(7) COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS AND OTHER ACADEMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

The American Legal System (Murray) - Fall - 2 credits. This course is an introduction to and a comparative analysis of some of the principal features of the American Legal System. It is recommended for all LLM students who have not had a systematic academic exposure to American law and the American legal system. Topics covered will include sources of American state and federal law, common law and case analysis, comparative analysis of contract doctrine, the United States Constitution, the role of the Supreme Court and judicial review, the American federal system, the American civil and criminal justice systems, trial by jury and dispute resolution, the American bar and legal ethics, and globalization of law. Students who are in doubt as to whether they should take this course or have any other questions should consult with the instructor at Griswold 307, by telephone (617 496-4296), or by e-mail (pmurray@law.harvard.edu). Visiting Scholars and Researchers may audit this course with the permission of the instructor.

The course carries two graded academic credits. There will be a two-part examination consisting of one question "in class" and one question "take home".

There will be two introductory meetings of this course on Thursday, September 24 (Sources of American Law) and on Tuesday, September 29 (American Federalism) as a part of the LLM Orientation program. The first regular meeting of the course will take place onTuesday, September 3, 4:45-6:45 p.m. in Hauser 102. Subsequent classes will take place each Tuesday, 4:45-6:45.p.m. also in Hauser 102.

For a course description, syllabus, and the assignment for the first regular class, please consult the Course Web Site, Materials for the introductory classes are included in the LLM Orientation materials.

Winter Trial Advocacy Workshop - Winter - 2 credits. The Harvard Law School Winter trial Advocacy Workshop will run from Monday, January 8 at 2:00 p.m. through Friday, January 26, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. Please note that these dates do not exactly coincide with the regular Winter Semester. There are a few more openings available in the January Workshop. Students who wish to elect this course should sign up as soon as possible. If demand warrants we will add an extra section. Students who are in the Workshop, but have decided not to take it, please drop as soon as possible to make room for someone else. Please note the Evidence is a prerequisite for the Winter Trial Advocacy Workshop.

LLM students who wish to take the Workshop should get in touch with the instructor, Visiting Professor Peter Murray, (pmurray@law.harvard.edu), to get permission to enroll. Students who have not had training in Anglo-American law of Evidence will be expected to take Evidence at HLS during the fall semester.

Admiralty and Maritime Law (new course) - 2 credits - Visiting Professor Peter Murray - Wednesdays, 4:45-6:45 . This course will be offered in the Spring Semester, 2007 and will consider Admiralty and Maritime Law from two perspectives, 1) as the oldest living form of international private law and 2) a unique federal jurisdiction and source of law within American federalism. Topics covered will include in rem jurisdiction and limitation of liability as core concepts of maritime law, maritime personal injury law, maritime liens and mortgages, collision and salvage, ship charter and carriage of goods, choice of laws, conflicts of jurisdiction, and admiralty procedure.

The course will compare American and foreign admiralty doctrine and procedure in key areas and will examine the tension between admiralty and common law remedies and procedures within the United States.

Text and materials to be announced.

Student Activities:

German Speaking Lunch Table - The first meeting of the HLS deutschsprechende Mittagstisch will take place on Wednesday, September 6 at 12:30 p.m. in the South Dining Room of Harkness Commons. All HLS faculty, graduate students, visiting researchers, JD students, family and friends who have some speaking knowledge of German are invited to join us for lunch and conversation auf deutsch. Just bring your tray and find the table(s) where the diners are speaking German! Our second meeting will be Tuesday, September 12 at the same time and place.

In general the German speaking lunch table will meet on alternate Tuesdays or Wednesdays at 12:30. There may also be other cultural and social occasions organized from time to time.

In order to receive regular reminders of luncheons and other items of interest, please send an email to pmurray@law.harvard.edu so that your e-mail address can be added to the list.

Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Competition. The Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Competition pits student teams from over 150 law schools in more than 40 countries against each other in mock international commercial arbitration proceedings. The competition includes writing arbitration memoranda and oral argument before panels of arbitrators from all over the world in Vienna, Austria. The oral arguments during the 2006-2007 competition will be March 31 - April 5, 2007 (largely during spring break). There will be tryouts for this year’s HLS team during mid-September. Students interested in trying out should e-mail Faculty Adviser Peter Murray, pmurray@law.harvard.edu to get on the list for tryouts. LLM students who have not yet qualified to practice law in any jurisdiction are eligible to compete and welcome to try out for the team.

Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education and Juvenile Justice (Bartholet and Budnitz)

Want to explore creative ways you can use your law degree to make a difference? Interested in analyzing strategies for social change? Want to connect with innovative lawyers, activists, academics, researchers, and social entrepreneurs who have lead successful reform efforts?

You will engage in discussion and debate with our guest speakers in the classroom, and will also have a chance to meet them informally at a reception afterwards.

Community Action for Social and Economic (White)

Professor White is on sabbatical for the fall and winter terms.  Students interested in pre-enrolling in Community Action for Social and Economic Rights, which requires the instructor's permission, should send a resume and one page statement of interest to Ms. Moira Harding (mharding@law.harvard.edu) by Sept. 8. Students wishing to meet with Professor White for other reasons may email Professor White with a cc to Ms. Harding.

Federal Courts B1 (Fallon)

Spring

Professor Fallon has prepared a memorandum for the examination in Federal Courts for Spring 2006.  Please stop by Griswold 4 South if you would like to pick up a copy of the memo.

Human Rights Research Seminar (Glendon)

This seminar will consist of supervised research and writing on the following contemporary human rights issues, human rights and national sovereignty; roles of NGOs in human rights; human rights and foreign aid; foreign and international norms in national courts; migration of ideas about rights. Applicants should send a c.v. and project description to Prof. Glendon (glendon@law.harvard.edu). Prerequisite: Submission and approval of a project outline in one of the above areas.

Social Movements, Law Stories and Law Making (Guinier)

Applications for the Winter Term Course, Social Movements, Law Stories and Law Making, are now available from Janet Moran jmoran@law.harvard.edu as electronic documents or in hard copy, Griswold 5North. Professors Guinier, Torres, and Ganz shall be reviewing applications throughout the month of September.

Workshop (Galison & Minow)

In the Fall of 2006, Peter Galison and Martha Minow, will offer an inter-school workshop involving faculty and students and addressing "Scientific and Legal Doubt." The workshop will address questions such as: How should we understand disputes over science when courts, legislatures, and agencies have decisions to make?  Is it possible to separate the doubt that is necessary to the development of knowledge from doubt that is produced by parties acting from self-interest to influence public policy?  Topics include: Is there climate change due to human intervention?  What are the effects of tobacco, asbestos, low-level radiation?  Is Darwinian evoluation "just a theory"? This faculty-student seminar will explore the taxonomy of doubt within science and the law, and to characterize their collision. The group will aim to produce jointly a student-faculty-guest expert "commission report." We will meet Wednesdays, 4-6.  The workshop is open to graduate students, undergraduates, law students and others by permission of the instructors; interested law students should submit to Kristin Flower, kflower@law.harvard.edu, an explanation of their backgrounds and reasons for being interested in the workshop by September 5, 2006.

Written Work (Professor William Alford)

Students wishing to do third year papers, LL.M. theses, or other individual writing projects on international law topics under Professor William Alford's supervision should do such written work in conjunction with the International Law Workshop, if possible. If you have questions about this, please consult Professor Alford by email (alford) at your earliest convenience and, in any event, before the end of the fall add-drop period.

Students wishing to do third year papers, LL.M. theses, or other individual writing projects on Chinese law, comparative law, or other topics not in international law under Professor William Alford's supervision should submit a Proposal for Individual Written Work to Ms. Emma Johnson prior to October 15. The form may be obtained from Ms. Johnson via email (johnson)

(9)READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR COURSES

Accounting A1 and A2 (Herwitz)

The course materials consist of Herwitz & Barrett, Accounting for Lawyers (temporary 4th ed. 2006). For the first class, on Monday, September 11, at 12:40 p.m. for A1 and 3:10 p.m. for A2, please read pages 1-24 in the casebook, and work out problem 1.1A(1) on pp. 24-25. An assignment schedule will be distributed at class. Please purchase the book at HLS COOP and read pages 13-29 (through note 2). Please skim pages 1321-23, 1336-39, 1340-44, and 1345-47 (APA Sections 551, 553-554, 556-557, 702, 704, and 706). Pick up hard copy of Supplemental materials at HLS Copy Center. We will be using MYHLS Course iSites on a regular basis, posting documents and announcements.

Administrative Law A2 (Stephenson)

The casebook for this course is Gellhorn & Byse’s Administrative Law: Cases and Comments (revised 10th edition) (Strauss, Rakoff & Farina, eds. 2003). A packet of supplemental materials will also be available in the “Course Documents” section of the MyHLS course website. For the first class meeting on Monday, September 11, please read in the casebook pp. 1303-10 (Arts. I & II of the Constitution), pp.102-112, and pp. 66-72. Please also read pp. 1-2 in the supplemental materials. For the second class meeting on Tuesday, September 12, please read in the casebook pp. 58-62, pp.72-77, and pp.38-58.

Advanced Research Seminar on Law and Public Policy (Heymann & Stone)

Fall/Spring M 4:45 - 6:45 (#95311)

Requirement for HLS/Kennedy School Joint Degree Students (reserved for 4th year joint degree students and 3rd year students with permission of instructors) Room TBA

Our first class is on M Sept 11th. Additional classes during the Fall semester will be held on Sept 18th, Oct 2nd, Oct 16th, Oct 30th, and Dec 4th.  Readings for our first class on the Wen Ho Lee investigation will be available at the Distribution Center in the basement of Pound Hall by Sept 4th.  A course syllabus will be distributed during the first class.  Additional readings will be provided prior to each class.

