Welcome to the nearly 200 LL.M. students who will be attending Harvard Law School this academic year! Please visit the law library’s research services homepage to learn about all of the services the library’s research services team offers to the Harvard Law School community. We are providing special library tours for LL.M. students over the next two weeks, and …
The law library’s collection includes many English-language materials on German law. One especially helpful resource is the German Law Accessible series of books, published by the German legal publisher C.H. Beck. Many of the titles in the German Law Accessible series focus on subjects related to commercial/business law. The most recent title in this series is no exception …
It’s spring break at Harvard, although March can bring decidedly un-springlike weather to New England. After an unusually mild winter (except for one weekend of record-breaking cold), the first weekend of spring break started off as mild and sunny as a fine day in late April, and is now, well, very March-like. Weather is a perennial topic of …
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A new Library Research Guide on how to find SEC filings using the tools and resources available here at Harvard Law School and the web is now available. Learn about the core filings U.S. public companies make, the databases you can use to find specific filings or search across the data to identify companies, industries, and trends. See …
One of the law library’s newest bilingual acquisitions is Standardvertragsmuster zum Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht: Deutsch-Englisch (German-English Standard Forms and Agreements in Company and Commercial Law), by Dr. Dieter Stummel. It is available in print in the law library under the call number KK2052.2 .S78 2015. The 2015 5th edition includes many examples of documents that modern companies need …
Our annual Summer Success program will be held from 3pm to 5pm on Thursday, April 4th. Find out how to hit the ground running as you begin your summer or permanent job. Whether you are entering the public or private sector, employers are operating with fewer resources than ever with a constant eye on results. This program will …
As you may have heard, earlier this week, The Walt Disney Company announced its plans to purchase Lucasfilms Ltd for a purchase price of $4.05 billion with half being paid in cash and the other half in stock with Skadden, Arps and Latham & Watkins serving as legal counsel. Reading about the deal made me curious about each …
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Throughout the spring semester Harvard Law School librarians will be offering several 15-minute information sessions and 45-minute legal research classes on various topics for Harvard Law School students. These classes are a great way to get started on a writing project or just develop your legal research skills for work on a journal, in a clinic or at …
Harvard now has Getting the Deal Through: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:getdealt Getting the Deal Through provides international comparative guides to law and regulation in 43 practice areas and more than 100 jurisdictions containing concise explanations to the most important legal and regulatory matters that arise in business deals and disputes worldwide. This librarian’s personal favorites of the day: • Banking Regulation …
The Department of Justice has a good page up with links to PDFs of court documents from the high-profile United States v. Bernard L. Madoff criminal case. Among these documents are briefs, motions, orders, the criminal complaint, and a transcript of the proceedings from last Thursday, in which Mr. Madoff pled guilty to securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, …