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  • Windfalls Realized: Two giants of tax law retire

    July 1, 2007

    How do we put a value on our (intellectual) capital gains? Or calculate the windfalls (to our minds) that have accrued from our original basis—in this case, from the date that William Andrews ’55 joined the Harvard Law School faculty in fiscal year 1961 and the moment, a few reporting periods later, when Bernard Wolfman arrived in 1976? We can’t—a perfect example of immeasurable, and invaluable, gains.

  • Corollaries, Legal and Otherwise: Viewing the First Amendment in a philosophical context

    July 1, 2007

    After taking Professor Martha Nussbaum’s spring class Religion and the First Amendment, students are certainly familiar with the Supreme Court rulings on the public display of the Ten Commandments. But they can also quote Locke, Rousseau and Rawls.

  • Professor Robert H. Sitkoff

    Robert H. Sitkoff joins HLS faculty

    May 23, 2007

    Robert H. Sitkoff, currently a tenured professor at the New York University School of Law and an expert in trusts and estates, has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty.

  • Litigating the new frontier

    April 1, 2007

    An ambitious new player has appeared on the Internet scene, determined to dominate the flow of information across the Web.

  • Reaching out to practitioners and policy-makers

    April 1, 2007

    One of the main goals of the recently established Program on Corporate Governance is to strengthen ties between academia—especially HLS—and the worlds of practice and policy-making.

  • Charles Ogletree Jr. '78

    VIDEO: Panel explores legacy of Brown v. Board of Education

    December 1, 2006

    The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute recently hosted a panel discussion entitled, "Is Brown Still Relevant?: The Seattle and Louisville School Cases," reviewing two current cases that challenge the implementation of racial integration in public schools.

  • Lecture series draws top practitioners in international finance

    September 8, 2006

    Harvard Law School's Program on International Financial Systems is announcing the establishment of the Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton Guest Lectures in International Finance. The series will serve as a cornerstone of the International Finance (IF) Concentration of the LL.M. degree program, which combines international finance and law.

  • The natural

    September 1, 2006

    Peter Carfagna '79 has negotiated for Tiger Woods and other marquee athletes. As sports law has become increasingly diversified, so has he. He now owns two baseball teams.

  • Professor David Wilkins '80

    Bridge-building for the future

    September 1, 2006

    A first-of-its-kind research center readies lawyers for a changing profession

  • Gerald L. Neuman ’80

    Strangers at the fence

    September 1, 2006

    Neuman, formerly at Columbia, joined the Harvard Law faculty this summer as the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law. He is the author of “Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders, and Fundamental Law” (Princeton University Press, 1996).

  • Professor William Alford ’77

    Why China?

    July 23, 2006

    The Bulletin asks Professor William P. Alford ’77 about the development of the legal system amidst the historic changes taking place in China.

  • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer

    And now, the paper chase, Japanese-style

    July 23, 2006

    It’s no coincidence that Japan’s new three-year graduate law schools look a lot like the model of legal education Harvard Law School helped craft over the last century.

  • Bipul Mainali

    Blood on the Roof of the World

    July 23, 2006

    In Nepal, lawyers helped restore the rule of law. But not without paying a price.

  • Fighting for children, not over them

    July 1, 2006

    When Melissa Patterson ’06 signed up for a clinical placement through the school’s new Child Advocacy Program this year, she was looking for something as “real-world” as possible.

  • Professor Carol Steiker ’86

    Who lives and who dies?

    July 1, 2006

    “Stay in role!” exhorts Professor Carol Steiker ’86, as some 90 students in her upper-level course Capital Punishment in America split into groups for an exercise in which they’ll argue whether a death sentence should be reversed due to ineffective assistance of counsel. “Don’t say, ‘If I were the lawyer, I would … ’”

  • Foxes, take note

    April 23, 2006

    From Justice Souter’s remarks to the Ames finalists and the audience: “Where I sit, it’s helpful both for people who are listening to arguments and…

  • International criminal justice–at home and abroad

    April 23, 2006

    HLS students learn the lessons of Nuremberg in Cambridge, Arusha and The Hague.

  • Charles Fried

    Trading places: Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side of the bench

    April 23, 2006

    Compared with that of a lawyer in private practice, a judge's schedule may be more flexible. But not when compared with the life of an academic, says Professor Charles Fried.

  • “May it please the Court”

    April 23, 2006

    Harvard Law students hoping to learn how to argue before the Supreme Court need go no farther than the Ames Courtroom or a winter-term classroom.

  • All in the game: Improving law by understanding the choices we make

    April 23, 2006

    Imagine a game in which two people--strangers--are told they will be given $100 to share, and that one of them will have the power to decide how much to offer the other.

  • William J. Stuntz

    Is the case for intelligent design designed intelligently?

    April 23, 2006

    Several school boards have recently mandated that science curricula include the teaching of intelligent design--the theory that all advanced life forms are so complex that they must have been designed by an intelligent force.