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Professor Scott releases white paper on corporate governance

May 22, 2006

Professor Hal Scott and the HLS Program on International Financial Systems have released a white paper based on a half-day symposium that focused on key issues of corporate governance affecting companies, investors, and financial markets globally. Cosponsored by the Program on International Financial Systems, Standard and Poor’s and BusinessWeek, the symposium convened in New York on December 6, 2005.

An op-ed by Professor Parker: 'Senators, Congressmen, Please Heed the Call . . .'

May 19, 2006

The following op-ed by Professor Richard Parker was published in the June issue of American Legion Magazine: This Spring, the American flag was in the news again. Several high schools forbade students to display a flag--or even to wear red-white-and-blue clothing. Their reason was stark. The flag, they said, is controversial.

Report by HLS clinic is basis for statewide education conference

May 19, 2006

A recent report by the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), a clinical placement for Harvard Law students, was the centerpiece of a daylong, state-wide conference hosted by the Massachusetts Department of Education on Wednesday, May 10. The conference, "Reducing Trauma as a Barrier to Learning," was attended by more than 250 teachers, school administrators, superintendents and mental health professionals that work in schools.

Jack Goldsmith on American Institutions and the Trump Presidency

In new book, Goldsmith argues that state control doesn’t diminish in the Internet age

May 17, 2006

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."

Professor Tribe weighs in on NSA wiretapping

May 16, 2006

The escalating controversy over the National Security Agency's data mining program illustrates yet again how the Bush administration's intrusions on personal privacy based on a post-9/11 mantra of ''national security" directly threaten one of the enduring sources of that security: the Fourth Amendment ''right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."

Linda Greenhouse to be 2006 Class Day speaker

May 15, 2006

Pulitzer prize winning legal writer Linda Greenhouse will be the 2006 Class Day speaker at Harvard Law School. The Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, Greenhouse will address graduating students and their families on Wednesday, June 7, as part of Class Day excercises.

Lynch Mobs in the Kill State: Ogletree book

Conference examines race and the death penalty

May 2, 2006

This weekend, Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice will host a national conference to examine a number of legal, racial and political issues surrounding the death penalty. The event, "From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State," will take place May 5-6 in Ames Courtroom (HLS's Austin Hall) in conjunction with the release of a new book by the same title, written by Professor Charles Ogletree and Amherst College Professor Austin Sarat.

Professors claim four spots on 'Top 10' in corporate and securities laws

April 27, 2006

This year's list of 10 Best Corporate and Securities articles includes articles by four Harvard Law faculty: Professors Lucian Bebchuk, Einer Elhauge, Mark Roe and Guhan Subramanian. The list was chosen by corporate and securities law faculty from around the country and will be announced in an upcoming issue of the legal journal, "Corporate Practice Commentator."

3L receives award for commitment to ethics

April 26, 2006

Luke Nikas, 3L, has been awarded the Professional Responsibility Award by the Northeast Region of the Association of Corporate Counsel. The award recognizes six Boston-area law students who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to ethics. Nikas was nominated for his clinical work at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center.

Johansen to lead Islamic Legal Studies Program

April 25, 2006

Professor Baber Johansen will become the acting director of Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program and an affiliated professor at HLS, while continuing to serve as a professor at Harvard Divinity School. Established in 1991, the program focuses on the study of Islamic law and supports open inquiry of both Muslim and non-Muslim perspectives.