Antitrust (Elhauge)

The book for this class will be available at the Copy Center.  For the first class, please read the first part of Chpt. 2, pages 60-109. I will mostly be lecturing through the material, but you will have an easier time following the lectures and raising questions if you have read the material in advance. At some point in time within the first few weeks, you should read the preface and chapter 1 for general background. For the graded work in this course, students may either take an exam or write a paper.

Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (Bartholet and Budnitz)

First class meets Thursday Sept. 7, 5-7 pm.

Materials for the first class include: the Course Information, Syllabus & Schedule (copies at the Distribution Center as well as on Course Website). Assignment Packet #1 (copies at Distribution and on Course Website); Bartholet's Nobody’s Childreni (pp. 1-8, 22-29).  In preparation for class, read the above materials as well as the email sent from CAP with instructions for: (1) the first written assignment (each student will be assigned to either prepare questions/comments prior to the Sept. 7th class OR draft a reaction paper following the first session); (2) how to sign up for dinners with our guest speakers.

Bankruptcy (E.Warren)

(Please read pages 3-28 and work problems 1.1 and 1.2 in Warren and Westbrook, The Law of Debtors and Creditors (5th ed).  There will be a statutory supplement for the class, but it won’t be needed on the first day of classes. This is a no-laptop class.

Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw

Students enrolled in the fall semester Berkman Clinical program should plan to attend an organizational meeting on Wednesday, September 6, 12:15-1:15pm, at the Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, 2nd floor. Clinical supervisors also will be in touch with all enrolled students directly by email before the beginning of the semester; if you have not received an email by September 1, please contact Seth Young at syoung@cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Child Family & State (Bartholet)

Course #321000A

First class meets Wed., Sept. 6, from 1:15-2:45. Read the Course Information & Syllabus document (on course website, and also available with Multilithed Materials at Distribution). Also read pp. 1-27 of the Abrams & Ramsey text, focusing for discussion in particular on the Supreme Court decisions Meyer and Pierce. Pick up this text and the Nobody’s Children text at Coop.

Church and State (Mansfield)

For the first meeting of this course, please pick up in the Distribution Center and read pp.3-21 of the material on Virginia.

Civil Procedure/Section 1 (Minow)

Civil Procedure/Section 3 (Desan)

For the first class, please pick up the Xeroxed materials at the Copy center, read Goldberg v Kelly and, in your Federal Rules book, take a look at the Due Process Clause, U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV, Sec.1.

Civil Procedure/Section 5 (Hay)

The text for this class is Yeazell, Civil Procedure, along with the 2006 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure supplement.

Commercial Law: Secured Transactions A (LoPucki)

For the first day of class, read the Introduction to LoPucki & Warren, Secured Credit: A Systems Approach (5th edition 2006) pages xxix-xxxii.

Comparative Constitutional Law A (Tushnet)

In Jackson and Tushnet, Comparative Constitutional Law (2nd edition, 2005): pp. 1-73.

Comparative Family Law (Halley)

For our first class please read from our course materials the introduction to contemporary Egyptian law of marriage and divorce ("Egypt"), and pp. 9-52 of Coulson, A History of Islamic Law. These are the first two readings. The syllabus is available from Terry Cyr in Hauser 406.  Please note that this is a no-computers class.

Comparative Law: Foundations of Western Legal Thought (Glendon)

The book list and assignment sheet are included in the multilithed Supplement that will be available in the Distribution Center. For the first meeting, please read Plato’s Laws (Pangle ed., Basic Books): Books I, III, IV and V.

Comparative Law: The Role of Law in Chinese Society (Alford and Yu)

The first set of our readings will be available at the Distribution Center. Please read Assignment 1 for our first class on Monday, September 11, and consider the accompanying questions. Please also visit the course website at MyHLS regularly for assignments and announcements. Please contact Juliet Bowler (jbowler) with any questions.

Comparative Local Government Law: Seminar (Frug)

T 4:45 PM - 6:15 PM

Class 1 (September 12): All assigned readings are available for student pick-up at the Distribution Center.  Please read the following in preparation for the first class:  UN-Habitat, State of the World's Cities 2006/7 (2006), Richard Rose, Comparing Forms of Comparative Analysis, 39 Political Studies 446 (1991), Mike Davis, Planet of the Slums, 26 New Left Review 5 (2004), Gerald Frug, Governing the City: New York, London, Shanghai, Mexico City (2006). Syllabus for the class can be found on the iCommons course website.

Complex Litigation and Mass Torts (Rosenberg)

Fall '06; Spring '07

Syllabus, Schedule of Meetings, Discussion Topics, and Reading Assignments, and set of hardcopy materials for the course can be obtained from the Distribution Center starting August 30. (The Schedule specifies the discussion topics and reading assignments for the first two meetings of the class meetings on September 7 and 8.)  Additional materials will be posted on the course website by September 6.

Constitutional Courts of the Arab World (Johansen)

The fiqh, the system of legal and ethical norms that in occidental languages is mostly translated as "Islamic Law", is conceived of by the Muslim jurists (fuqaha’) as the result of their interpretation of revealed texts. The norms of the sacred law (shari’a) are, therefore, the result of a process of legal reasoning that has as its object the relation between the revelation, on the one hand, and situations that need normative solutions on the other. In other words, the jurists produce the norms of the law. The transition to a system of codified legislation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries introduces the notion of the sovereign political lawgiver. These changes bring about a series of formal and material changes in the concept of law. We will discuss these problems in the first three sessions. The following reading material is mandatory as a preparation for the first three sessions of the seminar: Schacht, Joseph: An Introduction to Islamic Law, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1964  chapter 26: The Nature of Islamic Law, pp. 199-211, see in particular pp. 209-11.

Constitutional Law A1 (Fried)

The syllabus can be found on the i Commons course site under Course Documents.  The text to be purchased for this course is the case book "Constitutional Law" 10th edition by Choper, Fallon, Kamisar, and Shiffrin and the 2006 supplement marked Casebook Supplement.  Optional but not required: Charles Fried, "Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court" (Harvard University Press 2005)

Constitutional Law A2 (Levinson)

For the first class, please read pp. xliii-lix (the U.S. Constitution), 8-12, and 29-42 in Stone et al., Constitutional Law (5th ed. 2005).  The (aptly named) Stone book, and its 2006 supplement, is available in the bookstore. A packet of additional readings is available at the Copy Center after September 1.

Constitutional Law A3 (Parker)

Fall M, T, W 3:00 - 4:40 (#21000)

Room TBA

Our first class is on W Sept 6th.  We will be using Constitutional Law 6th edition by Stone and Sideman and the 2006 supplement.  A set of supplemental materials including the assignment sheet will be available at the Distribution Center in the basement of Pound Hall by Sept 1st.

Constitutional Law A4 (Fall 2006) (Tribe) (6 credits)

This introductory course meets in 36 two-hour sessions (1 to 3 pm) three times a week, Wed. through Friday, Sept.6 - Dec.8, excluding Oct.25-27 and Nov.22-24. The amount and complexity of the material to be covered demands lengthy assignments, precludes mid-class breaks, and explains the course's 6 credits. Only those seeking intensive exposure to the subject should choose this section, enrollment in which will be strictly limited to 80 (JDs plus LLMs). Cross-registrants from outside HLS cannot be accommodated, but auditors are welcome with the instructor's advance permission. Admission from the wait list will, without exception, be handled by the registrar's office, not the instructor or his secretary. Office hours Weds., 3:30 to 5:30 pm, Hauser 420 (drop-in or by appointment). Casebook ("CB") is Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, Karlan (5th ed. 2005) with 2006 Supplement ("S"). Additional packet of required course materials ("M") available at Copy Center (HPPS) Tues., Sept. 5. Grades determined by blindly graded, length-limited, one day take-home exam administered on a single (non-floating) day in exam period. Syllabus available Wed., Sept.6, on course website. Check website and email before every class for new or changed assignments. Besides ordinary classroom preparation and participation, each student will be expected to take part in at least one in-class moot court argument. Apart from these exercises, the course will be conducted primarily through lectures, with (mostly) voluntary participation. For the first class (Sept.6), please read the U.S. Constitution (CB xliii - lix) , M 1-3 ("Picturing Constitutional Interpretation"), and CB 1-28 ("Introduction: Creating a Constitution That Binds the Future").

Constitutional Law: Free Speech (Tushnet)

In Stone et al., The First Amendment (2nd edition, 2003), and in the 2006 Update, available on the course web-site:  pp. 24-25, and Update p. 1

Contracts/Section 1 (Frug)

M,T,W 10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

Class 1 (September 5): The assignments for the course, are taken from Fuller & Eisenberg, Basic Contract Law (8th ed. 2006). The first assignment is F&E 1-13.  Syllabus for the class can be found on the iCommons course website.

Contracts/Section 7 (Rakoff)

Please pick up a set of the 5 following xeroxed materials from the Distribution Center:  the Syllabus for Part I of the course materials; the Syllabus for Part II of the course materials; the green-covered, bound set of "Cases and Materials for the Course in Contracts - Part I"; the green-covered, bound set of "Cases and Materials for the Course in Contracts - Part II"; the green-covered, bound set of "The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)."  For our first class, please read and be prepared to discuss the first two cases in Part I of the materials, pages 1-7.  I would appreciate your not bringing laptop computers to class this semester.

Contracts/Section 5 (E.Warren)

The assigned books are Contracts Cases and Doctrine, Randy E. Barnett, Aspen; Perspectives on Contract Law, Randy E. Barnett, Aspen, Death of Contracts, G. Gilmore, Ohio State; Contract As Promise, C. Fried, Harvard. There will also be a UCC supplement to be distributed later.]  For the first class, please read Hawkins v. McGee, page 61  in the Barnett casebook.  Please bring your casebook to class, but there is no need to bring the other books to the first class.  This will be a laptop-free class.  

