By Wikipedia Harvard Law School professor and prominent political commentator Alan Dershowitz said on Tuesday that he will join WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's…
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Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University and is among the most prestigious institutions of legal education in the world. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The U.S. News and World Reports currently ranks the school second, behind Yale Law School. The law school is led by Dean Martha Minow, who assumed the role on July 1, 2009. Each class in the three-year J.D. program has approximately 550 students. The first-year (1L) class is broken into seven sections of approximately 80 students who take most first-year classes together. Harvard Law has 246 faculty members. Harvard Law School has produced a large number of luminaries in law and politics, including the current President of the United States, Barack Obama and former US president, Rutherford B. Hayes. World leaders counted among its graduates include the current President of the Republic of China, Ma Ying-jeou, the current President of the World Bank Group, Robert Zoellick, the current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, and the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. Some 149 sitting United States federal judges are Harvard Law School graduates. Five of the sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States attended HLS - Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. Seven sitting United States Senators graduated from the school. HLS has also graduated a significant number of leaders and innovators in the business world. Business leaders counted among its graduates include the current Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, current Chairman of the Board and majority owner of National Amusements, billionare Sumner Redstone, current President and CEO of TIAA-CREF, Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. , and current CEO of Delta Airlines, Gerald Grinstein, among many others. Harvard Law School graduates have accounted for 568 judicial clerkships in the past three years, including one-quarter of all Supreme Court clerkships. More than 120 from the last five graduating classes have obtained tenure-track law teaching positions. Tuition for the 2008-2009 academic year was $41,500.
