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Keystones and Pillars
January 1, 2010
Finn M.W. Caspersen ’66: 1941-2009 Bruce Wasserstein ’70: 1947-2009 Two of Harvard Law School’s greatest alumni leaders died this fall, as the building that will stand as a tribute to their support was rising.
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Luke Cole ’89: 1962-2009
January 1, 2010
Luke Cole ’89, a leader in the environmental justice movement—which holds that many minority neighborhoods have become toxic dumping grounds—died June 6, 2009, in a traffic accident in Uganda at age 46.
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Michael Weston ’97: 1971-2009
January 1, 2010
Michael Weston ’97, special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Oct. 26, 2009, while working with the U.S. military to fight drug trafficking in the region.
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Hearsay: Short takes from faculty op-eds
January 1, 2010
America Is on Trial as Much as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Professor Alan Dershowitz
The Globe and Mail
Nov. 13, 2009 Credit: Grady McFerrin “The Obama administration has… -
George H. Kidder ’50: 1925-2009
January 1, 2010
George H. Kidder ’50, a partner for more than 40 years with the Boston law firm Hemenway & Barnes and a civic-minded lawyer who contributed extensively to the Boston community, died Aug. 20 at the age of 84 at his home in Concord, Mass.
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Finding Common Ground
January 1, 2010
Singleton, who hails from North Carolina and now lives in Cincinnati, found himself an “East Coast liberal” professor engaging a crop of young conservative law students in criminal justice reform.
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Socratic But Not Scary
January 1, 2010
It’s Tuesday afternoon in a Pound Hall classroom. The Socratic method is in use, and the class is engaged. But the professor is a Harvard Law student and he is teaching 13 teenagers—all involved in the juvenile justice system.
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Raise High the Roof Beam
January 1, 2010
The magic of education lies in the interactions between people. In this age of the virtual, we celebrate digital possibilities but we cherish the unique connections among professors, students, alumni, faculty and staff.
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Shutter Speed: 65 Years
January 1, 2010
A few years ago, retired Judge Bentley Kassal ’40 began giving talks on his World War II experience: He was an air intelligence officer who participated in three invasions and was recognized by the U.S. Army with a Bronze Star for “meritorious service in direct support of combat operations.”
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Striving Always to Get It Right: Reflections on David Souter
January 1, 2010
Last spring, David Hackett Souter ’66—the U.S. Supreme Court’s 105th justice—announced his retirement and stepped down at the end of the term. We asked four alumni who had firsthand experience with the justice for their reflections.
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Points of Inflection: A conversation with a new dean
January 1, 2010
Five months into her new job, Dean Martha Minow shares some insights - and even a little advice.
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A Call to Do No Harm
January 1, 2010
Coercive interrogations inflict discomfort or pain with the goal of eliciting information. Yet all too often, says Deborah Popowski ’08, those involved in such interrogations are supposed to be helping people, not hurting them.
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A Question of Interrogation
January 1, 2010
On Jan. 22, 2009, President Barack Obama ’91 signed an executive order mandating that individuals detained in armed conflict will “be treated humanely and shall not be subjected to violence to life and person.” Harvard Law School Professor Philip Heymann ’60 had an answer. And his proposal may soon become the standard for the how the United States handles interrogations to prevent future terrorist attacks.
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A View from the Brink
January 1, 2010
When the U.S. financial system came excruciatingly close to collapse, Rodge Cohen was suddenly the man to call.
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A Minow Sampler
January 1, 2010
Dean Martha Minow writes a lot about diversity. And there’s lots of diversity in what she writes about. Her many articles and books explore topics such as privatization, family law, responses to mass violence, civil procedure, equality and inequality, and religion and pluralism.Excerpts from just a few of her publications follow. (See her bibliography for more.)
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Recent Faculty Books – Winter 2010
January 1, 2010
“The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States” (New York University Press, 2009), edited by Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. ’78 and Austin Sarat, takes on an interdisciplinary exploration of the debate surrounding the death penalty at the turn of the 21st century.
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First Fiction
January 1, 2010
“Stubborn as a Mule,” is set at a small liberal arts college in Maine. The school’s president, a right-wing economist, tries to unseat a Republican Senate moderate (and HLS grad).
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New strategies for a changing job market
January 1, 2010
In both the public and private sectors, Harvard Law students are facing a tougher job market than in recent memory.
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Lawyers Without Borders
January 1, 2010
In the wake of the current economic crisis and growing globalization, the job market for lawyers is tougher than at any time in recent history. We asked Professor David Wilkins ’80, head of HLS’s Program on the Legal Profession, how these factors will shape legal practice and education.
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Staunching the Foreclosure Crisis
January 1, 2010
The canvassing effort, dubbed Project No One Leaves, was launched in 2008 by two HLAB students, Nick Hartigan ’09 and David Haller ’09, along with WilmerHale Legal Services Center clinical student Tony Borich ’09.