HLS News May 2006

• 

  Alumni hedge fund managers and venture capitalists convene to explore common ground, differences

  On May 17th, more than 160 Harvard-trained financiers and lawyers met for a breakfast symposium at the University Club in Manhattan to hear a panel of experts discuss the growing involvement of hedge funds in the financing and management of start-ups and other companies.
• 

  Professor Glendon on 'Principled Immigration'

  The following essay by Professor Glendon was published in the June/July issue of First Things: Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples. And once again, the United States is confronted with the challenge of absorbing large numbers of newcomers. There are approximately 200 million migrants and refugees worldwide, triple the number estimated by the UN only seventeen years ago.
• 

  An op-ed by HLS student Adam Smith: Trying War Criminals Locally

  The following op-ed by HLS Chayes Fellow Adam Smith was published in the May issue of The New Republic: Four years, 466 hearing days, more than 300 witnesses, and over $200 million after it began in The Hague, Case Number IT-02-54, Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic, was officially declared over on March 14, three days after Milosevic was found dead of an apparent heart attack in his prison cell. There will be no verdict.
• 

  Bebchuk files suit in Delaware Court over poison pill bylaw

  In a case filed in the Delaware Chancery Court, Professor Lucian Bebchuk is challenging CA Corporation's assertion in an SEC submission that Bebchuk's poison pill-limiting bylaw proposal is illegal under Delaware law.
• 

  Professor Scott releases white paper on corporate governance

  Professor Hal Scott and the HLS Program on International Financial Systems have released a white paper based on a half-day symposium that focused on key issues of corporate governance affecting companies, investors, and financial markets globally. Cosponsored by the Program on International Financial Systems, Standard and Poor’s and BusinessWeek, the symposium convened in New York on December 6, 2005.
• 

  An op-ed by Professor Parker: 'Senators, Congressmen, Please Heed the Call . . .'

  The following op-ed by Professor Richard Parker was published in the June issue of American Legion Magazine: This Spring, the American flag was in the news again. Several high schools forbade students to display a flag--or even to wear red-white-and-blue clothing. Their reason was stark. The flag, they said, is controversial.
• 

  Report by HLS clinic is basis for statewide education conference

  A recent report by the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), a clinical placement for Harvard Law students, was the centerpiece of a daylong, state-wide conference hosted by the Massachusetts Department of Education on Wednesday, May 10. The conference, "Reducing Trauma as a Barrier to Learning," was attended by more than 250 teachers, school administrators, superintendents and mental health professionals that work in schools.
• 

  In new book, Goldsmith argues that state control doesn't diminish in the Internet age

  According to one prediction, the new technology will bring every individual "into immediate and effortless communication with every other" and will "practically obliterate political geography and make free trade universal."
• 

  Professor Tribe weighs in on NSA wiretapping

  The escalating controversy over the National Security Agency's data mining program illustrates yet again how the Bush administration's intrusions on personal privacy based on a post-9/11 mantra of ''national security" directly threaten one of the enduring sources of that security: the Fourth Amendment ''right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."
• 

  Linda Greenhouse to be 2006 Class Day speaker

  Pulitzer prize winning legal writer Linda Greenhouse will be the 2006 Class Day speaker at Harvard Law School. The Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, Greenhouse will address graduating students and their families on Wednesday, June 7, as part of Class Day excercises.
• 

  Conference examines race and the death penalty

  This weekend, Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice will host a national conference to examine a number of legal, racial and political issues surrounding the death penalty. The event, "From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State," will take place May 5-6 in Ames Courtroom (HLS's Austin Hall) in conjunction with the release of a new book by the same title, written by Professor Charles Ogletree and Amherst College Professor Austin Sarat.