Faculty Scholarship

Anne Alstott, an expert on federal income taxation, corporate taxation and tax policy as well as on social welfare policy, family policy, and feminism and economic justice, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a tenured professor, Dean Elena Kagan '86 announced today.

The following op-ed, Fighting the online drug corner, co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Philip Heymann '60 and Mathea Falco, president of Drug Strategies, was published in the Washington Post on March 15, 2008.

Writings by Professors Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84, Mark Roe '75, and Guhan Subramanian '98 were included on this year's list of 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles, published in the legal journal "Corporate Practice Commentator."

Harvard Law School Professor Robert Sitkoff was recently appointed to serve on the Uniform Law Commission by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. Sitkoff is one of three commissioners representing the state.

In a March 5 event sponsored by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy discussed his new book, entitled "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."

The following op-ed, Choices for Turkey in a digital age, written by Harvard Law School Clinical Professor John Palfrey '01 and Visiting Professor Jonathan Zittrain '95, was published in the Turkish Daily News on March 5, 2008.

How should judges interpret ambiguous statutes? Fourteen leading legal scholars -- including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer '64 -- took up that question in a conference at HLS yesterday, occasioned by the publication of a new book, "Statutory Default Rules: How to Interpret Unclear Legislation" (Harvard University Press, 2008) by Professor Einer Elhauge '86.

The following op-ed, Sanity and the Second Amendment, written by Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe '66, was published in the Wall Street Journal on March 4, 2008.

The following op-ed, Worshippers of death, written by Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, was published in the Wall Street Journal on March 3, 2008.

Law firms that have built practices providing transactional work for business clients must "innovate or die." That was the message delivered by Professor George Triantis yesterday in a lecture marking his appointment to the Eli Goldston Professorship of Law.

The following op-ed, Even at Harvard, Obama had a knack for bonding with diverse people, written by Harvard Law School Professor Kenneth Mack '91 , was published in the Harrisburg Patriot-News on February 17, 2008.

This month, Cambridge University Press will publish Professor Charles Donahue’s “Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts,” a 696-page comprehensive study of medieval marriage culture and litigation.

Renowned legal scholar and political theorist Cass R. Sunstein '78 has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty, Dean Elena Kagan '86 announced today. Sunstein, currently a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School, will begin teaching at HLS in the fall. He will also become director of the new Program on Risk Regulation.

Surrounded by family members, friends and colleagues, Professor Mary Ann Glendon was sworn in as the new U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See today in a brief ceremony held in the Caspersen Room of Harvard Law School's Langdell Hall.

The following article, The inconvenient truths of 2008, written by Harvard Law School Professor William J. Stuntz, was published in The Weekly Standard on February 18, 2008.

The West doesn't know quite what to think of Turkey's Islamic-oriented ruling party: does it envision a liberal, European future for Turkey or an Islamist one? A vote this week on the seemingly minor issue of whether head scarves should be allowed at universities will help us begin to answer that question.

John Palfrey '01, clinical professor of law and executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, made a whirlwind visit to Turkey this week to urge authorities not to filter or censor content on the internet.

Harvard Law School Professor Andrew Kaufman '54 has been appointed to an ad hoc committee that will advise the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on whether to adopt changes to ethical rules disfavoring public comment by judges.

University of Virginia School of Law Professor Michael J. Klarman has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty with tenure this summer.

Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith’s book, “Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World,” received an honorable mention from Scribes, The American Society of Legal Writers. Goldsmith and co-author Tim Wu were one of two honorable mentions for 2007.