MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'harvard law school'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:51:31 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4872183&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F26%2Fthe-situation-of-jon-hanson%2F From Harvard Law School Website: Professor Jon Hanson, the Alfred Smart Professor of Law, is this year’s winner of the prestigious Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, an honor bestowed each spring by the Harvard Law School graduating class. The award recognizes teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns and general contributions to student life at the law school. This is the second time Hanson has received the recognition. He won the Sacks-Freund award in 1999, and he was a finalist in 2000 and again in 2006. Class Marshall Sameer Singh Birring ’12 introduced Hanson at Class Day exercises on May 25. He called Hanson a pioneer in the movement to apply insights from psychology to the analysis of law and policy. A student in Hanson’s Corporatio... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4872183 Thu, 26 May 2011 13:21:43 +0100 4872183 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4460011&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F10%2Fharvard-womens-law-association-conference%2F Panels Health & Equality There is a burgeoning awareness that access to health care is an equality issue.  With inadequate resources to access basic health services, women around the globe are impaired from functioning at the highest level.  At the same time, health disparities perpetuate other disparities, leaving women who lack these resources behind their counterparts elsewhere.  Women’s reproductive health needs make this question all the more stark.  Our panel brings together leading experts in legal and nonlegal fields, who have a holistic perspective on health that grounds legal answers in community-based approaches. Equality & Economics Economic inequality influences people’s choices and shapes their worldviews.  As such, it is necessary to continually interrogate ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4460011 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:01:49 +0100 4460011 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4003301&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F27%2Fdaniel-dennett-to-speak-at-harvard-law-school%2F On Tuesday, September 28th, the HLS Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) is hosting a talk by Tufts professor Daniel Dennett entitled Free Will, Responsibility, and the Brain. Professor Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, as well as the co-director for the school’s Center for Cognitive Studies.  His work examines the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science in relation to religion, biology, science, and the human mind.  Professor Dennett has also contributed greatly to the fields of evolutionary theory and psychology. Professor Dennett will turn a critical eye on the recent influx of work regarding the impact of neuroscience on scholarly concepts of moral and legal responsibility. He will be speaking in Pound 101 f... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4003301 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:01:13 +0100 4003301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3959972&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F12%2Fjim-sidanius-returns-to-harvard-law-school%2F On Monday, September 12th, the HLS Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) is hosting a talk by Professor Jim Sidanius entitled “Under Color of Authority: Terror, Intergroup Violence, and the Law.” Professor Sidanius, a Harvard University professor in the departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies, focuses his research on the political psychology of gender, group conflict, and institutional discrimination, as well as the evolutionary psychology of intergroup prejudice.  He runs the Sidanius Lab in Intergroup Relations, which conducts research regarding intergroup relations, social inequality, hierarchy, stereotyping, ideology, and prejudice. Professor Sidanius will be speaking about ways in which the legal system has been, and continues to... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3959972 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:01:06 +0100 3959972 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3560206&cid=t_160353_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5jQoynjh6zg%2F By Julian SanchezPerhaps you remember the case of Ricci v. DiStefano, so much discussed during Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation process?   To recap briefly: The city of New Haven had used a written test to determine which of its local firefighters would be considered for promotions. When the tests came back, it turned out that the high scorers were overwhelmingly Caucasian, and so the city—fearing a lawsuit from black and Latino firefighters who hadn’t made the cut—scrapped the results. Not, mind you, because the test was in any way discriminatory on its face, but because federal law frowns on any test that has a “disparate impact” on minority groups unless it can be shown to be both closely related to the requirements of the job and less uneven in its effects th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3560206 Thu, 13 May 2010 14:17:32 +0100 3560206 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3560190&cid=t_160353_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fpresident-obamas-supreme-court-nominee-elena-kagan-on-dont-ask-dont-tell%2F photo: Wenn.com With President Obama’s recent nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, conservatives are busy trying to find some dirt on Kagan that will sully the nomination. The best (or worst, I guess) they can come up with are Kagan’s days as the dean of Harvard Law School. In 2004, Kagan kicked Pentagon recruiters off of campus because of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prohibits openly gay citizens to enter the armed forces. After the government threatened to pull federal funding from Harvard, Kagan repealed her ban. The Defense Authorization bill is going though the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees, and The Services Members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) is urging President Obama to include a repeal of “Don’t... