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Kaplow in American Academy of Arts & Sciences
July 14, 2003
Professor Louis Kaplow has recently been named a new fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary society of scholars based in Cambridge, Mass. A law and economics scholar, Kaplow joins 18 other current HLS professors who have been selected to become academy fellows in previous years.
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Corporate Law Professors Honored
July 8, 2003
Articles by Professors Lucian Bebchuk, John Coates, Guhan Subramanian, Reinier Kraakman and Mark Roe will be named among the top ten corporate and security law articles of 2002 in the upcoming issue of the Corporate Practice Commentator, a quarterly journal that reprints articles about corporations law. The articles were selected based upon a survey of corporate and securities law teachers across the nation.
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ITP Co-Sponsors Southern Africa Tax Institute
July 7, 2003
Harvard Law School's International Tax Program, working with a group of universities and international institutions, co-sponsored the second annual Southern African Tax Institute ("SATI") at the University of Pretoria from June 2 through June 27.
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Gerken Receives Sacks-Freund Teaching Award
July 2, 2003
Professor Heather Gerken has been named the 2002-2003 Sacks-Freund award winner. Presented each year on Class Day, the Sacks-Freund award recognizes teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns, and general contribution to student life at Harvard Law School.
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Kagan Becomes Dean of Harvard Law School
July 1, 2003
Today Elena Kagan became the 11th dean of Harvard Law School. Appointed in April by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, Kagan succeeds Robert Clark, who served as dean for 14 years.
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A Conversation with Gustave and Rita Hauser
July 1, 2003
Gustave M. Hauser '53 met his future wife, Rita E. Hauser '58, at HLS when he was a teaching fellow and she a 1L.
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Lady in Waiting
July 1, 2003
A lone woman joins a line of men in Langdell Hall to register for the start of the 1954-55 school year.
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The year 1989 wound down with the law school being painfully reminded that its portrait collection was still conspicuously all male.
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We Are Where We Excrete
July 1, 2003
The urinal is the political. So are the toilet and the condom dispenser and the diaper changing station and everything else commonly found in men's and women's rooms (and even the fact that there are men's and women's rooms).
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Aural Fixation
July 1, 2003
Rest assured, Dean Blackwood '95 is not demanding a 45-foot trailer filled with cardamom incense sticks and candy bowls with all the green M&M's removed.
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Through a Filter, Darkly
July 1, 2003
Last year the Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched a project to determine the level and quality of Web filtering in nations around the globe-starting with Saudi Arabia and China, believed to be among the most restrictive blocking regimes in the world.
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Breathing Lessons
July 1, 2003
Hannah Zagon knows her mommy now gets tired easily because of the ouchies in her head and lungs called cancer.
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Moving Beauty
July 1, 2003
This year two exhibits of art collected by Harvard Law School alumni are on the move. "Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection" toured London and Paris and is on display at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum through July 6.
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Tough Books
July 1, 2003
No one puffed on a Gauloises or sipped red wine, but people in the room had things to say about Kant.
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Our Man in Laos
July 1, 2003
When Brett Dakin '03 was living in Laos, he sneaked into a performance not meant for foreigners, commemorating the founding of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
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HLS Receives $5.1 Million in Gifts Honoring Clark
June 30, 2003
Several Harvard Law School alumni have made gifts totaling $5.1 million in honor of Dean Robert C. Clark, who steps down from the deanship today. The gifts come from members of the Dean’s Advisory Board, a core group of alumni leaders who also act as advisers to the School.
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Shah Awarded Fay Diploma
June 23, 2003
Harvard Law School has awarded the 2003 Fay Diploma to Michael Shah of Brookville, New York. The Fay Diploma is awarded each year to the graduating J.D. student with the highest combined grade point average for three years of study at the law school.
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Minow Receives Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal
June 18, 2003
Harvard Law School Professor Martha Minow has received the 2003 Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal. The prize, given to women who have earned a Radcliffe or Harvard Graduate degree and have made an outstanding contribution to their field, was presented to Minow at the Radcliffe Day symposium on June 6.
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HLS Launches Campaign to Raise $400 Million
June 14, 2003
Kicking off the most ambitious fund-raising drive in the history of legal education, Harvard Law School leaders gathered today in Cambridge to launch "Setting the Standard: The Harvard Law School Campaign." At a formal kickoff luncheon, the campaign’s chairman, Finn M.W. Caspersen, announced that $170.1 million in commitments have already been secured toward a $400 million goal. These initial gifts total more than the entire $150 million goal of the law school’s previous record-setting campaign.
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Conference Examines Risk-Based Capital Standards
June 10, 2003
The Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems held a conference today that examined risk-based capital standards for financial institutions. The conference is the culmination of a two-year study on risk-based capital, supported by Swiss Reinsurance Company.