Corporate Governance Reading Group (Bebchuk)

The first meeting will take place on Monday, Sep. 11. Students should read the assignment for the first session.

Corporate Law Research (Roe)

This spring seminar will have a short organizational meeting on Friday, September 8, at 3 pm, for students planning to use the seminar for their 3L or LLM papers. Contact Lise Berg (lberg@law.harvard.edu) or Mark Roe (mroe@law.harvard.edu) for details.

Corporations A1 (Kamar)

Course Material and Reading for the First Day of Class

The course textbook is William Allen & Reinier Kraakman, Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization (Aspen 2003) together with its 2005-2006 Supplement and its Statutory Supplement. According to the Harvard Coop, the Statutory Supplement will ship close to the end of August, hopefully in time for class. For the first day of class, please read Chapter 1 of the textbook

Corporations A2 (Kraakman)

We will use Allen & Kraakman, Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization (2003) (henceforth "AK") as our casebook, together with its case supplement and statutory supplement (three books altogether).  For the first class on  Monday, Sept. 11, please look over the first chapter of AK and read pp. 13-30 closely.  For Tuesday, Sept. 12, read through AK p. 51, and review relevant provisions of the UPA and RUPA in the statutory supplement.

Corporations A3 (Ramseyer)

The text for this class is Klein, et al., Business Associations (Foundation, 6th ed. 2006).  For the first day of class, please read pages  1-25.

Criminal Law II (Meltzer)

The materials for this course are:  1) Kadish & Schulhofer, Criminal Law and Its Processes (7th ed. 001);  2) Weinreb, Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice (2006 ed.); and 3) Additional Materials available at the distribution center ("AM").  Also available at the distribution center are (a) the Course Introduction, and (b) the Syllabus for Substantive Criminal Law. For the first class, please read the Course Introduction, and prepare the assignments listed in Part I and II (A) of the Syllabus for Substantive Criminal Law.  In particular, please try to work out your answers to questions 2-4 on page 4 of the Additional Materials.

Criminal Law Section 3 (Weinreb)

The class will meet on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, from 8:50 to 10:15 in Pound 107. For the first class, on Tuesday, September 5, please read Chavez (p. 1), Singleton (p. 7) and pp. 9-21 in Weinreb, Criminal Law (7th ed.).

Criminal Procedure: Advanced A1 (Bright)

Assignments and readings for September 7-15 2006 have been posted under Course Documents. Students who are registered for this class may pick up a hard copy of the document at the HLS Copy Center. You should also purchase the book David M. Oshinsky, Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and The ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (Free Press, NY 1996) Law School COOP. Reading must be completed by mid October. We will be using MyHLS Course iSites on a regular basis, posting documents, and announcements.

Criminal Procedure Advanced (Steiker)

Syllabus and supplemental reading materials are available at the distribution center.  Please pick them up and prepare the first assignment for the first class, which will be held on Monday, September 11, 2006.

Delivery of Legal Services (Charn)

Materials for the first class meeting on Septemberlisted for the coursts who are registered for this class should purchase the book David A. Sklansky, Evidence: Cases, Commentary, and Problems (Aspen, 2003), and George Fisher, Federal Rules of Evidence (with Advisory Committee Notes and related commentary), (Foundation Press 2006-2007) at HLS COOP. First two days' assignments are: Monday, September 11, Sklansky, pp. 1 (just the quotes), 4-13, 324-32, 401-08 (top) and Tuesday, September 12, 2006, Federal Rules of Evidence 401, 402, 104, with commentary, Sklansky, pp. 15-39. We will be using MYHLS Course iSites on a regular basis, posting documents, announcements, PDF files, and additional materials may be distributed.

Family Law (Halley)

For our first class, please read Chapter 1 of our textbook, Family Law, edited by Harris, Teitelbaum and Carbone (Aspen 2005). The syllabus is available from Terry Cyr in Hauser 406 . Please note that this is a no-computers class.

First-Year Legal Research & Writing (sections 1, 4, and 5)

Please buy Bronsteen and the Bluebook at the Coop and pick up the course reader at the distribution center in Pound.  For the first class, please read Bronsteen pp. 5-18, 77-79, 86-89 and, in the course reader, the Orin Kerr article, Aldisert pp. 93-97, 99-102, and Lucy v. Zehmer.

First-Year Legal Research & Writing (sections 2, 3, and 6)

Please buy Bronsteen and the Bluebook at the Coop and pick up the course reader at the distribution center in Pound.  For the first class, please read Bronsteen pp. 5-18, 77-79, 86-89 and, in the course reader, the Orin Kerr article, Aldisert pp. 93-97, 99-102, and Godsey v. Franz.

First-Year Legal Research & Writing (section 7A, Williams)

Please buy Bronsteen and the Bluebook at the Coop and pick up the course reader at the distribution center in Pound.  For the first class, please read Bronsteen pp. 5-18, 77-79, 86-89 and, in the course reader, the Orin Kerr article, Aldisert pp. 93-97, 99-102, and Lucy v. Zehmer.

First-Year Legal Research & Writing (section 7B, Barzun)

Please buy Bronsteen and the Bluebook at the Coop and pick up the course reader at the distribution center in Pound.  For the first class, please read Bronsteen pp. 5-18, 77-79, 86-89 and, in the course reader, the Orin Kerr article, Aldisert pp. 93-97, 99-102, and Lucy v. Zehmer. Our class will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 5, at 10:15 a.m. (room TBA).  After that, we will return to our regular Monday time.

First-Year Reading Group on Short-Termism (Professor Scott)

The first meeting of the group will be on September 13 for dinner, time and place to follow.  The remaining schedule and reading assignments will be on iCommons by August 30.

First-Year Reading Group on White Collar Crime (Heymann & Heymann)

TR 6:30 - 8:30 (Sandwiches and drinks provided).

Room TBA (You will be emailed with the room location)

Our first meeting is on Sept 28th.  Additional meetings are tentatively scheduled for on Oct 5th, Oct. 12th, Oct. 26th, Nov 2nd, Nov 9th, and Nov 30th.

Globalization of Law in Historical Perspective: 1850-2000 (Duncan Kennedy)

Please pick up the first syllabus and accompanying materials at the Distribution Center and read the first assignment, which gives an overview of the course.  The three syllabuses from last spring are posted on the course website http://myhls.law.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do and it will give you an idea of what the course will be like. I'm looking forward to meeting you on Wednesday.

Health Law Policy Workshop: Seminar (Elhauge)

There is no reading assignment for the first workshop, which will focus on an introduction to the proposed research projects of the new Petrie-Flom fellows and brainstorming constructive suggestions about how to best pursue, improve, or extend those projects. Please note that the first workshop will not be held in its usual location; the temporary room assignment for September 7 will be posted on the Petrie-Flom website at www.law.harvardedu/programs/petrie-flom/ once it is available. After the first week, students will be responsible for reading the paper that will be presented by a speaker for each week, which will be posted on the Petrie-Flom website. Students must also write comments on the presented papers, consisting of two double-spaced pages, with up to one page of critique and at least one page of constructive suggestions about how to improve the piece, extensions from it to make, and how to further test it, etc. Those comments are due every week with the following exceptions (a) students can elect to skip written comments on two weeks of their choosing (but must still attend every class); and (b) students can also elect to skip another two weeks of comments if on another week they choose to write a aper of 6-10 double-spaced pages that builds on a presented paper to present the student's own original idea.

Immigration Law (Neuman)

Readings for first week: Monday Sept. 11 (Introduction; and Federal Immigration Power I)): Text pp. 1-14, 145-186 (with Update p. 2). Please be prepared to discuss the Chae Chan Ping case on p. 174.

Tuesday Sept. 12 (The Federal Immigration Power (II)): Add Text pp. 186-210. The syllabus and Updates are posted on the course website.

Module: Introduction to American & International Legal Research (Wise)

Please bring your Lexis and Westlaw passwords, and Harvard PIN (which you should have received at Registration) with you to all classes.  Please see the Reference Librarians in Langdell if you have questions.

ITA- Civil A (Charn)

Materials for the first class meeting on September 6 are available at distribution.  You will receive an e-mail with more specific information on the course.  Please e-mail Jeanne Charn, the course instructor, if you are enrolled in or wait listed for the course and you do not receive an e-mail by August 28th.  Her e-mail is charn@law.harvard.edu.

International Law (Blum)

The casebook for the course is Damrosch, Henkin, et al., International Law (4th edition, August 2001). There is also a documents supplement, but documents are available online as well. Additional materials will be available from the distribution center and on the course website (on MyHLS)

Assignment for the first class:

Book, xxvii-xxxvi - Historical Background

Book 22-33 - Enforcement and Compliance

Book 40-41 - Contemporary Perspectives on International Law

Book 52-55 - International Relations Theory and International Law

The Case of Guantanamo Bay (You don't need to fully grasp the legal details of the debate, but just get a feel for what the underlying ideological themes are):

* Common Articles 2-3 of the Geneva Conventions, 1949

* Human Rights Watch, The Road to Abu Ghraib: Part I - A Policy to Evade International Law, June 4, 2004 (1-4).

* Amnesty International, Guantanamo and Beyond: The Continuing Pursuit of Unchecked Executive Power, May 13, 2005 (1-5).

* Michael Isikoff, Double Standards? Newsweek, May 25, 2004.

* John Yoo and Robert J. Delahunty, Memorandum for General Counsel, Department of Defense - Application of Treaties and Laws to al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees, January 9, 2002 (1-2).

* The Torture Canard, The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2004.

* John Yoo, Terrorists have No Geneva Rights, The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2004.

* Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_citation 548 U.S. ___, 126 S.Ct. 2749, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006) (excerpts from opinions by J. Stevens, J. Scalia, and J. Thomas).