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3560190 Wed, 12 May 2010 21:34:17 +0100 3560190 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3556069&cid=t_160353_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUlleBYNc0wc%2F By Mark MollerKagan gets an endorsement from superstar conservative appellate litigator and Bush II appellate nominee (also my old boss) Miguel Estrada here (see last paragraph). Plus, Stuart Taylor says Kagan’s nomination could mean a more conservative Court: Commentators on the left . . . complain that Kagan never compiled much of a record of aggressively championing liberal causes during her years as a law professor. Some say she was too friendly as dean of Harvard Law School to conservatives and did not recruit as many women and minorities for the faculty as diversitycrats desired. Speaking as a moderate independent, I like everything about Kagan that the left dislikes. To borrow from my friend Harvey Silverglate, a leading Boston lawyer who champions both civil liberties and a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3556069 Wed, 12 May 2010 14:35:35 +0100 3556069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3549387&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F10%2Felena-kagans-situation%2F In today’s New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Katharine Q. Seelye and Lisa W. Foderaro  have an illuminating biography of Supreme Court Nominee (and Situationist friend and supporter) Elena Kagan. Here are the opening paragraphs of that story. * * * She was a creature of Manhattan’s liberal, intellectual Upper West Side — a smart, witty girl who was bold enough at 13 to challenge her family’s rabbi over her bat mitzvah, cocky (or perhaps prescient) enough at 17 to pose for her high school yearbook in a judge’s robe with a gavel and a quotation from Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court justice, underneath. She was the razor-sharp newspaper editor and history major at Princeton who examined American socialism, and the Supreme Court clerk for a legal giant, Thurgood Marshal... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3549387 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:43:30 +0100 3549387 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3350350&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F10%2Fmahzarin-banaji-at-harvard-law-school%2F On Thursday, March 11th, the HLS Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) is hosting a talk by Harvard psychology professor Mahzarin Banaji entitled “Mind Bugs and the Science of Ordinary Bias.”  Here’s the description. * * * How deep are the bounds on human thinking and feeling and how do they shape social judgment?  Our focus has been on the mechanics of unconscious mental processes, with attention to those that operate without conscious awareness, intention, or control.  Most recently, we have worked with a task that reveals unconscious preferences in a rather blunt manner, showing that they can sit, at one level, in contradiction with consciously endorsed preferences.  We use the tool largely for theory testing, focusing on questions about the natur... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3350350 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:01:51 +0100 3350350 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2971942&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F08%2Fdan-gilbert-on-why-the-brain-scares-itself%2F For the Harvard Law Record, Harvard Law Students, Anush Emelianova and Gustavo Ribeiro, wrote a nice summary of Dan Gilbert’s recent lecture at Harvard Law School.  His lecture, titled “Why Does the Brain Scare Itself?,” drew a  crowd of roughly 150 students and contributed to Gilbert’s reputation as an amazing and captivating speaker.    Here’s Emilianova and Ribeiro’s description. * * * Why does the brain scare itself?  On Monday, October 19, Professor Dan Gilbert confronted this question in an event sponsored by first-year Section VI. Professor Gilbert, who wrote  the bestselling book Stumbling on Happiness, is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and the Director of Harvard’s Hedonic Psychology Laboratory. He opened his remarks by ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2971942 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:12:41 +0100 2971942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2916188&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F22%2Flaw-students-flock-to-situationism%2F Here is Anthony Kammer’s fine article, titled “Meeting of the Minds: Law Students Flock to Psychology Lectures,”  in the latest edition of The Harvard Law Record. * * * In a recent New York Times column, David Brooks described psychology as a field that was taking off among young people, who were interested in probing for more accurate answers to the mysteries of human behavior. That might help explain why audiences packed the lectures of two Harvard psychologists who presented their research at the law school this September. Both talks, sponsored by the Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS), raised intriguing questions about the way our psychological intuitions are formalized in the law. On September 8th, Daniel Wegner,  author of The Illusion of Con... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2916188 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:12 +0100 2916188 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2902826&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F18%2Fdan-gilbert-to-speak-at-harvard-law-school%2F For more details, click here. (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2902826 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:01:32 +0100 2902826 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2772571&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F07%2Fdan-wegner-visits-harvard-law%2F On Tuesday, September 8, the HLS Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) is hosting a talk by Professor Daniel Wegner on “Psychological Studies of the Guilty Mind.”  The event will take place in Pound 108 at Harvard Law School, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (and lunch will be served – first come, first served). SALMS is a student organization working in conjunction with the Project on Law and Mind Sciences to bring to legal academia (in this case, specifically, the Harvard Law School community) the ground-breaking mind sciences research that has profound implications for law and legal theory.  SALMS has a very exciting schedule of events planned for the fall semester.  Additional upcoming speakers include Fiery Cushman, Andrew Papachristos, Goutam Jois, Mahzarin ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2772571 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:01:19 +0100 2772571 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473534&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F11%2Fmartha-minow-named-dean-of-harvard-law-school%2F Marth Minow has been a leading legal scholar and teacher for the last several decades and has been on the cutting edge of applying insights from social psychology and social cognition to her important research over the last several years.  Today, she was named Dean of Harvard Law School.  This is wonderful news for Harvard Law School and the law.  From the Harvard Gazette, here is the announcement. * * * Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will become the Dean of the Faculty of Law on July 1, President Drew Faust announced today. A member of the Law School faculty since 1981, Minow is a distinguished legal scholar with interests that range from international human rights to equality and inequality, from religion and pluralism to managing mass t... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473534 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:30:35 +0100 2473534 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2227661&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F02%2Fconference-the-free-market-mindset%2F Discussion - Presenters and Conference Attendees o    Anne Alstott (HLS) o    James Cavallaro (HLS) o    Gillian Lester (HLS & Berkeley) o    Michael McCann (Vermont Law) o    Benjamin Sachs (HLS) 5:55 – 6:00: Closing Remarks * * * Learn more or register here. (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2227661 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:25:38 +0100 2227661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2211547&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F25%2Flarry-lessigs-situationism%2F Samuel Jacobs, a senior at Harvard College and associate managing editor of The Harvard Crimson, recently interviewed Larry Lessig for the Ideas section of The Boston Globe.  