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A memorial service was held for Harvard Law School Professor Gary Bellow on Thursday, May 25, at 2:00 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. A reception followed in Pound Hall, Ropes-Gray Room, 2nd floor, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.

Clark Byse, Harvard Law School Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Emeritus, has received the Silver Shingle Award from Boston University's School of Law.

A memorial service will be held for Professor James Vorenberg, former Harvard Law School Dean, on May 10 at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church, Harvard University. A reception will follow in the Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

Harvard Law School has announced improvements to the overall financial aid program.

Dean Robert C. Clark has announced an extensive expansion of Harvard Law School's loan forgiveness program, making it one of the most generous programs of its kind in the country.

Even as a Law School student, Abrams was drawn to the world of art. He has divided has time between lawyering and collecting, building with his wife, Maida, one of the world's preeminent collections of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings. Recently, this famous collecting duo made a dazzling gift to the Fogg.

Eric Zolt has been appointed Director of the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School, Visiting Professor of Law, and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organizations effective July 1, 2000.

International Law Professor Abram Chayes, 77, who served as the Kennedy Administration's chief international lawyer at the height of the Cold War and who taught at Harvard Law School for over four decades, died on Sunday, April 16 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pioneering public interest Harvard Law School Professor Gary Bellow, founder and former faculty director of Harvard Law School¹s Clinical Programs, died on April 13, 2000, of cardiac arrest at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. He was a resident of Boston.

My name is Jonathan Zittrain, and I am the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where I also teach on Internet-related subjects as a lecturer on law. Among my research interests is the taxation of Internet commerce, and last year I wrote an article (attached) for the National Tax Journal on the subject with Prof. Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago.

Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, the ninth Dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate Associate Special Prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on April 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest.

Lessig “Outside of this context of shared assumptions, e-mail functions like bad poetry where any meaning can be put into the e-mail depending on…

"So far, so good," says Patricia Bryan ’80 of her job as legal counsel to the U.S. Senate, a position she has held since June 1.

Tom O’Donnell, former managing partner of Ropes & Gray, has forged a remarkable career that combines lawyering with civic leadership, charitable endeavors, and hard work for Harvard.

Joel Feldman’s four-attorney private legal aid office in Springfeld, Mass., recently sued a rental agency that was coding its listing sheets to identify landlords who didn’t want to rent to Blacks and Hispanics.

Many young children who understand the difference between truth and lies are nonetheless deemed incompetent to testify in court, according to developmental psychologist Tom Lyon ’87, "because lawyers ask them questions that are too abstract for their stage of development."

"My job is to try to advance and increase human freedom, through reporting, persuasion, criticism, and advocacy," says Yale Law School Professor Harold Hongju Koh ’80, who became assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor in November 1998.

A familiar face to TV viewers around the country, Antonio Mora LL.M. ’81 became news anchor for ABC’s Good Morning America in January.

David Smith ’61 is on leave as vice-dean of Harvard Law School, serving for two years as acting dean of City University of Hong Kong School of Law.

Were four entrapped spelunkers, whose hunger ultimately drove them to eat the fifth member of their group, guilty of murder, and should their sentence—death by hanging—be upheld?

Early on April 13, a fleet of yellow school buses pulled up to the Law School, bringing 200 Boston high school students to a town meeting led by HLS Professors Lawrence Lessig and Bruce Hay ’88.

The first and last annual report from Class Action CEO Heather Thompson ’00, “the hardest-working and lowest-paid CEO in the country,” according to Professor Jon Hanson.

When he’s not working on major real estate transactions, Boise Ding ’93 can often be spotted perfecting his double axel at the Pasadena Ice Skating Center in Pasadena, California.

New faculty member Lani Guinier talks about her decision to come to HLS, her commitment to experimenting in the classroom, law school "gamesmanship," and the importance of creating a "learning community."