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Alumni Focus
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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.
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Declaration of Independence
July 18, 2000
Some alumni become solo practitioners in order to leave law firm life, or return to their hometown, or practice their specialty. Whatever the reason, they all agree they've made the right choice.
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A Sense of Securities: J. Sinclair Armstrong ’41
July 18, 2000
J. Sinclair Armstrong '41 credits the faculty at the School in preparing him for his life and career. He has also taught himself to conquer new fields of expertise, and to face new challenges at the top levels of government and business.
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Klein Makes Case against Microsoft
July 18, 2000
Joel Klein ’71, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and head attorney in the government’s recent victory against Microsoft, addressed…
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Brennemans on the Bench
June 18, 2000
Juvenile court Judge Frederica Brenneman '53 serves as inspirations and adviser for the hit television drama Judging Amy, starring her daughter, Amy Brenneman.
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Peter Allan Atkins ’68: A consummate corporate lawyer
April 25, 2000
Although Peter Allan Atkins ’68 dismisses "star" labels, preferring to be viewed as an all-around corporate lawyer, the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom partner is nationally acclaimed as a mergers and acquisitions expert.
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Taipei’s High-Profile Mayor
April 25, 2000
The new leader of Taiwan's capital city, Ma Ying-jeou S.J.D '81 has already tackled a controversy over prostitutes' licenses and overseen disaster relief following an earthquake. Now he's busy working on public safety and creating "an Internet city."
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Death in Texas
April 25, 2000
Sandra Babcock '91 fought long and hard on behalf of client Stanley Faulder, a Canadian citizen who spent 22 years on death row, employing a novel legal argument in her struggle to save his life.
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The Double Life of George Abrams ’57
April 25, 2000
Even as a Law School student, Abrams was drawn to the world of art. He has divided has time between lawyering and collecting, building with his wife, Maida, one of the world's preeminent collections of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings. Recently, this famous collecting duo made a dazzling gift to the Fogg.
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The Soldier’s Secretary
April 25, 2000
Ever on the move, Louis Caldera ’86 (’87), the 17th Secretary of the Army and its top communicator, lends his ear to enlisted men and women worldwide, communicating the changing mission of an Army in transformation.