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  • Philip Heymann sitting at his desk

    Talking about terror

    September 1, 2004

    A Harvard Law School professor says a unilateral war on terror will not succeed. His solution: contain and isolate extremists by repairing frayed alliances and finding common ground with mainstream Islam.

  • Hearsay: Excerpts from faculty op-eds Fall 2004

    September 1, 2004

    “If the pattern holds, then the record industry’s response to file sharing–trying to block the technology altogether–would generate the worst of all possible results. To…

  • Recent Faculty Books – Fall 2004

    September 1, 2004

    “Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia” (Harvard University Press, 2004), edited by Professor William P. Alford ’77, looks at efforts to recast…

  • Professor Richard H. Fallon

    Fallon on the Supreme Court and Medical Marijuana

    September 1, 2004

    This winter, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a tug-of-war between the states and the federal government over drug policy. We asked constitutional law expert Professor Richard H. Fallon to predict how the Court will rule.

  • Harvard Law School Chooses Architect for Northwest Corner

    August 4, 2004

    Harvard Law School has chosen Robert A.M. Stern Architects as the principal design firm to prepare a planning framework for the Law School campus and to provide the architectural design for the initial development on the School’s northwest corner.

  • M. Bernard Aidinoff

    A Conversation with M. Bernard Aidinoff ’53

    July 1, 2004

    M. Bernard Aidinoff '53 is senior counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City, where he has practiced for nearly 50 years.

  • In Memoriam – Summer 2004 Bulletin

    July 1, 2004

    1920-29 | 1930-39 | 1940-49 | 1950-59 | 1960-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 1920-1929 Matthew Brown ’28 of Boston died Sept. 5, 2003. He practiced law for more…

  • Illustration of brain being pulled apart

    The Disaggregation of Intellectual Property

    July 1, 2004

    Professor William Fisher III '82 examines the history --and the future--of intellectual property law.

  • Professor Goodman at the chalkboard

    The Laws of War

    July 1, 2004

    In April, during one of the most violent periods of fighting in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Assistant Professor Ryan Goodman's Public International Law class struggled to determine when the use of force is legal and what to do when force may be illegal yet legitimate.

  • Professor Laurence Tribe

    A Marriage Contrast

    July 1, 2004

    The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health last fall has allowed gay marriage in the commonwealth--at least for now.

  • Andrew Kaufman

    Duck Bind

    July 1, 2004

    Justice Antonin Scalia '60 went duck hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney three weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear Cheney's appeal of a lower court order that he turn over records of the closed energy task force meetings he held in 2001.

  • Sharon Kelly

    Hearing the Call

    July 1, 2004

    Sharon Kelly '04 smiles when she recalls meeting a teenage girl who'd asked her mother for a birthday present: to drive her hours and hours across the plains of Iowa to a town hall meeting of a presidential candidate.

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Scott Testifies Before Committee on Financial Services

    June 18, 2004

    Harvard Law School Professor Hal S. Scott, director of the school's Program on International Financial Systems, testified on June 17 before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Service on the United States and the European Union informal Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue.

  • HLS Professors Urge Congress to Review Interrogation Policy, Hold Executive Branch Accountable

    June 16, 2004

    A group of more than 450 professors of law, international relations, and public policy--led by Harvard Law School faculty members--today sent a letter calling on Congress to hold accountable, through impeachment and removal if appropriate, civilian officials from the top of the Executive Branch on down for policies developed at high levels that have facilitated the recent abuses at Abu Ghraib.

  • Global Finance Experts to Gather in China

    June 10, 2004

    From June 11 to 13, leaders of the financial systems of the United States and China will gather in Beijing to discuss issues affecting the financial relationship between the two countries. The occasion is the inaugural Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for China and the United States, organized by the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems and the China Development Research Foundation.

  • William J. Stuntz

    Stuntz Receives Teaching Award; Shabecoff Receives Staff Honor

    June 8, 2004

    On Wednesday, June 9, Professor Bill Stuntz will receive the 2004 Sacks-Freund Teaching Award. The presentation will occur at the Class Day ceremonies beginning at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall. In addition, the staff appreciation award will be given to Alexa Shabecoff, assistant dean for public interest advising.

  • Berkman Center Brief Influences Music Industry Lawsuit

    June 7, 2004

    Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society recently submitted an amicus brief that has played a pivotal role in a recent lawsuit regarding music downloading. The case, Capitol Records, et al. v. Alaujan, et al., joins 55 suits filed in Boston by the recording industry against individuals accused illegal file-sharing on peer-to-peer networks.

  • Mary Ann Glendon

    Faculty News Spring 2004

    June 1, 2004

    Glendon Wins Inaugural Bradley Prize
    In October, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation awarded Professor Mary Ann Glendon the inaugural Bradley Prize. The $250,000 prize…

  • Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox Dead at 92

    May 30, 2004

    Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox, the famed Watergate special prosecutor and former solicitor general, died yesterday in his home in Brooksville, Maine. He was 92.

  • Human Rights and Immigration Advocates Hail Inter-American Commission Decision

    May 24, 2004

    The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has affirmed the fundamental right of all asylum seekers--including those interdicted on the high seas--to seek and receive asylum. The Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, along with the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, filed the action with the Inter-American Commission on behalf of Haitian refugees in March.

  • The Supreme Court

    Bagenstos Scores Supreme Court Victory

    May 21, 2004

    Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Tennessee v. Lane that states can be sued under provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Harvard Law School Assistant Professor Samuel Bagenstos drafted the plaintiff’s brief for the case, which involved a paraplegic man who had to abandon his wheelchair and crawl up the stairs of the state courthouse to attend his own arraignment.