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  • Adam McCauley Illustration

    Engineering Lawyers

    July 23, 2006

    Once known for producing more engineers than lawyers, Japan is embarking on a journey of legal expansion.

  • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer

    And now, the paper chase, Japanese-style

    July 23, 2006

    It’s no coincidence that Japan’s new three-year graduate law schools look a lot like the model of legal education Harvard Law School helped craft over the last century.

  • Bipul Mainali

    Blood on the Roof of the World

    July 23, 2006

    In Nepal, lawyers helped restore the rule of law. But not without paying a price.

  • Honorable Richard Owen ’50

    Courtrooms and Dramas: Richard Owen ’50 has a noteworthy career in both

    July 23, 2006

    The Honorable Richard Owen ’50 once penned an order for a “cursed Quaker” woman to be tied to a cart and driven through several towns where she was to be whipped “10 stripes.”

  • Diana Daniels ’74

    A Lawyer at her Post

    July 23, 2006

    Diana Daniels ’74 was a Cravath, Swaine & Moore associate doing project finance in 1978 when she heard The Washington Post needed a lawyer.

  • Scott Nichols

    A conversation with Scott Nichols: Marathon man

    July 23, 2006

    After 20 years as Harvard Law School’s associate dean for development, Scott Nichols concluded his service on April 30 to become vice president for development and alumni relations at Boston University.

  • Alan Dershowitz at his desk

    Op-ed by Professor Dershowitz: Arithmetic of Pain

    July 21, 2006

    The following op-ed by Professor Alan Dershowitz, Arithmetic of Pain, was published in The Wall Street Journal on July 19, 2006: There is no democracy in the world that should tolerate missiles being fired at its cities without taking every reasonable step to stop the attacks. The big question raised by Israel's military actions in Lebanon is what is "reasonable."

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Professor Scott forecasts the end of American dominance in capital markets

    July 20, 2006

    The following op-ed, co-written by Professor Hal Scott, The End of American dominance in capital markets, was published in The Financial Times on July 19, 2006: Is a ticker-taped Trojan Horse soon to be planted on European shores, filled with an army of US regulators, Sarbanes-Oxley accountants and overzealous plaintiff lawyers?

  • Sabin Willett '83

    A Bankruptcy Lawyer at Gitmo

    July 12, 2006

    Sabin Willett leads a double life as a lawyer. Most days, he works on bankruptcy litigation in the Boston office of Bingham McCutchen. He likes the work. Really, he says, sitting in a conference room with a sweeping view of Boston harbor.

  • Asia 2006: Exchanging greetings—and ideas

    July 12, 2006

    HLS delegation barnstorms through Asia in mid-winter tour

  • Frank E.A. Sander ’52

    Frank E.A. Sander ’52

    July 12, 2006

    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.

  • Howell Jackson

    Howell Jackson weighs in on entitlement spending

    July 11, 2006

    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.

  • Professor David Kennedy

    David Kennedy on the UN's new role

    July 10, 2006

    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.

  • In Memoriam – Summer 2006 Bulletin

    July 6, 2006

    1930-39 | 1940-49 | 1950-59 | 1960-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-1989 | 2000-2009 1930-1939 David R. Blossom ’32-’34 of Kiantone, N.Y., died Sept. 17, 2005. He practiced law at Alexander…

  • Bebchuk vs. CA enables shareholder voting on poison pill bylaws

    July 5, 2006

    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.

  • Dean Roscoe Pound at Beijing-Hubei prison

    China Connection

    July 1, 2006

    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…

  • (Internet) cafe society in Beijing

    Who controls the Internet?

    July 1, 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.”

  • Fighting for children, not over them

    July 1, 2006

    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.

  • Professor Carol Steiker ’86

    Who lives and who dies?

    July 1, 2006

    “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 … ’”

  • Elena Kagan

    Asian Journeys

    July 1, 2006

    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…

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Financial experts meet in China to discuss U.S.-China financial relationship

    June 22, 2006

    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.