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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.

  • Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow

    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.

  • Deborah Popowski ’08

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.)

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • David Wilkins

    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.

  • 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.

  • Dean Minow welcomes incoming class (video)

    January 1, 2010

    Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow welcomed this year’s class of incoming law students at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Aug. 30. In her first address of the academic year, Minow welcomed the more than 700 students who make up this year’s group of LL.M., J.D. and transfer students.

  • 2009 Year in Review: Student Highlights

    December 31, 2009

    HLS students have made headlines throughout 2009 - from winning writing competitions to participating in historic litigation to having real-world impact through clinical work.

  • Jack Goldsmith on American Institutions and the Trump Presidency

    Goldsmith in the Washington Post: No place to write detention policy

    December 22, 2009

    Since U.S. forces started taking alleged terrorists to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the task of crafting American detention policy has migrated decisively from the executive branch to federal judges. These judges, not experts in terrorism or national security and not politically accountable to the electorate, inherited this responsibility because of the Supreme Court's intervention in detention policy. Over time they maintained it because legislative and executive officials of both political parties refused to craft a comprehensive legislative approach to this novel set of problems that cries out for decisive lawmaking.

  • Elizabeth Warren

    Warren named Bostonian of the Year (video)

    December 17, 2009

    HLS Professor Elizabeth Warren was named the “Bostonian of the Year” for 2009 by the Boston Globe. The annual award, which recognizes people who have made the greatest impact on the region, was awarded to Warren for her role as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

  • Ford Foundation Awards $200,000 Grant to Harvard Law School’s Health Law and Policy Clinic

    December 17, 2009

    Harvard Law School’s Health Law and Policy Clinic at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center has been awarded a two-year grant of $200,000 from the Ford Foundation to support the clinic’s leading-edge work in health care law and policy reform.

  • At annual Supreme Court Forum, experts discuss “system effects” and judicial elections (video)

    December 17, 2009

    The Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling in Caperton v. A.T. Massey was the main focus of the Harvard Law Review’s Supreme Court forum this year. Held annually, the Supreme Court Forum focuses on the Law Review’s Supreme Court issue, which is published in November.

  • Harvard Law School 2009 – A year in review

    December 16, 2009

    2009 was a noteworthy year for Harvard Law School. A new dean took the helm—Martha Minow was appointed dean of Harvard Law School in June—and a number of faculty and alums were appointed to positions in the Obama administration. New scholars joined the faculty while the scholarship of current faculty members and HLS research programs made headlines.

  • Roe in Financial Times: End bankruptcy priority for derivatives, repos and swaps

    December 16, 2009

    Professor Mark Roe's op-ed entitled “End bankruptcy priority for derivatives, repos and swaps,” appeared in the Dec. 16, 2009, edition of the Financial Times.

  • 2009 Year in Review: Faculty Publications

    December 14, 2009

    In their book,“No Place to Hide: Gang, State, and Clandestine Violence in El Salvador” (Harvard University Press, 2009), Clinical Professor James Cavallaro and Spring…

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Hal Scott in WSJ: Do we really need a systemic regulator?

    December 11, 2009

    Harvard Law School Professor Hal Scott's op-ed, “Do we really need a systemic regulator?” appeared in the December 11, 2009, edition of the Wall Street Journal.