Themes
Alumni Focus
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A Stamp of Honor
April 27, 2001
It didn’t take long for the U.S. Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee to deliver Claude Pepper ’24 to the top of its list. His nearly 50…
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A Catalyst for Change
April 27, 2001
This summer a group of Baltimore inner-city residents got technical jobs at an Internet company, thanks to their own determination but also to an idea…
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One-L of a Good Time
April 27, 2001
Although Vaughn Carney’s new novel is about Harvard Law School students, his characters are not chasing paper. That’s not, after all, what most people go…
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An Independent Woman
April 27, 2001
Jennifer Braceras ’94 doesn’t object to being called a feminist. Just don’t forget to call her a conservative also. The Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at…
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I’ve Got a Secret
April 27, 2001
What better person to consider George W. Bush’s drunk driving arrest than Jim Koch ’78, founder of and pitchman for Boston Beer Company, makers of…
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Alumni Bid for Congress
April 27, 2001
While Ralph Nader ’58 grabbed the spotlight in the presidential race, several other HLS alumni also sought elective office in the fall. Perhaps the most…
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Takingachance@a.com
April 27, 2001
Despite the dizzying decline of the dot-com world, several alumni are determined to survive and thrive in their own digital start-ups.
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California Dreamin’
April 27, 2001
Students Go West for New Careers Sitting in the Charles Hotel’s lobby before yet another job interview, Norm Cappell ’02 imagines the dream job that…
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Class Mates
April 1, 2001
For Carolyn Cochran Clark ’68 and L. David Clark Jr. ’68, the seating chart in their 1966 commercial transactions class proved to be prescient. Professor…
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A Matter of Principle
September 28, 2000
Avery Dulles ’40–’41 knows that the law is important. But throughout his life he has focused on something even more important to him.
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Profile – Bennet Boskey ’39: Not Shy, Not Retiring
September 28, 2000
As a student at HLS, Bennett Boskey ’39 took the name of one of his courses literally. In Conflict of Laws, with Professor Erwin Griswold…
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Charlotte Armstrong Named Harvard Medalist
September 28, 2000
Charlotte Armstrong ’53 was awarded a Harvard Medal at the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on June 8.
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School Hosts First Celebration of Black Alumni
September 28, 2000
HLS hosts A Celebration of Black Alumni to honor the more than 1,600 black students who have graduated from the School.
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The Captain of the US v. Microsoft
September 28, 2000
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson '64 is a blunt, plain-speaking, and physically imposing man who knows how to run a tight ship. From the moment he drew judging duties for United States v. Microsoft, Jackson was determined to keep one of the 20th century's largest antitrust cases running swiftly and on course.
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Alumni Create Immigration Clinic Fellowship
September 28, 2000
Erik Gerding ’98 knew that fundraising, even for a good cause, is never easy. But as it turns out, when the cause is the Harvard…
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At Loggerheads
September 28, 2000
For Minneapolis-based lawyer Stephen Young ’74, a tree is just a tree. Yet for others, he contends, trees are sacred objects. Last October, Young brought…
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Law School Graduate Serves up Kosher Haikus with a Side of Chutzpah
September 28, 2000
You were expecting Shakespeare? We hope not, because this is a story about a different kind of bard. Call him the bard of oy vey.
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Stooge Searching
September 28, 2000
In its storied history, Harvard Law School has produced presidents, senators, knights, CEOs, professors, attorneys general, and Supreme Court justices. But only now can the…
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James Vorenberg [1928-2000]
July 18, 2000
Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, 72, the ninth dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate associate special prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on April 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest.
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A Novel Idea
July 18, 2000
Most law school papers don't get glowing reviews from the New York Times Book Review. But most law school papers aren't like Mohsin Hamid's.
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The Dean of Solo Practitioners
July 18, 2000
Oscar Fendler '33 has always done things his own way. He remains the only graduate of HLS to ever practice law in Blytheville, Ark.