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Recent Faculty Books – Fall 2006
September 1, 2006
In “Judging under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation” (Harvard University Press, 2006), Professor Adrian Vermeule ’93 takes up the question: How should judges interpret statutes and the Constitution?
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Strangers at the fence
September 1, 2006
Neuman, formerly at Columbia, joined the Harvard Law faculty this summer as the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law. He is the author of “Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders, and Fundamental Law” (Princeton University Press, 1996).
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In humanity’s lost and found
September 1, 2006
On world refugee day in June, Kofi Annan and Angelina Jolie urged the world to keep hope alive for millions of refugees. In a camp in eastern Africa, Scott Paltrowitz ’08 found that hope is often all that refugees have.
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Connecting to Practice
September 1, 2006
This issue of the Bulletin is dedicated to the fast-changing face of the legal profession, which is evolving in ways unimaginable even a decade ago.
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Refining the techniques of negotiation and ADR
September 1, 2006
“Negotiation is like jazz. It’s improvisation on a theme–you know where you want to go, but you don’t know how to get there. It’s not…
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Letter from Baghdad
September 1, 2006
The news from Baghdad this month tends to make me share Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s famous preference for “not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.”
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Traffic on the off-ramp
September 1, 2006
Women are still second-class citizens in the legal profession. What can be done about it?
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The coming wave
September 1, 2006
In the 1970s, many went into law to make a difference. Some of them are finally making it now. Today’s young lawyers don’t want to wait that long.
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Louis B. Sohn, 1914-2006
September 1, 2006
Celebrated international law professor Louis B. Sohn LL.M. ’40 S.J.D. ’58 died at his home in Falls Church, Va., in June. He spent much of his career advocating for increased powers for the United Nations and championing disarmament and human rights.
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Les Misérables – Part Deux…
September 1, 2006
Did some 19th-century images cause the legal profession’s image problem? Anyone who is tempted to think that lawyer jokes and barbs aimed at the legal…
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A conversation with Jay Hebert ’86
September 1, 2006
Jay Hebert ’ 86 is president of the Harvard Law School Association. He chairs the communications practice group of the law firm of Vinson & Elkins, and he’s a partner in the firm’s business and international group.
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Dangerous liaisons?
September 1, 2006
In May 2003, Matias Garcia, a farm laborer from Oaxaca, Mexico, set out to cross the U.S. border to find work. For Garcia, like hundreds of others each year, the attempt proved fatal—he perished on a 32-mile trek across the blistering Arizona desert.
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The ballot chase
September 1, 2006
If you thought the first year of law school tested your mettle, try running for Congress. It’s not always easy being a Harvard lawyer on the campaign trail.
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A group of Harvard Law students has helped to bring about a landmark decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which ruled earlier this month that the Brazilian government bears responsibility for the death of a patient in a state-affiliated psychiatric hospital.
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Harvard Law grad named next attorney general of New Jersey
August 28, 2006
Last week, Harvard Law graduate Stuart Rabner was appointed attorney general of New Jersey by Governor Jon Corzine. Rabner is a member of the class of '85.
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Hanson examines downsides of athlete worship
August 28, 2006
An op-ed co-written by Professor Jon Hanson: To sports fans, it probably wasn't a surprise to learn that former Ohio State University football star Maurice Clarett was arrested again the other week. The evasive running back who had carried the Buckeyes to the 2002 National Championship was unsuccessful in evading the police in a car chase that occurred near the home of a witness in his upcoming robbery trial.
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Tribe argues that executive branch has overstepped its bounds
August 24, 2006
This week, Professor Laurence Tribe argued in an interview on WBUR's program "On Point" that the executive branch has exceeded the scope of its constitutional power. Tribe debated the question of wartime powers with Douglas Kmiec, a professor of law at Pepperdine University.
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Desan says look to local government for campaign finance reform
August 18, 2006
The following op-ed, co-written by Professor Christine Desan, A model for fair campaigns, appeared in The Boston Globe on August 18, 2006: With less than three months until the November election, the governor's race is heating up in Massachusetts.
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Let cities regulate ‘big-box’ retailers, says Barron
August 17, 2006
The following essay by Professor David Barron, Boxed Out, appeared in The Boston Globe on August 13, 2006: Not so long ago, America's big cities were so desperate to attract commercial development they gladly would have given away the store to get one. But not now, as Wal-Mart and other super-retailers recently discovered.
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Minow examines ways to prevent wartime atrocities
August 16, 2006
The following op-ed, co-written by Professor Martha Minow, Relearning Vietnam's painful lessons, appeared in The Boston Globe on August 14, 2006. Current events make the Vietnam era more relevant than ever. We are engaged in a war without plan or prospects for disengagement. The conflict seems part of a global danger, but we also seem interlopers -- and attractive targets -- in a civil war.