HLS News August 2003

• Harvard Law Hosts 'Color Lines' Conference

  More than 1,000 of the nation's civic and business leaders, journalists, activists, and policy-makers will gather at Harvard Law School this weekend for a four-day conference exploring the progress of racial integration in the United States. Sponsored by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, a joint program of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Color Lines Conference will consider the current trends in racial integration, how to shape the future, and what public policies and private practices are most promising.

• Student Spotlight: Sarah Bennett

  Sarah Bennett admits she probably should have been on crutches when she arrived in Cambridge last fall to start her first year at HLS. But the West Virginia native was, by her own account, too stubborn. Never mind that only three weeks before, she'd been bucked off a horse that then fell on top of her, breaking her knee and causing her to hit her head so hard she had a seizure before losing consciousness.

• Prof. Ogletree to Head Brown v. Board Commission

  Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree has been appointed to head the American Bar Association’s Brown v. Board of Education Commisssion. The commission will host a series of events across the nation to recognize the 50-year anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The anniversary will be on May 17, 2004

• Professor Frug's Book Honored

  Harvard Law School Professor Gerald Frug’s recent book, "City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls," has been named the 2003 Paul Davidoff Award winner by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. The Davidoff Award is presented every two years to a book that "promotes participatory democracy and positive social change, opposes poverty and racism as factors in society and reduces disparities between rich and poor, white and black, men and women."