Archive for Sports / Entertainment / Media
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Anti-Piracy: A View from Down Under
Itching to escape winter in Cambridge? How about vicariously? Recently, 2L Ethan Schiffres wrote to us about his Winter Term project with Music Industry Piracy Investigations, a joint venture between the Australian Recording Industry Association and the Australian composers/publishers’ organization. He had been working on several projects for them, including research about ISP liability for [...]
February 9, 2009
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Blogger meet Blogger
Over the years, HLS Forum has hosted an impressive assortment of speakers. Renowned politicians, news media pundits, and civil rights activists have all taken the podium to address the HLS community. Recently, the Forum invited Jessica Coen, the former editor of the weblog Gawker.com and current deputy online news editor of New York Magazine to [...]
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Updated HLS Speaks Video Content
We did a bunch more interviews of students and faculty members to add to the HLS Speaks page off the JD Admissions home page. New categories of interview clips include: (1) Clinical & Pro Bono Programs; (2) Criminal Law & Justice; (3) Law, Business & Economics; (4) Negotiation & Conflict Resolution; (5) Constitutional Law & [...]
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Acquiring a Sports Franchise
2L Matt Colman, President of the Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law, wrote in to us about a recent event: The Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law recently hosted a panel discussion titled “Acquiring a Sports Franchise.” The panel featured three lawyers with experience in sports franchise transactions: Adam Klein from Katten Muchin Rosenman in [...]
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In the World of Digital Natives
Having just celebrated its tenth anniversary in April, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society kicked off its eleventh year by bringing together academics across disciplines, activists, and educators to discuss the potential of digital tools for civic engagement among young people. In a recent event held by the Digital Natives Forum, Professor John Palfrey [...]
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Sports Law with Peter Carfagna
Interested in Sports and Entertainment Law? Care to find out how to pursue it? Clinical Professor Peter Carfagna is your man. In addition to his post here at HLS, he counsels clients in the areas of litigation, government relations, and complex business transactions. He also served as General Counsel of IMG for over ten years. [...]
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Vote for HLS Grad…
…Stephanie Robinson. You probably thought I was going to say Barack Obama. But there’s a more imminent election to replace Tavis Smiley as commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Stephanie is a lecturer here at Harvard Law School as well as an HLS alumna and the CEO of the Jamestown Project. Thanks to Professor [...]
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HLS Goes to Hollywood.. again!
Sometimes Hollywood finds its way to us (The Paper Chase or Legally Blonde, anyone?) and sometimes we find our way to Hollywood. Or at least our alumni do. Take Zola Mashariki ’97 for instance. A Vice President of Production at Fox Searchlight Pictures, her credits to date include The Namesake, Phat Girls, and Antwone Fisher. [...]
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The DL on RAP
Founded in 1998, the Recording Artists Project (RAP) focuses on entertainment law issues. RAP provides legal assistance to music artists, independent record labels, production companies, songwriters, film companies, artist managers and other arts and entertainment entrepreneurs and firms. Recently, the Executive Director of RAP, 2L Jennifer Johnson-Blalock sat down for a Q&A to share some [...]
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Law & the Arts
I just got this in my inbox and it looked interesting — my classmate Adam Hootnick ’01 is one of the presenters: Event: TAKING THE PLUNGE: How to Dive into a Dream Career in the Arts Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Time: 6:00–7:30 p.m. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School A Panel Discussion sponsored [...]
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Advice for Prospective Supreme Court Clerks
Saw this on the Record’s online page — it’s a write-up of a session where Professor Jeannie Suk ’02 gave advice to students on the path to a Supreme Court clerkship. Thought it might be of interest.
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Olympics in Beijing: de Coubertin’s Echo?
It’s not every day that one of America’s most distinguished sports historians visits HLS, and it’s even rarer that a former professor of one our own distinguished faculty members returns almost fifty years after his first visit. Professor Bill Alford took great pride in introducing his Amherst College professor Allen Guttman, who compared himself to [...]
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Media Blitz!
What do you get when you cross a Pulitzer-Prize winner with a Fox News antagonist of Bill O’Reilly and a punchy staff writer for the New Yorker? Just another typical night of discussion at HLS, apparently. Moderated by Noah Feldman and sponsored by the HLS Law and the Arts Initiative, the evening elicited banter and [...]
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Wu Goes to Hollywood
Just heard from 1L Ben Wu that he has a fun summer job lined up: “My summer position is in Corporate Development at Marvel Studios, the Beverly Hills-based West Coast and filmmaking arm of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (producers of Spider-Man and X-Men). I’ll be reporting to the Chairman of Marvel Studios, David Maisel, an HBS [...]
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HLS Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law
Daniel Gorlin runs the Harvard Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law. This student organization brings to campus top executives and lawyers in the sports and entertainment industries and makes them accessible to students. Through the organization, a wide range of speakers participate in discussion panels during events that are open to all students. The speakers [...]
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Art Law in the Summer
The diversity of courses of study in law still amazes me. We offer a seminar in Art Law, and we even provide an opportunity to do clinical work. Professor Terry Martin leads the program (for a recent discussion with Prof. Martin on art as cultural property, visit this link). I just heard from one of [...]