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Robert D. Joffe ’67 (1943 – 2010)
January 29, 2010
Robert D. Joffe ’67, former presiding partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and an active member of the HLS alumni community, died Thursday, Jan. 28. He was 66.
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Bebchuk in Project Syndicate: The CEO Pay Slice
January 29, 2010
“The CEO Pay Slice,” an op-ed co-written by HLS Professor Lucian Bebchuk, appeared in Project Syndicate on January 18, 2010.
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Lucy Koh ’93 nominated to serve as federal district court judge
January 29, 2010
Lucy Koh ’93 has been nominated by President Obama on to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Corporate consequences of the Supreme Court’s speech decision last week: an op-ed by Mark Roe
January 26, 2010
Professor Mark Roe assesses the Supreme Court's decision (in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) permitting more corporate spending for and against political candidates. The decision, says Roe, may ultimately be bad for the economy.
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Laurence Tribe on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
January 25, 2010
There is no doubt that Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission marks a major upheaval in First Amendment law and signals the end of whatever legitimate claim could otherwise have been made by the Roberts Court to an incremental and minimalist approach to constitutional adjudication, to a modest view of the judicial role vis-à-vis the political branches, or to a genuine concern with adherence to precedent.
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Citizens United: Faculty roundup
January 25, 2010
Harvard Law professors weigh in with reactions to the Supreme Court’s Jan. 21 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In the 5-4 ruling, Justices rejected corporate spending limits on political campaigns.
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Petrie-Flom Center brings pharmaceutical executives and academics together at clinical trials summit
January 25, 2010
On January 19, Harvard Law School Assistant Professor Glenn Cohen welcomed participants to the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Industry Summit at Harvard.
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Bartholet on NPR and France 24 (video): On Haitian Orphans
January 22, 2010
The op-ed “Amid Disaster, Haitian Orphans Find Homes,” co-written by HLS Professor Elizabeth Bartholet ’65 and Paulo Barrozo S.J.D. ’09, an assistant professor of law at Boston College, appeared Jan. 21, 2010 on NPR.org. Bartholet was also interviewed on France 24's International News Program.
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WEBCAST: Bebchuk testifies before House Financial Services Committee
January 22, 2010
HLS Professor Lucian Bebchuk testified before House Financial Services Committee at a hearing entitled “Compensation in the Financial Industry,” on Friday, Jan. 22.
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On Jan. 15, The New York Times included commentary by HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 on “What web sites can do” in the wake of Google’s recent announcement that it would no longer censor search results in China.
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President Barack Obama ’91 has appointed another HLS alumnus to a key post in his administration. Walter Crawford Jones ’88 will serve as the United States executive director of the African Development Bank.
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Dispatches from Port-au-Prince: Pooja Bhatia ’06
January 14, 2010
“Haiti’s Angry God,” an op-ed by Pooja Bhatia ’06, appeared in the Jan. 14 edition of the New York Times. Bhatia is currently living in Port-au-Prince as a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, Bhatia is also filing reports and was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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The Green Bag honors HLS faculty and alumni for exemplary writing
January 13, 2010
The Green Bag, a quarterly journal devoted to readable, concise, and entertaining legal scholarship, has named a number of HLS faculty members and alumni to its “Exemplary Legal Writing 2009” list.
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Stern in the Washington Post: Myths about terrorists
January 12, 2010
“Five myths about who becomes a terrorist,” was written by HLS Lecturer Jessica Stern, the Academic Director of the Program on Terrorism and the Law at HLS. The op-ed appeared in the Jan. 10, 2010 edition of the Washington Post.
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Lessig receives honorary doctorate from University of Amsterdam
January 8, 2010
Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig received an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam on January 8 for his well-known efforts to foster informational and cultural liberty on the Internet.
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Obama names Hauser and Campos to Intelligence Advisory Board
January 8, 2010
President Barack Obama ’91 has appointed Rita Hauser ’58 and Roel Campos ’79 to serve on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB). As members of the PIAB, Hauser and Campos will provide the President with independent advice on the effectiveness of the U.S. intelligence community.
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Machen nominated to serve as U.S. Attorney for D.C.
January 8, 2010
On December 24, President Barack Obama ’91 nominated Ronald Machen ’94 to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, pending confirmation by the Senate. Currently a partner at Wilmer Hale in Washington, D.C., Machen devotes his practice to complex civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and internal corporate investigations.
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Troy Davis and the Quest for Justice
January 7, 2010
On Wednesday, September 16, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice hosted an event to recognize the extraordinary death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis. Charles Ogletree '78, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, moderated a panel which brought to together Davis' sister, Martina Correia, his amicus counsel Kathleen Behan, and Jason Ewart, an Arnold and Porter associate who represented Davis during his habeas corpus petition before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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On Friday, November 6, Harvard Law School hosted to a day-long conference entitled “Confronting Legal Injustice/Imagining Legal Justice” in Ames Courtroom. A plethora of speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds addressed shortcomings in the law concerning capital punishment. They also looked at the future of the death penalty.
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A recent study by HLS Professor Carol Steiker ’86 and her brother, Professor Jordan Steiker of the University of Texas Law School, has led the American Law Institute (ALI) to vote to withdraw the capital punishment section of its Model Penal Code. The Model Penal Code provisions were cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 when it determined that the death penalty could be administered in a constitutional way. The Steikers’ study examined whether or not the death penalty was in fact being administered in compliance with the Constitution.
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On Dec. 14, Harvard Law School Professor Adriaan Lanni gave the annual Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Lecture on Aristotle and the Moderns at Columbia University. The title of the talk was “Reconciliation after Mass Atrocity: Lessons from Ancient Athens.”