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Lawyer sues Harvard Law School for defamation over article in law journal

A lawyer with a degree from Harvard Law School is suing the school for defamation alleging that they falsely accused her of plagiarism in submitting an article to the law school’s Journal of Law and Technology. The lawyer claims a draft of her article was damaged when a virus invaded her computer, and the editors published it without giving her a chance to finish her work. She was accused of failing to give proper credit

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HLS library digitizes Justice Brandeis unpublished free speech dissent

Harvard Law School has digitized unpublished free speech dissent document by Justice Louis Brandeis. -SMD News July 7, 2010 By HLS Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis LL.B. 1877 is widely recognized as a preeminent supporter of an individual’s right to free speech, as most famously articulated in his concurring opinion in Whitney v. California (1927). Less well known, however, is the draft dissenting opinion he wrote in a companion case, Ruthenberg v. Michigan. In Ruthenberg, which was dismissed

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