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The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau recently hosted a clinic to help low-income tenants facing eviction for nonpayment of rent. Held at the HLS Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, and modeled after those previoulsy organized by the HLAB, the clinic served 16 families from around the Boston area.

A blue-ribbon committee of business leaders and academic experts-including three HLS faculty members-will consider changes in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other laws, with the goal of boosting the competitiveness of American financial markets.

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School announces "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion," the first class at Harvard University to be offered through Second Life, a 3-D virtual environment.

On Tuesday, September 12, three of the nation's leading constitutional law scholars will come together to discuss whether the United States is striking the right balance between civil liberties and national security in fighting the war on terrorism. Professors Charles Fried and Laurence Tribe, and Professor Steven Calabresi of Northwestern University's School of Law will speak at the panel discussion titled, "Freedom and Security Five Years After 9/11?"

Professor Lucian Bebchuk testified before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, September 6, during a hearing on executive compensation.

This week 734 new students will enter Harvard Law School as degree candidates in the J.D., LL.M. and S.J.D. programs.

Susan Lytle Lipton LL.M. '71 practiced securities law and was the first woman to become a partner at Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff & Quentel in Florida.

Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program has partnered with several influential worklife organizations to create the WorklifeWizard, a web-based information resource and research tool focusing on worklife in the US.

As the managing partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City, John R. Ettinger ’78 spends a lot of time thinking about the future—specifically, how to position his firm most advantageously for the long term.

Is a ticker-taped Trojan Horse soon to be planted on European shores, filled with an army of U.S. regulators, Sarbanes-Oxley accountants and overzealous plaintiff lawyers?

In “Judging under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation” (Harvard University Press, 2006), Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 takes up the question: How should judges interpret statutes and the Constitution?

Neuman, formerly at Columbia, joined the Harvard Law faculty this summer as the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law. He is the author of “Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders, and Fundamental Law” (Princeton University Press, 1996).

The news from Baghdad this month tends to make me share Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s famous preference for “not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.”

Did some 19th-century images cause the legal profession’s image problem? Anyone who is tempted to think that lawyer jokes and barbs aimed at the legal…

Jay Hebert ’ 86 is president of the Harvard Law School Association. He chairs the communications practice group of the law firm of Vinson & Elkins, and he’s a partner in the firm’s business and international group.

A group of Harvard Law students has helped to bring about a landmark decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which ruled earlier this month that the Brazilian government bears responsibility for the death of a patient in a state-affiliated psychiatric hospital.

Last week, Harvard Law graduate Stuart Rabner was appointed attorney general of New Jersey by Governor Jon Corzine. Rabner is a member of the class of '85.

An op-ed co-written by Professor Jon Hanson: To sports fans, it probably wasn't a surprise to learn that former Ohio State University football star Maurice Clarett was arrested again the other week. The evasive running back who had carried the Buckeyes to the 2002 National Championship was unsuccessful in evading the police in a car chase that occurred near the home of a witness in his upcoming robbery trial.