News Archive
2006/07
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- Japan builds its legal profession
- When Harvard President Derek Bok '54 wrote a scathing 1983 critique of American litigiousness, he pointed to Japan--with only one-twentieth as many lawyers per capita--as a better model. [Mon, 31 Jul 2006]
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- Bebchuk weighs in on reforming executive pay
- The following op-ed by Professor Lucian Bebchuk, Investors must have power, not just figures on pay, was published in The Financial Times on July 28, 2006: The US Securities and Exchange Commission's vote this week to expand disclosure requirements for executive pay is a major step forward. [Fri, 28 Jul 2006]
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- In the classroom: Students learn death-penalty law with mock trials
- "Stay in role!" exhorts Professor Carol Steiker '86, as some 90 students in her upper-level course Capital Punishment in America split into groups for an exercise in which they'll argue whether a death sentence should be reversed due to ineffective assistance of counsel. "Don't say, "If I were the lawyer, I would..." [Thu, 27 Jul 2006]
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- Bridging Digital Divides in Asia
- Can law keep up with technology? Some Harvard lawyers are finding out. Internet use in China is different than in most countries. There is less freedom. And there is more. [Mon, 24 Jul 2006]
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- Op-ed by Professor Dershowitz: Arithmetic of Pain
- The following op-ed by Professor Alan Dershowitz, Arithmetic of Pain, was published in The Wall Street Journal on July 19, 2006: There is no democracy in the world that should tolerate missiles being fired at its cities without taking every reasonable step to stop the attacks. The big question raised by Israel's military actions in Lebanon is what is "reasonable." [Fri, 21 Jul 2006]
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- Professor Scott forecasts the end of American dominance in capital markets
- The following op-ed, co-written by Professor Hal Scott, The End of American dominance in capital markets, was published in The Financial Times on July 19, 2006: Is a ticker-taped Trojan Horse soon to be planted on European shores, filled with an army of US regulators, Sarbanes-Oxley accountants and overzealous plaintiff lawyers? [Thu, 20 Jul 2006]
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- Students sign up for new clinical opportunity in support of children
- When Melissa Patterson '06 signed up for a clinical placement through the school's new Child Advocacy Program this year, she was looking for something as "real-world" as possible. By the time she was done, she'd helped a father give up the child he loved but couldn't take care of-his pain lessened only by hope for his child's future. [Wed, 19 Jul 2006]
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- Two Harvard Law alums may face off to lead Taiwan
- For Vice President Annette Hsiu-lien Lu LL.M. '78 and Ma Ying-jeou S.J.D. '81, who is chair of the opposing Kuomintang party, mayor of Taipei and the odds-on favorite for the 2008 presidential election, their Harvard history has its own complexity. [Thu, 13 Jul 2006]
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- Howell Jackson weighs in on entitlement spending
- The following op-ed by Professor Howell Jackson, Big Liability, was published in The New Republic Online. Jackson argues that the first test for Hank Paulson, the new Treasury secretary, will be a little-noticed government accounting dispute that could soon dwarf the Enron scandal. [Tue, 11 Jul 2006]
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- David Kennedy on the UN's new role
- The following op-ed by Professor David Kennedy, Recasting UN's Role, was published in The Boston Globe on July 8, 2006: Today's most significant global challenges, whether humanitarian or military, are being addressed by diverse ad hoc coalitions. This new multilateralism will require more from the United Nations, making the selection of the next secretary general more important than at any time in the organization's history. [Mon, 10 Jul 2006]
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- Ask the Professor: When is art cultural property?
- As a former curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum stands trial in Italy for criminal conspiracy to receive stolen goods, curators all over America are nervously rethinking their antiquity collections. HLS Professor Terry Martin, who teaches Art Law, says the Italian investigations are part of a wider movement in many countries not just to retain but to reclaim national art. [Thu, 06 Jul 2006]
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- Bebchuk vs. CA enables shareholder voting on poison pill bylaws
- The Delaware Chancery Court issued a decision in the litigation initiated by Professor Lucian Bebchuk against CA Inc. The decision forced CA to withdraw its plan to exclude Bebchuk's poison pill proposal from the corporate ballot and opens the door to shareholder voting on such proposals in other companies. [Wed, 05 Jul 2006]