HLS Alumni in Print

*NEW* Spring 2008

John Matteson '86, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning biography, Edens Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (W.W. Norton 2007), follows the lives of Louisa May Alcott and her father Bronson Alcott, a self-educated philosopher and controversial education reformer who was one of the earliest Transcendentalists.

Bob Bohrer, LL.M. '79 is the author of A Guide to Biotechnology Law and Business (Carolina Academic Press, October 2007).

Jonathan Brant '71 has published the third edition of Law and Mental Health Professionals: Massachusetts (American Psychological Association Press, March 2008). He is a District Court judge in Massachusetts.

Don Elliott '83 has just published his first book, A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities (Island Press, March 2008).

Felix Gilman '03 is the author of Thunderer (Sci Fi Weekly)(Bantam Spectra, January 2008), his first novel.

Alan Jenkins '89 co-edited All Things Being Equal (The New Press, November 2007).

Siegrun D. Kane '63 has published the fifth edition and major revision of Kane on Trademark Law: A Practitioner's Guide (Practising Law Institute, October 2007).

Kathiann M. Kowalski '79 is the author of A Pro/Con Look at Homeland Security: Safety vs. Liberty After 9/11 (Enslow Publishers, January 2008).

Kathiann M. Kowalski '79 is the author of Free Trade: Open for Debate (Marshall Cavendish Benchmark Books, November 2007).

Steve Miller, LL.M. '66 has published The Turnaround Kid (Harper Collins, April 2008).

Donald W. Mitchell '71 has published Adventures of An Optimist: A Progress Report on the 400 Year Project to Help You Improve 20 Times Faster (BookSurge, December 2007).

Scott Optican '88 is co-author of The Evidence Act 2006: Act and Analysis (Thomson Brookers, December 2007). He is an associate professor teaching evidence and criminal procedure at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law in New Zealand.

Wena Poon '98 has published Lions in Winter (MPH, December 2007), a collection of short stories about Singaporeans living in the West. She is a lawyer in private practice.

David Price '86 is the author of The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company (Alfred A. Knopf, May 2008).

Peter E. Quint '64 has published Civil Disobedience and the German Courts: The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective (Routledge-Cavendish, February 2008).

Peter H. Schuck '65 is co-author of Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation (Public Affairs, April 2008), written with James Q. Wilson, Harvard's Shattuck Professor of Government from 1961 to 1987.

Geoff Shepard '69 is the author of The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy (Penguin Sentinel; June 17, 2008). He is scheduled to do a presentation on the book June 24th at the Nixon Library.

Harry C. Sigman '63 co-edited Cross-Border Security over Tangibles (Sellier, November 2007).

Julia Tolmie, LL.M. '88 has co-edited Criminal Justice in New Zealand (LexisNexis NZ, December 2007). She is an associate professor teaching criminal law and women and the law at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law in New Zealand.

LAW

John Cafferky '86 is co-author of the Virginia School Law Deskbook, Volume II, 2007-08 School Year Edition (LexisNexis 2007)

Kirk A. Damman '99 is co-author of Patent Law Client Strategies (Aspatore 2007), which is a collection of insights from leading lawyers on managing patent portfolios, filing strategically, and handling disputes. Damman is a member of Lewis, Rice and Fingersh in Saint Louis.

James A. Dueholm '67 is the author of Say What? The Manhandling of the Constitution (PublishAmerica 2007)

Eugene Fidell '68 is co-author of the casebook Military Justice: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis 2007). He is a partner at the firm of Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP in Washington D.C.

Thomas Geoghegan '75 is the author of See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation (New Press, October 2007)

Geoff R. Hall, LLM '96, has published Canadian Contractual Interpretation Law (LexisNexis Canada, October 2007), which focuses on contractual interpretation in Canada. He is a litigation partner at McCarthy Tetrault LLP in Toronto.

Williamjames Hull Hoffer '96 is co-author of The Supreme Court: An Essential History (University Press of Kansas, September 2007) and To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American States, 1858-1891 (Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2007). He is an assistant professor at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.

Matthew H. Kramer '85 is the author of Objectivity and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, June 2007).

Alan B. Morrison '66 is co-editor of Beyond the Big Law Firm: Profiles of Lawyers Who Want Something More (Aspen, April 2007), which features law student-written profiles of attorneys pursuing non-traditional career paths in a wide range of subject areas and practice settings. Morrison is a senior lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Kenneth M. Murchison, S.J.D. '88, is the author of The Snail Darter Case: TVA Versus the Endangered Species Act (University Press of Kansas, March 2007) Murchison is the James E. & Betty M. Phillips Professor at the Louisiana State University Law Center.

