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        In his most recent book, The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It, Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 paints a disheartening picture of the future of the Internet’s innovation and participatory opportunities. If we continue on our current trajectory, he warns, we will lose sight of the most positive characteristics the Internet has brought to society. 
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        Daryl Levinson, the Fessenden Professor of Law, joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 2005. He teaches and writes primarily about constitutional law and theory. He has been tasked by Dean Elena Kagan ’86 with helping students and alumni who want to become law professors. In the latest issue of Harvard Law Today, he answered some questions about how students -- and alumni -- can become legal academics. 
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        Greiner trains litigators to get the most from number crunchers
 August 22, 2008 Jim Greiner, an HLS assistant professor of law, created a unique course as a joint endeavor between HLS and the Harvard statistics department, where Greiner, who holds a Ph.D. in statistics, is an affiliate. The 13 law students will be taking and defending two depositions each, one involving a political redistricting hypothetical and the other involving an employment discrimination case. 
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        Jody Freeman explains why there’s no time to waste in the field of environmental law
 August 22, 2008 Professor Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95 joined the faculty in 2005. She recently told the Harvard Law Bulletin why climbing Mount Kilimanjaro didn’t turn her into an environmentalist—and what did. 
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        Letter from Port-au-Prince: Can Human-Rights Law Feed Haiti?
 August 22, 2008 The graffiti started appearing in mid-February: “Aba Lavichè!” Lavi chè was Creole for la vie chère—the high cost of living. I should have realized. Rising prices for gas, basic foodstuffs and school fees had been the talk since I’d arrived last August to work for a small NGO that does human-rights law. 
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        Sunstein advocates for further disclosure in credit industry
 August 21, 2008 The following article, "Disclosure Is the Best Kind of Credit Regulation," co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein '78 and University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler, was published in the Wall Street Journal on August 13, 2008. 
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        The following article, Buildup to the next war, written by Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman, was published in the New York Times Magazine on August 8, 2008. 
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        John Goldberg to join HLS faculty
 August 21, 2008 Vanderbilt University Law School Professor John Goldberg, an expert in tort law, tort theory, and political philosophy, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a tenured professor this fall. 
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        Kagan is honored for her work to encourage public service
 August 21, 2008 Dean Elena Kagan ’86 has been awarded the 2008 John R. Kramer Outstanding Law Dean Award from Equal Justice Works for her extensive efforts to promote and support public service. 
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        Sunstein studies partisanship on the Supreme Court
 August 21, 2008 The following article, "Judicial Partisanship Awards," written by Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein '78, was published in the Washington Independent on July 31, 2008. 
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        An op-ed by Professor Laurence Tribe: The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty
 August 21, 2008 The following op-ed, The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty, written by Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe '66, was published in the Wall Street Journal on July 31, 2008. 
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        Two HLS grads the focus of vice presidential speculation
 August 21, 2008 As presidential candidates Barack Obama '91 and John McCain prepare for their parties' nominating conventions, rumors are swirling around two Harvard Law graduates as likely vice presidential candidates. 
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        Bartholet testifies before Congress about arbitration laws
 August 21, 2008 Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Bartholet '65 testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today about mandatory pre-dispute arbitration, a practice often used in workplaces and by credit card companies to ensure that employees and consumers agree to resolve all conflicts through arbitration instead of through the court system. 
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        HLS grad nominated to top UN Human Rights post
 August 21, 2008 Navanethem Pillay LL.M. ’82 S.J.D. ’88 is expected to become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will announce Pillay’s nomination, which requires the approval of the General Assembly, early this week. 
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        In dispatches from Iraq, Erik Swabb ’09 describes dramatic changes in security situation
 August 21, 2008 Iraq war veteran Erik Swabb ’09 recently returned to Iraq and was embedded with a U.S. combat unit, hoping to gain an informed assessment of… 
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        Vermeule says many minds are not necessarily better than one
 August 15, 2008 During a recent conference on collective wisdom organized by Professor Jon Elster of the College de France in Paris, Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 presented a working paper debunking the idea that several minds are always better than one in legal decision-making. 
 
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        Harvard Law School professor emeritus Bernard Wolfman, a leading tax law expert, has written a strong critique of an emerging trend: the patenting of specific tax strategies. 
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        Harvard’s Good Servant
 August 8, 2008 John H. Mansfield ’56 retires after instilling a “desire to respond” in generations of Harvard Law students By James A. Sonne ’97 John Mansfield has… 
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        The Ultimate Cafeteria
 July 29, 2008 With the help of Harvard Law School’s new curriculum reforms, it’s getting easier for law students to take part in Harvard University’s intellectual feast. 
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        At Home in the World
 July 29, 2008 The new curriculum embraces law’s increasingly transnational nature 
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        Students participate in historic apartheid litigation
 July 29, 2008 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a case that nearly 20 Harvard Law School Human Rights Program clinical students have worked on over the last three years. 
 
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
              