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  • Paul Miller ’86

    Statement of President Barack Obama ’91 on the life of Paul Miller ’86

    October 25, 2010

    The White House released a statement from the President on Thursday, October 21 on the life of Paul Miller '86, who advised Presidents Obama and Clinton on disability and equal opportunity matters. Miller, a lawyer who was born with achondroplasia "dwarfism" and became a leader in the disability rights movement, died Tuesday at his home on Mercer Island, Wash. He was 49.

  • Jack Goldsmith on American Institutions and the Trump Presidency

    Goldsmith in the Washington Post: Our nation’s secrets, stuck in a broken system

    October 22, 2010

    Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith wrote an op-ed for the Oct. 21, 2010 edition of the Washington Post titled “Our nation’s secrets, stuck in a broken system.” The piece addresses Bob Woodward’s book, “Obama Wars,” in which ostensibly classified information – presumably obtained from senior White House officials – is disclosed regardless of the “grave damage” that could result from its release.  

  • Jack Goldsmith on American Institutions and the Trump Presidency

    Goldsmith in the New York Times: The pitfalls of federal trials of Guantánamo Bay detainees

    October 13, 2010

    In an Oct. 8 op-ed in the New York Times, Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith argues that the trial of suspected terrorists – whether in criminal, civilian, or military court – is the “wrong approach.” 

  • Anthony Scaramucci '89

    In the echo of Gekko, a rebuttal: Scaramucci explains why ‘greed is bad’

    October 4, 2010

    Anthony Scaramucci '89—author of "Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul" and adviser to the movie Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps—shared career advice with Harvard Law School students at an event cosponsored by the Traphagen Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series and the Office of Career Services on September 29.

  • Martha Minow

    Minow in the Boston Globe: Lessons from literature

    September 3, 2010

    HLS Dean Martha Minow was interviewed on August 22 for the ‘Bibliophiles’ column in the Boston Globe. In the Q&A, Minow talks about her own summer reading list, book groups with the President, and the relevance of fiction and poetry in advancing our national dialogue on ethnic and religious conflict.

  • Lawrence Lessig and Susan Crawford

    Lessig in the Mercury News: Google-Verizon and Net Neutrality

    August 17, 2010

    Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig recently co-wrote an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News on how new legislative templates by Google and Verizon threaten true net neutrality.

  • Obama applauds Kagan

    Barack Obama ’91 honors Elena Kagan ’86

    August 6, 2010

    President Barack Obama '91 hosted a White House reception in honor of Elena Kagan '86, who was confirmed to be the next Justice on the United States Supreme Court on August 5, 2010. The Senate confirmed the former Harvard Law School Dean and Solicitor General by a vote of 63-37. With her confirmation, Kagan becomes the 20th Harvard Law School alumnus to serve on the Court. 

  • Professor Charles Fried

    Fried in Boston Globe: Obama should give Warren a recess appointment

    July 30, 2010

    In a Boston Globe op-ed, “Obama should give Warren a recess appointment,” HLS Professor Charles Fried supports an interim appointment for Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Fried served as solicitor general in the second Reagan administration and as a justice on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His op-ed appeared in the July 29, 2010, edition of the Boston Globe.

  • Elizabeth Warren

    Former students endorse Elizabeth Warren

    July 30, 2010

    One hundred sixty-two former students of Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the White House on July 28, urging President Barack Obama ’91 to appoint her as director of the newly created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

  • Ogletree in Washington Post: After Shirley Sherrod, we all need to slow down and listen

    July 28, 2010

    HLS Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. co-wrote an op-ed, “After Shirley Sherrod, we all need to slow down and listen,” with Johanna Wald, that appeared in the July 25, 2010, edition of the Washington Post. Ogletree is the executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and the author most recently of "The Presumptions of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America." Johanna Wald is director of strategic planning at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.

  • Susan Carney

    Susan L. Carney ’77 nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals

    July 22, 2010

    Susan Carney ’77 has been nominated by President Barack Obama ’91 to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

  • Amy Berman Jackson '79

    Amy Berman Jackson ’79 nominated to a seat on U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

    July 15, 2010

    President Barack Obama ’91 nominated Amy Berman Jackson ’79 to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Jackson was one of three nominations Obama announced on June 17, also including Judge James E. Boasberg and Justice Sue E. Myerscough.

  • Richard Lazarus ’79

    Richard Lazarus ’79 named executive director of national oil spill commission

    July 8, 2010

    Environmental law expert Richard Lazarus ’79 has been appointed the executive director of a new bipartisan commission created by President Barack Obama ’91 to examine the causes of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Elena Kagan

    Kagan nominated to succeed Justice Stevens on Supreme Court

    May 4, 2010

    Today, President Barack Obama ’91 nominated former Harvard Law School Dean and current Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’86 to the seat vacated by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the United States Supreme Court.

  • Edith Ramirez ’92 sworn in as FTC commissioner

    April 20, 2010

    Edith Ramirez ’92 was sworn in as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in April. Nominated by President Barack Obama ’91, she joins a five-member commission that works against deceptive advertising and enforces adherence to antitrust law.

  • HLS cited for impact on corporate governance

    March 31, 2010

    HLS’s Program on Corporate Governance—and many individuals affiliated with HLS—are among the most influential leaders in the study of corporate governance, according to a recent review by Directorship magazine. Thirty-four HLS-affiliates made the Directorship 100 list – an annual list of the 100 most influential directors, professors, regulators, politicians, and advisers who have made a lasting impact on corporate governance.

  • Annette Gordon-Reed awarded National Humanities Medal

    March 31, 2010

    Annette Gordon-Reed ’84 was awarded the National Humanities Medal in February for her significant and innovative research on Thomas Jefferson’s slaves and the life of Sally Hemings, and for illuminating a chapter in American history that had previously been given little recognition.

  • Professor Alan Dershowitz

    Dershowitz in WSJ: Obama’s legacy and the Iranian bomb

    March 23, 2010

    The following op-ed by HLS Professor Alan Dershowitz, “Obama’s legacy and the Iranian bomb,” appeared in the March 23, 2010, edition of the Wall Street Journal.

  • Martha Minow

    Minow, Levi confirmed to board of Legal Services Corporation

    March 19, 2010

    The U.S. Senate confirmed Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow’s appointment to the board of the Legal Services Corporation, a bi-partisan, government-sponsored organization that provides civil legal assistance to low-income Americans, today. Minow was joined by five other nominees in the confirmation by Executive Session, including John Levi '72 LL.M. '73.

  • Professor Robert H. Mnookin

    Mnookin in Foreign Policy: Bargaining with the devil

    February 18, 2010

    An op-ed by Harvard Law School Professor Robert Mnookin, “Bargaining with the devil,” appeared in the February 17, 2010, edition of Foreign Policy magazine.

  • The White House

    President Obama taps Walter C. Jones ’88 for African Development Bank post

    January 19, 2010

    President Barack Obama ’91 has appointed another HLS alumnus to a key post in his administration.  Walter Crawford Jones ’88 will serve as the United States executive director of the African Development Bank.