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On Wednesday, September 24, Georgetown Law Center Professor David Cole, legal affairs correspondent for The Nation and commentator for NPR's All Things Considered, will give a talk on his upcoming book, "Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms: Why Sacrificing Immigrants' Rights in the War on Terrorism Undermines Our Security and Our Liberty." A book signing event will follow his remarks.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law Professors Einer Elhauge and Laurence Tribe took opposing views of the recent Ninth Circuit Court decision to delay the California recall until the punch card voting systems used in some California counties could be replaced.

Harvard Law School has announced the creation of a fund to support courses, seminars, research and conferences on ways to combat discrimination and prejudice. The Sheldon Seevak/Facing History and Ourselves Fund, established with a $2 million gift from Sheldon Seevak, will be managed by HLS Professor Martha Minow.

Writing in the current edition of the Harvard Law Record student newspaper, Professors Alan Dershowitz and Charles Ogletree weighed in on the various responses to the terrorist strikes of September 11, 2001.

On Wednesday, Sept. 10, Danny Glover, chairman of the board of directors of TransAfrica Forum will speak on the Patriot Act and patriotism. The remarks, sponsored by the Harvard Law School Saturday School Program, will begin at 6 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall. For those unable to attend the event, the speech will be webcast live.

On Friday, September 5, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher will speak on the role of lawyers in society, with an emphasis on the value of public service. Christopher will be interviewed by Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker. The conversation, entitled "Lawyer and Citizen: Serving the Public Good" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom.

More than 1,000 of the nation's civic and business leaders, journalists, activists, and policy-makers will gather at Harvard Law School this weekend for a four-day conference exploring the progress of racial integration in the United States. Sponsored by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, a joint program of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Color Lines Conference will consider the current trends in racial integration, how to shape the future, and what public policies and private practices are most promising.

Sarah Bennett admits she probably should have been on crutches when she arrived in Cambridge last fall to start her first year at HLS. But the West Virginia native was, by her own account, too stubborn. Never mind that only three weeks before, she'd been bucked off a horse that then fell on top of her, breaking her knee and causing her to hit her head so hard she had a seizure before losing consciousness.

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree has been appointed to head the American Bar Association’s Brown v. Board of Education Commisssion. The commission will host a series of events across the nation to recognize the 50-year anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The anniversary will be on May 17, 2004

The Harvard Law School Library has launched a new website, the Nuremberg Trials Project, devoted to analysis and digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials. The site will make available on the web for the first time more than one million pages of documents related to the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany and other accused war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).

Professor Bernard Wolfman discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, recent tax cuts and whether law school does a good enough job teaching ethics.

Professor Louis Kaplow has recently been named a new fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary society of scholars based in Cambridge, Mass. A law and economics scholar, Kaplow joins 18 other current HLS professors who have been selected to become academy fellows in previous years.

Articles by Professors Lucian Bebchuk, John Coates, Guhan Subramanian, Reinier Kraakman and Mark Roe will be named among the top ten corporate and security law articles of 2002 in the upcoming issue of the Corporate Practice Commentator, a quarterly journal that reprints articles about corporations law. The articles were selected based upon a survey of corporate and securities law teachers across the nation.

Harvard Law School's International Tax Program, working with a group of universities and international institutions, co-sponsored the second annual Southern African Tax Institute ("SATI") at the University of Pretoria from June 2 through June 27.

1920-29 | 1930-39 | 1940-49 | 1950-59 | 1960-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-89 | 1990-99 1920-1929 William V. Kelley Jr. ’25-’26 of Spokane, Wash., died Aug. 21, 2002. He practiced insurance…

Professor Heather Gerken has been named the 2002-2003 Sacks-Freund award winner. Presented each year on Class Day, the Sacks-Freund award recognizes teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns, and general contribution to student life at Harvard Law School.