News Archive
2005/12
-
- School to host broadcast of 'Mad Money' featuring graduate Jim Cramer
- On February 1, Harvard Law School will host a broadcast of the popular CNBC investment program "Mad Money," which features well-known market analyst Jim Cramer, a 1984 Harvard Law graduate. The show will be taped in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall before a crowd of approximately 300 Harvard students. The event is the first in a series of "Mad Money" broadcasts on university campuses around the country. [Fri, 23 Dec 2005]
-
- Professor Freeman weighs in on reducing greenhouse emissions
- From the Fall 2005 issue of the Harvard Law Bulletin: In refusing to join the Kyoto Protocol, President Bush has argued that the long-term solution to reducing greenhouse emissions will involve industry efforts, not "command-and-control" regulations which, he says, would ruin the U.S. economy. The Bulletin asks Professor Jody Freeman LL.M. '91 S.J.D. '95, who joined the HLS faculty this year: How much do we know about which works better? [Fri, 16 Dec 2005]
-
- Professor Mnookin and HLS experts push for negotiation toward Israeli-Palestinian peace
- From the Fall 2005 issue of the Harvard Law Bulletin: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict may seem hopelessly intractable. Both sides have been at odds--often bloody--since Israel became a state in 1948. But to Professor Robert Mnookin '68, chair of Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation, the truly frustrating aspect of the long-standing dispute is that the general outline of a workable deal for both sides is widely known. [Wed, 14 Dec 2005]
-
- Professor Hanson on Supreme Court politics
- When it comes to Supreme Court nominees, conservatives are in agreement: Situation matters. Pundits on the right shouted down Harriet E. Miers over concerns that her evangelical backbone would whither under Washington winds. Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. stepped into her spot seeming of far more stalwart vertebrae, but as his backers have stressed recently, he is a creature of situation as well. [Mon, 12 Dec 2005]
-
- Professor David Westfall, 1927 - 2005
- David Westfall, who held the John L. Gray and Carl F. Schipper, Jr. professorships at Harvard Law School, died earlier today, surrounded by his family. He was 78. [Wed, 07 Dec 2005]
-
- HLS students contribute to victory at Inter-American Court
- On November 30, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica, dismissed Brazil’s preliminary objections to a case involving the death of a man in custody of a Brazilian mental health institution. James Cavallaro, clinical director of the Human Rights Program at HLS, served as lead counsel to the victim's family, and a team of HLS students – Jonathan Kaufman, Fernando Delgado, Deborah Popowski, and Jane Hopwood assisted with the litigation in Costa Rica. [Wed, 07 Dec 2005]
-
- HLS students win record number of public service fellowships
- Harvard Law students won nine out of 27 Skadden fellowships for 2005. The Skadden program provides funding to graduating students and recent alumni to pursue public interest legal work. This year's achievement is the most in the history of the fellowship program awarded to students from a single school. [Tue, 06 Dec 2005]
-
- International experts debate corporate governance
- On December 6, an international panel of experts will gather to discuss the current state of corporate governance in the global marketplace. The discussion will focus on particular hypothetical situations related to recent problems involving investor trust and corporate scandals. [Mon, 05 Dec 2005]
-
- HLS hosts planning session on international disability rights
- On Saturday, December 3, Harvard Law School will host a seminar to address international disability rights. As the United Nations proceeds with a three-year planning process to develop a new human rights treaty regarding the disabled, this seminar will offer a public forum for discussing the treaty and its implementation. [Fri, 02 Dec 2005]
-
- Michelman wins American Philosophical Society award
- At a November ceremony in Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society awarded Professor Frank Michelman its Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurispudence. The prize has only been given 20 times in more than a century, and honors Michelman's significant contributions to the field of jurisprudence [Thu, 01 Dec 2005]