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The Harvard Law School Mock Trial Team has won the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's national trial advocacy tournament held in Chicago from March 21 to March 25. The victory over 225 teams from more than 120 different law schools is the first national championship for the Harvard Mock Trial Team. The team of Matthew Whitley, Cecilia Dickson, Rick Su, and Rex Lee finished a perfect 11-0, winning 33 out of 35 judges in the process.

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Several HLS faculty members have written about the response to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Excerpts from selected opinion pieces follow.

With playoff-round victories over the University of Michigan and the University of Georgia, the Harvard Law School Jessup International Law Moot Court team won the U.S. Championship of the 2002 Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Despite being defeated in the international semi-finals by eventual champion South Africa, the team captured the award for best combined memorials, and third-year student David Mascari and LL.M. candidate Jin-long Pao were named fifth and eighth best oralists, respectively.

Third-year student William Burke-White has won the 2002 Deak Award, for his piece Reframing Impunity: Applying Liberal International Law Theory to an Analysis of Amnesty Legislation, published in the Harvard International Law Journal. The Deak Award is an annual prize provided by Oceana Publications for the best student article in the United States appearing in a student-edited international law journal.

On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, the Harvard Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society will sponsor a panel entitled Progressive Law and Economics: An Oxymoron? The panel will look at the relationship between economic analysis and law, and discuss what role politics plays in this increasingly influential approach to legal studies.

On Monday, March 18, the Harvard Law School Federalist Society will sponsor a debate on the Bush administration's proposal to use military tribunals to try suspected foreign terrorists. John Yoo, deputy assistant attorney general, and Harvard Law School Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter will be the participants.

On Thursday, March 14, the Harvard Law Review will present its spring symposium, Law, Knowledge, and the Academy. The event will address current intellectual trends in legal scholarship and explore directions for future work.

The Harvard Law School Mock Trial Team captured first place at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's Student Trial Advocacy Competition regional tournament held in Boston the weekend of March 2-3.

The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy has released a special issue, Law and the War on Terrorism. The issue presents articles by over 20 of the most respected legal scholars in the country on issues that face America following the attacks of September 11. Topics addressed range from patriotism in the face of foreign hatred to the legality of President George W. Bush's planned military tribunals.

On Tuesday, March 12, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, will join a panel of academic experts, practitioners and activists from across the nation for the Harvard Law School Journal on Legislation's spring symposium on affirmative action in higher education.

The Harvard Law School Jessup International Law Moot Court team recently won the northeast regional round of the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, finishing first among 12 law schools. The team won all six of its moots, captured the award for best written memorial, and one of its team members, Jin-long Pao, was named among the best oralists at the competition.

Beginning on February 27, Harvard Law School's Program on International Financial Systems will hold a symposium exploring terrorism against international financial systems, international corporate disclosure standards, and pension reform. The two-day event, Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Europe and the United States, will be held at the Rüschlikon Center for Global Dialogue, the conference center near Zurich of Swiss Re, the lead sponsor.

With finals in the middle of January, the Class of 2004 wrapped up its first semester - a semester spent as the first guinea pigs of the Strategic Plan. In line with recommendations made in that Plan, which was finalized in the spring of 2001, HLS has made drastic changes to the 1L program in an effort to forge a more personal, student-centered experience.

On Wednesday, February 27, Harvard Law Professors Christine Desan, Martha Field, Janet Halley, Jon Hanson, David Kennedy, Duncan Kennedy, Frank Michelman, and Joseph Singer will form two panels to examine The Future of Progressive Legal Scholarship.

On Thursday, February 21, the Harvard Law School ArtsPanel will be exploring the international art trade and the ethics of collecting. Speakers will include Ashton Hawkins, former general counsel of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums and president of the Association of Art Museum Directors; James F. Fitzpatrick, senior partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter; and Gary Vikan, director of The Walters Organization, a Baltimore-based museum.