HLS News October 2005

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  Ben Heineman Appointed to Fellowships at Harvard University

  Ben W. Heineman, Jr., GE's Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs, will become the first Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession, beginning in the spring semester. At the same time, he will become a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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  Professor Warren on the new bankruptcy law

  Professor Elizabeth Warren writes: Is there celebration in the halls of Citibank this week? Is MBNA uncorking the Champagne while Ford Motor Credit serves cake? Eleven years ago, these and other creditors pushed hard to re-elect sympathetic members of Congress who would enact a tougher bankruptcy law. Last Monday, the law they lobbied for went into effect.
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  Op-ed by Professor Fried: What Miers must show

  Professor Charles Fried writes: What is indispensable is that [Miers] be able to think lucidly and deeply about legal questions and express her thoughts in clear, pointed, understandable prose. A justice without those capabilities -- however generally intelligent, decent, and hardworking -- risks being a calamity for the court, the law, and the country.
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  Sadako Ogata comes to HLS to receive the 2005 Great Negotiator Award

  Following the announcement on October 6 that the former United Nations high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, is the winner of the 2005 Great Negotiator Award, this week Ogata came to Harvard Law School to receive the award and speak to the HLS community.
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  Book by HLS lecturer Robert Bordone wins top honor

  A new book co-edited by Harvard Law School lecturer Robert C. Bordone has received the top book award from the National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution.
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  Report on 'trauma and learning' is based on HLS students' clinical work

  The clinical casework of students in Harvard Law School's Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative is the foundation of a landmark new report called Helping Traumatized Children Learn.
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  Halley launches series on literature and connections to law

  The HLS Program on Law and Social Thought is offering its annual series "Book Trouble" to engage readers with the legal, psychological and theoretical challenges raised by literature. This fall, the series will put artists and lecturers in discussion with students and faculty, including HLS Professors Gerald Frug and David Barron.
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  An op-ed by Professor Elizabeth Warren: Bankruptcies to surge

  Those swamped by Katrina face tougher bankruptcy law. Much has been made of the Hurricane Katrina blame game. Congress immediately began to point its finger, justifiably, at FEMA and those responsible for the governmental incompetence that followed the tragic storm. Some of its awful consequences are indeed "man-made" but if Congress is assessing blame, it can also point a finger at itself.
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  Newt Minow reflects on legal career from Cuban Missile Crisis to present

  On Wednesday, October 5, Newt Minow spoke at Harvard Law School as the first in the "Great Lawyers" speakers series. Minow's career has included practice in both small and large law firms, government service and business. The conversation was moderated by Dean Elena Kagan and Professor Martha Minow, his daughter. An archived webcast of the event is now available.
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  Sadako Ogata named as the 2005 Great Negotiator

  The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School today announced that the recipient of its 2005 Great Negotiator award is Sadako Ogata, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the 1990s.

• Stuntz says Bush 'pulled a Truman' by selecting Miers

  The following essay, The Truman Show: In choosing Miers, Bush pulled a Truman, by Professor William Stuntz originally appeared in The New Republic Online on October 4, 2005: What kind of president picks both John Roberts and Harriet Miers? They look like the ultimate odd couple. Roberts is not a Bush crony, he has a résumé to die for, and everyone who knows him says he's unbelievably smart. Miers is more than a crony but certainly not less.
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  Webcast: HLS faculty examine upcoming Supreme Court term

  On the same day that President Bush nominated his second Supreme Court justice, members of the Harvard Law School faculty assembled in Langdell Hall to examine recent trends on the high Court and speculate about upcoming cases and the beginning of John Robert's tenure as chief justice.
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  HLS student gets a front-row seat for U.N. action

  From the September 2005 issue of Harvard Law Today: Fifteen ambassadors took their seats at the round Security Council table. Two rows behind U.S. Ambassador Gerald Scott sat Alex Wong ’07, summer intern at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.