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  • Research finds directors’ options were favorably timed

    December 18, 2006

    The HLS Program on Corporate Governance released a new study today called Lucky Directors, by Professor Lucian Bebchuk and co-authors Yaniv Grinsten and Urs Peyer suggesting that outside directors' options, and not only executives' options, have been favorably timed to an extent that cannot be explained by mere luck.

  • Professor Charles Fried

    An op-ed by Professor Charles Fried: Getting at the truth

    December 13, 2006

    The following op-ed was published in The Boston Globe on December 13, 2006: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the egregious president of Iran, is hosting a conference this week on whether the Holocaust really happened.

  • Professor Bebchuk investigates option backdating

    November 17, 2006

    The HLS Program on Corporate Governance recently released a study by Professor Lucian Bebchuk and co-authors Yaniv Grinsten and Urs Peyer, which examined the use of stock option backdating.

  • Professor Joseph Singer

    VIDEO: Professor Joseph Singer appointed Bussey Professor of Law

    November 15, 2006

    On Tuesday evening, November 7, Professor Joseph Singer was awarded the Bussey Professor of Law chair. Introduced by Dean Elena Kagan, Professor Singer marked the occasion with a speech titled, "Things That We Would Like to Take for Granted: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society."

  • Professor David Kennedy ’80

    Law in the arsenal

    September 22, 2006

    International law professor David Kennedy was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam era, but during his early years teaching at Harvard Law School he realized it was time to rethink his position on the valid use of military force.

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Professor Scott spearheads panel to improve position of U.S. financial markets

    September 13, 2006

    A blue-ribbon committee of business leaders and academic experts-including three HLS faculty members-will consider changes in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other laws, with the goal of boosting the competitiveness of American financial markets.

  • Split Decisions book cover

    Breathing new life into feminism

    September 7, 2006

    Janet Halley spent six years writing "Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism" (Princeton University Press, 2006), a groundbreaking book examining the contradictions and limitations of feminism in the law.

  • David Wilkins

    Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes

    September 1, 2006

    A nationwide, longitudinal survey of today’s young J.D.s yields its first results Lawyers are happier in their careers than is generally believed—in the first few…

  • Hal Scott

    Hearsay: Short takes from faculty op-eds – Fall 2006

    September 1, 2006

    Is a ticker-taped Trojan Horse soon to be planted on European shores, filled with an army of U.S. regulators, Sarbanes-Oxley accountants and overzealous plaintiff lawyers?

  • Recent Faculty Books – Fall 2006

    September 1, 2006

    In “Judging under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation” (Harvard University Press, 2006), Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 takes up the question: How should judges interpret statutes and the Constitution?

  • Jon D. Hanson in conversation at his desk

    Hanson examines downsides of athlete worship

    August 28, 2006

    An op-ed co-written by Professor Jon Hanson: To sports fans, it probably wasn't a surprise to learn that former Ohio State University football star Maurice Clarett was arrested again the other week. The evasive running back who had carried the Buckeyes to the 2002 National Championship was unsuccessful in evading the police in a car chase that occurred near the home of a witness in his upcoming robbery trial.

  • Bebchuk weighs in on reforming executive pay

    July 28, 2006

    The following op-ed by Professor Lucian Bebchuk, Investors must have power, not just figures on pay, was published in The Financial Times on July 28, 2006: The US Securities and Exchange Commission's vote this week to expand disclosure requirements for executive pay is a major step forward.

  • Alan Dershowitz at his desk

    Hearsay: Short takes from faculty op-eds

    July 23, 2006

    The mainstream U.S. media have covered this worldwide uprising; it is, after all, a glimpse into the sentiments of our enemy and its allies. And yet it has refused, with but a few exceptions, to show the cartoons that purportedly caused all the outrage.

  • Terry Martin

    When is art cultural property?

    July 23, 2006

    As a former curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum stands trial in Italy for criminal conspiracy to receive stolen goods, curators all over America are nervously rethinking their antiquity collections.

  • David L. Shapiro '57

    David L. Shapiro ’57

    July 23, 2006

    David Shapiro represents the true Renaissance man of legal academia. He has been a scholar, reformer, advocate, public servant and teacher, and at every turn, he has been a leader and model of excellence. There is much in his brilliant career to celebrate.

  • Frank Sander ’52, David Herwitz ’49 and David Shapiro ’57

    Leaving the stage

    July 23, 2006

    Imagine for a moment a lawsuit involving, as so many of them do, a dispute over accounting practices. Now add some complex questions of federal jurisdiction and procedure. Then assume that the parties decide—wisely—to settle. As the saying goes, “Who you gonna call?”

  • David R. Herwitz ’49

    David R. Herwitz ’49

    July 23, 2006

    The influence of a great teacher like Dave Herwitz brings him nearer to immortality than most of us get. In my own nearly 50 years of professional life, I have met numerous wonderful individuals and benefited from the wisdom and character of many.

  • Assistant Professor Adriaan Lanni studies the rhetoric and speeches of Athenian law.

    From Here to Modernity

    July 23, 2006

    Scholars have long been fascinated by the democracy of classical Athens and the ways it is mirrored in democratic governments of today. Athenian law, on the other hand, has received little attention, since no modern legal system is descended from it.

  • Recent Faculty Books – Summer 2006

    July 23, 2006

    In “Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World” (Oxford University Press), Professor Jack L. Goldsmith and Tim Wu ’98 describe the Internet’s challenge to government rule in the ’90s and some ensuing battles over Internet freedom around the world.

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Professor Scott forecasts the end of American dominance in capital markets

    July 20, 2006

    The following op-ed, co-written by Professor Hal Scott, The End of American dominance in capital markets, was published in The Financial Times on July 19, 2006: Is a ticker-taped Trojan Horse soon to be planted on European shores, filled with an army of US regulators, Sarbanes-Oxley accountants and overzealous plaintiff lawyers?

  • Frank E.A. Sander ’52

    Frank E.A. Sander ’52

    July 12, 2006

    When I first began to work with Frank Sander ’52 as a 3L at Harvard Law School in 1997, I realized that when it came to finding a mentor in alternative dispute resolution, I had struck gold.