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Envoy for justice
April 1, 2007
Yash Pal Ghai LL.M. ’63 has spent his professional life quietly advising countries ravaged by war and colonialism on how to use the law to build democratic societies. Recently, though, his work has received extensive coverage, particularly in Asia, for his sharp criticisms of Cambodia’s current human rights record—and the even sharper response of that country’s prime minister, Hun Sen.
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Litigating the new frontier
April 1, 2007
An ambitious new player has appeared on the Internet scene, determined to dominate the flow of information across the Web.
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Hearsay: Short takes from faculty op-eds Spring 2007
April 1, 2007
What [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad’s conference [of Holocaust deniers] proclaims is that truth has no place in the world of politics; that if your ends are just, you can say anything, no matter how far-fetched.
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When threatened in court by the leader of a death squad known for killing its victims with chainsaws, Brazilian prosecutor Raquel Ferreira Dodge was undeterred.
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Freund’s path
April 1, 2007
HLS library exhibit highlights the papers of Professor Paul Freund, 1908-1992 Credit: Harvard Law School Special Collections Both in law and in life, said Professor…
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“Oyez! Oyez!—Oy Vey…”
April 1, 2007
Professor Carol Steiker ’86 helped persuade the Court to overturn a trio of Texas death sentences in April, convincing the justices that jurors weren’t given the opportunity to take mitigating evidence into account.
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Labor’s laborer
April 1, 2007
When Paul Tobias ’58 was not yet 30, he wrote to Herbert Hoover, Carl Jung and several hundred others, seeking advice on turning 70.
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The Knight of Mindoro
April 1, 2007
As a young girl growing up in the 1930s on a small island in the Philippines, Erlinda Arce Ignacio Espiritu LL.M. ’51 found inspiration to become a lawyer in the legends of the Knights of the Round Table.
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The view from the boardroom
April 1, 2007
When Jim Clark, chairman of online photo sharing giant Shutterfly, resigned from his company’s board of directors in January, he became the first CEO to blame the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for his departure, saying the law had taken reform too far and had crimped his ability to lead.
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In D.C., no rush to roll back “sox”
April 1, 2007
A year ago, it looked as if the Sarbanes-Oxley Act might face a serious overhaul after its two principal authors, Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio) and Sen. Paul Sarbanes ’60 (D-Md.), retired from Congress at the end of 2006.
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Reaching out to practitioners and policy-makers
April 1, 2007
One of the main goals of the recently established Program on Corporate Governance is to strengthen ties between academia—especially HLS—and the worlds of practice and policy-making.
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Over the past 30 years, feminists have struggled to make domestic violence a public issue. But in a recent Yale Law Journal article, Assistant Professor Jeannie Suk ’02 takes a critical look at the use of protection orders by a criminal justice system that may now be too involved in private life.
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Noted social psychologist Phil Zimbardo speaks at HLS
March 30, 2007
On Tuesday evening, April 3, prominent social psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Phil Zimbardo spoke in Ames Courtroom about his new book titled The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.
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The YouTube Defense: Human rights go viral
March 28, 2007
The following article by 3L Andrew Woods was published on Slate.com, March 28, 2007: Last month, a federal court in Virginia dismissed the appeal of Khaled el-Masri, a German man whom the Bush administration admits it mistakenly kidnapped and tortured in the CIA's "salt pit" in Afghanistan.
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Kathryn Spier to join HLS faculty
March 26, 2007
Kathryn Spier, currently a tenured professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and School of Law, has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty. Spier is an expert in law and economics, with a particular focus on liability, strategic contracting, and litigation strategy.
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HLS European Law Moot Court team wins second place
March 23, 2007
This past weekend, Harvard Law School's European Law Moot Court team won second place at the the All-European Final, which took place at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
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The Wasserstein family has made a $25 million gift to Harvard Law School to support construction of Wasserstein Hall, the new academic center of the Harvard Law School campus, Dean Elena Kagan announced today. The gift is the second biggest in the Law School’s history.
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Last weekend, Harvard Law School's Jessup International Moot Court team finished second in the regional round of the competition held at Suffolk Law School.
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Obama supporters at HLS rally for presidential hopeful
March 15, 2007
A group of Harvard Law School students announced their support for Barack Obama '91 last week at an event held in Pound Hall to rally support for the Obama campaign.
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Documentary about credit card debt shown at HLS
March 14, 2007
"Maxed Out," a new documentary examining the proliferation of debt in America, was shown on March 14, 2007 at an advanced screening in Ames Courtroom.