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“Here, Have a Seat”
July 1, 2008
Often, there’s a bond between the donor of a new chair and the scholar who occupies it.
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Intermission
July 1, 2008
The past five years have brought remarkable growth and change to Harvard Law School. Here, the Bulletin takes a time-out for a brief recap and puts five questions to Dean Elena Kagan ’86.
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Hearsay: Faculty Short Takes Summer 2008
July 1, 2008
The Laws in Wartime Professor Jack Goldsmith
Slate Magazine, April 2 “We are surprisingly close to putting policy issues in the war on terrorism on… -
Recent Faculty Books – Summer 2008
July 1, 2008
In “Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism” (Wiley, 2007), Professor Alan Dershowitz contemplates modern-day First Amendment…
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A Labor of Love on Love’s Labors
July 1, 2008
As a 3L at Yale Law School in the mid-1960s, Charles Donahue studied a series of decisions by Pope Alexander III (1159-1181) that became the basis of marriage law in Western Europe for the next three centuries. At the time, he didn’t realize how they would come to rule his own life.
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Filling in the Gaps
July 1, 2008
Most judges, faced with the task of interpreting unclear statutes, want to do the right thing, says Harvard Law School Professor Einer Elhauge ’86. Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy.
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Mightier Than the S-word
July 1, 2008
Randall Kennedy knows what it’s like to be called a sellout. Throughout his 24-year career at Harvard Law School, Kennedy has developed a reputation as a professor who is not afraid to challenge orthodoxies—sometimes to the alarm of liberals and black Americans.
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Taking Faith
July 1, 2008
While in Guatemala this winter, Therese Rohrbeck touched what remains of The Dream of Pope Gregory IX.
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The Changing Climate of Environmental Law
July 1, 2008
In this issue of the Bulletin, you will see how hard Harvard Law School has been working to ensure that it has an environmental law program truly worthy of its students and alumni—and how this program is fast becoming an international leader in showing how law schools (and lawyers) can actively shape a field that will in many ways determine the world’s future.
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A chat with H. Marshall Sonenshine ’85
July 1, 2008
H. Marshall Sonenshine ’85 is chairman and managing partner of Sonenshine Partners, a New York-based investment banking firm, which has completed billions of dollars in M&A and restructuring deals in a broad range of industries worldwide.
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Everything … and Right Now
July 1, 2008
The founding director of Harvard’s new Environmental Law Program wastes no time—and says there’s no time to waste. Professor Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95…
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Assumed Risks and Other Dangers
July 1, 2008
Consider the two most challenging environmental problems of our time—the depletion of the earth’s protective ozone layer, and global climate change. The first one, writes Cass Sunstein ’78, “has been essentially solved, whereas very little progress has been made on the second.”
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The Baykeeper’s Legacy
July 1, 2008
When Dan A. Emmett attended Harvard Law School in the early 1960s, there was no such thing as an environmental movement, let alone an environmental law class or clinic. But five years after his 1964 graduation, an ecological disaster awakened Emmett and many of his fellow Californians to the cause of environmental protection.
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“Nontraditional, multifaceted and creative”
July 1, 2008
After public service and private practice, Wendy B. Jacobs ’81 brings worlds of experience to a new clinic
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Lawyers for the Dammed
July 1, 2008
For students and faculty in an HLS clinic, human rights and environmental law flow together.
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On accepting Sacks Freund Award, Levinson reminds students what they learned in law school
June 29, 2008
Professor Daryl Levinson was awarded the prestigious Sacks Freund Award for excellence in teaching during Class Day exercises on Wednesday, June 4. He marked the occasion with some humorous remarks, giving the class of 2008 a “review session” of the “ten ideas that explain virtually all of law.”
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Martha Minow discusses equality in education
June 24, 2008
Harvard Law School Professor Martha Minow is co-editor of "Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference," a new book exploring ways to create more equal schools in an increasingly multicultural America.
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HLS International Human Rights Clinic co-releases report assessing prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes
June 20, 2008
The International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at Harvard Law School and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) have joined together to release "Prosecuting Apartheid-Era Crimes? A South African Dialogue on Justice," a report examining recently intensified questions about prosecuting crimes committed during apartheid.
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Newly appointed Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 spoke about “The Future of the Internet” at the Berkman@10 Conference earlier this spring.