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  • Anker elected to the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation

    September 19, 2011

    For upholding the highest principles of the legal profession and for outstanding dedication to the welfare of others, HLS Clinical Professor Deborah Anker LL.M. ’84 was recently elected to the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. Anker, one of the nation’s top scholars in immigration law, is director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and has taught immigration law and supervised clinical students for over 20 years.

  • Jon D. Hanson in conversation at his desk

    Hanson’s Situationist blog wins 2011 Media Prize

    September 16, 2011

    The Situationist blog, established by Professor Jon Hanson and run by the Project on Law and Mind Science at Harvard Law School, recently received the 2011 Media Prize awarded by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

  • Professor Adrian Vermeule '93

    Vermeule on Lawfare from the New Republic

    September 14, 2011

    In a recent review in the New Republic, HLS Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 examines the book "The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus" (Harvard University Press, 2011) by Brian McGinty.

  • Vivek Wadhwa

    Vivek Wadhwa: On jobs, Obama needs to be a radical

    September 8, 2011

    The only way we can keep Americans fully employed and maintain our global lead is by constantly improving their productivity and skills, writes Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research associate for the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, in an op-ed in today's Washington Post. In his op-ed,  "On jobs, Obama needs to be a radical," published on the eve on the president's address to the nation, Wadhwa writes that American companies must be provided with the incentives to invest in their workers as they used to.

  • Professor Randall L. Kennedy

    Kennedy on PBS and BookTV: Obama and Racial Politics

    September 7, 2011

    Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy recently appeared on PBS’s Tavis Smiley show and CSPAN’s BookTV to discuss his latest book, “The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency” (Pantheon Books).

  • Coates: Fulfilling the promise of Citizens United

    September 6, 2011

    In a recently released report, HLS Professor John C Coates and Taylor Lincoln, research director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division, provide evidence that publicly held companies that disclose their electoral spending are more valuable than the politically active companies that fail to disclose their donors.

  • Professor Carol Steiker '86

    Steiker in New Republic: Don’t Blame Perry for Texas’s Execution Addiction

    September 2, 2011

    An essay,  "Don't Blame Perry for Texas's Execution Addiction. He Doesn't Have Much To Do With It," by HLS Professor Carol Steiker ’86 and her brother, Professor Jordan Steiker '88 of the University of Texas School of Law appeared in the Sept. 2 edition of The New Republic. The essay focuses on the relationship between Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry and Texas's standing as the execution capital of the United States.

  • Visiting Professor Chibli Mallat

    In Ahram Online: Mallat addresses violence in Libyan uprising

    August 31, 2011

    HLS Visiting Professor Chibli Mallat recently published an op-ed in the Egyptian newspaper Ahram Online entitled “Libya’s Revolution: a troubling legacy of violence.”

  • Professor Charles Fried

    Fried seeks answers from Republican leaders

    August 24, 2011

    In a recent op-ed for the Boston Globe, Professor Charles Fried, a life-long Republican, writes that before he can give Senator Scott Brown his support in the next election, Fried needs to know what kind of Republican Brown is. 

  • Professor Richard J. Lazarus '79

    Lazarus honored with ABA Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy

    August 17, 2011

    In August, Professor Richard Lazarus ’79 was honored at the ABA annual meeting in Toronto with the association’s Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy. The award was given to Lazarus for his significant leadership in improving environmental protection and sustainable development.

  • A Disarming Leader: Docherty recognized for contributions to human rights 1

    Docherty in Australia’s National Times: Cluster bombs bill is a law of loopholes

    August 17, 2011

    In an Aug. 17 opinion piece in Australia’s National Times, Senior Clinical Instructor Bonnie Docherty '01 urged the Australian Senate to push back against proposed implementation legislation that would blunt the impact of the international ban on cluster munitions. 

  • Professor Randall L. Kennedy

    Randall Kennedy on The Takeaway: on ‘The Persistence of the Color Line’

    August 15, 2011

    Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy recently appeared on the radio program “The Takeaway” to discuss his new book “The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency” (Pantheon Books).

  • Professor Charles Fried

    ABA passes resolution urging tougher lobbying rules based on recommendations from Professor Fried and co-chairs

    August 12, 2011

    The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates passed a resolution on Tuesday, Aug. 9, urging Congress to amend and strengthen federal lobbying rules. HLS Professor Charles Fried co-chaired the bi-partisan ABA Administrative Law Section task force, which proposed the recommendations in its January 2011 report.

  • Professor Adrian Vermeule '93

    In the New Republic: Vermeule reviews “Machiavellian Democracy”

    August 11, 2011

    In a recent review in the New Republic, HLS Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 examines the book “Machiavellian Democracy” (Cambridge University Press, 2011) by John P. McCormick.

  • Committee co-chaired by Bebchuk submits SEC rulemaking petition on political spending

    August 9, 2011

    The Committee on Disclosure of Corporate Political Spending, co-chaired by Harvard Law School Professor Lucian A. Bebchuk LL.M. ’80 S.J.D. ’84 and Robert J. Jackson, Jr. ’05, associate professor at Columbia Law School, submitted a rulemaking petition to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The petition urges the commission to develop rules to require public companies to disclose to shareholders the use of corporate resources for political activities.

  • Roe in Project Syndicate: America’s first debt crisis

    August 9, 2011

    In an August 8 op-ed written for Project Syndicate, HLS Professor Mark Roe looks at the current U.S. debt crisis through the lens of what he calls ‘America’s first debt crisis:’ the one following the Revolutionary War.

  • Noah Feldman portrait

    Feldman in Bloomberg View: Debt-deal disaster shows genius of U.S. democracy

    August 9, 2011

    In his August 7 op-ed, the latest in a series for Bloomberg View, HLS Professor Noah Feldman discusses the perception of U.S. democracy in light of the government’s recent debt crisis.

  • Mary Ann Glendon receives Evangelium Vitae Medal

    Glendon to advise Romney in his bid for the White House

    August 5, 2011

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ’75 recently announced that his Justice Advisory Committee will be co-chaired by HLS Professor Mary Ann Glendon along with Robert Bork and Richard Wiley. Leading a committee of 63 other lawyers, including HLS Professor Allen Ferrell ’95, they will advise Romney’s campaign on constitutional and judicial matters, homeland security, law enforcement, and regulatory issues.

  • Professor Charles Fried

    Fried in Scotus Blog: ‘The constitutional arguments against the healthcare mandate are utterly without merit’

    August 3, 2011

    On August 1st, Scotus Blog published an op-ed by Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried on the constitutionality of the healthcare mandate. In the piece, Fried argues that the attack against President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is pure politics and ignores established legal principles.

  • Eleven from HLS named to inaugural Fastcase 50 list

    August 3, 2011

    In July, Fastcase, a legal research service that provides a comprehensive online national law library, honored 50 leaders in the world of law, scholarship, and legal technology. From lawyers and judges to librarians and government servants, the inaugural list recognized the law’s “smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”

  • On Radio Boston, Bordone addresses the debt negotiations

    July 28, 2011

    Clinical Professor Robert Bordone ’97, a specialist in negotiation and dispute resolution and director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, was interviewed on public radio regarding the ongoing debt negotiations in Washington, D.C.