International Law Workshop (Alford and Goodman)

95860 Fall OR Fall/Spring Block K Thursdays 5-7pm

2-4 credits

We will hold the first session on Thursday, September 7 at 5:00 pm. A room has not yet been assigned -- so, please check the Registrar's Office website in early September. In advance of the first session, please read the packet of materials that will be available at the Law School Distribution Center in the basement of Pound Hall. Also, we encourage you to complete the questionnaire that is available online at the course website, and email the completed questionnaire (before the first day of class if possible) to all four of the course faculty/staff members: Professor Alford (alford), Professor Goodman (rgoodman), Emma Johnson (johnson), and Ellen Keng (ekeng). Please note that the packet of reading materials contains a few discussion questions intended simply to assist you in framing the reading and the initial class discussion.

If you have questions regarding the course website or reading packets, please contact Emma Johnson. For other questions about the course, please email either Professor Alford or Professor Goodman.

Land Use Law (Ryan)The casebook for this class is Ellickson and Been, Land Use Controls (3d. ed. 2005).  For our first meeting, please skim pages 1-30, and please read and be prepared to discuss pages 31-45.

Law and Education (Ryan)

Reading for this class is contained in reading packets, which will be available after August 28. For our first meeting, please read and be prepared to discuss the first set of readings in the first reading packet—i.e., Reading #1 as indicated in the packet table of contents.

Law and Economics: Seminar A (Shavell & Kaplow)

Tuesdays 4:45 – 6:45 PM

The first meeting of the law and economics seminar will be on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 4:45pm. The speaker will be Professor John Donohue of Yale Law School, who will be presenting work concerning the debate about the deterrent effect of the death penalty. Please go to the course Website for specific instructions for the first meeting and general information about the seminar.

Law, Economics and Organization Seminar (Kaplow)

Fall 2006

The first class session will be on September 18. Please check the course website for further details as that date approaches.

Law, Economics, and Organization Research Seminar (Bebchuk)

The first session of this seminar, which is given jointly with the economics department, will be on September 18, after the beginning of the academic year at FAS. Students who have any questions about the course should contact professor Lucian Bebchuk, bebchuk@law.harvard.edu. Information about the course will also be available on the course's website.

Law and Finance (Bebchuk)

The first session will take place on Monday, Sep. 11. Students should read the assignment for the first session.

Law and Political Economy seminar (Goldsmith & Vermeule)

First, a clarification about the course description.  This is a workshop that will have 14 outside speakers over two terms on topics related to public law.  There are no prerequisites for the seminar (other than seeking and receiving permission from Professor Goldsmith), but we recommend that you have taken or are taking at least one public law course (like constitutional law, administrative law, etc.).  You have to write a very short 1-2 page thought paper for each session.

Now, logistics:  We will have an organizational meeting on Wed. Sept. 13.  The assignment for the meeting is to read two articles that will be available in the copy center: (1) Pildes and Levinson, Separation of Parties, Not Powers, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 2311 (2006); (2) Jon Elster, The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory, in Foundations of Social Choice Theory (Elster ed. 1989).  This is a relatively heavy assignment but the articles are good.

Then, our schedule for the year is as follows:

Sept. 20 - Steven Croley, Michigan Law School, Regulation and Public Interests: On the Possibility of Good Regulatory Government.

Oct. 4 - Andrei Shleifer, Harvard Economics Department, Judicial Fact Discretion

Nov. 1 - Matt Adler, University of Pennsylvania Law School, TBA

Nov. 15 - Samuel Issacharoff, NYU Law School, Fragile Democracies

Dec. 6- Lewis Kornhauser, NYU Law School, The Legal Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law

SPRING

Jan. 31 - Cass Sunstein, Chicago Law School, On the Divergent American Reactions to Terrorism and Climate Change

Feb. 14 - Jon Elster, Columbia Political Science Department, [constitutional design project]

Feb. 28 - Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law School, Presidential Power and National Security

March 14 - Richard Arneson, University of California at San Diego Philosophy Department, TBA

April 4 - Christine Jolls, Yale Law School, TBA

April 18 - Jim Fearon, Stanford Political Science Department, Catastrophic Terrorism and Civil Liberties in the Short and Long Run.

May 2: - Gillian Hadfield, USC Law School, TBA

Law and Religion in India seminar (Mansfield)

The first meeting of this seminar is on Wed. Sept. 6 at 4:45 pm.  In preparation for this meeting please pick up in the Distribution Center and read material relating to the Caste System (Marriott and Inden, Caste Systems; Barnett, Identity Choice and Caste Ideology).

Lawyering for the President seminar (Goldsmith)

"Our first meeting is on Tuesday Sept. 5th.  The first assignment is to read the materials available in the copy center for this seminar."

Legal Profession A2 (Kaufman)

The assignment for the first class and information about the course may be found on the course website.  A student who wishes to add this course must attend first-week classes and sign the seating chart.

Legal Research Advanced: A (Wise)

Please bring your Lexis and Westlaw passwords and Harvard PIN (which you should have received at Registration) with you to all classes.  Please see the Reference Librarians in Langdell if you have questions.

Mergers & Acquisitions (Coastes)

Our primary casebook will be William J. Carney, Mergers and Acquisitions (2001) ["Carney"] and the supplement to that book (2006) ["CSupp"].  Also required are Robert F. Bruner, Applied Mergers & Acquisitions (University Ed. 2004) ["Bruner"], and Melvin Eisenberg, Corporations and Other Business Organizations:  Statutes, Rules, Materials and Forms (2006) ["StatSupp"] or an equivalent statutory supplement containing the text of the federal securities laws, SEC regulations, Delaware corporate statute, and New York Stock Exchange listed company manual.  Finally, there will be required reading in duplicated handouts during the semester ["Handout"].

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Split-Ups (Clark & Strine)

M,T 4:45 PM - 6:45 PM; Some Wednesdays 4:45 PM - 6:45 PM, Pound 101

Class 1 (September 11): All assigned readings are available for student pick-up at the Distribution Center.  Please read the following in preparation for the first class:

Moral Order and the Irrational: Readings in Nietzsche and Freud (Parker & Stone)

For the first class please read pages 88-100 and 114-123 in "The Nietzsche Reader" (available in the Harvard Law School Coop) and the selected readings by Freud which are now available in the Copy Center. Also for the first class please prepare a brief 250 word commentary on either set of readings and submit it to my assistant, Terry Cyr, by 5pm on Wednesday, September 5th.  Please email your commentary to her at tcyr@law.harvard.edu.

Negotiation Workshop (44100A) Winter/Spring 2007(Mnookin, et. al.)

Negotiation Workshop (44100A) Spring 2007 (Bordone, et. al.):

ATTENTION LL.Ms and CROSS-REGISTRANTS interested in taking either the Winter Negotiation Workshop (Mnookin, et. al) or the Spring Negotiation Workshop (Bordone, et. al):

All LL.Ms and cross-registrants seeking admission to these classes will be admitted through an application procedure.  Any LL.M or cross-registrant who would like to be admitted to either the Winter or the Spring Negotiation Workshop should follow the application instructions found at http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/registrar/negotiation-workshop/index.php

Positive Political Science & Public Law I: The Administrative State (Stephenson)

The reading list for this seminar, and the readings themselves, are available on the MyHLS course website.  For the first meeting on Thursday, Sept. 7, please read Peter H. Aranson, Ernest Gellhorn & Glen O. Robinson, “A Theory of Legislative Delegation” 68 Cornell Law Review 1 (1983) and David B. Spence & Frank Cross, “A Public Choice Case for the Administrative State” 89 Georgetown Law Journal 97 (2000).  Please note that these articles are both relatively long, so you should leave yourself enough time.

Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace (Palfrey, Cunard, Malone)

Both enrolled students and students on the wait list should attend the first class meeting on Wednesday, September 6 from 4:45-6:45 p.m. Please check the course website (http://myhls.law.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=myHLS&subkeyword=k10418&pageid=icb.page36085) beginning August 25 for the course syllabus and further announcements. For the first class, complete the reading assignments for Week One and think about the Issues to Consider for the week.  Readings can be downloaded from the syllabus or picked up in hardcopy form at the Copy Center.  Students enrolled in a fall clinical component also should plan to attend an organizational meeting on Wednesday, September 6, 12:15-1:15pm, at the Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, 2nd floor.

Property/ Section 1 (Donahue)

The casebook is Donahue, Kauper and Martin, Cases and Materials on Property: An Introduction to the Concept and the Institution (3d ed. 1993) (DKM3) and multilithed materials.  Please pick up a copy of the syllabus and the multilithed materials in the Distribution Center.  For the first class read the syllabus and Pierson v. Post, DKM3, pp. 2-19.

Property/Section 4 & Section 6 (Mann)

The casebook for the course is Dukeminier, Krier, Alexander & Schill, Property (6th ed., Aspen, 2006).  For the first class on Tuesday, September 5, please read Pierson v. Post, pp. 17-21.

You may not use laptop computers in class.

Property/Section 5 (Barron)

For our first class, please read pp. xxxix-lv; and Sec. 1.5.1, pp. 76-83 in the Singer,  Casebook.  Look forward to seeing you then, as well as during orientation.  The syllabus will be available at the distribution center and on the course website (where the course materials can also be found) the week before classes.

Public Law Workshop: Seminar (Fallon/Gerken)

Fall 2006

A syllabus for the course is available from the Distribution Center.  For the first class on Friday, September 8, from 12:15-2:15 p.m. in Hauser 105, please read the first assignment:  Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch, pp. 1-72, 235-243.

Securities Regulation A (Professor Scott)

The syllabus and the materials for the first class will be available on iCommons by September 5.

Shareholder Activism (Bebchuk)

The first session will take place on Monday, Sep. 11. Students should read the assignment for the first session.

