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Harvard University’s 356th annual Commencement festivities came to a close yesterday. The Harvard Law School conferred 742 total degrees upon graduates, including 574 J.D.'s, 154 LL.M.'s, and 14 S.J.D's on Thursday, June 7.

Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Robert Bordone '97 is this year’s winner of the prestigious Sacks-Freund Teaching Award, and Doralean Cox is the winner of the Suzanne Richardson Staff Recognition Award.

Harvard Law School Professor Howell Jackson '82 testified before the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board last week about his proposal to reform accounting for social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicare. If adopted, the new standards could facilitate entitlement reform in the U.S.

The National Law Journal has named Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan '86 and Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren as two of the top female attorneys in the country on its list of the "50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America," published on Monday.

Harvard Law School graduate Robert Zoellick ’81 has been appointed president of the World Bank by President Bush. A career diplomat, Zoellick emerged as the first choice of economic ministers around the world to fill the post left vacant by Paul Wolfowitz and will face the difficult task of bringing credibility to the institution. His nomination must be confirmed by the World Bank board of member countries.

Harvard Law School Professor Kenneth Mack ’91 is the recipient of a 2007 Fletcher Fellowship for his work exploring civil rights history and race and the law.

Robert H. Sitkoff, currently a tenured professor at the New York University School of Law and an expert in trusts and estates, has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty.

According to a study released last Friday by the OpenNet Initiative – a partnership among Internet research groups at four leading universities, including the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School – at least 25 countries around the world block or filter Internet content, indicating a global trend towards Internet censorship.

Harvard Law School Professor Philip Heymann ’60, a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and an expert in criminal law, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary yesterday on how to regulate and prevent illegal Internet drug sales.

As part of an ongoing effort to expand the full-time faculty at HLS, Dean Elena Kagan '86 announced today that Gabriella Blum LL.M. '01 S.J.D. '03 and D. James Greiner have accepted offers to join the Harvard Law School faculty as assistant professors.

In its annual meeting this month, the American Law and Economics Association elected Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk, LL.M. ’80 and S.J.D. ’84 as its president. In accordance with the association's traditions, Bebchuk delivered a presidential address at the meeting.

Professor Elizabeth Warren, a leading bankruptcy expert and consumer protection advocate, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance today. The committee was hearing testimony about the economic issues facing America’s middle class.

On June 27, Harvard Law School students working in summer jobs around the country will be donating one day of their wages to charitable organizations thanks to One Day's Work, a new organization founded by HLS students.

This year’s list of 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles includes two selections from the Harvard Law faculty: Professors Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84 and Reinier Kraakman were honored for recent articles examining shareholder rights and law firm partitioning.

Since its founding, Harvard has been an educational leader. Its 1650 charter broadly conceives its mission to include "the advancement of all good literature, arts, and sciences, [and] the advancement and education of youth in all manner of good literature, arts, and sciences." From John Harvards library through todays my.harvard.edu, the University has worked to create and spread knowledge, educating citizens within and outside its walls.

Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker ’86, several students, and two HLS alumni celebrated a supreme victory on April 25 when the high court ruled that death sentences in three cases from Texas should be overturned. Steiker and several of her research assistants contributed to the defense of three individuals on death row, along with Jordan Steiker ’88 and Robert Owen ’89, co-directors of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law’s Capital Punishment Clinic.

On Saturday, April 14, the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review awarded two HLS instructors and a juvenile justice advocate for their work in public service. Hosted by Dean Elena Kagan ’86, the event honored Robert Greenwald, Patricia Puritz, and Jimmy Klein. Each honoree spoke about the future of public interest law and encouraged students to follow in their footsteps.

This past weekend, three Harvard Law School students took home the first place trophy from The Negotiation Challenge in Leipzig, Germany. A team comprised of Frederic Bourdais '07, Kimathi Kueneya '07, and Grace Chien '08 won the competition.

"Modern antitrust law is global antitrust law," says HLS Professor Einer Elhauge '86, co-author of the newly published book, "Global Antitrust Law and Economics" (Foundation Press, 2007), written with Damien Geradin, a professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.