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  • Fried, Carvin, Barnett, and Durbin

    Fried, Dellinger testify on the constitutionality of the healthcare law (video)

    February 3, 2011

    Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired a hearing on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act and the provision that requires, beginning in 2014, every American to maintain health insurance coverage. The law requires all citizens without work-based insurance to purchase plans in the private market.

  • Egypt’s Internet lockdown

    News Round-up: Palfrey, Zittrain and Woods on Egypt’s Internet lockdown

    February 1, 2011

    This week, HLS Professors John G. Palfrey, Jonathan Zittrain, and HLS Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law Andrew K. Woods each weighed in on the Egyptian government's recent decision to block Internet access to prevent the use of social media outlets in light of escalating protests in the country. 

  • Professor Adrian Vermeule '93

    Vermeule in The New Republic: The New Fable of the Bees

    February 1, 2011

    In a Jan. 26 review in The New Republic, HLS Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 examines the book “Honeybee Democracy” by Thomas D. Seeley, which explores group decision-making behavior in apian colonies, and he presents his assessment of its relationship to collective wisdom and decision-making in human societies.

  • Professor John Palfrey '01

    News Round-up: Palfrey, Zittrain and Woods on the Egyptian government’s Internet access lockdown

    February 1, 2011

    This week, HLS Professors John G. Palfrey, Jonathan Zittrain, and HLS Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law Andrew K. Woods each weighed in on the Egyptian government's recent decision to block Internet access to prevent the use of social media outlets in light of escalating protests in the country.

  • Professor John Palfrey '01

    Palfrey in NY Daily News: Twitter and Facebook, step up – Egypt protests raise bar on corporate responsibility

    January 31, 2011

    In a Jan. 31 article in the Opinion section of the New York Daily News online, HLS Professor John G. Palfrey addresses the issue of corporate responsibility in the wake of the Egyptian government’s recent Internet access lockdown to prevent protesters from organizing against President Hosni Mubarak’s regime.

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Scott testifies before House Committee on Financial Services

    January 26, 2011

    On Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, HLS Professor Hal Scott testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services in a hearing entitled “Promoting Economic Recovery and Job Creation: The Road Forward.”

  • Philip Alston

    Alston receives honorary doctorate, lectures on global justice at Maastricht University

    January 26, 2011

    Philip Alston, Harvard Law School’s Sidley Austin Visiting Professor of Law, received an honorary doctorate from Maastricht University in the Netherlands on Jan. 20 as part of the university’s 35th anniversary celebration.

  • Professor Alan Dershowitz

    Dershowitz in WSJ: The U.N. gangs up on Israel – again

    January 26, 2011

    An op-ed by HLS Professor Alan Dershowitz “The U.N. gangs up on Israel – again,” appeared in the January 26, 2011 edition of the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of numerous books, including “The Trials of Zion,” “The Case for Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza,” and “Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism.”

  • HLS Lecturer on Law Max Weinstein

    HLS Legal Services Center wins victory in ruling on foreclosures

    January 24, 2011

    On January 7, in a ruling that will likely affect the entire banking industry, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that Wells Fargo and US Bancorp had wrongly foreclosed on two homes because the banks could not prove that they owned the mortgages at the time of the foreclosure sales in July 2007. Max Weinstein, a Clinical Instructor at the Wilmer Hale Legal Services Center, represented one of the mortgagers, Antonio Ibanez.

  • Jeannie Suk ’02

    Suk honored by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and the Korean Economic Institute

    January 24, 2011

    Harvard Law Professor Jeanne Suk ’02 was named a “Top Woman of the Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and honored at a reception on Dec. 3.  The award recognizes women who have made inspiring contributions and who are pioneers, educators, trailblazers and role models.

  • Harvard Law Faculty Lead SSRN Ranking

    January 20, 2011

    Harvard Law School’s faculty earned the top ranking for the number of academic papers authored and downloaded on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), according to cumulative statistics  released for 2010. HLS faculty members captured 10 of the top 100 slots–including the number one slot–among the top 100 law school professors (in all legal areas) in terms of readers’ use of their work.

  • Assistant Professor Mark Wu

    Mark Wu in The New York Times: China’s currency isn’t our problem

    January 18, 2011

    In a Jan. 18 op-ed in The New York Times, “China’s Currency Isn’t Our Problem,” HLS Assistant Professor Mark Wu assesses the impact of the value of China’s currency, the renminbi, on the the American economy.

  • Professor Charles Fried

    ABA task force, co-chaired by Charles Fried, recommends changes to federal lobbying rules

    January 14, 2011

    A bi-partisan ABA Administrative Law Section task force, co-chaired by HLS Professor Charles Fried, issued a report recommending significant changes to federal lobbying laws. The proposed changes would broaden disclosure required by those involved in lobbying campaigns, address fundraising participation by lobbyists and strengthen enforcement of current law.

  • Lecturer on Law Leo E. Strine, Jr.

    Lecturer on Law Strine appointed to second term on Delaware Chancery Court

    January 7, 2011

    Leo E. Strine, Jr., the Austin Wakeman Scott Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, was confirmed to a second 12-year term on the Delaware Chancery Court by the Delaware Senate.

  • Professor Charles Fried

    Fried on NPR’s On Point: Congress and the Constitution

    January 5, 2011

    Professor Charles Fried joined NPR's On Point to discuss Congress's unprecedented decision to read aloud the full text of the U.S. Constitution as the year's first order of business.

  • Professor William P. Alford portrait

    William Alford recognized by the University of Geneva

    January 5, 2011

    Harvard Law School Professor William Alford ’77 received an honorary degree from the University of Geneva in December 2010, recognizing him as “an eminent person of contemporary international law … whose reputation extends far beyond the borders of the United States.” Other recipients in 2010 included the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, José Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission, and several distinguished European intellectuals. (See the complete list.)

  • Professor David Kennedy ’80

    Mapping the New Global Order

    January 1, 2011

    HLS institute seeks to broaden the solutions to global challenges.

  • HLS Professor Yochai Benkler

    Berkman Broadband Study Stresses Open Access

    January 1, 2011

    In 2009, HLS Professor Yochai Benkler ’94 and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society were commissioned by the FCC to do a study on broadband deployment throughout the world.

  • Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists

    Looking for the Third Paradigm

    January 1, 2011

    Assistant Professor Gabriella Blum LL.M. ’01 S.J.D. ’03 is a specialist in the laws of war. Professor Philip Heymann ’60 is an expert in domestic law enforcement. With these different backgrounds, they decided to teach a course together on counterterrorism.

  • Stuart N. Brotman

    Brotman appointed to U.S. Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy

    December 22, 2010

    Harvard Law School Lecturer on Law Stuart N. Brotman has been appointed to the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP).

  • Bebchuk named 2010 ‘Governance Star’

    December 22, 2010

    Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. ’80 S.J.D. ‘84, director of the Program on Corporate Governance, was selected as one of 2010’s top 10 “governance stars” by Global Proxy Watch, an international corporate governance newsletter.