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At Large in L.A.
September 25, 1999
Belinda Smith Walker ’71, executive director of Girls and Gangs (G&G), and partners in law and public activism Stephen English ’75 and Molly Munger ’74 are all Harvard alumni residing in L.A.
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An Afternoon in D.C.
September 25, 1999
Wilma A. Lewis ’81 is the new U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
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Touring Charleston, Mass.
September 25, 1999
Charlestown Lacrosse founder Zack Lehman '98 gives the Bulletin a tour of Charlestown, Mass.
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Koh’s Human Rights Agenda
September 25, 1999
"My job is to try to advance and increase human freedom, through reporting, persuasion, criticism, and advocacy," says Yale Law School Professor Harold Hongju Koh ’80, who became assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor in November 1998.
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Morning News From Mora
September 25, 1999
A familiar face to TV viewers around the country, Antonio Mora LL.M. ’81 became news anchor for ABC’s Good Morning America in January.
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Letter from Hong Kong
September 25, 1999
David Smith ’61 is on leave as vice-dean of Harvard Law School, serving for two years as acting dean of City University of Hong Kong School of Law.
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All My Love, Filly
July 28, 1999
The Law School now holds the voluminous correspondence Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ’04 sent to his sister Estelle Frankfurter over a span of 31 years.
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Swing Dancing for Public Interest
July 28, 1999
Danny Levin ’00 and Elizabeth Pipkin ’01 dazzled the packed Ames Courtroom with their spins and dips during this year’s sixth annual Public Interest Auction, at which swing dance lessons were among the items up for grabs.
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Revisiting Fuller’s Famous Spelunkers
July 28, 1999
Were four entrapped spelunkers, whose hunger ultimately drove them to eat the fifth member of their group, guilty of murder, and should their sentence—death by hanging—be upheld?
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Do Something
July 26, 1999
Early on April 13, a fleet of yellow school buses pulled up to the Law School, bringing 200 Boston high school students to a town meeting led by HLS Professors Lawrence Lessig and Bruce Hay ’88.
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Hanson and Co. Go Hollywood
July 26, 1999
The first and last annual report from Class Action CEO Heather Thompson ’00, “the hardest-working and lowest-paid CEO in the country,” according to Professor Jon Hanson.
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Profile: Robert Weary ’48
July 25, 1999
Amid the quiet hills and streams of northeastern Kansas, Robert Weary ’48 has forged a dynamic dual career: running the Junction City law firm his father founded, and buying and building up companies, especially in the cable TV and radio industries.
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A Walk on the Wired Side
July 25, 1999
Our stroll down the technology trail at HLS begins with a computerized insurance law exercise and ends with Y2K.
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Toward Equitable Child Care
June 25, 1999
Professor Lucie White’s spring seminar Child Care, Development, Policy, and Women’s Work: Comparative Perspectives culminated in a late-April colloquium that brought together scholars, activists, and students for discussion of emerging issues involving women’s employment, social justice movements, and state policy regarding the unpaid or undercompensated care-taking —especially of young children—that women typically do.
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Drum Major for Justice
June 25, 1999
Professor Charles Ogletree, Jr. ’78 will complete several major writing projects begun by his late friend and mentor, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., chief judge emeritus of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, who died in December.
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Abram Chayes Honored at Reunions
June 25, 1999
Professor Abram Chayes ’49 received the HLSA Award, the association’s highest honor, for his service as an "inspirational teacher and distinguished scholar, advocate for the rights of sovereign nations and the protection of the global environment, [and] beloved mentor to generations of Harvard Law students."
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Sir John Popham Restored to His Former Glory
June 25, 1999
The portrait of Sir John Popham, chief justice of the King’s Bench during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, returned to the HLS Art Collection…
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun ’32 died March 4 at age 90. Appointed to the Court in 1970 by President Nixon, he retired in 1994 after a 24-year career on the Court marked by a movement from moderate conservatism to outspoken liberalism.
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Kathleen Sullivan: Stanford’s new law dean
June 24, 1999
Nearly a decade ago Kathleen Sullivan’s first argument before the U.S. Supreme Court prompted American Lawyer to observe that the young Harvard Law professor was "on the fast-track to forensic stardom."
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Building in Cyberspace
June 24, 1999
The intrepid crew of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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The Law of Their Land
June 24, 1999
In February, the Navajo Nation Supreme Court came to HLS to hear a real and momentous case, Navajo v. Russell Means. The central issues: the jurisdiction of Navajo courts, equal protection under the Constitution, and the power of Congress to regulate Indian affairs. Chief Justice Robert Yazzie and HLS experts weigh in.