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Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker ’86, several students, and two HLS alumni celebrated a supreme victory on April 25 when the high court ruled that death sentences in three cases from Texas should be overturned. Steiker and several of her research assistants contributed to the defense of three individuals on death row, along with Jordan Steiker ’88 and Robert Owen ’89, co-directors of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law’s Capital Punishment Clinic.

On Saturday, April 14, the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review awarded two HLS instructors and a juvenile justice advocate for their work in public service. Hosted by Dean Elena Kagan ’86, the event honored Robert Greenwald, Patricia Puritz, and Jimmy Klein. Each honoree spoke about the future of public interest law and encouraged students to follow in their footsteps.

This past weekend, three Harvard Law School students took home the first place trophy from The Negotiation Challenge in Leipzig, Germany. A team comprised of Frederic Bourdais '07, Kimathi Kueneya '07, and Grace Chien '08 won the competition.

"Modern antitrust law is global antitrust law," says HLS Professor Einer Elhauge '86, co-author of the newly published book, "Global Antitrust Law and Economics" (Foundation Press, 2007), written with Damien Geradin, a professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Professor Ryan Goodman delivered a talk in honor of his recent appointment to the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law on Monday evening, April 16.

A team of students representing Harvard Law School at the Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court were the only U.S. team made it to the quarterfinals of the competition on April 4-5.

Professor Charles Fried is a former solicitor general in the Reagan administration and a former justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Professor Philip Heymann is a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.

This year Harvard Law School appointed five new clinical professors, who will teach a range of courses and provide leadership of important clinical programs.

Approximately 300 legislators and community members attended a legislative briefing at the Massachusetts State House on March 19 organized by third year students Marie Scott '07 and Jocelyn Chung '07 as part of their clinical work for the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI).

Tony Bloom LL.M. ’64 is the former chairman and CEO of The Premier Group, which grew from a small business founded by his family at the turn of the last century into one of South Africa’s largest industrial companies.

What [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad’s conference [of Holocaust deniers] proclaims is that truth has no place in the world of politics; that if your ends are just, you can say anything, no matter how far-fetched.

When Jim Clark, chairman of online photo sharing giant Shutterfly, resigned from his company’s board of directors in January, he became the first CEO to blame the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for his departure, saying the law had taken reform too far and had crimped his ability to lead.

“Criminal Procedure Stories” (Foundation Press, 2006), edited by Professor Carol Steiker ’86, presents the stories behind the major Supreme Court rulings that have shaped criminal procedure.

One of the main goals of the recently established Program on Corporate Governance is to strengthen ties between academia—especially HLS—and the worlds of practice and policy-making.

Over the past 30 years, feminists have struggled to make domestic violence a public issue. But in a recent Yale Law Journal article, Assistant Professor Jeannie Suk ’02 takes a critical look at the use of protection orders by a criminal justice system that may now be too involved in private life.

On Tuesday evening, April 3, prominent social psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Phil Zimbardo spoke in Ames Courtroom about his new book titled The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.

The following article by 3L Andrew Woods was published on Slate.com, March 28, 2007: Last month, a federal court in Virginia dismissed the appeal of Khaled el-Masri, a German man whom the Bush administration admits it mistakenly kidnapped and tortured in the CIA's "salt pit" in Afghanistan.

Kathryn Spier, currently a tenured professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and School of Law, has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty. Spier is an expert in law and economics, with a particular focus on liability, strategic contracting, and litigation strategy.

This past weekend, Harvard Law School's European Law Moot Court team won second place at the the All-European Final, which took place at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.