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On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, the Harvard Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society will sponsor a panel entitled Progressive Law and Economics: An Oxymoron? The panel will look at the relationship between economic analysis and law, and discuss what role politics plays in this increasingly influential approach to legal studies.

On Monday, March 18, the Harvard Law School Federalist Society will sponsor a debate on the Bush administration's proposal to use military tribunals to try suspected foreign terrorists. John Yoo, deputy assistant attorney general, and Harvard Law School Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter will be the participants.

On Thursday, March 14, the Harvard Law Review will present its spring symposium, Law, Knowledge, and the Academy. The event will address current intellectual trends in legal scholarship and explore directions for future work.

The Harvard Law School Mock Trial Team captured first place at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's Student Trial Advocacy Competition regional tournament held in Boston the weekend of March 2-3.

The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy has released a special issue, Law and the War on Terrorism. The issue presents articles by over 20 of the most respected legal scholars in the country on issues that face America following the attacks of September 11. Topics addressed range from patriotism in the face of foreign hatred to the legality of President George W. Bush's planned military tribunals.

On Tuesday, March 12, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, will join a panel of academic experts, practitioners and activists from across the nation for the Harvard Law School Journal on Legislation's spring symposium on affirmative action in higher education.

The Harvard Law School Jessup International Law Moot Court team recently won the northeast regional round of the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, finishing first among 12 law schools. The team won all six of its moots, captured the award for best written memorial, and one of its team members, Jin-long Pao, was named among the best oralists at the competition.

Beginning on February 27, Harvard Law School's Program on International Financial Systems will hold a symposium exploring terrorism against international financial systems, international corporate disclosure standards, and pension reform. The two-day event, Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Europe and the United States, will be held at the Rüschlikon Center for Global Dialogue, the conference center near Zurich of Swiss Re, the lead sponsor.

With finals in the middle of January, the Class of 2004 wrapped up its first semester - a semester spent as the first guinea pigs of the Strategic Plan. In line with recommendations made in that Plan, which was finalized in the spring of 2001, HLS has made drastic changes to the 1L program in an effort to forge a more personal, student-centered experience.

On Wednesday, February 27, Harvard Law Professors Christine Desan, Martha Field, Janet Halley, Jon Hanson, David Kennedy, Duncan Kennedy, Frank Michelman, and Joseph Singer will form two panels to examine The Future of Progressive Legal Scholarship.

On Thursday, February 21, the Harvard Law School ArtsPanel will be exploring the international art trade and the ethics of collecting. Speakers will include Ashton Hawkins, former general counsel of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums and president of the Association of Art Museum Directors; James F. Fitzpatrick, senior partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter; and Gary Vikan, director of The Walters Organization, a Baltimore-based museum.

Beginning on Friday, February 16, Harvard Law School will host a three-day conference examining religion, human rights, and democracy. Speakers will include John Shattuck, former assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and John Hanford, the recently appointed Ambassador at Large on Religious Freedom.

Continuing to enact an ambitious strategic plan that calls for expanding its core faculty and fostering greater student-faculty interaction, Harvard Law School has hired two new assistant professors. Ryan Goodman and Guhan Subramanian will officially join the Harvard Law faculty in July and begin teaching in the fall.

The Harvard Law Review has elected second-year student Bert I. Huang as its 116th President. Huang, 27, was elected Saturday night, from a slate of seven candidates, after ten hours of debate.

This Thursday, Harvard Law Professor Bill Alford will travel to Washington to testify at the first hearing of the newly established Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China. Created last year to monitor human rights and legal developments in China, the committee has nine Senators, nine Representatives, and five senior officials from the Bush administration.

This summer, the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School will offer a comprehensive curriculum on Islamic law. The five day program will explore Islamic banking and finance, family law, human rights developments, the law's history and its contemporary application, and law in the Gulf region.

On Wednesday, January 30, Michael D. Watkins, associate professor of management at the Harvard Business School and an authority on coalition building, will discuss the challenges of building and sustaining a coalition to fight terrorism.

It was with great shock and sadness that we learned of the tragic death of Tony Sutin. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family, friends, and members of the Appalachian School of Law community. I would also like to offer my condolences to the families and friends of the other victims of this senseless act of violence. Tony was a distinguished public servant and a pioneer in legal education. We were proud to have as an alumnus. His efforts will continue to serve as a model for students who aspire to improve the legal system. Though we mourn his loss, we celebrate his values and his life.

Ernest Brown was one of the true giants of legal education at the Harvard Law School, said Dean Robert C. Clark. He served the School long and well, and was both a living legend and a dear friend. We mourn his passing.

On Thursday, January 17, Randall Robinson, the founder and president of the TransAfrica Forum, will talk about his new book, "The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe Each Other". The event is sponsored by The Saturday School Program at Harvard Law School, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, the Cambridge Public Library, and WordsWorth Bookstore.

Harvard Law School third-year student Brian Devine has won first prize in the Los Angeles County Bar Association Entertainment Law Writing Competition of 2001 for his paper 'Free as the Air' - Rethinking the Law of Story Ideas. Devine's paper surveys the current law of story idea submission claims, and suggests some changes that would improve the law. This issue frequently arises when a movie becomes a commercial success and someone claims the studio stole the idea.