Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
Wednesday, May 30, 6:00PM
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West AB (2nd Floor, Map)
Free and Open to the Public; RSVP required for those attending in person via this form
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and the Harvard Book Store
Reception to follow
For more information about the book, authors and this event, check out the Berkman website.
The Harvard Bookstore is hosting an event for Professor Jack Goldsmith’s Power and Constraint:
The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 on March 19th, 6:00pm at the Brattle Theatre. Martha Minow, Charles Fried and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. will be joining the discussion of the book.
Tickets are $5. More information about the event (including tickets and obtaining a signed copy of the book) is available on the Harvard Bookstore website.
Check out Hollis for library copies of the book.
In Defense of Women: Memoir of an Unrepentant Advocate (Beacon Press)
by Nancy Gertner
A panel discussion of women and the law with
Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.), Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School
Martha Minow, Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Carol Steiker, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law and Special Adviser for Public Service, Harvard Law School
Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Attorney General
Robin Young, National Public Radio (NPR)
In connection with this event, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender has published 3 reviews of the book.
Tuesday, February 21st, 6:00pm
Austin Hall West 111
Harvard Law School
Refreshments will be available.
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library, Harvard Women’s Law Association, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender and the Harvard American Constitution Society
A Panel Discussion about Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication
with
Peter Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at the Ohio State University and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Library (co-editor of the book)
David Lazer, Associate Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT
Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Professor of Public Policy, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
John Palfrey, Berkman Faculty Co-Director, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School
Austin 111 West
Harvard Law School
Tuesday, February 7th
6:00pm
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It
Tuesday, November 1, 5:00 pm
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
Co-hosted by the Harvard Law School Library, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, HKS Center for Public Leadership, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Professor David Gergen, Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership converses with Professor Lawrence Lessig about his new book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It.
Updates and (optional) RSVP on Facebook
LIVE STREAMING: This event will also be streamed live. (QuickTime player version 7.6.2 or more recent is required to view or listen to HLS streaming media. (Older versions might not work.) The player is available for download at no cost from the Apple Web site.
About Professor Lawrence Lessig:
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
Lessig serves on the Board of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, The American Academy, Berlin, AXA Research Fund and iCommons.org and on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries.
Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
About Professor David Gergen:
David Gergen is a senior political analyst for CNN and has served as an adviser to four U.S. presidents. He is a public service professor of public leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and the director of its Center for Public Leadership. In 2000, he published the best-selling book, Eyewitness to Power:The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton.
Gergen was born in Durham, North Carolina, where his father taught mathematics at Duke University. He graduated with honors from both Yale College (1963) and Harvard Law School (1967), and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for nearly three and a half years, posted to a ship in Japan.
Gergen joined the Nixon White House in 1971, as a staff assistant on the speech writing team, a group of heavyweights that included Pat Buchanan, Ben Stein, and Bill Safire. Gergen went on to work in the administration of Gerald Ford and as an adviser to the 1980 George H.W. Bush presidential campaign. He served as Director of Communications for Ronald Reagan and as adviser to Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher on domestic and foreign affairs.
In his private life, Gergen works as a political journalist and analyst. From 1985-1986 he worked as an editor at U.S. News & World Report, where he also served as editor-at-large. Gergen’s career in television began in 1985, when he joined the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour for widely praised Friday night discussions of politics. Today, he appears frequently on CNN as a senior political analyst and contributes a monthly column to Parade Magazine.
Gergen joined the Harvard faculty in 1999. He is active as a speaker on leadership and sits on many boards, including Teach for America, the Aspen Institute, and Duke University, where he taught from 1995-1999. He is a member of the Washington D.C. Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds 19 honorary degrees.
The Berkman Center and the HLS Library invite you to join us for a special book launch for HLS Professor Yochai Benkler, taking place Tuesday (10/18) at 6pm on the campus of the law school. Prof. Benkler will be discussing his new book, The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest, which addresses the dynamics of human cooperation, informed by research undertaken by the Berkman Center.
The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Yochai Benkler, Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/10/benkler
Tuesday, October 18, 6:00 pm — Austin West Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
Co-hosted by the Harvard Law School Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Reception to follow
Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler (The Wealth of Networks) is one of the world’s top thinkers on cooperative structures. In his new book, The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest, he uses evidence from neuroscience, economics, sociology, biology, and real-world examples to break down the myth of self-interest and replace it with a model of cooperation in our businesses, our government, and our lives.
About Yochai
Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Since the 1990s he has played a part in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His work can be freely accessed at http://benkler.org.
More information at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/10/benkler
About the book: http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Leviathan-Cooperation-Triumphs-Self-Interest/dp/0385525761
In an effort to escape the rain, I recently took a free form browse of the Harvard Coop.
This is where I found an interesting read:
The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law (2010)
The Happy Lawyer, by Nancy Levit & Douglas O. Linder, offers a mix of pop psychology, insightful anecdotes and practical tips.
The authors affirm that happiness is relative, and a function of science, personality and social factors. They then assert that happiness is in tension with itself, given the competing factors that comprise short term happiness, long-term happiness and general steady satisfaction.
The authors next attempt to explain why a lawyer may be unhappy. Perhaps the profession adversely selects unhappy people (called introverts). Perhaps the profession adversely selects people whose high expectations and feelings of happiness entitlement are at odds with reality.
Unhappiness in the law may also now arise from changes in the legal market. For example, the law is becoming more of a business and less of a profession, meaning that lawyers may tend to feel less in control of their work – and thus more unsatisfied.
What to do. Well, first the authors remind us that the law has its upside: It’s a noble profession which allows one to make a difference.
Next, the authors exhort law-student- and lawyer- job seekers to consider the following questions:
The book also offers tips to law firms for creating a happier work environment, including redesigning office space to allow for water cooler time.
Finally, the book outlines steps for finding happiness:
This book is a great read for folks considering law school, law students, current lawyers and pop-psychology hobbyists.
Last August, we posted about a forthcoming book with advice for those interested in entering legal academia. Becoming a Law Professor: A Candidate’s Guide is now available for loan. It provides a brief, (at times anectodal) guide to the process of entering the market for a law faculty position. Topics include preparing for the AALS hiring conference, tips for teaching and publishing in law reviews. You might want to check it out if you are considering going into academia.
We generally see a lot of awards honoring films, music, etc. this time of the year, but did you also know it is also time for the journal “Green Bag” to announce its honorees for Exemplary Legal Writing in 2010? It has announced this year’s honorees on its website and it includes Dean Minow’s In Brown’s Wake. Honorees will be featured and sampled in its forthcoming 2011 “Almanac and Reader” which should eventually be available in our library collection. This enteraining (and sometimes irreverant) journal is serious about its scholarship and being voted on the list by its impressive Board of Advisers is quite an honor.
Check In Brown’s Wake out of the library and catch the video of September panel discussion of the book that kicked off our faculty book event series.
Hat tip to the BLT: The Blog of the Legal Times.
The library hopes you will be able to attend its next faculty book event, A Dialogue between Duncan Kennedy (Carter Professor of Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School) and Jeffrey Sachs (Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary) on the occasion of the release of Stones of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty, edited by Lucie White (Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School) and Jeremy Perelman (S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School).
Friday, November 19th
2:15-3:15pm
John Chipman Gray Room
Pound Hall, 2nd floor
Harvard Law School
The event is co-sponsored by International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, Unbound and the Human Rights Program.
Refreshments will be served!
Et Seq. by the Harvard Law School Library is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 United States License.
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