News Archive
2002/10
- Tax Treaties and the Taxation of Business Profits
- Last week, the Harvard Law School International Tax Program hosted a three-day conference on tax treaties and the taxation of business profits. The program, attended by government officials as well as academics and private sector representatives from 18 nations, sought to identify problems with the current treatment of business profits under tax treaties and explore alternative solutions to these problems. [Thu, 31 Oct 2002]
- Catch a Rising Star: Granholm's Gubernatorial Run
- Five years ago, Jennifer Granholm '87 was a political unknown. Now she is working nonstop on the campaign trail to get people to know her, believe in her, and make her the next governor of Michigan. [Mon, 28 Oct 2002]
- Pozen Calls Social Security Accounting Misleading
- Harvard Law School Visiting Professor Robert Pozen, a former vice chairman of Fidelity Investments, says Social Security accounting makes "the Enron debacle look like a minor bookkeeping error." Writing in the November 2002 Harvard Business Review, Pozen goes on to say that if a U.S. company tried similar accounting for its pension liabilities, "surely someone would go to jail for securities or accounting fraud." [Thu, 24 Oct 2002]
- Hale and Dorr Professorship of IP Law
- Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark has announced the establishment of the Hale and Dorr Professorship of Intellectual Property Law. A reception in honor of this professorship will be held this afternoon at the Law School. [Wed, 23 Oct 2002]
- HLS Professors Honored
- Three Harvard Law School professors were recently honored for exceptional work in their respective academic fields. Professor Elena Kagan was selected as the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice's 2001 Scholarship Award winner, Professor Elizabeth Warren received the Commercial Law League of America's Lawrence King Excellence in Bankruptcy Award, and Professor Arthur von Mehren was presented with Canada Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law. [Fri, 18 Oct 2002]
- U.S. Sen. Boxer to Speak on Election Issues
- On Monday, October 21, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer will speak on a number of issues that are central to the upcoming mid-term elections. Boxer is expected to address situation in Iraq, homeland security, the economy, the environment, and women's issues. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4:15 p.m. in the Ropes Gray Room in Pound Hall. [Thu, 17 Oct 2002]
- Lessons Learned by Veteran Public Servants
- They are part of the HLS tradition of public service at the highest levels. They have run for president and served in Congress and the Cabinet. They have helped change the world in the past generation and tell us--and those who want to follow in their footsteps--what they've learned. [Wed, 09 Oct 2002]
- HLS Conference Explores the Future of Ground Zero
- On Monday, October 7, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School will tackle the future of ground zero. With countless visions for the space, the conference will examine how a consensus can be reached. A wide range of panelists will present some of the financial, legal, cultural, spiritual, and design constraints involved in redeveloping the site. The event will begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Arco Forum at the Kennedy School of Government. [Fri, 04 Oct 2002]
- Lakhdar Brahimi Receives Great Negotiator Award
- Today the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School honored Lakhdar Brahimi with its annual Great Negotiator Award. Brahimi, the United Nations secretary general's special envoy to Afghanistan, has also headed special U.N. troubleshooting missions to hotspots such as Yemen, Liberia, Sudan, Nigeria, South Africa, the former Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and Haiti. [Wed, 02 Oct 2002]