HLS News November 2006

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  VIDEO: Panel explores legacy of Brown v. Board of Education

  The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute recently hosted a panel discussion entitled, "Is Brown Still Relevant?: The Seattle and Louisville School Cases," reviewing two current cases that challenge the implementation of racial integration in public schools.
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  Legal historian Morton Horwitz wins honorary fellow award

  In a recent annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, HLS Professor Morton Horwitz '67 was unanimously confirmed as an honorary fellow, the highest honor the society can give a legal historian in North America.
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  Professor Freeman's new book evaluates market-based environmental regulation

  Since they first appeared on the scene more than 20 years ago, market-based approaches, such as the emission trading system to control acid rain, have become the tools of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems.
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  Professor Bebchuk investigates option backdating

  The HLS Program on Corporate Governance recently released a study by Professor Lucian Bebchuk and co-authors Yaniv Grinsten and Urs Peyer, which examined the use of stock option backdating.
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  VIDEO: Moot court finals rule at HLS

  On Tuesday, November 14, Harvard Law School hosted the 95th Annual Moot Court Final Competition. In front of a standing room only crowd in Ames Courtroom, two teams of six HLS students each argued the case of Adam’s Apple Markets v. Aphrodite Cosmetics.
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  VIDEO: Professor Joseph Singer appointed Bussey Professor of Law

  On Tuesday evening, November 7, Professor Joseph Singer was awarded the Bussey Professor of Law chair. Introduced by Dean Elena Kagan, Professor Singer marked the occasion with a speech titled, "Things That We Would Like to Take for Granted: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society."
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  What is technology's role? Clinical Professor John Palfey weighs in

  The first-year law school curriculum took shape more than 100 years ago. The basic curriculum hasn't changed much over the course of the last century. Meanwhile, the practice of law has changed dramatically.
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  Alumni fare well in midterm elections

  Harvard Law School graduates across the country won political victories today as part of the nation's midterm elections. Two of the biggest winners were alumni from the 1980s who were elected governor. In New York, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer '84 was elected the state's chief exective, while Deval Patrick '82 was elected governor of Massachusetts.
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  An op-ed by Professor Alan Dershowitz: Imperfect, But Fair Enough

  The following op-ed was published in the Wall Street Journal on November 7, 2006: The Nuremberg trials it is not. But then again, Saddam Hussein is no Hitler or Goering.
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  In new book, J. Mark Ramseyer debunks myths about Japan's economy

  No one can accuse Harvard Law professor J. Mark Ramseyer of having modest goals in his latest book "The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy," published this year by Chicago University Press.
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  Legal Services Center helps homebuyers in Jamaica Plain

  On October 18, members of the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center and the Jamaica Plain community celebrated the sale of the first of 11 planned affordable housing units in the Hyde/Jackson Square area, all of which are being developed by the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation.
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  Legal Aid Bureau hosts post-Katrina poverty law panel

  On Saturday, October 28, the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau hosted a panel discussion on poverty law challenges after Hurricane Katrina. The focus of the conversation was on the continuing needs of people and organizations in the Gulf Coast region after the massive hurricane devastation.