News Archive
2004/05
- Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox Dead at 92
- Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox, the famed Watergate special prosecutor and former solicitor general, died yesterday in his home in Brooksville, Maine. He was 92. [Sun, 30 May 2004]
- Corporate Law Professors Honored
- Articles by Professors Lucian Bebchuk, John Coates, Guhan Subramanian and Allen Ferrell will be named among the top ten corporate and security law articles of 2003 in an 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. [Mon, 24 May 2004]
- Human Rights and Immigration Advocates Hail Inter-American Commission Decision
- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has affirmed the fundamental right of all asylum seekers--including those interdicted on the high seas--to seek and receive asylum. The Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, along with the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, filed the action with the Inter-American Commission on behalf of Haitian refugees in March. [Mon, 24 May 2004]
- Bagenstos Scores Supreme Court Victory
- Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Tennessee v. Lane that states can be sued under provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Harvard Law School Assistant Professor Samuel Bagenstos drafted the plaintiff’s brief for the case, which involved a paraplegic man who had to abandon his wheelchair and crawl up the stairs of the state courthouse to attend his own arraignment. [Fri, 21 May 2004]
- Boston Globe Profiles Ogletree on Brown Anniversary
- Some anniversaries have a bittersweet tinge, and that seems to be the case with Brown v. Board of Education. It's the main point of Harvard Law School professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr.'s new book, "All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education." [Mon, 17 May 2004]
- Meltzer Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Professor Daniel Meltzer has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary society of scholars based in Cambridge, Mass. A scholar of the American legal and political system, Meltzer joins 19 other current HLS professors who have been selected to become academy fellows in previous years. [Thu, 13 May 2004]
- Q & A: Professor Ogletree on the Brown v. Board Decision
- Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. '78, whose new book "All Deliberate Speed" explores the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, discusses the landmark case, public education in America and the change in HLS from the time he was a student. [Mon, 10 May 2004]
- HLS Researcher: High School Players Benefit by Turning Pro Early
- High school players that declare for the NBA draft are likely to earn millions more over the course of their careers than had they gone to college, according to a new study by Michael McCann, a Harvard Law School visiting researcher. McCann, a member of Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett's legal team, also finds that these players are the most successful group of players in the NBA. [Fri, 07 May 2004]
- Bebchuk Named Guggenheim Fellow
- Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk has been named a 2004 Guggenheim fellow. The award, which honors "exceptionally impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment," will help Bebchuk write a book on the need to empower corporate shareholders. [Thu, 06 May 2004]