HLS News February 2002

• Alford to Testify Before U.S. Commission on China

  This Thursday, Harvard Law Professor Bill Alford will travel to Washington to testify at the first hearing of the newly established Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China. Created last year to monitor human rights and legal developments in China, the committee has nine Senators, nine Representatives, and five senior officials from the Bush administration.

• Bert Huang Elected Harvard Law Review President

  The Harvard Law Review has elected second-year student Bert I. Huang as its 116th President. Huang, 27, was elected Saturday night, from a slate of seven candidates, after ten hours of debate.

• Conference to Explore Religious Tensions

  Beginning on Friday, February 16, Harvard Law School will host a three-day conference examining religion, human rights, and democracy. Speakers will include John Shattuck, former assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and John Hanford, the recently appointed Ambassador at Large on Religious Freedom.

• Goodman and Subramanian Join Harvard Law Faculty

  Continuing to enact an ambitious strategic plan that calls for expanding its core faculty and fostering greater student-faculty interaction, Harvard Law School has hired two new assistant professors. Ryan Goodman and Guhan Subramanian will officially join the Harvard Law faculty in July and begin teaching in the fall.

• ArtsPanel to Explore the International Art Trade

  On Thursday, February 21, the Harvard Law School ArtsPanel will be exploring the international art trade and the ethics of collecting. Speakers will include Ashton Hawkins, former general counsel of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums and president of the Association of Art Museum Directors; James F. Fitzpatrick, senior partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter; and Gary Vikan, director of The Walters Organization, a Baltimore-based museum.

• Panel to Explore Progressive Legal Scholarship

  On Wednesday, February 27, Harvard Law Professors Christine Desan, Martha Field, Janet Halley, Jon Hanson, David Kennedy, Duncan Kennedy, Frank Michelman, and Joseph Singer will form two panels to examine The Future of Progressive Legal Scholarship.

• International Financial Terrorism

  Beginning on February 27, Harvard Law School's Program on International Financial Systems will hold a symposium exploring terrorism against international financial systems, international corporate disclosure standards, and pension reform. The two-day event, Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Europe and the United States, will be held at the Rüschlikon Center for Global Dialogue, the conference center near Zurich of Swiss Re, the lead sponsor.

• Harvard Law Record Reviews 1L Curriculum Changes

  With finals in the middle of January, the Class of 2004 wrapped up its first semester - a semester spent as the first guinea pigs of the Strategic Plan. In line with recommendations made in that Plan, which was finalized in the spring of 2001, HLS has made drastic changes to the 1L program in an effort to forge a more personal, student-centered experience.