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When I first began to work with Frank Sander ’52 as a 3L at Harvard Law School in 1997, I realized that when it came to finding a mentor in alternative dispute resolution, I had struck gold.

The following op-ed by Professor Howell Jackson, Big Liability, was published in The New Republic Online. Jackson argues that the first test for Hank Paulson, the new Treasury secretary, will be a little-noticed government accounting dispute that could soon dwarf the Enron scandal.

The following op-ed by Professor David Kennedy, Recasting UN's Role, was published in The Boston Globe on July 8, 2006: Today's most significant global challenges, whether humanitarian or military, are being addressed by diverse ad hoc coalitions. This new multilateralism will require more from the United Nations, making the selection of the next secretary general more important than at any time in the organization's history.

The Delaware Chancery Court issued a decision in the litigation initiated by Professor Lucian Bebchuk against CA Inc. The decision forced CA to withdraw its plan to exclude Bebchuk's poison pill proposal from the corporate ballot and opens the door to shareholder voting on such proposals in other companies.

Unfinished business: Roscoe Pound in China Roscoe Pound, HLS dean from 1916 to 1936, was ready for a new challenge in 1946 when the Kuomintang…

According to one prediction, the new technology will bring every individual “into immediate and effortless communication with every other” and will “practically obliterate political geography and make free trade universal.”

When Melissa Patterson ’06 signed up for a clinical placement through the school’s new Child Advocacy Program this year, she was looking for something as “real-world” as possible.

“Stay in role!” exhorts Professor Carol Steiker ’86, as some 90 students in her upper-level course Capital Punishment in America split into groups for an exercise in which they’ll argue whether a death sentence should be reversed due to ineffective assistance of counsel. “Don’t say, ‘If I were the lawyer, I would … ’”

As East Asia takes center stage in world affairs, it seems like the right time to dedicate an issue of the Bulletin to exploring the…

This weekend, leaders of the financial systems of the United States and China will gather in Tianjin, China to examine the financial relationship between the two countries. Organized by HLS's Program on International Financial Systems and the China Development Research Foundation, the "Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for China and the United States" will allow participants from the U.S. and China to discuss financial challenges facing the two nations.

Professor Richard Fallon is this year's winner of the prestigious Sacks-Freund Teaching Award, an honor bestowed each year by the Harvard Law School graduating class. The award recognizes teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns and general contributions to student life at the law school.

In its annual meeting this spring, the American Law and Economics Association elected Professor Lucian Bebchuk as its Vice-President/ President-Elect. He will serve as vice-president until the Association's annual meeting next spring when he will assume the Association's presidency for one year.

Anand Swaminathan '06 received the Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award for performing the highest number of pro bono service hours in the Class of 2006. The award is named for Professor Andy Kaufman who was a leader in supporting HLS's Pro Bono Service Program.

Professor Emeritus Louis Sohn, one of the 20th century's leading international law scholars and a member of the Harvard Law faculty for 39 years, died on Wednesday, June 7. He was 92.

On May 17th, more than 160 Harvard-trained financiers and lawyers met for a breakfast symposium at the University Club in Manhattan to hear a panel of experts discuss the growing involvement of hedge funds in the financing and management of start-ups and other companies.

The following essay by Professor Glendon was published in the June/July issue of First Things: Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples. And once again, the United States is confronted with the challenge of absorbing large numbers of newcomers. There are approximately 200 million migrants and refugees worldwide, triple the number estimated by the UN only seventeen years ago.

In a case filed in the Delaware Chancery Court, Professor Lucian Bebchuk is challenging CA Corporation's assertion in an SEC submission that Bebchuk's poison pill-limiting bylaw proposal is illegal under Delaware law.