HLS News August 2005

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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.

• 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.