Latest from Harvard Law News Staff
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Ogletree Appointed Director of New Harvard Institute
April 19, 2004
Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the Jesse Climenko professor of law and vice dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School, has been appointed director of the new Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.
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Learning & Mentorship Project Makes an Impact
April 15, 2004
LAMP, a school-based mentoring program that matches law students with local high school students, is a result of that commitment. The basic goal of LAMP is to reverse the trend of underachievement particularly, but not exclusively, among students of color.
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On April 17 and 18, the Islamic Legal Studies Program will present a conference on Islamic Law in modern Indonesia as part of its year-long focus on Indonesia and the application and understanding of Islamic law there. The conference, which will begin at 9 a.m. in Pound 101, is free for Harvard affiliates. There is a $25 registration fee for the general public.
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Williston Competition Winners Honored
April 14, 2004
The winners of Harvard Law School's 51st annual Williston competition were recognized in a reception in Pound Hall on Tuesday, April 6. The competition, sponsored by the Board of Student Advisers, offers first-year students the opportunity to practice negotiation and contract drafting. Forty-two teams of two students participated in the competition.
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Harvard University is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the case, Brown v. Board of Education, with a weeklong series of lectures and panel discussions sponsored by Harvard Law School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, beginning Monday, April 12 through Saturday, April 17. Events are free and open to the public, and will be held on the campus of Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.
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HLS Wins National Trial Advocacy Competition
April 7, 2004
Last week, a team of Harvard Law students won first place at the 14th annual National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition in Chicago. The competition, which is co-sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association and John Marshall Law School, was held on April 1-3.
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Dershowitz on the Tyco Mistrial
April 6, 2004
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Professor Alan Dershowitz considers the Tyco mistrial. "The mistrial declared in the Tyco case reflects at once a vulnerability and a strength of our jury system…. Had this case been tried in one of the several states that have abolished the unanimity requirement -- a 9-3 verdict is acceptable in some of those states -- there probably would have been a conviction days before the mistrial was declared. But New York has retained the unanimity requirement..."
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A new ball game
April 1, 2004
Dean Elena Kagan '86 begins her tenure by responding to school needs--and our questions.
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Berkman Center Study Considers iTunes' Future
April 1, 2004
Though iTunes has offered a promising model for selling music online, the service could face obstacles as it considers expanding beyond U.S. markets, according to a new study from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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On the Bookshelves Spring 2004
April 1, 2004
Professor Alan Dershowitz reveals how notable trials throughout history have helped shape the nation in "America on Trial: The Cases That Define Our History" (Warner Books, May 2004).
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Affirmative action remains contested terrain even among its proponents, as was evident in a debate between two Harvard Law School faculty members in the fall.
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A Conversation with Cornelius Prior ’62
April 1, 2004
Cornelius Prior '62 is chairman and CEO of Atlantic Tele-Network Inc., based in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
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A Principal with Principle
April 1, 2004
Most law school grads who began their careers at large law firms probably remember the research assignments they received as young associates, with the long hours, the frustrating Lexis searches and the overbroad results--all for an answer that a more experienced lawyer could have found in 10 minutes.
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Practical Deanship
April 1, 2004
At age 39, Joseph D. Kearney '89 is one of the youngest law school deans in the country. But the new dean of Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee would rather talk about how he wants to apply his legal experience to his new position.
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Law of the Land … and the Water and the Air
April 1, 2004
Growing up in Oregon in the 1960s and 1970s, Bern Johnson '87 saw wild rivers dammed and forests denuded by clear-cut logging. As a camper and fisherman, he quickly understood the need for protecting the resources he was enjoying.
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The Sound of Money
April 1, 2004
When Court TV went on the air in 1991, June Grasso ' 77 anchored one of the first reports live from the field: a negligence case in Massachusetts involving the manufacturer of an all-terrain vehicle.
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Siren Song
April 1, 2004
Riding in the back of the ambulance as the lights flashed and the siren wailed, Richard Wells '68 carefully tended to an 88-year-old woman who had just suffered a massive heart attack.
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Follow the Leader
April 1, 2004
From his Times Square office overlooking Manhattan, Michael Hess '65 surveyed his 38-year career from public to private law--and back again. A native New Yorker, he is now blending his experience in both areas as senior managing director at Giuliani Partners, a crisis management firm hatched in 2002 after former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's eight-year tenure.
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Olin Center Hosts Conference on Law and Economics
March 30, 2004
Harvard Law School's John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business recently hosted a conference at which authors presented their chapters for a forthcoming two-volume Handbook of Law and Economics. The Handbook, which will be edited by HLS Professor Steven Shavell and A. Mitchell Polinsky of Stanford Law School, is part of a prestigious series of handbooks in economics under the overall editorship of Stanford University Professor Kenneth Arrow, a Nobel laureate in economics.
