News Archive
2004/11
- Professor Stuntz on Churches, Universities, and the Political Divide
- Writing in Tech Central Station, Bill Stuntz observes: "... I think that if my church friends and my university friends got to know each other, they'd find a lot to like and admire. More to the point, the representatives of each side would learn something important and useful from the other side. These institutions may be red and blue now. But their natural color is purple." [Tue, 30 Nov 2004]
- International Justice: The Roots and Legacies of the Nuremberg Trials
- On Wednesday, December 1, John Barrett, biographer of Justice Robert Jackson; Richard Sonnenfelt, author, lecturer, and translator at the Nuremberg Trials; and Helen Stacy, senior research scholar at the Stanford Institute of International Studies, will discuss the roots and legacies of the Nuremberg Trials. This discussion is part of a series of events at HLS this year examining international justice. [Mon, 29 Nov 2004]
- Editors of Indian Law Handbook Convene
- A team of Indian law experts met recently at Harvard Law School to finalize updates to Felix Cohen's landmark "Handbook of Federal Indian Law." Scholars consider the Cohen handbook--published in 1941--to be the leading text on federal Indian law. Cohen wrote the first edition while serving as an assistant solicitor in the Interior Department during the Roosevelt administration. [Tue, 23 Nov 2004]
- Bebchuk on Making Directors Accountable
- After a decade of soaring to unprecedented levels, executive compensation is the subject of an intense debate. In their just published "Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation," HLS Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84 and UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Jesse Fried '92 explore the causes and consequences of flawed compensation arrangements. [Fri, 19 Nov 2004]
- Professor Minow Offers a Bipartisan Approach to Middle East Peace
- Professor Martha Minow, in an op-ed co-written by Newton Minow, writes: "The president of the United States can offer an honest broker if he creatively abandons partisanship and reaches for a bipartisan approach untried in recent years.... President Bush should send former President Bill Clinton to the Middle East as his representative to renew the discussions ended four years ago." [Mon, 15 Nov 2004]
- Should Software Developers Pay When Users Violate Copyrights?
- On Tuesday, Nov. 16, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology will host a debate between spokespeople from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Recording Industry Association of America regarding the legitimacy of contributory copyright infringement liability for sellers of software and devices that consumers can use to violate copyright law. [Mon, 15 Nov 2004]
- HLS Grad Gonzales Nominated for Attorney General
- President Bush has nominated Harvard Law graduate Alberto Gonzales to be the next U.S. attorney general, the nation's top law enforcement officer. A member of the HLS class of '82, Gonzales has served as the White House counsel for the past four years. If confirmed by the Senate, Gonzales will be the 10th Harvard Law graduate to serve as attorney general. [Thu, 11 Nov 2004]
- Professor Stuntz on America's East-West Political Divide
- Professor William Stuntz writes: The conventional wisdom holds that America is and always has been divided between North and South. Actually, there is a bigger and deeper divide: between East and West. The West is winning, hands down. [Thu, 11 Nov 2004]
- Olin Center Hosts Law and Economic Program for Spanish Students and Academics
- Last month, Harvard Law School's John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Business hosted a week-long law and economics program for Spanish law students and academics. The program attracted 30 attendees, all from Spain, and included courses on torts, fairness versus efficiency, litigation, risk, contracts, corporate governance, bankruptcy, antitrust, and crime and law enforcement. [Fri, 05 Nov 2004]
- Alumni Score Victories in Congressional Races
- Harvard Law alumni from both political parties won elections yesterday to gain or retain seats in the U.S. House and Senate. [Wed, 03 Nov 2004]
- Hay to Direct Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play 'Proof'
- On November 5, Harvard Law School will kick off four performances of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Proof." Performances will be held on Nov. 5, 6, 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall. Tickets, which are $6 for the general public and $5 for students, can be purchased at the door or reserved ahead of time by emailing hay@law.harvard.edu. [Mon, 01 Nov 2004]