. The research enterprise, overall, is enormous. Federally sponsored research …
Issue: September-October 2011
Meeting of the Faculty
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on February 15, 2005, the formal agenda proposed two principal business items: a discussion by Dean William C. Kirby of his Annual Letter to the faculty; and a discussion by …
The Politics of Disaster
… When a natural disaster strikes in the United States, only the president has the power to … a federal disaster area, making it eligible for a variety of assistance. In such apparently nonpolitical situations, … declaration, bar none, is actual need. The question arises in these marginal cases, when it's unclear whether to …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Sanctity of the Classroom, Continued
… There have been further developments since an early-November Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) discussion of previously … the work done in the classroom) a collective enterprise, not a solitary one—every bit as subject to open …
The Business of Teaching
… Business School (HBS) classes are taught interactivelyby the case methodand by the professors themselves, who also do the grading, following a … is prescribed for all students; typically seven or eight professors form a teaching group for each course, with each …
Issue: November-December 2006
“The Duties of Imagination”
… College seniors and their families convened in Sanders Theatre for the 229th Phi … purely celebratory events yet to come. This year’s edition of the PBK exercises ( read the program here), the first … to end our conversation at that point and trying to get a rise out of my parents, I said, “Mom, Dad. Be sure to watch …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Queen of Versailles
… ways , David and Jackie Siegel were just trying to live the American Dream: succeed at business, own a big house, enjoy the spoils of their labor. But after achieving those dreams, they found … couple thought, only by building the largest house in all of America: a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion in …
Issue: November-December 2012
An Ounce of Prevention
… The magnitude of the current financial crisis reflects the … From Crisis to Calm Of course , financial panics and crises are nothing new. For most of the nation’s history, … of American life. Until the Great Depression, major crises struck about every 15 to 20 years—in 1792, 1797, 1819, …
Issue: September-October 2009
Behind the Scenes: The art of the profile
… We write a lot of profiles at Harvard Magazine . And with good reason, I think: so much of the story of a university like this one is expressed in the …
Changing of the Guard
… After almost three years of attentive service to alumni in general as Harvard … to devote more time to her three young daughters and their many activities, to her supervision of pre-service teachers pursuing state certification through …
Issue: January-February 2006