TAW Fall Workshop and ITA: Criminal Justice, Fall/Winter, 2006-2007

There will be a mandatory meeting on Wednesday, September 6, 2006, from 4:00p.m.-5:30 p.m. for all students enrolled in the Fall Trial Advocacy Workshop and the ITA: Criminal Justice, Fall/Winter, 2006-2007 courses. Prof. Charles Ogletree will discuss what you need to be prepared for both TAW and ITA: Criminal Justice. This meeting will be held in the Morgan Courtroom, located on the 3rd floor of Austin Hall.

The materials for TAW will be available for pick up from Prof. Ogletree’s office in Hauser 518 beginning Friday, September 1st after 12 noon; these materials should be read in their entirety, including the Federal Rules of Evidence, prior to the meeting. Each day, each student will have a role as a lawyer and as a witness, and will need to prepare in advance for those assignments. The required texts for TAW are McCormick on Evidence and Thomas Mauet’s Fundamentals of Trial Techniques, and are available in the HLS Coop.

Taxation A2 (Kaplow)

Fall, 2006

Assignment for First Meeting:  Background material and through section IA1 of the course outline.  Materials: Andrews, Basic Federal Income Taxation (5th edition); CCH Federal Income Tax: Code and Regulations B Selected Sections B 2006-2007 edition, plus the course outline, to be obtained from the course web site before the first class meeting.  Also, please check the course web site a day or so before the first class for possible further announcements.

Theory Workshop: Seminar (Desan)

The seminar will have an organizational meeting on Tuesday, September 12. Reading sessions will start the following wee, Tuesday, September 19. The syllabus and reading materials will be available at the Distribution Center after September 8.

Torts/Section2 (Sargentich)

Readings for our course are the casebook, Keeton, Sargentich & Keating, Tort and Accident Law (4th edition, 2004), plus some multilith materials which will be available at the Distribution Center.  For our first class, on Tuesday, September 5, please read casebook pages 1-4 and 7-13.

Torture, Law, and Lawyers: Reading Group (Levinson)

For the first session on Tuesday, September 12 at 4:45 please pick up the syllabus available in Ms. Uzuner's office, Hauser 306 and read the assigned material from Levinson, ed. Torture: A Collection and Greenberg, ed., The Torture Debate in America.

Trademark and Unfair Competition Law (Diamond)

For the first class, please read pages 1-30 and 70-82 in the casebook  [Ginsburg, Litman, & Kevlin, Trademark and Unfair Competition Law, Third Edition].  The first section, through the decision in Quality Inns International v. McDonald's Corp, 695 F.Supp 198 (D. Md. 1988), introduces you to many of the issues in Trademark Law we'll be discussing this semester.  The remaining pages provide some background on the theoretical issues that justify (and raise questions about) trademark law. The casebook and 2006 case supplement/statutory appendix should be available in the HLS Coop.

Transactional Practice Clinical Workshop (Price)

Women and the Law (Halley/Adler)

(9) FALL 2006 - CLINICAL INFORMATION

All clinical registration (adds, drops, waitlist questions) will be handled directly through the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs in Austin Hall 108 from Sept. 1-7, 2006. >

Students will be able to add, drop, or waitlist for Fall, Winter, and Spring clinical courses.

MyPlan cannot be used to add or drop clinical courses

• Clinical Add/Drop is Friday, Sept. 1 - Thursday, Sept. 7, from 9am-5pm.
• Labor Day Weekend Closing: We will not be open on Saturday, September 2; Sunday, September 3; or Monday, September 4 - Labor Day Holiday)
• Clinical work for the fall semester begins the week of September 11, 2006.
• Students admitted into a clinical course through pre-registration (clinical lottery) are automatically enrolled in both the classroom and clinical components of the course.
• Students wishing to add or drop a clinical course must do so in person at the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs in Austin 108 from September 1-7, 2006.
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• Note that a drop will result in being dropped from both the classroom and clinical components!

FALL 2006 SEMESTER: ADD/DROP DEADLINES FOR CLINICAL COURSES

Deadlines for adding or dropping a clinical course or for changing the number of clinical credits are earlier than those for non-clinical courses. All adds, drops and changes for clinical courses are processed directly through the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs in Austin 108. Students will be able to add, drop, or waitlist for Fall, Winter, and Spring clinical courses.

Please note the early add/drop deadline of Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 5:00pm for the following courses:

1. STUDENTS PRESENTLY WAITLISTED FOR CLINICAL COURSES

If you are waitlisted for a clinical course from the pre-registration Clinical lottery last spring, please check MyPlan (myplan.law.harvard.edu) for your rank on the waitlist.

• When a seat becomes available in the clinical course and you are at the top of a waitlist, you will receive an email from Karina Chamorro (kchamorro@law.harvard.edu) in the office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs to notify you that you are able to enroll.
• You will have one business day to respond, and will need to add the clinical course in person at the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs in Austin 108 within the one business day time period. (Both the course and clinical component will be added).
• If you do not respond within one business day, the seat will be offered to the next person on the waitlist.

2. COURSE AVAILABILITY

Beginning Monday, August 28, please check the Clinical and Pro Bono website (http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical) to find out updated clinical course availability.

3. INDEPENDENT CLINICAL WORK PROGRAM (ICWP)

The Independent Clinical Work Program offers second- and third- year students the opportunity to design a legal practice experience in areas of interest that are not currently available through the clinical curriculum. An HLS Faculty member and a supervising attorney at the placement site must sponsor all proposals. Please contact Lisa Dealy (dealy@law.harvard.edu) or Liz Solar (esolar@law.harvard.edu) to explore project ideas or placements.

For the fall 2006 semester, all ICWP proposals must be submitted to the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, Austin Hall 102, no later than Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 5:00 pm. More information describing the Independent Clinical Work Program is available on our website: http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/independent.htm

Fall Independent Clinical application deadline………………………….……. September 7, 2006

Winter Independent Clinical application deadline………………….…………… December 1, 2006

Spring Independent Clinical application deadline……………………….…………January 9, 2007

4. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Start Dates for ITA: Criminal Justice and ITA Criminal: Prosecution Perspectives:

ITA: Criminal Justice (Ogletree) and ITA Criminal: Prosecution Perspectives (Corrigan) class sessions and clinical work will begin during the week of October 2 immediately following completion of the fall Trial Advocacy Workshop (TAW). Students may receive notice of orientations and substantive law training sessions to be held prior to October 2 (Criminal Justice Institute tr

Students with fall semester clinical placements at the Attorney General’s Office, the US Attorney’s office and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic must attend mandatory orientation sessions at their place mandatory substantive training sessions for all students with a fall semester clinical placements at these sites. Four or five mandatory seminar meetings for students in Government Lawyer will also be scheduled in the evenings.

Placement Selection & Placement Preference Forms

If you are enrolled in a 2006-2007 course with a fall semester placement, you will receive a Placement Form by e-mail to complete and return to the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs in Austin 102 during the first week of classes. These forms contain a brief description of each placement available for the course. You will be asked to rank your preference as well as to complete a schedule of classes and preferred clinical work hours. You are not guaranteed your first choice of placement, although we make every effort to accommodate your requests. If you do not return your form to the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs by the assigned due date, you will be assigned to a placement on a space-available basis. Contact the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs (Austin 102, or 617-495-5202) if you have any questions about placements.

Please visit the clinical website: http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/ for more detailed material on the Law School’s clinical legal education program, clinical course curriculum (courses and placements), and registration information.

The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs is located in Austin 102, and is open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. If you have any questions, you are welcome to stop by our office in Austin 102, phone 617-495-5202, or visit our website: http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/

LEGAL SERVICES CENTER ORIENTATION SESSIONS: Students with a fall semester clinical placement at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center should attend the following two orientation sessions:  (1) Get Acquainted Dinner and Orientation -- Thursday, Sept 7, 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. at HLS (exact location TBA); and (2) Orientation to Practice -- Saturday, Sept 9, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Center.  Shuttle bus service will be provided for the Saturday session.  These orientations are required for all students working at the Center this fall through the following courses:

* Administrative Law (Manning)

* Administrative Law (Stephenson)

* Bankruptcy Law (Warren)

* Employment Law (Silbaugh)

* Family Law (Halley)

* Health Care Law (Malani)

* Housing Law (Kennedy/Charn)

* ITA Civil (Charn)

* Law and Education (Ryan)

* Legal Prof:  Delivery of Legal Services (Charn)

* Poverty Law (Charn)

* Transactional Practice (Price)

Additional details about the orientations will be e-mailed soon  Please contact Cheryl Burg Rusk (rusk@law.harvard.edu) if you have questions.

(10)INFORMATION ON STUDENT FILES

HLS FERPA Policy Regarding Student Files

1. Privacy and Directory Information

Harvard Law School policy and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), as amended, provide students with certain protections concerning the confidentiality of their educational records. No information about Harvard Law School students, except that which is defined below as directory information, will be released outside the Law School without the student's prior written consent, unless otherwise authorized or required by law.

Harvard Law School defines the following student information as directory information:

Name

Local Address

Local Telephone

E-mail Address

Photo-I.D. Card Image

Permanent Address and Telephone

Summer Address

Students have the right to withhold the disclosure of this information by submitting written requests at Fall Registration. Such requests will remain in force for continuing students until the student registers in the fall. Any student wishing to have any information withheld for the academic year 2006-07 must complete a privacy form and submit it to the staff at Fall Registration. In appropriate cases, educational records are disclosed, without a student’s knowledge or consent, to Harvard officials with legitimate educational interest in the records. "School officials" include faculty, administrators, clerical or professional employees and agents of the University, such as independent contractors, performing functions on behalf of the University.

Examples of "legitimate educational interest" include situations where disclosure is required to operate or manage a University-sponsored academic or administrative program, or to perform student-related administrative, security, disciplinary or other service.

