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  • Law on the Front Lines

    September 1, 2004

    One of the most important responsibilities of educational institutions is to aid in the understanding and resolution of the world’s most pressing problems. Harvard Law…

  • Building Vision

    September 1, 2004

    Designed for "modern scholarly living," the Harkness Commons has been the place on campus to get together after class, grab a cup of coffee or get a bite to eat since it opened with great fanfare in 1950.

  • Harvard Law School Chooses Architect for Northwest Corner

    August 4, 2004

    Harvard Law School has chosen Robert A.M. Stern Architects as the principal design firm to prepare a planning framework for the Law School campus and to provide the architectural design for the initial development on the School’s northwest corner.

  • Archibald Cox in his office at HLS

    Lessons in Courage

    July 1, 2004

    Professor Archibald Cox, 1912-2004, taught the nation what it means to be true to one's principles. Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox '37 died on May 29 at age 92. Tenured at Harvard Law School in 1946, he taught generations of students torts, administrative and constitutional law.

  • M. Bernard Aidinoff

    A Conversation with M. Bernard Aidinoff ’53

    July 1, 2004

    M. Bernard Aidinoff '53 is senior counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City, where he has practiced for nearly 50 years.

  • In Memoriam – Summer 2004 Bulletin

    July 1, 2004

    1920-29 | 1930-39 | 1940-49 | 1950-59 | 1960-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 1920-1929 Matthew Brown ’28 of Boston died Sept. 5, 2003. He practiced law for more…

  • Marina Volanakis '99

    Life Lessons

    July 1, 2004

    Sometimes making the greatest impact on a student's life is as simple as changing his fifth-grade homeroom. That's what Marina Volanakis '99 did for 10-year-old Gabriel, and it was enough to turn him from a disrespectful troublemaker into a dedicated student.

  • Ken Mehlman talking into microphone

    The Case for the President

    July 1, 2004

    Ken Mehlman '91 was a Republican before law school. But HLS helped make him the Republican he is today. His predominantly liberal fellow students in fact made him "more Republican, more conservative," spurred by his view that rampant elitism drove their ideology, he said.

  • Paul Steven Miller '86

    Equal Signs

    July 1, 2004

    A restaurant employee is fired. He didn't violate company policy. In fact, he's a good employee, according to his manager. But he is fired because, as the regional manager put it, he is one of "those people."

  • Terry Lenzner '64

    Corporate Sleuth

    July 1, 2004

    Attorney Terry Lenzner '64 has made investigation his business.

  • Illustration - bubble surrounding book, boy gazing in

    Book Smart

    July 1, 2004

    HLS professor seeks to make copyrighted works accessible to students with disabilities.

  • Chu and Flugman consulting with Brian Price

    In Tune With the Law

    July 1, 2004

    HLS Recording Artists Project focuses on the legal side of the music industry.

  • Students sitting at computer

    A Hot Property

    July 1, 2004

    With conferences, research and ideas, HLS faculty and students keep pace with the ever-changing world of intellectual property issues.

  • Illustration of brain being pulled apart

    The Disaggregation of Intellectual Property

    July 1, 2004

    Professor William Fisher III '82 examines the history --and the future--of intellectual property law.

  • Up on Downloading

    July 1, 2004

    HLS professors propose different ways to address the proliferation of music downloading.

  • Professor Goodman at the chalkboard

    The Laws of War

    July 1, 2004

    In April, during one of the most violent periods of fighting in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Assistant Professor Ryan Goodman's Public International Law class struggled to determine when the use of force is legal and what to do when force may be illegal yet legitimate.

  • Professor Laurence Tribe

    A Marriage Contrast

    July 1, 2004

    The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health last fall has allowed gay marriage in the commonwealth--at least for now.

  • Professor David Kennedy

    Darkness Visible

    July 1, 2004

    In his more than 20 years working and teaching in the field of international law, Professor David Kennedy '80 observed something he thought no one was talking about--the negative consequences of good intentions. Kennedy discusses his book on the topic, "The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism," published by Princeton University Press this spring.

  • Andrew Kaufman

    Duck Bind

    July 1, 2004

    Justice Antonin Scalia '60 went duck hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney three weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear Cheney's appeal of a lower court order that he turn over records of the closed energy task force meetings he held in 2001.

  • Sharon Kelly

    Hearing the Call

    July 1, 2004

    Sharon Kelly '04 smiles when she recalls meeting a teenage girl who'd asked her mother for a birthday present: to drive her hours and hours across the plains of Iowa to a town hall meeting of a presidential candidate.

  • Professor Hal Scott

    Scott Testifies Before Committee on Financial Services

    June 18, 2004

    Harvard Law School Professor Hal S. Scott, director of the school's Program on International Financial Systems, testified on June 17 before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Service on the United States and the European Union informal Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue.