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Warren appointed to Congressional panel overseeing Treasury’s economic bailout plan
November 21, 2008
On Friday November 14, Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren was appointed to a five-member congressional oversight panel that will monitor the Treasury’s economic rescue plan and report back to Congress. Warren was one of three experts nominated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to the bi-partisan panel.
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Brazilian Supreme Federal Court President Gilmar Ferreira Mendes discussed the development of Brazilian constitutional law since 1988 on Monday, October 27 in Pound Hall.
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Immigrants’ Rights Group Honors Deborah Anker
November 20, 2008
Deborah Anker, director of the HLS Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and a clinical professor of law, has received an award from the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) in New York recognizing her pioneering work in humanitarian protection for immigrants fleeing protection.
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Breyer returns for 97th Ames Moot Court final round
November 20, 2008
The final round of Harvard Law School’s 97th Ames Moot Court Competition was held on November 18 in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall.
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Craig Newmark, social activist and founder of Craigslist, visits HLS
November 19, 2008
Craig Newmark, noted philanthropist and founder of the wildly successful no-frills website Craigslist, visited HLS in a Berkman Center-sponsored informal discussion on November 14.
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Far and wide: Three spif-fy summers
November 19, 2008
This year, Summer Public Interest Funding enabled HLS students to explore public service in 27 states and 35 countries around the world. More than $1.8 million Summer Public Interest Funding was awarded to 373 students this summer. Here’s a look at what four students did with their summer funding.
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HLS’s first alumnus elected as President—Rutherford B. Hayes
November 18, 2008
Rutherford B. Hayes, Harvard Law School class of 1845, was the first and only other HLS alum to be elected president of the United States.
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During its 40th anniversary celebration, the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) recognized Professor Emeritus Frank E.A. Sander ’52, and Harvard Law School as a whole, for historic efforts to increase the numbers of minority students in law schools.
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HLS to co-host conference marking 60th anniversary of United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights
November 17, 2008
To mark the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Facing History and Ourselves and Harvard Law School convened some of the world’s leading human rights scholars, practitioners, and educators for an international conference entitled, “Universal Rights in Societies of Difference."
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Former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes, who represented Ohio’s 21st district in Congress from 1969 to 1999, spoke at HLS on November 12, at the invitation of Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice.
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Delivering the Francis Biddle Memorial Lecture at HLS on November 12, Yale Law School Professor Ian Ayres applied his unique brand of number crunching to evaluate statistical models that have been employed to measure police racial bias in decisions to stop vehicles and pedestrians.
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Toiling in the Fields of Redemption
November 12, 2008
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
Those words, written by noted death penalty lawyer Bryan Stevenson ’85, were very much on the mind of Katie Wozencroft ’09 this summer, when she made the four-hour drive from Atlanta to an Alabama prison where condemned prisoners are executed. -
In chair lecture, Hanson explores the mechanics of human decision-making and its impact on the law
November 10, 2008
Individual free choice, an idea that permeates common sense and legal theory, assumes that actions reflect the stable preferences of individual actors. Individuals are responsible for their actions (that is, their preference-driven choices), and laws can therefore be designed on that assumption.
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Andrew Klaber joins gathering of Asia-Pacific young leaders in Tokyo
November 10, 2008
Andrew Klaber JD/MBA ’10 has been selected as one of 160 emerging leaders from 30 countries in the Asia-Pacific region for the Asia Society’s Third Annual Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit.
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HLS faculty reacts to Obama victory
November 7, 2008
Several members of the Harvard Law School faculty knew both Barack and Michelle Obama during their time as students, and have stayed in touch with them over the years. Here, some of them react to the election.
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Obama names HLS alumni to transition team posts
November 6, 2008
Two days after winning the election, the Obama team has quickly set to work putting together a transition team which will coordinate the move to the White House in January. Yesterday, Obama appointed three of his HLS classmates and one former HLS professor and alumnus to top transition team posts.
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HLS grads celebrate victories on election night
November 5, 2008
On an election day that saw record voter turnout numbers in states across the country, Harvard Law School graduates awaited their electoral fates. Aside from Barack Obama’s ’91 historic victory in the Presidential election, six HLS alumni are currently headed to the Senate and 12 to the House, with a few elections still too close to call.
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Professor Laurence Tribe reflects on Obama's victory
November 5, 2008
The following op-ed, “Morning-after pride,” was written by Professor Laurence Tribe '66. It appeared in the November 5, 2008, edition of Forbes Magazine.
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Barack Obama ’91 will be the 44th President of the United States
November 4, 2008
Barack Obama ’91 has won the general election for the presidency of the United States. Michelle Obama ’88 will become the first HLS alumna to serve as First Lady.
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Obama first made history at Harvard Law
November 1, 2008
It was as a law student that Obama first made history—and national headlines—when he was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review…
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Q&A with Michael B. Chertoff ’78
October 31, 2008
Michael B. Chertoff ’78, who will be stepping down as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security next January when a new Presidential administration takes office, took time following a panel presentation in October to answer questions about his experiences on the job and his plans for the future.