The conversation illustrated Lessig’s situationist perspective of corruption.  Here are some excerpts. * * * ROD BLAGOJEVICH ACCUSED of trying to sell a Senate seat. Dianne Wilkerson stuffing cash into her shirt. A Harvard doctor taking huge consulting fees from drug companies. This past year ended with a collection of new examples of a very old problem: corruption. Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford intellectual-property scholar recently hired away by Harvard Law School, believes he may have some solutions. Lessig, who has built a reputation as a leading advocate for free culture and loosening copyright laws, surp... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2211547 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:01:30 +0100 2211547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1889126&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F20%2Fjeffrey-sachs-on-our-situation-part-v%2F This is Part V of a loose, unofficial transcript of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs’s remarkable lecture “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future.”  He delivered this lecture on September 11, 2008 at Harvard Law School. You can link to Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, and Part IV here. * * * Now what are some of the things that we’ll need to solve these problems?  I, of course, don’t have any full list, but let me mention a few things that I think are important to add to the mix. First, we absolutely have to find ways to reinforce the role of science in society.  And that’s because of the fact that the nature of our problems, the interconnected challenges of the physical environment and human economic activity and survival require a deep unders... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1889126 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:58:21 +0100 1889126 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1889127&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F19%2Fjeffrey-sachs-on-our-situation-part-iv%2F This is Part IV of a loose, unofficial transcript of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs’s remarkable lecture “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future.”  He delivered this lecture on September 11, 2008 at Harvard Law School. You can link to Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here. * * * What I’ve argued in my most recent two books, The End of Poverty, and Common Wealth, is that the essential problem, maybe just trying to put myself out of a job.  The essential problem that we face is not the resource problem.  It’s not the cost of solutions.  It’s not the lack of alternatives.  It’s not the hopelessness of these deep, dark forces which compel us to go over the cliff because it’s either that or turning out the lights on our civilization. There is ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1889127 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:01:45 +0100 1889127 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1883705&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F17%2Fjeffrey-sachs-on-our-situation-part-iii%2F On September 11, 2008, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall at Harvard Law School in an address entitled “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future.” The Situationist is posting a loose, unofficial transcript of his remarks over the next couple weeks.  You can link to Part I here and Part II here. The third part is below. * * * So what would it take to solve these problems?  I think fundamentally it would take three things to put it in very simple terms. First, a scientific understanding of what’s happening.  And by that I mean rigorous evidence based quantified mechanistic approach to understanding the links of bio-physical processes, human economic activity, demographic change.  It’s complicated but one would make an effort honestly to talk ab... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1883705 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:01:43 +0100 1883705 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1880322&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F16%2Fjeffrey-sachs-on-our-situation-part-ii%2F On September 11, 2008, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall at Harvard Law School in an address entitled “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future.”  To read summaries of  remarkable presentation, see “Jeff Sachs Speaks for the Voiceless at Harvard Law School” or “Jeffrey Sachs urges students to represent the voiceless.” The Situationist is posting a loose, unofficial transcript of his remarks over the next couple weeks.  You can link to Part I here.   The second part is below. * * * I see three fundamental problems then that need addressing and they’re all interconnected.  The first is that in this interconnected world our tendency to pose questions as us versus them.  And as inherently conflict ridden as our first wa... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1880322 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:01:08 +0100 1880322 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1873264&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F14%2Fjeffrey-sachs-on-our-situation-part-i%2F On September 11, 2008, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall at Harvard Law School in an address entitled “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future.”  To read an article summarizing his remarkable presentation, see “Jeff Sachs Speaks for the Voiceless at Harvard Law School.” The Situationist will be posting a loose, unofficial transcript of his remarks over the next couple weeks.  Here’s the first part. * * * Good morning everybody.  What a pleasure to be here.  This is actually a room I know well.  I taught classes here for many years with Roberto Unger, who you know is now minister in the government of Brazil and working on problems of sustainable development.  So, good things happen in this classroom, and I expect many of yo... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1873264 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:01:54 +0100 1873264 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811599&cid=t_160353_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F21%2Fjeff-sachs-speaks-for-the-voiceless-at-harvard-law-school%2F From Sam Flaks’s article in the Harvard Law Record. * * * Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall in an address entitled “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future,” on the morning of Thursday, September 11, 2008. The passionate but precise economist called for the recognition of the intermeshed dilemmas posed by an overcrowded planet and an increasingly interconnected globe. Sachs’ appearance was organized by Professor Jon Hanson, Carol Igoe, Jon Taylor ‘10, and an inter-year committee of students from Section VI. Sachs, who is one of the leading international economists of his generation, is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and President and Co-F... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811599 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:37:42 +0100 1811599