Category Archives: Case Study Program Blog Posts

Worker Centers & OUR Walmart: Case studies on the changing face of labor in the United States

Photo credit: The All-Nite Images from NY, NY USA on Wikimedia Commons A Q&A with Sharon Block, Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School by: Lisa Brem* Recently, HLS Case Writing … Continue reading

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Robbing the Piggy Bank? Moving from mutual to stock form at Friendly Savings Bank

A Q&A with Harvard Law School Professor Holger Spamann by: Lisa Brem Corporations and corporate finance courses typically spend the majority of their time talking about the stock form of corporate organization, which makes sense, given that this is the … Continue reading

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Fair Use Week: 5 Questions with Kyle Courtney

In honor of Fair Use Week, we are reposting our blog about our case study: How Fair is Fair Use? The Battle Over E-Reserves at GSU (A) and (B) Since it was published, this case study has been downloaded 82 times. Kyle K. Courtney, … Continue reading

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Case Studies Greatest Hits

As the year comes to a close, we’d like to share our greatest hits of 2014. Do you have our top cases and role plays yet? Top Three New Cases of 2014: Sue the Consumer: Digital Copyright in the New … Continue reading

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5 Questions with Copyright Advisor Kyle Courtney

New Products: What’s Fair about Fair Use? The Battle Over E-Reserves at GSU (A) and (B) Kyle K. Courtney, Harvard University’s Copyright Advisor in the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication, wanted to develop a case study on the contentious … Continue reading

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Ethics in Hindsight: The Nation Reflects on Aaron Swartz Case, Prosecutorial Discretion

New Product: Prosecutorial Discretion in Charging and Plea Bargaining: The Aaron Swartz Case (B) The B case, now available, is an epilogue to Part A, the main discussion stimulus. Part A asks participants to consider the prosecutorial decisions and ethics of … Continue reading

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4 Questions with Professor Holger Spamann

New Product: The Battle for Unocal Professor Holger Spamann recently published his first case study, The Battle for Unocal, after piloting it in his Corporations course at Harvard Law School. This case focuses on the plight of Unocal Corporation, which … Continue reading

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5 Questions with Professor Adriaan Lanni

Product: Prosecutorial Discretion in Charging and Plea Bargaining: The Aaron Swartz Case HLS Professor Adriaan Lanni came to us with a vision for her criminal adjudication class: teach students the ethics and discretion of prosecution. Rather than explain landmark examples … Continue reading

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Summer Reading: Crash Course on Flipped Classrooms

Biologists at the University of Washington recently released the findings of a meta-analysis on active learning in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) classes: students in lecture classes, across every discipline, are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students … Continue reading

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Do Prosecutorial Tactics Optimize Justice? Reconsidering Discretion in Charging and Plea Bargaining

New Product: “Prosecutorial Discretion in Charging and Plea Bargaining: The Aaron Swartz Case” In January 2011, an Assistant United States Attorney in Massachusetts’ Internet and Computer Crimes Unit was assigned a case from MIT. For months, a guest on the … Continue reading

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