Recent Highlights

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  Stuntz: Use federal dollars to put more cops on streets

  The following article,"Law and Disorder,” by HLS Professor William Stuntz, appeared in the Feb. 23, 2009, issue of the Weekly Standard, Volume 014, Issue 22. Stuntz is an expert on crime policy and criminal law and procedure.

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  Army Court of Criminal Appeals hears case at Harvard Law School

  A panel of judges of the Army Court of Criminal Appeals came to Harvard Law School February 5th to hear arguments in a drug trafficking case charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

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  Offering comfort—legal and otherwise—to prisoners with nowhere else to turn

  “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
  Those words, written by noted death penalty lawyer Bryan Stevenson ’85, were very much on the mind of Katie Wozencroft ’09 this summer, when she made the four-hour drive from Atlanta to an Alabama prison where condemned prisoners are executed.

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  Cautionary tales: Ethics panel features former federal prosecutors and white-collar defendants

  Former CEO-turned-felon David Logan took his first step down the slippery slope of white collar crime as a city administrator in a small town in Minnesota, when he accepted a truck as a gift from two men who had a city contract. 

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  Professor Jeanne Suk asks when protection orders go too far

  Over the past 30 years, feminists have struggled to make domestic violence a public issue—not just a family matter, but a crime recognized by the police and punished by the courts. But according to Assistant Professor Jeannie Suk ’02, in the process of correcting for shameful past inaction, the criminal justice system may now be too involved in private life. In a recent Yale Law Journal article, Suk takes a critical look at the use of protection orders. Who is being harmed, the Bulletin asked Suk, by these protective measures?

   

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  Steiker, taking Aibel chair, explores the quality of mercy

  Professor Carol Steiker ’86 formally took the Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professorship of Law in a Langdell Hall ceremony yesterday, and celebrated the occasion with a lecture exploring the role of mercy in the criminal justice system.

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  Outside the Classroom: War Crimes Through the Looking Glass

  This January, when the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumed in The Hague, much of the world was watching. So were 11 Harvard Law students—from about 20 feet away.