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HLS Awards Kaufman Public Interest Fellowship
August 25, 2000
Harvard Law School has awarded Irving R. Kaufman Public Interest Fellowships to graduating 22 students and recent graduates. These fellowships are awarded in recognition and support of individuals who have shown truly exceptional promise for careers in public interest law. The Kaufman Fellowships are managed by the School's Office of Public Interest Advising, which is directed by Alexa Shabecoff.
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HLS Awards Edith Fine Public Interest Fellowship
August 25, 2000
Sophie Bryan (HLS '00), who will be a Skadden Fellow at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, Boston, is the 2000 Edith Fine Public Interest Fellow. Sophie has been a strong presence at Harvard Law School, as Co-Chair of the Student Public Interest Auction and founding member of the Project on Law and Organizing. She has served on the Legal Services Center Student Advisory Board and as a Peer Counselor for the Office of Public Interest Advising. Sophie is on the Executive Board of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
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HLS Expands Loan Forgiveness Program
July 25, 2000
Dean Robert Clark '72 announced this spring an extensive expansion of Harvard Law School's loan forgiveness program, making it one of the most generous programs of its kind in the country.
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The test of the Binding of Isaac
July 18, 2000
In his new book The Genesis of Justice (Warner Books, 2000), Professor Alan Dershowitz reflects on how stories in the first book of the Bible - replete with unpunished wrongdoing by flawed heroes and the actions and commands of an inscrutable God - set down the groundwork for later laws.
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James Vorenberg [1928-2000]
July 18, 2000
Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, 72, the ninth dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate associate special prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on April 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest.
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A better world for fans
July 18, 2000
Professor Paul Weiler LL.M. '65 scores one for sports fans in his new book Leveling the Playing Field: How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans (Harvard University Press, 2000).
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A Novel Idea
July 18, 2000
Most law school papers don't get glowing reviews from the New York Times Book Review. But most law school papers aren't like Mohsin Hamid's.
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Project Aids Countries in Transition
July 18, 2000
With the support of Professor Philip Heymann '60, a joint Harvard project seeks to foster cooperation and progress for countries in transition.
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The Dean of Solo Practitioners
July 18, 2000
Oscar Fendler '33 has always done things his own way. He remains the only graduate of HLS to ever practice law in Blytheville, Ark.
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Declaration of Independence
July 18, 2000
Some alumni become solo practitioners in order to leave law firm life, or return to their hometown, or practice their specialty. Whatever the reason, they all agree they've made the right choice.
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Letter to a Recent Graduate
July 18, 2000
Among the Law School’s collection of letters, manuscripts, and published works of Justice Joseph Story, Dane Professor of Law from 1829 to 1845, is a letter written March 26, 1832, from Story to Charles C. Convers, who graduated the year before.
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A Day in the Pupils’ Court
July 18, 2000
Thirteen-year-old Queen Pleasant can't graduate from law school until at least 2011, but she got a head start on her legal education in April as she cross-examined witnesses in the Ames Courtroom.
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Stuntz Brings Criminal Justice Focus to HLS
July 18, 2000
In what Dean Robert Clark '72 called a "stunning addition" to the criminal law faculty, University of Virginia Law School Professor William Stuntz will move north to Harvard in July.
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A Sense of Securities: J. Sinclair Armstrong ’41
July 18, 2000
J. Sinclair Armstrong '41 credits the faculty at the School in preparing him for his life and career. He has also taught himself to conquer new fields of expertise, and to face new challenges at the top levels of government and business.
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Auction 2000 Breaks Fund-raising Record
July 18, 2000
As the crowd cheers him on, Kyle Cauthron '02 (center) vies for a fly-fishing trip to Montana, one of the most coveted items up for bid at this year's public interest auction.
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The Great Negotiator
July 18, 2000
Credit: Nicki Pardo This spring former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, who chaired the Northern Ireland peace negotiations that led to the “Good Friday Agreement”…
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Klein Makes Case against Microsoft
July 18, 2000
Joel Klein ’71, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and head attorney in the government’s recent victory against Microsoft, addressed…
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The Vulnerability of the Middle Class
July 18, 2000
Despite today's booming economy, the number of middle-class families filing for bankruptcy in America is soaring, according to Professor Elizabeth Warren, Teresa Sullivan, and Jay Westbrook, coauthors of a new study, The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (Yale University Press, 2000).
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Rakoff Named First Dean of the J.D. Program
July 18, 2000
Todd Rakoff '75, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law since 1996 and a member of the faculty since 1979, will begin in July in the new position of dean of the J.D. program.
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Uncommon Decency
July 18, 2000
In his new book, The Edges of the Field: Lessons on the Obligations of Ownership (Beacon Press, 2000), Professor Joseph Singer '81 explores the cultural, moral, religious, and legal traditions that define our understanding of property.