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  • Animal Attraction

    April 1, 2002

    Wildlife photographer Bobby Haas '72 has discovered a place and a passion that have changed his view of the world.

  • Murad Kalam

    Novel Pursuit

    April 1, 2002

    Murad Kalam '02 sprinkles his conversation with name after name after name: Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf.

  • Professor Burton Caine with students

    A Strong Constitution

    April 1, 2002

    At a time when America could use a goodwill ambassador, Burton Caine '52 may seem like an unlikely candidate. He has sued his country's government and spoken out against its actions.

  • The Right of Women

    April 1, 2002

    Do you expect Harvard Law women to be card-carrying liberals? Then you haven't met Cameron Casey '03 or other members of the Alliance of Independent Feminists.

  • New Course on Legal Practice Gets Down to Business

    April 1, 2002

    As part of its Strategic Plan, HLS has instituted a program that introduces new students to the practical skills needed in the legal world.

  • Judge Deborah Batts with portrait

    A Portrait of Diversity

    April 1, 2002

    Sometimes a painting is not just a work of art. That's the case with the most recent addition to the HLS collection, praised not only for its style but for all it represents.

  • Gary Bellow portrait

    Students Establish Public Service Award

    April 1, 2002

    In memory of an HLS professor known as a champion of public interest law, HLS students have created the Gary Bellow Public Service Award. Bellow '60, who founded the School's Clinical Program, died in April 2000.

  • Gerken, Minow and Judge Abner Mikva

    Progressive Legal Organization Established at HLS

    April 1, 2002

    Twenty years ago, the Federalist Society was founded to change the way people think about the law. It has done its job well, say members of a new HLS student organization that champions liberal values in the law.

  • Congresswoman Jane Harman

    ‘A Critically Important Role’ Against Terrorism

    April 1, 2002

    Congresswoman Jane Harman '69 had long been fearful that America would become a target for terrorists.

  • Frank Vogel

    The New World of Islamic Legal Studies

    April 1, 2002

    "We ordinarily don't try to respond to the news of the hour," said Frank Vogel, director of the HLS Islamic Legal Studies Program. But for Vogel, like for so many other people, everything changed on September 11.

  • Moot Court Team Wins U.S. Championship

    March 26, 2002

    With playoff-round victories over the University of Michigan and the University of Georgia, the Harvard Law School Jessup International Law Moot Court team won the U.S. Championship of the 2002 Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Despite being defeated in the international semi-finals by eventual champion South Africa, the team captured the award for best combined memorials, and third-year student David Mascari and LL.M. candidate Jin-long Pao were named fifth and eighth best oralists, respectively.

  • Harvard Law School Student Wins Deak Award

    March 20, 2002

    Third-year student William Burke-White has won the 2002 Deak Award, for his piece Reframing Impunity: Applying Liberal International Law Theory to an Analysis of Amnesty Legislation, published in the Harvard International Law Journal. The Deak Award is an annual prize provided by Oceana Publications for the best student article in the United States appearing in a student-edited international law journal.

  • Panel to Explore Progressive Law and Economics

    March 19, 2002

    On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, the Harvard Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society will sponsor a panel entitled Progressive Law and Economics: An Oxymoron? The panel will look at the relationship between economic analysis and law, and discuss what role politics plays in this increasingly influential approach to legal studies.

  • HLS Hosts Debate on the Use of Military Tribunals

    March 14, 2002

    On Monday, March 18, the Harvard Law School Federalist Society will sponsor a debate on the Bush administration's proposal to use military tribunals to try suspected foreign terrorists. John Yoo, deputy assistant attorney general, and Harvard Law School Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter will be the participants.

  • Current State of Legal Scholarship

    March 12, 2002

    On Thursday, March 14, the Harvard Law Review will present its spring symposium, Law, Knowledge, and the Academy. The event will address current intellectual trends in legal scholarship and explore directions for future work.

  • Mock Trial Team Wins Boston Regional Competition

    March 12, 2002

    The Harvard Law School Mock Trial Team captured first place at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's Student Trial Advocacy Competition regional tournament held in Boston the weekend of March 2-3.

  • Law and the War on Terrorism

    March 8, 2002

    The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy has released a special issue, Law and the War on Terrorism. The issue presents articles by over 20 of the most respected legal scholars in the country on issues that face America following the attacks of September 11. Topics addressed range from patriotism in the face of foreign hatred to the legality of President George W. Bush's planned military tribunals.

  • Conyers on Higher-Ed Aff. Action

    March 8, 2002

    On Tuesday, March 12, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, will join a panel of academic experts, practitioners and activists from across the nation for the Harvard Law School Journal on Legislation's spring symposium on affirmative action in higher education.

  • HLS Team Wins Northeast Regional Moot Court Round

    March 7, 2002

    The Harvard Law School Jessup International Law Moot Court team recently won the northeast regional round of the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, finishing first among 12 law schools. The team won all six of its moots, captured the award for best written memorial, and one of its team members, Jin-long Pao, was named among the best oralists at the competition.

  • International Financial Terrorism

    February 26, 2002

    Beginning on February 27, Harvard Law School's Program on International Financial Systems will hold a symposium exploring terrorism against international financial systems, international corporate disclosure standards, and pension reform. The two-day event, Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Europe and the United States, will be held at the Rüschlikon Center for Global Dialogue, the conference center near Zurich of Swiss Re, the lead sponsor.

  • Harvard Law Record Reviews 1L Curriculum Changes

    February 26, 2002

    With finals in the middle of January, the Class of 2004 wrapped up its first semester - a semester spent as the first guinea pigs of the Strategic Plan. In line with recommendations made in that Plan, which was finalized in the spring of 2001, HLS has made drastic changes to the 1L program in an effort to forge a more personal, student-centered experience.