2. Right to File a Complaint with the U.S. Dept. of Education

According to 34 C.F.R. S 99.7(a)(2)(iv),

FERPA notices must notify students of the right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the University to comply with FERPA requirements. A sample notification follows:

3. Types of Educational Records Maintained at the Law School

The Law School maintains the following files with respect to students:

(A) The Admissions File contains only those letters of recommendation to which the individual student has not waived the right of access. (Under Massachusetts law, the Law School is required to keep admissions materials for a period of three years. Therefore, materials that would ordinarily be destroyed at registration must be retained but are not considered part of the student's file. These materials are letters of recommendation to which the student has waived the right of access, the LSDAS report and the Admissions Committee worksheet.)

(B) The Registrar's File is kept in the Registrar's Office (Pound Hall 300) and is the responsibility the Registrar. This file contains the following:

1. Application for admission and undergraduate transcript(s);

2 Correspondence with student

3. Certification to:

(a) Veterans' organizations re: benefits;

(b) Undergraduate college of student status for loan deferment;

(c) Private agencies (e.g., banks, insurance companies, foundations) for financial aid purposes;

4. Registrar's working papers;

5. Transcript releases filed by student;

6. Sealed envelopes containing Administrative Board Matters in the files of those students who have had matters before the Board;

7. Miscellaneous (credit bureau status forms, bar applications, and other items generated by student request).

(i) Unlimited Access

The persons listed below have unlimited access to the Registrar's files (except that they do not have access to sealed envelopes containing Administrative Board materials) without the requirement of being logged (i.e., signing a card specifying reasons for requesting access and date). These people may go directly to the file room itself:

1. The Dean of Students

2. The Registrar

(ii) Limited Access

The persons listed below have limited access to Registrar's files (except that they do not, unless otherwise noted, have access to sealed envelopes containing Administrative Board materials). These persons will be required to sign in and out, except for the Dean, and have access for specified reasons only. They will not be able to go to the file room directly.

1. The Dean (who has access to sealed envelopes containing Administrative Board materials);

2. The Assistant in charge of the Clinical Program for purposes of certifying students to the Supreme Judicial Court under Rule 3:11;

3. Chairperson of the Appointments Committee (for Admissions matters only);

4. Director of Financial Aid (for Financial Aid matters only);

5. Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions (for Admissions matters only);

6. Members of the Administrative Board (for Administrative Board matters only), and their access will include sealed envelopes containing Administrative Board materials;

7. Members of the Faculty for legitimate educational interest only

8. Secretarial staff under the direct supervision of the following persons:

(a) The Dean

(b) Members of the Administrative Board

(c) Chairperson of the Appointments Committee

(d) The Dean of Students

(e) The Registrar

These persons will be required to have the signature of the authorized supervisory person before receiving any files.

(C) Administrative Board Minutes are kept in the Office of the Dean of Students (Pound Hall 310) and are the

(D) Financial Aid Files are kept in the Financial Aid Office (Pound Hall 310) and are the responsibility of the Director of Financial Aid. They include student application forms and tax returns, parents' financial statements and Committee working papers. Access to these papers is limited to the faculty and administrative members of the Financial Aid Committee and the staff of the Financial Aid Office for use in administering the financial aid program.

4. Policy for Reviewing and Expunging Records

No policy has been adopted with respect to specific intervals at which student records will be reviewed and expunged, but generally speaking it is expected that substantial portions of an individual's file will be destroyed five (5) years after the individual's graduation.

5. Student Inspection of Files

Students who wish to inspect any of their files may file a request to do so with the administrative officer responsible for the particular file.

6. Challenges to Contents of File

A student who wishes to challenge the content of an education record may do so by filing a written challenge with the Registrar, who will refer the matter to a committee for disposition.

7. Copies of Records

Students who wish to obtain copies of any of their educational records may do so at no charge. Please note that we cannot copy or distribute a transcript from any other academic institution.

Questions with respect to any of these matters should be raised with the Registrar.

(11) HLS LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Special Event: Love Your Library Fest!!

Come join Library staff on Thursday, September 14 from 2:00-5:00 p.m. for this fun event! Learn about Library resources, receive free movie tickets, and participate in a grand prize drawing for a digital camera!!!

Entry and Access

The central entrance to Langdell Hall leads to the part of the Library that includes the Anglo-American law collection. The entrance to International Legal Studies (ILS), the part of the Library that includes the Foreign and International law collection, is just inside the entrance to the Lewis Center. A bridge on the 4th floor joins the sections of the Library. All patrons must have a valid Harvard University Identification (ID) card to enter the Library. In the Langdell circulation area, patrons swipe Harvard IDs through a card reader on the turnstile or at the automatic door that is accessible to patrons with disabilities; in the ILS circulation area, the card reader is at the entrance to the stairwell into the Library stacks.

Online Library Resources

The HOLLIS Catalog, Harvard’s online library catalog, includes the Law School Library's holdings as well as the holdings of many other Harvard Libraries. It is available at: http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu. Access the Your Account service to confirm what materials you have checked out, renew books, recall items, request materials from the Harvard Depository (an offsite library storage site), and check for fines charged to your account. To login to Your Account, you will need your Harvard ID and PIN. If you have lost or forgotten your PIN, you may request a new one at: http://www.pin.harvard.edu.

The Harvard Libraries portal: http://library.harvard.edu offers access to the HOLLIS Catalog as well as other library catalogs, research guides, information on the approximately 90 libraries that make up the Harvard University Libraries system, and to the E-Research @ Harvard Libraries (E-Research) portal.

E-Research, available at: http://e-research.library.harvard.edu, is the centralized access point for the vast array of electronic resources and e-journals available to the Harvard Community. You can browse resources by subject or find specific resources by keyword. E-research allows simultaneous cross-searching of resources grouped by topic, or those resources that you specifically choose to search together. It also offers extensive personalization: you can create personal sets of resources, lists of e-journals, and manage citations in multiple folders. Login using your Harvard ID and PIN to access E-Research’s full functionality.

The Library subscribes to a wide variety of electronic resources on behalf of the Harvard Law School community. These include large, comprehensive legal databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw, indexes such as LegalTrac and ILP, and digital archives such as The Making of Modern Law, HeinOnline and JSTOR. The Library has compiled selective listings of electronic resources useful for legal, academic, historical and newspaper research: http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/electronic/. Data resources are of increasing importance to the legal researcher. The Library has compiled selective listings of data resources useful for legal research organized into six broad topical areas: http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/data/.

Stop by the Langdell or International Legal Studies reference desks for research assistance including HOLLIS Catalog training, an overview of E-Research, or help with any other online resource.

LexisNexis and Westlaw Accounts

LexisNexis and Westlaw accounts will be distributed to new students in their registration packets during registration on Thursday, August 31st. Returning students should continue using their LexisNexis and Westlaw accounts from last year. Please be sure to register your accounts with LexisNexis and Westlaw. Instructions are provided on your account cards.

Please stop by the Langdell reference desk, located just off the Reading Room on the fourth floor of Langdell Hall, if you have lost or not received your accounts or have any questions.

All students in the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program (LRW) must attend both a LexisNexis and a Westlaw introductory training class or complete the LexisNexis and Westlaw Tutorial by Friday, October 13th. In order to fully participate in the LRW legal research classes, you must be able to perform a basic set of LexisNexis and Westlaw skills, including: signing on and off; locating a case and law review article by citation; selecting a database; constructing a simple search; viewing, navigating, printing, downloading and emailing search results; and viewing and manipulating your research history.

The Library is sponsoring 60-minute back-to-back introductory LexisNexis & Westlaw classes taught by our account representatives. Training schedules and sign-ups will be available by Tuesday, September 5th at:

LexisNexis home page: http://lawschool.lexisnexis.com

Westlaw home page: http://lawschool.westlaw.com

Reference Service

Professional reference librarians with backgrounds in library science and law provide reference service at the Harvard Law School Library. Reference librarians work at three separate reference desks, each supporting their division of the Library collection:

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• Langdell Reference: the law of the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. (Langdell, Floor 4) Regular hours: Monday - Thursday, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.; Friday, 9:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
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• International Legal Studies Reference: comparative and international law and the laws of all other jurisdictions. (ILS, Floor 2) Regular hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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• Special Collections Reference: older and rare materials, manuscripts, archives, and the Library’s art collection. (Langdell, Root Room, Floor 4) Regular hours: Monday, Wednesday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Circulation

About 80% of the Law Library materials do not circulate to students and include periodicals, primary source materials, and looseleafs. Circulation staff can answer questions about the circulating status of any of the Library’s materials. The regular loan period for circulating materials is 28 days, except for S.J.D. students who have a semester-long loan period. Recalls, however, limit the due date to 14 days. Books that have not been requested by another patron may be renewed up to five times via Your Account on the Web at http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu or at either circulation desk. Course reserve materials can be charged out for two-hour periods at the Langdell Circulation Desk. For more detailed information about circulation including the fine structure, consult the “Harvard Law School Library” brochure.

Interlibrary Loan

The Law School Library Interlibrary Loan service (ILL) provides books and articles from libraries outside of Harvard University to Harvard Law School students, faculty and staff.

All ILL requests are processed via an online request form available on the Library’s website, http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/ in the ILL section. Patrons are required to register prior to submitting a request. Please consult a reference librarian prior to completing a request form to obtain a bibliographic record, and to be certain the material is not more readily available at another Harvard library or electronically. The Interlibrary Loan office cannot borrow entire issues of periodicals but can provide photocopies of individual articles or tables of contents. Please note that all ILL materials are subject to U.S. copyright laws (17 U.S.C.). For more detailed information about ILL, consult the ILL web page under Interlibrary Loan for Harvard Law School Faculty, Staff and Students at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/ill/hls_ill.php.

