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    Goldsmith, Minow, Fried and Nye discuss the accountability presidency after 9/11

    March 28, 2012

    The presidency is more powerful, larger, and has more tools at its disposal than ever before, said Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith. But, he quickly added, that’s only half the story. The other half of the story—the forces that constrain presidential power—was the main topic during a March19 panel discussion of his new book “Power and Constraint: The Accountability Presidency after 9/11,” hosted by the Harvard Book Store at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square.

  • I. Glenn Cohen at his desk

    7 Experts Try to Read Supreme Court Health-Care Tea Leaves

    March 27, 2012

    by Daily Beast writer Matthew DeLuca Over the three days of argument devoted to the health-care law, the Supreme Court held the attention of Americans…

  • Supreme opportunity for students: Health law hearings offer live case study

    March 27, 2012

    By Boston Globe staff writer Martine Powers Professors at law schools across the region are incorporating the Supreme Court health care debate into their curriculum,…

  • The Supreme Court

    Healthcare Roundup: HLS reflects on Supreme Court oral arguments

    March 27, 2012

    The Supreme Court opened its review of the national health-care overhaul on Mar. 26, the first of three days of oral arguments on the 2010 law. In light of the historic arguments, law schools professors at HLS and elsewhere in the Boston area have incorporated the debate into their classrooms, and, In the media, HLS Professors I. Glenn Cohen. Einer Elhauge, Noah Feldman, Charles Fried and Laurence Tribe weighed in on the case.

  • Tomiko Brown-Nagin portrait at her desk

    Tomiko Brown-Nagin receives the 2012 Bancroft Prize

    March 16, 2012

    Columbia University announced on Mar. 14 that a recent book by Tomiko Brown-Nagin will be awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize. Her award-winning book “Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement” (Oxford University Press, 2011) offers a startling new perspective on the Civil Rights movement.

  • Professor Adrian Vermeule '93

    Vermeule in The New Republic: Same old, same old

    March 15, 2012

    In a recent book review for The New Republic, Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 examines Richard A. Epstein’s “Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law” (Harvard University Press, 2011).

  • Jack Goldsmith on American Institutions and the Trump Presidency

    Goldsmith on ‘On Point:’ The case for targeted killing

    March 13, 2012

    Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith appeared on the Mar. 12 edition of NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook alongside ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero. The two addressed the controversy over Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent remarks at Northwestern University Law School in which he defended the legality of the Obama administration’s use of targeted killings of Americans suspected of terrorism-related activity.

  • Professor Adrian Vermeule '93

    Vermeule explores how individuals and larger institutions together shape the constitutional order

    March 13, 2012

    A scholar of administrative law and constitutional law and theory, Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 has written the new book “The System of the Constitution” (Oxford University Press), in which he explores how individuals and larger institutions together shape the constitutional order. Vermeule recently spoke about his book and an event in London that featured discussion of his ideas.

  • Jon D. Hanson in conversation at his desk

    The connection between law and mind sciences: A Q&A with Jon Hanson

    March 13, 2012

    Director of the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School (PLMS), Professor Jon Hanson has long combined social psychology, economics, history, and law in his scholarship. In a recent Q&A, he spoke about the new book, the connection between law and mind sciences, and his own work in a field that has grown rapidly over the past 20 years.

  • Professor David Barron

    Barron appointed by Gov. Patrick to Mass. Board of Higher Education

    March 8, 2012

    David J. Barron ’94, Harvard Law School’s Hon. S. William Green Professor of Public Law, has been appointed by Governor Deval Patrick ’82 to the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, the governor’s office announced Monday.

  • Zittrain, Wones to step into leadership roles for Harvard Law School Library

    March 7, 2012

    Dean Martha Minow has announced that HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 and HLS Library’s Assistant Director of Research, Curriculum and Publication Services, Suzanne Wones, will take over leadership of the Harvard Law School Library this summer, following the departure of Professor John G. Palfrey ’01 in July.

  • HLS Professor Randall Kennedy and Dr. Abigail Thernstrom of the Manhattan Institute

    Redistricting and voters rights

    March 6, 2012

    On Tuesday, Feb. 14, the Harvard Federalist Society and the Harvard Black Law Students Association co-sponsored a discussion about race and redistricting with Dr. Abigail Thernstrom of the Manhattan Institute and Professor Randall Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

  • Richard Epstein and Richard Freeman

    HLS Tea Party sponsors debate on the future of unions

    February 29, 2012

    In a talk sponsored by the HLS Tea Party, Harvard Professor Richard Freeman, faculty co-director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, and Professor Richard Epstein of New York University School of Law, discussed the challenges facing unions today. The talk, “The Future of Unions in America,” was held at Harvard Law School on Feb. 13.

  • Professor Matthew Stephenson '03

    Stephenson delivers keynote at anti-corruption conference in Thailand

    February 24, 2012

    Harvard Law School Professor Matthew Stephenson ‘03 delivered the keynote speech at the 2nd annual Evidence-Based Anti-Corruption Policies Conference held on Jan. 11 and 12 in Bangkok, Thailand.  

  • Roe in Project Syndicate: Tobin Trouble

    February 24, 2012

    In a Feb. 20 opinion piece for the online journal Project Syndicate, Harvard Law School Professor Mark Roe ’75 addresses European leaders’ support for imposing a “Tobin tax” on financial transactions.

  • Daniel Gilbert

    Dan Gilbert at HLS: How To Do Precisely the Right Thing At All Possible Times

    February 22, 2012

    In a talk entitled “How To Do Precisely the Right Thing At All Possible Times,” Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, author of “Stumbling on Happiness,” and host of the PBS television series “This Emotional Life,” discussed research in psychology, neuroscience and behavioral economics that explains why it is indeed possible, yet incredibly difficult, to do the right thing at all possible times.

  • Audience during the Frank Michelman symposium

    Symposium explores Michelman’s contributions to comparative constitutional law and law and philosophy (video)

    February 21, 2012

    An array of luminaries from academia and the bench—and from around the world—came to Harvard Law School to celebrate Professor Frank Michelman ’60 and his influential work, as he prepares to retire after nearly half a century on the HLS faculty.

  • Lucian Bebchuk and Rene Stulz

    On World Bank blog, Bebchuk debates executive compensation

    February 17, 2012

    In an online forum, Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk engaged in a debate with Ohio State University Professor Rene Stulz regarding the role executive compensations played in the financial crisis.

  • Kurt Hyde, Lucian Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson, Jr.

    Bebchuk testifies before Senate Banking committee

    February 15, 2012

    On Feb. 15, Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection at a hearing entitled “Pay for Performance: Incentive Compensation at Large Financial Institutions.”

  • Professor William P. Alford portrait

    Alford on ‘The Takeaway:’ The future of U.S.-China relations

    February 15, 2012

    Harvard Law School Professor William Alford ’77 recently appeared on the radio program ‘The Takeaway’ to discuss the future of U.S.-China relations, specifically with regard to trade and Chinese intellectual property law, which Alford describes as “a work in progress.”

  • HLS Assistant Professor I. Glenn Cohen

    Professors debate “Embryo Ethics”

    February 13, 2012

    On Feb. 1, the Harvard Law School Federalist Society sponsored a debate on the philosophical and legal issues surrounding the field of embryonic research. The event, “Embryo Ethics and the Law,” featured Christopher Tollefsen, a philosophy professor at the University of South Carolina, and HLS Assistant Professor Glenn Cohen, co-director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.