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Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society recently submitted an amicus brief that has played a pivotal role in a recent lawsuit regarding music downloading. The case, Capitol Records, et al. v. Alaujan, et al., joins 55 suits filed in Boston by the recording industry against individuals accused illegal file-sharing on peer-to-peer networks.

Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox, the famed Watergate special prosecutor and former solicitor general, died yesterday in his home in Brooksville, Maine. He was 92.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has affirmed the fundamental right of all asylum seekers--including those interdicted on the high seas--to seek and receive asylum. The Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, along with the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, filed the action with the Inter-American Commission on behalf of Haitian refugees in March.

Professor Daniel Meltzer has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary society of scholars based in Cambridge, Mass. A scholar of the American legal and political system, Meltzer joins 19 other current HLS professors who have been selected to become academy fellows in previous years.

High school players that declare for the NBA draft are likely to earn millions more over the course of their careers than had they gone to college, according to a new study by Michael McCann, a Harvard Law School visiting researcher. McCann, a member of Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett's legal team, also finds that these players are the most successful group of players in the NBA.

Five of the most distinguished faculty in cyberlaw will convene at Harvard from May 13 to 15 to teach about the challenges, controversies and opportunities that today’s Internet has created.

On April 21, a panel of legal scholars, including Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan and Professors Bill Alford, Ryan Goodman and Duncan Kennedy, explored issues raised in Professor David Kennedy's new book, The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism. A webcast of the discussion is now available on the HLS Webcast page.

An international team of academics from Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the University of Cambridge and the University of Toronto has begun monitoring worldwide Internet censorship and surveillance.

Rather than providing insight into the candidates' views, the presidential debates are intentionally designed to limit the danger to the major party candidates, according to a new book from second-year Harvard Law student George Farah.

Harvard Law School recently captured the U.S. championship of the 2004 Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, defeating the University of Georgia and Columbia University in elimination rounds. The HLS team consisted of second-year students Naomi Loewith and Hugo Torres, first-year student Erica Fung, and third-year student Nathaniel Stankard.

Starting tonight, April 20, Harvard Law School will kick off five productions of The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s provocative 1953 play about the Salem witch trials. Professor Bruce Hay will direct a cast of Harvard students in a version of the play that will incorporate a scene not often used in previous productions. Tonight's opening performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom.

LAMP, a school-based mentoring program that matches law students with local high school students, is a result of that commitment. The basic goal of LAMP is to reverse the trend of underachievement particularly, but not exclusively, among students of color.

On April 17 and 18, the Islamic Legal Studies Program will present a conference on Islamic Law in modern Indonesia as part of its year-long focus on Indonesia and the application and understanding of Islamic law there. The conference, which will begin at 9 a.m. in Pound 101, is free for Harvard affiliates. There is a $25 registration fee for the general public.

The winners of Harvard Law School's 51st annual Williston competition were recognized in a reception in Pound Hall on Tuesday, April 6. The competition, sponsored by the Board of Student Advisers, offers first-year students the opportunity to practice negotiation and contract drafting. Forty-two teams of two students participated in the competition.

Harvard University is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the case, Brown v. Board of Education, with a weeklong series of lectures and panel discussions sponsored by Harvard Law School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, beginning Monday, April 12 through Saturday, April 17. Events are free and open to the public, and will be held on the campus of Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.

Last week, a team of Harvard Law students won first place at the 14th annual National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition in Chicago. The competition, which is co-sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association and John Marshall Law School, was held on April 1-3.