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Faculty Scholarship
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Needed: A Regional Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
September 1, 2008
Assistant Professor Gabriella Blum LL.M. ’01 S.J.D. ’03, an international law scholar, is a native of Israel, where, as a young officer in the Israel Defense Forces International Law Department, she was involved in Israeli-Arab peace negotiations.
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Hearsay: Short takes on the financial crisis
September 1, 2008
Who Will Bail Out American Families? Professor Elizabeth Warren
Chicago Tribune, Sept. 22, 2008 “Lost in the headlines are the families who signed their names to… -
In his most recent book, The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It, Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 paints a disheartening picture of the future of the Internet’s innovation and participatory opportunities. If we continue on our current trajectory, he warns, we will lose sight of the most positive characteristics the Internet has brought to society.
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Jody Freeman explains why there’s no time to waste in the field of environmental law
August 22, 2008
Professor Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95 joined the faculty in 2005. She recently told the Harvard Law Bulletin why climbing Mount Kilimanjaro didn’t turn her into an environmentalist—and what did.
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The following article, Buildup to the next war, written by Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman, was published in the New York Times Magazine on August 8, 2008.
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John Goldberg to join HLS faculty
August 21, 2008
Vanderbilt University Law School Professor John Goldberg, an expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a tenured professor this fall.
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Kagan is honored for her work to encourage public service
August 21, 2008
Dean Elena Kagan ’86 has been awarded the 2008 John R. Kramer Outstanding Law Dean Award from Equal Justice Works for her extensive efforts to promote and support public service.
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Sunstein studies partisanship on the Supreme Court
August 21, 2008
The following article, "Judicial Partisanship Awards," written by Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein '78, was published in the Washington Independent on July 31, 2008.
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An op-ed by Professor Laurence Tribe: The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty
August 21, 2008
The following op-ed, The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty, written by Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe '66, was published in the Wall Street Journal on July 31, 2008.
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Bartholet testifies before Congress about arbitration laws
August 21, 2008
Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet '65 testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today about mandatory pre-dispute arbitration, a practice often used in workplaces and by credit card companies to ensure that employees and consumers agree to resolve all conflicts through arbitration instead of through the court system.
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Sunstein advocates for further disclosure in credit industry
August 21, 2008
The following article, "Disclosure Is the Best Kind of Credit Regulation," co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein '78 and University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler, was published in the Wall Street Journal on August 13, 2008.
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Vermeule says many minds are not necessarily better than one
August 15, 2008
During a recent conference on collective wisdom organized by Professor Jon Elster of the College de France in Paris, Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 presented a working paper debunking the idea that several minds are always better than one in legal decision-making.
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Harvard Law School professor emeritus Bernard Wolfman, a leading tax law expert, has written a strong critique of an emerging trend: the patenting of specific tax strategies.
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The Slugfest, in Historical Perspective
July 25, 2008
Some say the Clinton-Obama fight reflects a historical tension between blacks and women in the struggle for equality. A legal historian says the truth is not so simple—and far more interesting.
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Deborah Anker, director of the HLS Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and a clinical professor of law, received the Elmer Fried Award for Excellence in Teaching on June 28 at the annual meeting of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) in Vancouver.
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Hearsay: Faculty Short Takes Summer 2008
July 1, 2008
The Laws in Wartime Professor Jack Goldsmith
Slate Magazine, April 2 “We are surprisingly close to putting policy issues in the war on terrorism on a… -
Recent Faculty Books – Summer 2008
July 1, 2008
In “Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism” (Wiley, 2007), Professor Alan Dershowitz contemplates modern-day First Amendment…
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A Labor of Love on Love’s Labors
July 1, 2008
As a 3L at Yale Law School in the mid-1960s, Charles Donahue studied a series of decisions by Pope Alexander III (1159-1181) that became the basis of marriage law in Western Europe for the next three centuries. At the time, he didn’t realize how they would come to rule his own life.
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Filling in the Gaps
July 1, 2008
Most judges, faced with the task of interpreting unclear statutes, want to do the right thing, says Harvard Law School Professor Einer Elhauge ’86. Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy.
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Mightier Than the S-word
July 1, 2008
Randall Kennedy knows what it’s like to be called a sellout. Throughout his 24-year career at Harvard Law School, Kennedy has developed a reputation as a professor who is not afraid to challenge orthodoxies—sometimes to the alarm of liberals and black Americans.
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Everything … and Right Now
July 1, 2008
The founding director of Harvard’s new Environmental Law Program wastes no time—and says there’s no time to waste. Professor Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95…