Harvard Law School
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Harvard Law School is the law school of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest law school in continuous operation i
Portrait of Isaac Royall Jr., painted in 1769 by J.S. Copley
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Martha Minow, dean, 2009–2017
President Barack Obama
Legally Blonde
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Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic and written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. Based on Amanda Brown's novel, it stars Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, S
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…80), a cold and aloof administration, and an inaccessible faculty. The latter stereotype is a central plot element of The Paper Chase and appears in Legally Blonde. In response to the above criticisms, HLS eventually implemented the once-criticized but now dominant approach pioneered by Dean Robert Hutchins at…
Karen McCullah Lutz, Robert Luketic and Kirsten Smith pose with a fan at a screening of Legally Blonde in 2016.
Witherspoon (pictured in 2012) was Luketic's first choice to play Elle Woods, but she needed to audition multiple times to convince Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The front lawn of UCLA's Kerckhoff Hall, as seen during the orientation scene in Legally Blonde