Materials Not Found on Library Shelves

Patrons can fill out search request forms at either the circulation or reference desks. These are for retrieval of storage materials or for materials that appear in the HOLLIS Catalog as available and yet are not on the shelves. Requests submitted by 3:00 p.m. will be handled within 48 hours during the business week.

Online Library Service Forms

Patrons can use the Online Service Forms at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/index.php to request Law School Library items that are listed in the HOLLIS Catalog as “On Order,” “Ordered-Received” or “Cataloging.” Patrons can also submit requests on the Library Web page at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/about/comments/collection_new.php to suggest a resource for addition to the Library’s collection. Request forms are also available at either the reference or circulation desks.

Photocopying, Scanning, and Printing

Photocopiers are located throughout Langdell and on the third and basement levels in the International Legal Studies section. Photocopiers operate on the Crimson Cash system using either a Harvard ID or a Crimson Cash Card. Credit can be added at a Value Transfer Station located in the Photocopy Room (Langdell 352), or via the Web at www.cash.harvard.edu. Copies are 10 cents each.

A scanner is available in the Langdell 352 Photocopy Room. The scanning is currently free though U.S. copyright laws must be observed. Plans are underway for two additional scanners to be installed on the 4th floor of Langdell.

Printers are available throughout the Library and in the computer lab in the basement of Hauser Hall. There are five printers across the Law School campus dedicated exclusively to laptop printing, two of which are located in the Library. One of these is located on the second floor north in a copy alcove, while the other is available on the fourth floor in the copy room near the Reference desk. Print accounts are set up for HLS students automatically at registration and maintained throughout the duration of their degree programs. These accounts track print costs incurred by students at public printers. During the first week of every month (from October through May), Term Billing will be sent any amounts accrued over the course of the previous month for billing to students.

Students may, if they wish, pay down these monthly accruals (before they are sent to Term Billing) or pay against future accruals via cash transactions at Information Technology Services (ITS) Student Help Desk in Hauser 030. Black-and-white print copies are 5 cents per page. Color copies on the color printer in 030 Hauser are 50 cents per page. HOLLIS Web pages (from the on-line catalog) are free.

All student printing accounts are credited with $50 of free printing at the beginning of each academic year. Once this allocation is exhausted, any further printing will either be term billed to the student or paid for out of the student's cash account for printing. For detailed explanation of student print-account structure and all other printing matters, including laptop printing procedures, go to http://printing.law.harvard.edu/printinfo.

Carrel Application Procedures

Carrel applications will be accepted beginning on September 5th. The first assignments will be made on September 7th. Students may apply for a carrel only if they are S.J.D. candidates who have not been assigned an office, LL.M students writing a thesis, or J.D. candidates satisfying third year paper requirements. Reserving a carrel shelf allows students doing long-term research to keep library materials stored in an accessible place.

There will be a rolling deadline for carrel applications. Carrels will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Fall/Winter semester carrel applications are available online at the Law Library web site in the “Services” section (http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/students/CarrelApplication.pdf) or in paper form at the Langdell Circulation Desk. The completed application can be submitted to the Langdell Circulation Desk. Carrel assignments are for one semester only, and there will be a separate application process for the spring 2007 semester in early January. S.J.D. candidates and HLS Graduate Program Visiting Scholars or Visiting Researchers may request a carrel assignment for the academic year but must renew their carrel shelf assignment each semester. Students who do not require use of a carrel until the spring semester should not apply for a carrel now. Additional questions about carrels can be directed to Ashly Tomlinson, Access/Privileges Assistant at 496-5510 or via e-mail at access@law.harvard.edu.

PLEASE NOTE: Patrons reserving carrels are only reserving shelf space for materials checked out to that carrel or materials they may have checked out to their own Harvard ID card. Carrel seating and other desk space are NOT reserved for the assigned carrel user and are available to all library users.

Rules of the Library

NO FOOD OR CANDY IS PERMITTED, EXCEPT IN THE LEMANN LOUNGE AT THE LANGDELL ENTRANCE.

Beverages are only permitted in the HLS Library if they are in containers with lids. Special HLS spill-proof mugs will be distributed at the Love Your Library Fest in Langdell from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. on September 14. Any remaining mugs will be made available for lLs at the Langdell or ILS Circulation or Reference desks.

Cell phones can be used only in the Lemann Lounge or in the Photocopy Rooms on floors 3 and 4 of Langdell.

Study materials or personal belongings should not be left unattended at a study space in the Library. Personal belongings will be brought to the Lost and Found in Facilities Management, Holmes Hall Rm. 4 and library materials will be reshelved.

Telephone Numbers

Langdell Circulation, level 2 - (617)495-3455

Langdell Reference, level 4 - (617)495-4516

ILS Circulation - (617)495-3177

ILS Reference - (617)495-9001

Access/Privileges - (617)496-5510

Interlibrary Loan - (617)495-3176

Microform Room - (617)496-2127

Langdell and ILS Circulation Desk Hours

Recess Hours through September 4, 2006

Monday, September 4: Labor Day: Closed

Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.

Friday: 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday: Closed

Academic Year Beginning September 5, 2006

Langdell

Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m.- 2:00 a.m.

Friday: 8:00 a.m.- 10:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Sunday: 9:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.

ILS

Monday-Thursday: 8:00 a.m.- 12:00 a.m.

Friday: 8:00 a.m.- 9:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Sunday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.

Hours during exam periods, holidays, bar review, and summer recess will be posted separately.

Working at the Library

The Library is a great place to work for students who wish to make extra money for living expenses or just a little "spending cash" for extracurricular activities! Students interested in working at the Library should apply in person at the Langdell Circulation desk. Jobs fill up fast so if applicants would like to inquire about need prior to arriving on campus, they can contact Lauren Hannah-Murphy (617) 496-2132 or Louise Ragno (617) 496-2147.  All applicants should be able to supply a copy of their resume and two references.

Due to longer opening hours, there are many positions available and a flexible schedule can be arranged to accommodate class schedules.  Shifts begin as early as 8:00 a.m. and end as early as 2:00 a.m.

(12) FINANCIAL AID; CAREER SERVICES and other HLS Offices

Financial Aid Office

Welcome Back

We hope you had an enjoyable summer and look forward to seeing you.  Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help you now or anytime during the academic year.  Best wishes as you start the new semester.

Staffing

Please allow us to introduce and perhaps re-introduce ourselves to you as well as update you on what is happening in Financial Aid this year.

* Ken Lafler - Director of Financial Aid & Low Income Protection Plan

* Tony Curcio - Associate Director of Financial Aid

* Natasha Onken - Assistant Director, Low Income Protection Plan and Summer Public Interest Funding

* Denise Ryan - Assistant Director, Program Development and External Relations

* Susan Chin - Financial Aid Officer (Counsels students with last names from A-K)

* Fran Hinnant - Financial Aid Officer (Counsels students with last names from L-Z)

* Leslie Patterson - Coordinator, Low Income Protection Plan and Summer Public Interest Funding

* Douglas Walo - Financial Aid Coordinator

* Patty Hanley - Financial Aid Staff Assistant

Appointments

In order to meet the needs of as many people as possible, we will answer your questions on a walk-in basis during the first week of class. On Monday, September 11, 2006, we will begin a structured appointment schedule. If you would like to make an appointment, you can do so by calling the Financial Aid Office at 495-4606. Most basic financial aid policy and procedure questions can be answered on a walk-in basis by our front desk staff.  However, if you who have more detailed questions and concerns we recommend you set up an appointment at your convenience. A list of each officer's appointment times can be found on our web site at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/finaid/my/apptsched.php.

Cash Advance Checks

Entering students: you will be able to pick-up your checks after you have registered for classes on August 31, 2006.

Returning students: you can pick up your check once you have officially registered for classes on Tuesday, September 5, 2006.

To receive your check, you need to present your 2006-2007 Harvard University ID card. In order to be eligible for a cash advance, you must be receiving financial aid that exceeds your fall e-bill charges. In addition, any private loan funds to be included in the check must have been approved and the promissory notes e-signed.  After the first month of class, we will request checks on a weekly basis for any eligible students.  These checks will be mailed to the local address on file. More detailed information regarding Step 7 of the HLS financial aid application process can be found on our website at http://wwwlaw.harvard.edu/students/finaid/apply/step7/index.php.

Online Entrance Interviews for 1L's by Sept 15

Federal and American Bar Association regulations require that all entering students participate in some form of financial aid counseling at the start of enrollment. We will email you when the entrance interview, which will be an online web form, is ready for youect Stafford, Perkins & Harvard Loan Promissory Notes by Sept 15

Promissory notes for Direct Stafford, Perkins & Harvard loans will be available for e-signing after fall registration. We will send you an email notifying you once you are able to e-sign. The deadline to e-sign your loan promissory notes is Friday, September 15, 2006. More detailed information regarding Step 8 of the HLS financial aid application process can be found on our website at

Note: Students who received SummerPublic Interest Funding need to submit the online form and documentation for any summer compensation other than their SPIF funding. Documentation of SPIF earnings will be received directly from the summer funding program.

The Summer Income and Expense Update Form can be found on the forms page of our website at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/finaid/forms/. More detailed information regarding Step 8 of the HLS financial aid application process can be found on our website at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/finaid/apply/step8/index.php.

This form is secure and your data is protected. To access the form you will need to use the same username and password you use to access your HLS email account.

Restricted Grant Funding Form by Sept 15

All grant recipients are required to submit the Restricted Grant Funding Form. We use the information collected to allocate our restricted grant funds according to a particular donor's intended preferences. Your responses in this web form will have no impact on either your eligibility status or on the actual amount of assistance for which you have been awarded. The deadline to submit the web form is Friday, September 15, 2006.

The Restricted Grant Funding Form can be found on the forms page of our website at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/finaid/forms/. More detailed information regarding Step 8 of the HLS financial aid application process can be found on our website at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/finaid/apply/step8/index.php.

