Women in the law
Harvard Law School’s (HLS) impressive Langdell Hall was named for its famous patriarch, Christopher Colombus Langdell, an alumnus, professor, first dean of the School, and architect of the now ubiquitous case method. But on Friday night, beneath a long white tent that stretched almost the entire the length of the gray building next to Holmes Field, women were the focus of attention. Close to 600 of them, and a few men, gathered to celebrate 60 years of women at the School. On several video screens, images of alumnae appeared side-by-side with photos of their daughters, all HLS attendees. The shots included pictures of Jane Ginsburg, class of 1980, next to her mother, Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who enrolled at Harvard in 1956 but ultimately finished her law degree at Columbia University. “We’re all sisters in law,” said HLS Dean Martha Minow, who mingled with the crowd for close to an...