Bob Rains '74 is the author of True Tales of Trying Times: Legal Fables for Today (Willow Crossing Press), an illustrated collection of humorous legal cases retold in fable form with rhyming morals.

Mauricio Portugal Ribeiro, LL.M. '04, is co-author of Notes on the PPP Public Private Partnerships Law—Its Legal and Economic Foundations (Malheiros, Sao Paulo 2007), which reviews the Brazilian experience on privatization and describes the economic rationale of the legal framework to implement PPP. Ribeiro heads the PPP Unit of the Brazilian federal government.

Ronald Rotunda '70 is co-author of Freedom of Speech and the American Constitution, published in Korean (Korean Studies Information Co. 2007). Rotunda is University Professor and Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.

A. Benjamin Spencer '01 is the author of the new casebook Civil Procedure: A Contemporary Approach (Thomson, April 2007) Spencer is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, Virginia.

GENERAL NON-FICTION

Andy Bloch '99 is co-author of The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition (Grand Central Publishing, June 2007). Bloch paid for his law school tuition with earnings from the MIT blackjack team, and last year he released an instructional DVD that teaches the team's card counting strategy.

Danny Ertel '86 and Mark Gordon '82 are co-authors of The Point of the Deal: How to Negotiate When Yes Is Not Enough (Harvard Business School Press, October 2007), which explores what negotiations look like when players strive to make the deal work in practice, not just on paper. Ertel and Gordon are both founders of Vantage Partners. Ertel is also a Senior Advisor to the Harvard Negotiation Project.

Rebecca Haile '91 is the author of Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia (Academy Chicago Publishers 2007), which describes her journey back to the homeland her family fled when she was eleven after her father was shot and almost killed amidst the nation's political turmoil.

Rebecca Hamilton '07 is co-author of the chapter "Not on Our Watch: The Emergence of an American Advocacy Movement for Darfur" in the book War in Darfur and the Search for Peace (Harvard, September 2007).

Steven J. Harper '79 is the author of Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold (Northwestern University Press, January 2008), the biography of a leading 20th-century historian who received one of the first Harvard Ph.D.s in American history awarded to "a person identified as Jewish." Harper is a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis. For more information, visit his website, www.stevenjharper.com.

Steven J. Harper '79 is the author of Crossing Hoffa: A Teamster's Story (Borealis, June 2007), which describes his over-the-road truck driver father's two-year tangle with Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa. Harper is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where he has worked since graduation.

Carol Platt Liebau '92 is the author of Prude: How Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America Too!) (Center Street/Hachette, November 2007).

Edward Mendler '52 is the author of Policies for a President: A Manifesto for 2008 and Beyond (Xlibris, December 2007), exploring past presidential policies and offering suggestions for the future. Mendler practiced law in Boston for fifty years and currently writes about law, politics, science, and philosophy.

Donald Mitchell '71 is co-author of The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution (Mitchell & Company, April 2007), a guide to expanding organizational profits and effectiveness.

Daniel Granholm Mulhern '86—the self-described "First Gentleman" of the state of Michigan, with wife Jennifer Granholm '87 now serving as the state's governor—is the author of Everyday Leadership: Getting Results in Business, Politics and Life (University of Michigan 2007).

Jeswald W. Salacuse '63 is the author of Seven Secrets for Negotiation with Government: How to Deal with Local, State, National, or Foreign Governments—and Come Out Ahead (AMACOM, January 2008). Salacuse is the Henry J. Braker Professor of Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and teaches in executive training programs sponsored by Harvard's Program on Negotiation.

Jack Schuster '63 is co-author of The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers (Johns Hopkins University Press). Schuster is a professor of education and public policy at Claremont Graduate University's School of Educational Studies in Claremont, California.

Kaye A. Thomas '80 is the author of Equity Compensation Strategies (Fairmark Press, March 2007), which offers a course of study for professionals who offer advice on how to handle stock options and other forms of equity compensation.

Sydnor Thompson '50 is the author of a memoir, Sydnor Knows the Answer (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.), which describes his upbringing in Lynchburg Virginia, service in World War II, and more than 50 years of legal practice in New York and North Carolina, where he's served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

FICTION

Julie Buxbaum '02 has written a first novel, The Opposite of Love (Dial Press, February 2008), about a 29-year-old large firm associate struggling with life and love in Manhattan. For more information, read the Veritas Q&A with Julie or visit her website, www.juliebuxbaum.com.