HLS News July 2003

• HLS Launches Nuremberg Trials Project

  The Harvard Law School Library has launched a new website, the Nuremberg Trials Project, devoted to analysis and digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials. The site will make available on the web for the first time more than one million pages of documents related to the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany and other accused war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).

• Prof. Wolfman on Lawyers, Auditors and Ethics

  Professor Bernard Wolfman discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, recent tax cuts and whether law school does a good enough job teaching ethics.

• Kaplow in American Academy of Arts & Sciences

  Professor Louis Kaplow has recently been named a new fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary society of scholars based in Cambridge, Mass. A law and economics scholar, Kaplow joins 18 other current HLS professors who have been selected to become academy fellows in previous years.

• Corporate Law Professors Honored

  Articles by Professors Lucian Bebchuk, John Coates, Guhan Subramanian, Reinier Kraakman and Mark Roe will be named among the top ten corporate and security law articles of 2002 in the upcoming issue of the Corporate Practice Commentator, a quarterly journal that reprints articles about corporations law. The articles were selected based upon a survey of corporate and securities law teachers across the nation.

• ITP Co-Sponsors Southern Africa Tax Institute

  Harvard Law School's International Tax Program, working with a group of universities and international institutions, co-sponsored the second annual Southern African Tax Institute ("SATI") at the University of Pretoria from June 2 through June 27.

• Gerken Receives Sacks-Freund Teaching Award

  Professor Heather Gerken has been named the 2002-2003 Sacks-Freund award winner. Presented each year on Class Day, the Sacks-Freund award recognizes teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns, and general contribution to student life at Harvard Law School.

• Kagan Becomes Dean of Harvard Law School

  Today Elena Kagan became the 11th dean of Harvard Law School. Appointed in April by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, Kagan succeeds Robert Clark, who served as dean for 14 years.