Talk:Harvard Law School
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[edit] Stub?
I wonder if this page should be marked as a stub to encourage building it out. After all, HLS is a major US law school, with many important activities (International Law, Negociation, Civil Rights, etc. etc. etc.) , and the only one of these activities that's mentioned is the Berkman Center. --Macrakis 17:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I agree. I'll mark it with a request for expansion, and maybe refer people to the talk page as to why. --Harro5 05:24, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
- I added a list of other programs from the HLS website. Hopefully these can serve as a base for further additions by people more knowledgeable about particular programs.Frontleft 18:31, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Content migrated from the other spelling
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, 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, weblogs with RSS 2.0 feeds, for which the Center holds the specification, and podcasts, of which the first series took place at the Berkman Center. 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.
Fellows have included David Weinberger, Ethan Zuckerman, Dave Winer, Jimbo Wales, Rebecca MacKinnon, John Perry Barlow, Wendy Seltzer, and Dr. James F. Moore.
Faculty have included Charles Nesson, Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, William "Terry" Fisher, and John Palfrey.
[edit] External links
- Berkman Center homepage
- The Filter homepage
- Blog community
- H2O Playlists Beta
[edit] Penn's Law School
According to the wikipedia entry for the University of Pennsylvania's Law school, it didn't officially start until well after Harvard's. I don't know which is correct, but one of them should be changed. N Vale 01:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
- Probably best to check the history's of both on the school's websites and fix the Wikipedia entries accordingly. Thanks. Harro5 02:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Student activities list
This doesn't need to be in an encyclopedic entry, as all the list has are the names of organisations. Unless some of them are extremely notable, and that would be hard to imagine, then I'm going to leave the list on the cutting room floor. Please discuss it here if you disagree, and state why (notability is the only argument relevant). Harro5 05:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Charles Ogletree
Tell the Wikitruth! Why was the article about Professor Charles Ogletree completely deleted?
[edit] Cheerleading
The introductory paragraph's cheerleading for HLS borders on POV, if it doesn't cross the line. Is it really important to begin the article by emphasizing the various ways in which HLS is superior to its two closest competitors? A more objective take would focus on HLS's position in relation to law schools and the legal profession in general. I'll probably make some edits soon but wanted to give a chance for anyone to defend the current approach before doing so. Christopher M 21:31, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
From the intro "it is considered the world's most renowned law school" - I agree, this is not NPOV at all. This type of language is cheerleading. A more neutral stance would be (although still not NPOV) "it is considered one of the world's most renowned law schools." I think this section should be rewritten in a more neutral tone.
[edit] Adverts?
A few of the sections here look like ads for the different departments, which makes sense since they look like they were copied from the web pages. Can they be more neutral?
[edit] rankings paragraph
The ranking information on the Stanford, Harvard, & Yale (and perhaps other) law school pages seems disproportionate and over-emphasized in the early part of the article. Moreover it seems likely to encourage the kinds of disputes among afficionados of one school or the other tweaking endlessly to pull out particular rankings. I think on all these law schools that a general statement of prestigiousness & reference to the admittedly important US News rankings, historically contextualized, is useful. But comparisons b/w the different law schools are too specific for the top portion. I'm proposing to edit it down, but since it seems to be a frequently edited section in some of the articles I'm announcing for discussion here first. (Cross-posting to talk pages for SLS, HLS, YLS, maybe others.) --LQ 20:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