Fall Financial Aid Review Process

Shortly after registration, we will begin our fall financial aid update process. If you received a need-based grant, your preliminary financial aid award is not final until this update review process is completed. We expect to finish this process by the end of October, at which time we will be notifying you of our final award decision.

Before we can review your file, you need to be sure that you have turned in all of your required documents. The deadline for submitting all required documentation is September 15, 2006. Please log in to "My HLS Financial Aid" to check "Your Documents". The URL is:https://myfaid.law.harvard.edu/NetPartnerStudent/. Your login ID is your social security number with no dashes and your pin is your randomly generated password (not your Harvard University Pin).

Note: If you are interested in your student contribution for LIPP purposes, you should contact the LIPP staff at mailto:lipp@law.harvard.edu. Due to differences in financial aid and LIPP policies, your LIPP student contribution may be lower than your financial aid student contribution.

Low Income Protection Plan (LIPP)

The LIPP Office, in conjunction with OPIA, will be hosting a panel entitled "Living on LIPP" on Thursday, September 14 at 7pm (Location TBA). Current LIPP participants will be coming to share their work experiences and discuss how they are able to manage their educational loan debt with the aid of LIPP. Dinner will be served.

Summer Public Interest Funding (SPIF)

If you are a 2L or 3L who participated in the SPIF program, please submit your Time Logs. You will need to submit your Supervisor Evaluations, as well, if you are receiving Pro Bono credit; both of these forms are available on the SPIF website (http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/finaid/sumfund/sfappforms.php) and should be completed and returned to the SPIF Office in Pound Hall 324 by Friday, September 15. Additionally, all SPIF recipients must fill out an online placement evaluation at https://ldap.law.harvard.edu/jobdb/.

Outside Resources

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships

Once again, we would like to alert all entering students to a significant scholarship opportunity, The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. You may be eligible to apply if you (1) are a resident alien; i.e. a Green Card holder, or (2) have been naturalized as a U.S. citizen, or (3) are the child of two parents who are both naturalized citizens. Additional eligibility criteria are described at http://www.pdsoros.org/

Soros Fellows receive an annual stipend of $20,000 plus $16,000 towards annual tuition, for up to two years of enrollment in a U.S. graduate program. The application deadline for the current year is November 1, 2006. The Financial Aid Office will host a panel session on the application process prior to the filing deadline. Guest speakers will include Warren Ilchman, Director of the Soros Program as well as current HLS Soros recipients. All will be available to talk about the fellowship program and to answer questions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP Minority Fellowship Program

The fellowship consists of: (1) a salaried summer associate position in one or more of Kirkland's domestic offices after the recipients' second year of law school, and (2) a $15,000 stipend during the recipient's third year of law school. For additional information about the firm, please visit http://www.kirkland.com. Fellowship applications are available in Pound 324. Deadline is October 20, 2006.

The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship

This fellowship was established for the purpose of funding advanced education and graduate study. The Liebmann Fund allows Harvard University to nominate a maximum of three graduate students each year as part of a national search. These fellowships are awarded only to candidates who have outstanding undergraduate records, demonstrated financial need, and US citizenship. The competition is open to Harvard students at GSAS, HBS, HLS, HMS, and KSG.

The amount of each Fellowship will cover the cost of tuition and a stipend for living expenses. The stipend for for 2006-2007 academic year was $18,000. Fellowships are awarded annually and are limited to a maximum three years. Applications will be available in November from the Financial Aid Office with a filing deadline in January 2007

(13) ITS Updates and Reminders for Students

ITS Updates and Reminders for Students

Student Lab/Help Desk Temporary Hours

Mon. 8/28- Fri., 9/1: 9 am-5 pm

Sat.-Mon., 9/2 - 9/4: Closed

Tues.-Fri., 9/5 - 9/8: 9 am-5 pm

Sat. & Sun., 9/9 & 9/10: Closed

Night and weekend hours will be added as the Help Desk becomes fully staffed. Watch for changes in the weekly Adviser and on Lab doors.

Student Help Desk Support

The Student Help Desk provides assistance for problems accessing the HLS Network, using HLS electronic accounts (such as e-mail, printing, and NetLocker), using supported software, and recovering data files necessary to meet degree requirements.

ITS does not rent, sell, troubleshoot or repair personally owned computer hardware or printers. Harvard’s Technology Products Center offers hardware repair at its location in the Science Center Room B10. More information can be found at: http://www.uis.harvard.edu/technology_services/hardware_repairs/.

Secure Your Computer!

To protect your computer system and your data, please follow the security tips on: http://www.law.harvard.edu/administration/its/students/security/. It is critical that your secure your computer before connecting to the network. Failure to do so can result in immediate virus infection leading to loss of computer functionality and data loss.

Increased Printing Services for Students!

New Student Laptop Printers!

You can now print from your personal laptop to a new public printer located in the basement of Austin Hall, near the eMac kiosk. We have also replaced "Cletus" in the ITS Student Computer Lab with a new high-capacity printer, "Daisy". You will need to download the latest LPTOne public laptop print client before you will able to print to these new printers. For complete instructions and software download, please refer to: http://printing.law.harvard.edu/printinfo/print_documentation.php#laptop_install

New Laptop Print Client for Macs!

A Macintosh-compatible laptop print client will be available this fall for download. Please visit: http://printing.law.harvard.edu/printinfo/print_documentation.php#laptop_install for complete details.

Print From eMac Kiosks!

Printing to the Hark and Austin printers from their respective eMacs kiosks via your HLS student printing account will also be available this fall.

Printing Reminders

At the beginning of the year, each JD, LLM, and SJD student is allocated a $50 print credit. Once your $50 allocation is exhausted, printing costs incurred will be charged to your term bill each month during the academic year. Your print usage is tracked by the system and the accumulated dollar amount is charged to your term bill. This charge will appear on your term bill as "Printing- HLS". You will not receive any notification from the system when you have exhausted your allocation credit. It is the responsibility of the individual to monitor personal print usage. You can track your balances at: http://printing.law.harvard.edu/acct_info/. Print costs remain 5 cents for B&W and 50 cents for color printing.

Video-editing Suite Available in Student Lab

A new video editing station has been added to the student computer lab and our old system has been upgraded with a new more powerful iMac. For more information, please refer to: http://www.law.harvard.edu/administration/its/students/lab.php.

Media Services Updates

ITS Media Services made the follow updates and improvements during Summer 2006: Lewis 202, 301 and 302 have been outfitted with mounted projectors, speakers and sound systems. Hauser 101 and 105 have had source wall plates added; making it easy to switch between projected video sources. John Chipman Gray Room and Pound 335 have newly installed sound systems with mounted speakers and pull down screens.

The two Jukebox systems in the Hark have been updated to include an iPod option. Students can plug their iPods or MP3 players into these systems via the provided cable, choose 'Play iPod' from the touch screen and play their music throughout various spaces including the pub, café and south dining hall.

A/V Support

Please make requests for A/V service and equipment on line at http://internal.law.harvard.edu/its/forms/av/.

Requests for service and/or equipment must be made 72 hours in advance. Requests received within this window may not be granted due to scheduling or resource conflicts. You may call Media Services at 5-4840 or e-mail av@law.harvard.edu with questions.

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(14) OCS PROGRAMS

OCI ORIENTATION- Tuesday, September 5, 3:00 pm, Ames Courtroom (Austin Hall)

Essential information for 2L and 3L students participating in the on-campus interview program.

"OFF THE RECORD": HEADHUNTERS TALK ABOUT THE MARKET

Boston, MA - September 5, 4:00 pm

Bay Area - September 6, 5:00 pm

Chicago, IL - September 6, 5:00 pm

New York, NY - September 6, 6:00 pm

Washington, DC - September 7, 5:00 pm

Southern California - September 7, 6:00 pm

Texas - September 8, 9:00 am

Headhunters from major markets talk candidly about firms, job prospects, hot and cold practice areas and other important topics to help you make good selections when you bid. These recruiters are among the most knowledgeable and experienced in the country and they will share their insights with you. All program locations are TBA, but will be available closer to the dates. Please stay tuned to your email for further details.

To find out what other programs are coming up, check the Career Events Calendar on the OCS website: http://www.law.harvard.edu/ocs.

GENERAL

NOTE TO TRANSFER AND JOINT DEGREE STUDENTS

If you are interested in participating in OCI, please send an email to recruiting@law.harvard.edu with the title "OCI Participation". The email should include the following information: your name, telephone number, local address, law school email address, ID # and, if you are a joint degree student, which school you are registered at for 2006 - 2007.

NEWS @ OCS

(15) TAW Mock Trials

(16) Human Resource

Jobs:

Research Assistant - Visiting Professor Peter Murray seeks a 2L or 3L research assistant to work with him on a project studying "the flight from public civil justice” to arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution. This project will involve both legal research and some statistical work. Interested students please e-mail Professor Murray, pmurray@law.harvard.edu, attaching a resume.

Research Assistants - Visiting Professor Peter Murray is seeking one or more research assistants to work with him on a major project studying costs and efficiency of civil law notaries versus common law attorneys, title companies, etc. in the transfer of real estate in various jurisdictions in the EU and the US. LLM students with knowledge of the function of notaries in Germany, France, Spain, and Estonia, or with the system of transfer of real estate in Sweden as well as US or UK students with an interest in real estate transfer function in those jurisdictions are encouraged to apply. Interested students please e-mail Professor Murray, pmurray@law.harvard.edu, attaching a resume.

Research Assistant - Visiting Professor Peter Murray is seeking a 2L or 3L research assistant to help prepare for publication a comparative law article on law import and export. Some interest in foreign and comparative law is helpful. Interested students please e-mail Professor Murray, pmurray@law.harvard.edu, attaching a resume.