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Professor William Fisher III has been named the Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced. The Hale and Dorr chair was established in October 2002 in connection with a gift from the Boston-based law firm.

On Wednesday, October 8, Harvard Law School honored the life and career of Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox. In addition to a video presentation on Cox's experience as the first Watergate special prosecutor, the event featured remarks by Dean Elena Kagan and Professors Philip Heymann, Clark Byse, Carol Steiker and David Wilkins.

This week, on October 10 and 11, the Harvard Law School chapter of Lambda will host a conference on the United States' policy toward gays and lesbians in the military. Participants will consider the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas on military integration, the legality of the Solomon Amendment, and why military service is an important issue in the movement for gay and lesbian equality.

This afternoon, Harvard Law School honored the career of Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox. The ceremony included an unveiling of the law school's new portrait of Cox and speeches by Dean Elena Kagan and Professors Philip Heymann, Clark Byse, Carol Steiker and David Wilkins.

On Tuesday, October 7, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson will discuss the future of the Democratic Party and the Latino vote at the 2003 Wurf Memorial Lecture at Harvard Law School. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom.

From October 3-5, leaders of the financial systems of the United States and Japan will gather in Gotemba, Japan to discuss issues affecting the global financial system. The occasion is the sixth annual Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Japan and the United States, sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems, in cooperation with The International House of Japan.

Will easy and inexpensive publishing technology change the face of politics, business, journalism, the law, medicine, engineering and education? Is a revolution underway, or are weblogs just the latest Internet craze? Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society will be hosting a conference this weekend that will explore these issues. Educators, journalists, scientists and representatives of political campaigns will be among the participants discussing how new publishing technologies are changing their industries.

Two Harvard Law School alumni, Carrie Leonetti and Sarah Walter, have been selected as the first recipients of the James Vorenberg Fellowships in Criminal Justice. Fellowships are awarded to HLS graduates participating in the Low Income Protection Plan, a loan repayment program pioneered at Harvard that assists graduates who work in public service.

On Wednesday, October 1, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School will present Stuart Eizenstat with its annual Great Negotiator Award.

Why are there so few prenuptial agreements? A paper recently released by Heather Mahar, an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, attempts to explain why only 5 percent of married couples have prenuptial agreements even though roughly 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Mahar, a 2002 Harvard Law graduate, discusses her findings and her future research.

On Wednesday, September 24, Georgetown Law Center Professor David Cole, legal affairs correspondent for The Nation and commentator for NPR's All Things Considered, will give a talk on his upcoming book, "Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms: Why Sacrificing Immigrants' Rights in the War on Terrorism Undermines Our Security and Our Liberty." A book signing event will follow his remarks.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law Professors Einer Elhauge and Laurence Tribe took opposing views of the recent Ninth Circuit Court decision to delay the California recall until the punch card voting systems used in some California counties could be replaced.

Harvard Law School has announced the creation of a fund to support courses, seminars, research and conferences on ways to combat discrimination and prejudice. The Sheldon Seevak/Facing History and Ourselves Fund, established with a $2 million gift from Sheldon Seevak, will be managed by HLS Professor Martha Minow.

Writing in the current edition of the Harvard Law Record student newspaper, Professors Alan Dershowitz and Charles Ogletree weighed in on the various responses to the terrorist strikes of September 11, 2001.

On Wednesday, Sept. 10, Danny Glover, chairman of the board of directors of TransAfrica Forum will speak on the Patriot Act and patriotism. The remarks, sponsored by the Harvard Law School Saturday School Program, will begin at 6 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall. For those unable to attend the event, the speech will be webcast live.

On Friday, September 5, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher will speak on the role of lawyers in society, with an emphasis on the value of public service. Christopher will be interviewed by Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker. The conversation, entitled "Lawyer and Citizen: Serving the Public Good" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom.

More than 1,000 of the nation's civic and business leaders, journalists, activists, and policy-makers will gather at Harvard Law School this weekend for a four-day conference exploring the progress of racial integration in the United States. Sponsored by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, a joint program of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Color Lines Conference will consider the current trends in racial integration, how to shape the future, and what public policies and private practices are most promising.

Sarah Bennett admits she probably should have been on crutches when she arrived in Cambridge last fall to start her first year at HLS. But the West Virginia native was, by her own account, too stubborn. Never mind that only three weeks before, she'd been bucked off a horse that then fell on top of her, breaking her knee and causing her to hit her head so hard she had a seizure before losing consciousness.