HLS News April 2002

• Mock Trial Team Wins ATLA National Championship

  The Harvard Law School Mock Trial Team has won the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's national trial advocacy tournament held in Chicago from March 21 to March 25. The victory over 225 teams from more than 120 different law schools is the first national championship for the Harvard Mock Trial Team. The team of Matthew Whitley, Cecilia Dickson, Rick Su, and Rex Lee finished a perfect 11-0, winning 33 out of 35 judges in the process.

• Gammons to Address HLS Sports Law Conference

  On Friday, April 5, the Harvard Law School Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law will host its annual sports law conference. Peter Gammons, baseball writer for The Boston Globe and ESPN commentator, will give the keynote address. The conference will examine topics ranging from legal issues in player-agent-management relationships to regulatory issues in boxing.

• Dershowitz to Address the Struggle Against Terror

  On Tuesday, April 9, The Interdenominational Alliance for Israel (IAI) and the Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) will sponsor a lecture by Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz on The Struggle Against Terror: From New York to Jerusalem.

• HLS Public Interest Auction Items Unveiled

  Harvard Law School's 9th annual student-run public interest auction today unveiled several of this year's highlighted items: a seven-day Mediterranean cruise, an adventure trip, a baseball signed by Mickey Mantle, and a trip to Disney World. Items will be auctioned on Thursday, April 11.

• HLS ArtsPanel Explores the NEA and Censorship

  On Thursday, April 18, the Harvard Law School ArtsPanel will explore controversies surrounding the National Endowment for the Arts and artistic funding in America. Topics to be addressed include the impact of NEA v. Finley, the relationship between censorship and arts funding, and the role of the NEA given the increase in private funding for the arts. The panel, featuring Marjorie Heins and Karen Elias, will begin at 3 p.m. in Hauser 104.

• 2002 Survey of American Law Dedicated to Tribe

  New York University honored Harvard Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe on April 15 at a ceremony dedicating its 2002 Survey of American Law to Tribe. The dedication award, an annual event at NYU since 1944, was given in 2000 to former Senator George Mitchell, in 1999 to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in 1998 to Attorney General Janet Reno, and, in other recent years, to three of the current members of the Supreme Court (Justices John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg).

• Justice O'Connor on Growing Up in the Southwest

  On Friday, April 19, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will speak about her childhood in the American Southwest. O'Connor and her brother, H. Alan Day, recently co-authored a book entitled: Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. Day will join O'Connor at the event.

• HLS Students to Participate Volunteer Service Day

  On Saturday, April 20, 300 Harvard Law School students are expected to participate in the inaugural Springfest Volunteer Service Day. Students will volunteer at more than 16 sites across Cambridge and Greater Boston including Habitat for Humanity, the Cambridge Family YMCA, and the CASPAR Homeless Shelter. Of the 300 volunteers, more than 120 students will participate in the Annual Earth Day Charles River Clean Up.2002-04-17

• HLS to Host a Discussion on the Voting Rights Act

  On Tuesday, April 23, the American Constitution Society and the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review will present a panel discussion on the future of the Voting Rights Act. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Langdell South classroom and is free and open to the public.

• Local Students to Argue Mock Legal Case at HLS

  As part of the Kids in the Court program, more than 200 local middle school students will argue legal cases on Wednesday, April 24 before a moot court composed of Harvard Law School students and professors.

• A Message from Dean Robert C. Clark

  In light of recent disturbing events at the Law School, I haveconsulted with various students and colleagues to consider what steps mightbe taken to create a better climate - an environment of genuine mutualrespect and improved behavior patterns.

• Berkman Center to Host Internet Law Summer Program

  This summer, Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society will once again conduct a summer session on the emerging field of cyberlaw. The Internet Law Program--which will hold classes both in Cambridge and in cyberspace--will bring together leading legal scholars to examine cutting-edge cyberlaw issues.