Recent Highlights

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  Benjamin Ferencz ’43 receives prestigious Erasmus Prize

  Benjamin Ferencz ’43, known for his role as chief prosecutor in the Nuremburg Trials and for his work promoting an international rule of law and the creation of an International Criminal Court, has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Prize. The prize is given to individuals who have made “especially important contributions to culture, society, or social science in Europe.”  

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  Executive Counsel: Meet the President’s new lawyers—and their new laywers

  Elena Kagans’86 has returned to the executive branch as solicitor general. The next time she finds herself on a late-night phone call with a White House lawyer, it might be her HLS colleague Daniel J. Meltzer ’75, who is second in command of the White House counsel’s office, on the other end of the line. And occupying the number two spot in the Office of Legal Counsel is another faculty colleague, David Barron ’94.

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  A conversation with Abby Milstein ’76 and Howard Milstein ’77

  Howard and Abby Milstein met while students at HLS. Both serve on the Executive Committee of the Dean’s Advisory Board, and on the boards of numerous philanthropic, civic and professional organizations. The Bulletin’s Margaret Salinger spoke with the couple at Howard Milstein’s offices in New York City.

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  The Whistleblower’s Lawyer: Gaytri Kachroo S.J.D. ’02

  The following story “The Whistleblower’s Lawyer,” appeared in the Summer 2009 Harvard Law Bulletin.

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  HLS grad prevails in the Supreme Court, in first oral argument of her career

  On April 22, Lindsay C. Harrison ’03, an associate in the Washington office of Jenner & Block, won her first case in the Supreme Court—and the first case she’d ever argued. For immigrants appealing deportation orders, it may also be a day to celebrate.

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  Gaston documents victims of war in Afghanistan

  For those who work in the field of human rights during times of war, Afghanistan is the front line. For the past year, Erica Gaston ’07 has lived in Kabul as a Henigson Human Rights Fellow, assisting victims of the war and studying the conflict.

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  Supreme Foresight: Issac Lidsky ’04, U.S. Supreme Court clerk

  The first time (or two) Isaac Lidsky ’04 was denied a Supreme Court clerkship, he didn’t sweat it. He had overcome other challenges and wouldn’t let a few rejection letters get in the way of a dream he’d held since boyhood. “I used to joke that my rule for myself was that I’d continue applying until I was older than the youngest justice,” he says.

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  The government’s top tracker of terrorist assets got his start with an HLS fellowship

  There’s a saying: Do what you love, and the money will follow. For Adam Szubin ’99, it’s a little different: With some early help from a Heyman Fellowship, he’s been able to do what he loves—and follow the money.

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  During the Cold War, Gerhardt Bubník LL.M. ’69 Learned to Skate on Thin Ice

  Gerhardt Bubník LL.M. ’69 still likes the ice. The former competitive skater hung up his skates years ago but has kept his edge, as a skating judge and then a legal adviser to the International Skating Union—all while building a law practice that spanned three political regimes.

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  How One Lawyer Went From Being a Shark at the Blackjack Table to a Shark In the Courtroom

  When speaking to Jane Willis ’94, you can’t miss her lawyerly intensity. “Strike that,” she says midsentence, as though she were addressing a court reporter. But, although she is now a partner at Ropes & Gray in Boston, Willis credits much of her success as a litigator to a simple strategy she learned outside the law firm and the courtroom—at the blackjack table.