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Harvard’s historic mark
As Elena Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court justice, she adds to an impressive list of 22 other justices who have one thing in common: Not only have they shaped the law in influential and...
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Harvard awards 9 honorary degrees
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Doctor of Laws Sir Timothy Berners-Lee – Doctor of Science Plácido Domingo – Doctor of Music Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Doctor of Laws Dudley Herschbach – Doctor of Science James R....
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Moments that make Commencement
After weeks of rain and cold, Harvard ended the 2010-11 year on a postcard-perfect day of azure skies and warming breezes. Most of the focus was on the speeches and rituals of Tercentenary Theatre,...
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Honoring a tireless advocate
Clara Goldberg Schiffer took adversity in stride. When she was in her 70s, the Radcliffe alumna altered her diet and joined a gym after learning she had heart disease. She was determined to remain...
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Ginsburg holds court
“It was hard enough to get a job if you were a woman, but if you were a mother, then it was impossible,” recalled Ruth Bader Ginsburg, once a struggling young lawyer in a male-dominated field but now...
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Women in the law
Harvard Law School’s (HLS) impressive Langdell Hall was named for its famous patriarch, Christopher Colombus Langdell, an alumnus, professor, first dean of the School, and architect of the now...
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Inspiring women
Some of the faces are well known, others are familiar to only a few, but all of the pictures in the display inside Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Wasserstein Hall are of women lawyers, policymakers, and...
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A watershed on weddings
Harvard Overseer and legal scholar Kenji Yoshino ’91, author of “Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights” (Random House, 2006), said he was surprised by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision...
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Justice Ginsburg to receive Radcliffe Medal
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will receive this year’s Radcliffe Medal on May 29 during Radcliffe Day, an annual celebration of Radcliffe’s past,...
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Recognized as a force for change
“We present the Radcliffe Medal to an individual who has been a powerful and impressive force for change, someone who takes risks and forges ahead. These are hallmarks of Radcliffe.” Lizabeth Cohen,...
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Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg
At 82, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become a major pop icon. Facts don’t lie. She is the subject of a new American opera with her colleague, Associate Justice Antonin...
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‘One for the ages’
It was the moment when gay marriage nationally went from being a cause to a fact. “This is one for the ages,” wrote Noah Feldman, Harvard’s Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law. After a generation of...
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‘The Merchant’ in Venice
Recognizing the complexity inherent in marking the 500th anniversary of the Venice ghetto, organizers created some history of their own by staging the first production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of...
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Harvard professor discusses how Trump’s nominee could affect SCOTUS
President Donald Trump plans to name a Supreme Court justice this week to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg from a list of 44 nominees. He has said that he will choose a woman and wants to fill the...
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Book excerpt from ‘Justice on the Brink’
Excerpted from “Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court” by Linda Greenhouse ’68, published by by...
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