HLS News May 2002

• Shavell and Slaughter Named Fellows at the AAAS

  Harvard Law School Professors Steven Shavell and Anne-Marie Slaughter were among five professors elected fellows in the field of law by the American Academy of Arts and Science. Fellows are nominated and elected for the lifetime appointment by members of their academic discipline--in this case, social sciences. The Academy will welcome this year's new fellows and foreign honorary members at the annual induction ceremony October.

• HLS Hosts Meeting of ALEA

  Harvard Law School recently hosted the 12th annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association. The conference, which featured 28 panels with speakers presenting papers on different aspects of law and economics, was attended by more than 200 people from around the world. Topics explored in the panel discussions included bankruptcy law, patent law, and dispute resolution mechanisms.

• Slaughter Named Dean of Woodrow Wilson School

  This morning Princeton University announced that Harvard Law School Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter has been selected as the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Slaughter will begin her tenure at Princeton on September 1.

• Lisa Dealy to Head Pro Bono Office

  Harvard Law School has announced that Lisa Dealy, formerly the director of the Law School's loan forgiveness and summer funding program, will head the School's Pro Bono Office. The office will direct the Law School's pro bono program which, beginning with next fall's incoming class, will require all students to perform a minimum of 40 hours of uncompensated public interest work.

• Alford Meets with China's President Zemin

  Harvard Law School Professor Bill Alford was part of a delegation, led by Harvard President Lawrence Summers, that recently traveled to China to meet with President Jiang Zemin and other political and academic leaders of the PRC. The meeting with President Jiang, which was held at the leadership's Zhongnanhai compound, lasted more than an hour and a half and covered a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the Chinese environment to the role of liberal arts education to the likely impact of the WTO and China on one another.