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On Tuesday evening, April 3, prominent social psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Phil Zimbardo spoke in Ames Courtroom about his new book titled The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.

The following article by 3L Andrew Woods was published on Slate.com, March 28, 2007: Last month, a federal court in Virginia dismissed the appeal of Khaled el-Masri, a German man whom the Bush administration admits it mistakenly kidnapped and tortured in the CIA's "salt pit" in Afghanistan.

Kathryn Spier, currently a tenured professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and School of Law, has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty. Spier is an expert in law and economics, with a particular focus on liability, strategic contracting, and litigation strategy.

This past weekend, Harvard Law School's European Law Moot Court team won second place at the the All-European Final, which took place at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

The Wasserstein family has made a $25 million gift to Harvard Law School to support construction of Wasserstein Hall, the new academic center of the Harvard Law School campus, Dean Elena Kagan announced today. The gift is the second biggest in the Law School’s history.

Last weekend, Harvard Law School's Jessup International Moot Court team finished second in the regional round of the competition held at Suffolk Law School.

A group of Harvard Law School students announced their support for Barack Obama '91 last week at an event held in Pound Hall to rally support for the Obama campaign.

Professor Lucian Bebchuk, LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84 testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services on March 8 in a hearing on executive pay.

The following op-ed, co-written by HLS Assistant Professor Jeannie Suk and NYU School of Law Professor Noah Feldman, was published in The Wall Street Journal on March 13, 2007: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reopened old wounds in Asia with his defense of Japan's participation in sex slavery during World War II.

Harvard Law School's Child Advocacy Program (CAP) and the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law will jointly host a conference on legal issues affecting children, to be held at HLS April 13-15.

The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, the oldest student-run legal services organization in the country, has elected its new Board of Directors. Lam Ho and Anna Ferrari will be heading the public-interest law firm as president and executive director, respectively.

Progressive students at Harvard Law School now have a journal of their own thanks to Michael Negron '07 and James Weingarten '07.

On Tuesday evening, February 20, Professor Randall Kennedy delivered a talk in honor of his appointment as the first-ever Michael R. Klein Professor of Law.

The Satter Human Rights Fellowships, made possible by a generous gift from the Satter Foundation, will provide two fellowships annually to work with human rights organizations responding to mass atrocities or widespread and severe patterns of rights abuse.

With the goal of increasing the international opportunities available to their students, Harvard Law School and The University of Sydney in Australia have established a Student Exchange Program. Beginning in July 2007, selected HLS J.D. candidates will be able to spend a semester in Sydney.

Harvard Law School students in two clinical programs saw their work showcased in a Canadian House of Commons committee hearing on February 8.

A report released today by the Boston Foundation finds that the city of Boston is so restrained by state government that it lacks the power and ability to shape its own future.

The following op-ed was published in The New York Times on February 14, 2007: Slowly but surely, corporate America is giving up the staggered board. Some businesses are responding to corporate governance rating agencies, which penalize companies that do not elect all of the directors each year.

Following today's announcement that Drew Gilpin Faust has been appointed the 28th president of Harvard University, Law School Dean Elena Kagan released the following statement:

Professor William Stuntz formally accepted the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law chair on February 6. After an introduction by Dean Elena Kagan '86, Stuntz marked the occasion with a lecture entitled "Fighting Wars and Fighting Crime."