News Archive
2005/08
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- Recent graduate examines office blog policies
- The following op-ed by Jeremy Blachman '05, Job Posting, appeared in The New York Times on August 31, 2005: Last month, Nadine Haobsh, an associate beauty editor at Ladies' Home Journal, was about to resign and take a job at Seventeen, where she had been offered a similar position. Then the magazines discovered she was blogging about work, and her two jobs became none. [Wed, 31 Aug 2005]
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- Five new professors join HLS faculty
- The ranks of the Harvard Law School faculty expanded over the summer with the arrival of three new assistant professors and two new tenured professors of law. The hires are part of an effort to bring about a net increase of 15 faculty members over the next decade. [Tue, 30 Aug 2005]
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- HLS to hold second Celebration of Black Alumni
- This September, Harvard Law School will hold its second Celebration of Black Alumni, bringing hundreds of black Harvard Law graduates to campus for a range of programming focusing on national and international legal issues. Highlights of the three-day event include a keynote address by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, a 1991 Harvard Law graduate, and speeches by Harvard President Lawrence Summers and Law School Dean Elena Kagan. The event will take place on the HLS campus September 16-18. [Wed, 24 Aug 2005]
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- Op-ed by Professor Shavell on the Vioxx verdict
- The following op-ed co-written by HLS Professor Steven Shavell and Stanford Professor A. Mitchell Polinsky, Vioxx verdict's dark side, appeared in the Boston Globe on August 23, 2005. [Tue, 23 Aug 2005]
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- Op-ed by Professor Freeman: Schwarzenegger and environmental law
- This op-ed originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times on August 21, 2005: Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks he's an environmental governor. He wants to combat global warming, develop alternative energy sources and protect coastal waters and sea life. But taking on multinational oil companies and auto manufacturers is a lazy man's environmentalism. [Mon, 22 Aug 2005]
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- Op-ed by Lecturer Noah Sachs: Roberts and environmental law
- This op-ed originally appeared in The Baltimore Sun on August 17, 2005: Supreme Court nominee Judge John G. Roberts Jr. hasn't generated a lengthy paper trail revealing his views on environmental law, but he's left the equivalent of a few Post-It Notes. [Fri, 19 Aug 2005]
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- HLS grad Geraldine Umugwaneza uses legal training to fight for justice in Rwanda
- From the Summer Harvard Law Bulletin: Geraldine Umugwaneza LL.M. '05 doesn't think she could live in the Rwandan village where her family was murdered. After the 1994 genocide, the looting and violence left her mother's house a frightening shell. But what scares her more is the idea that even today the neighbors might kill her, too. [Tue, 16 Aug 2005]
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- Barron and Frug examine recent Supreme Court decision on eminent domain
- An op-ed by Professors Barron and Frug (The Boston Globe, 8/12/05): Last June, in Kelo v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that cities can exercise the power of eminent domain to promote private economic development, even though the Constitution prohibits the government from taking private property except for a ''public use." Although the decision is legally sound, it has provoked outrage... [Fri, 12 Aug 2005]
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- Is the war on drugs succeeding?
- From the Summer Harvard Law Bulletin: America is either winning the war on drugs or losing it badly, depending on whom you ask. Drug use is down over the last 25 years, but a half million Americans are in prison for drug offenses. How should success be measured? As part of its focus on crime and punishment, the Bulletin put that query to several HLS alumni who figure prominently in the national debate over drug policy, across the political spectrum. [Thu, 11 Aug 2005]
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- Guarding the homefront: HLS grad Michael Chertoff
- From the summer 2005 Harvard Law Bulletin: Can a veteran prosecutor whip the Department of Homeland Security into shape? Michael Chertoff '78 has already started. In those first few hours after the 9/11 attacks, Chertoff, a career trial lawyer and prosecutor, got a brief look at what it's like to manage the response of a massive government bureaucracy made up of multiple law enforcement agencies during a national terrorist emergency. [Mon, 08 Aug 2005]
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- Op-ed by HLS student Rebecca Hamilton: Saving the peace in Sudan
- An op-ed by HLS student Rebecca Hamilton in the International Herald Tribune (8/4/05): John Garang, the southern Sudanese leader, is dead, less than three weeks after he became vice president of Sudan as part of a deal that ended the country's decades-long civil war. The potential fallout from his death cannot be overstated. The United States, which has played a crucial role in Sudan's south, must step in to ensure that the fragile peace there endures. [Thu, 04 Aug 2005]