HLS News June 2004

• Scott Testifies Before Committee on Financial Services

  Harvard Law School Professor Hal S. Scott, director of the school's Program on International Financial Systems, testified on June 17 before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Service on the United States and the European Union informal Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue.

• HLS Professors Urge Congress to Review Interrogation Policy, Hold Executive Branch Accountable

  A group of more than 450 professors of law, international relations, and public policy--led by Harvard Law School faculty members--today sent a letter calling on Congress to hold accountable, through impeachment and removal if appropriate, civilian officials from the top of the Executive Branch on down for policies developed at high levels that have facilitated the recent abuses at Abu Ghraib.

• Global Finance Experts to Gather in China

  From June 11 to 13, leaders of the financial systems of the United States and China will gather in Beijing to discuss issues affecting the financial relationship between the two countries. The occasion is the inaugural Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for China and the United States, organized by the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems and the China Development Research Foundation.

• Stuntz Receives Teaching Award; Shabecoff Receives Staff Honor

  On Wednesday, June 9, Professor Bill Stuntz will receive the 2004 Sacks-Freund Teaching Award. The presentation will occur at the Class Day ceremonies beginning at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall. In addition, the staff appreciation award will be given to Alexa Shabecoff, assistant dean for public interest advising.

• Berkman Center Brief Influences Music Industry Lawsuit

  Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society recently submitted an amicus brief that has played a pivotal role in a recent lawsuit regarding music downloading. The case, Capitol Records, et al. v. Alaujan, et al., joins 55 suits filed in Boston by the recording industry against individuals accused illegal file-sharing on peer-to-peer networks.