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Harvard Law Review selects 119th president
February 22, 2005
Second-year student Brian Fletcher has been elected the 119th president of the Harvard Law Review. Fletcher has advocated new policies such as changing submission guidelines in response to overwhelming feedback from professors for shorter articles and launched new initiatives like the "State of Scholarship" dinner series to make the Review an active part of the HLS community.
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HLS grad takes over Department of Homeland Security
February 18, 2005
Following a unanimous confirmation vote in the U.S. Senate, this week President Bush swore in Michael Chertoff, a 1978 Harvard Law graduate, as the nation's secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The new post is the latest in a series of public services positions Chertoff has held in both the executive and judicial branches of government.
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Rosenfeld Named 'Champion for Change'
February 17, 2005
Diane Rosenfeld, lecturer on law, was recently named a recipient of the Champions for Change Award for her contributions in research and advocacy on the subject of sexual violence. The award, presented by the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and co-sponsored by Beauty and Main and The Charles Hotel, honored Rosenfeld's work particularly in the area of education.
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Weiler Honored for Contributions to Canadian Labor Law
February 15, 2005
Professor Paul Weiler has been named a recipient of the 2005 Bora Laskin Award, which recognizes achievements in Canadian labor law. The award is sponsored by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto and the Lancaster House, a publisher of books and articles on labor and employment law.
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Renovations to Hemenway Gymnasium slated for summer 2005
February 10, 2005
Harvard Law School and Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences will collaborate to renovate Hemenway Gymnasium in a project slated to run from late May to September. The two schools will split the cost of the top-to-bottom interior rehabilitation of the 28,000-square-foot recreational fitness facility, which will be closed during construction.
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Professor Warren warns about risks of medical bankruptcy
February 10, 2005
The following op-ed was written by Professor Elizabeth Warren and published in The Washington Post on February 9, 2005: "Nobody's safe. That's the warning from the first large-scale study of medical bankruptcy...."
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Bebchuk tells CEOs: ‘If it wasn’t earned, it must be returned’
February 7, 2005
Professor Lucian Bebchuk, an expert on corporate governance and co-author of "Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation," was interviewed recently on CNBC's popular business program, Kudlow and Cramer. After companies like Fannie Mae have restated earnings figures, Bebchuk argued that executives' contracts should include "give-back provisions that require the paying back of money that was raised on figures that had to be restated."
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Harvard study finds medical bills push many into bankruptcy
February 3, 2005
Nearly half of all Americans who file for bankruptcy do so because of medical expenses, according to a new study released jointly by researchers at Harvard Law School and Harvard Medical School this week. The study, which is based on surveys of 1,771 individuals filing for bankruptcy, is the first of its kind to gather extensive information on the correlation between medical conditions and expenses and bankruptcy.
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HLS Conference Addresses Professions in China
February 2, 2005
Scholars from as faraway as Hong Kong and as nearby as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences gathered last week at Harvard Law School for a conference on professionalism in China. The event, The Professions and Professionalism in China, sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program and the Harvard University Asia Center, addressed fields ranging from law, medicine, and religion to journalism, architecture, and business.
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Webcast: First I.C.C. Prosecutor Speaks at HLS
January 26, 2005
On Wednesday, January 19, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, spoke to students at Harvard Law School. Moderated by Professor Martha Minow, an expert in international justice, Ocampo spoke about his role as the first I.C.C. prosecutor and the challenges of working within an emerging legal system.
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Professor Goldsmith Advocates Referring Darfur Tragedy to I.C.C.
January 24, 2005
Professor Jack Goldsmith writes: A U.N. commission chaired by the former president of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, Antonio Cassese, is expected to issue its recommendation this week on whether the International Criminal Court should investigate human rights abuses in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Harvard Refugee Clinic Sees Partial Victory in Asylum Decision
January 24, 2005
Following Friday's decision by the Department of Justice to allow Rodi Alvarado Pena, a Guatamalan woman, to remain in the United States, leaders of the the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic offered cautious praise.
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In Harvard Lecture, Breyer Challenges 'Originalists'
January 20, 2005
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the 2004 Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Harvard University in November, sponsored by the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. The following is an edited version of Justice Breyer's text, which was published in the January 2005 issue of Harvard Law Today.
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Students Turn the Tables on Faculty in New Workshops
January 18, 2005
Every day on university campuses, graduate students defend their scholarship in front of faculty panels whose interrogations can be withering. At Harvard Law School, the tables are being turned. Professor Kingsfield is in the hot seat, and the students are doing the questioning.
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The story of a current Harvard LL.M. student who is taking the Slovakian government to court over allegations of forced sterilization of poor women.
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Professor Gerken on the Election: How We Fared
January 12, 2005
In a wide-ranging conversation, election law expert Heather Gerken, an assistant professor, takes a look at the legal issues surrounding the 2004 race.
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HLS to Hold Panel Discussion on Asian Tsunami
January 6, 2005
On Friday, January 7, beginning promptly at 12:30 pm, the East Asian Legal Studies program is hosting a panel discussion focusing on the catastrophic events following the earthquake and tsunami in Asia. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall.
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Horwitz Class the Subject of NPR Feature
January 4, 2005
Professor Morton Horwitz's class on the Supreme Court -- specifically the Warren court -- was the subject of a feature on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program on Monday, January 3. Click here to listen to a webcast of the NPR piece.
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Subramanian Joins Tenured Faculty
January 3, 2005
Following a vote of the Harvard Law School faculty, Guhan Subramanian has been promoted from assistant professor to professor of law -- a tenured faculty position. A corporate law expert who specializes in deal making and corporate governance, Subramanian joined the HLS faculty in 2002 as the Joseph Flom Assistant Professor of Law and Business. Prior to this appointment, he spent three years on the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he taught courses on negotiations and business law.
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Women's Refugee Project: Family Is a Protected Unit
December 15, 2004
The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic's Women Refugees Project has submitted an amicus curiae brief in the case of Thomas v. Ashcroft. The brief urges the court to allow asylum in the United States based upon family membership. The case, which was heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, involves a woman whose family was subjected to attacks and whose lives were threatened because of racist actions taken by her father-in-law.
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Article on 'Freeze-outs' Creates Wall Street Buzz
December 8, 2004
A recent article by Professor Guhan Subramanian '98 has people in the M-and-A world talking -- and the article has yet to be published. Although it has a decidedly academic title, "Post-Siliconix Freeze-Outs: Theory, Evidence, and Policy," Subramanian’s paper has received significant coverage in legal and business trade journals such as The American Lawyer, The Deal and Corporate Control Alert.