HLS News April 2007

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  HLS team wins in three Supreme Court decisions

  Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker ’86, several students, and two HLS alumni celebrated a supreme victory on April 25 when the high court ruled that death sentences in three cases from Texas should be overturned. Steiker and several of her research assistants contributed to the defense of three individuals on death row, along with Jordan Steiker ’88 and Robert Owen ’89, co-directors of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law’s Capital Punishment Clinic.
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  Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review honors outstanding leaders in public service

  On Saturday, April 14, the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review awarded two HLS instructors and a juvenile justice advocate for their work in public service. Hosted by Dean Elena Kagan ’86, the event honored Robert Greenwald, Patricia Puritz, and Jimmy Klein. Each honoree spoke about the future of public interest law and encouraged students to follow in their footsteps.
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  An op-ed by Professor Charles Fried: 'Supreme Confusion'

  In supporting John Roberts’s nomination to be chief justice of the United States in 2005, I spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee of his commitment to clarity, consistency and stability in the law - qualities that included respect for precedent, essential if the Supreme Court is to be the guarantor of legality under the Constitution and not an unnecessary third political branch of government.
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  HLS students win Negotiation Challenge in Germany

  This past weekend, three Harvard Law School students took home the first place trophy from The Negotiation Challenge in Leipzig, Germany. A team comprised of Frederic Bourdais '07, Kimathi Kueneya '07, and Grace Chien '08 won the competition.
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  Professor Einer Elhauge offers new casebook to reflect globalization of antitrust law

  "Modern antitrust law is global antitrust law," says HLS Professor Einer Elhauge '86, co-author of the newly published book, "Global Antitrust Law and Economics" (Foundation Press, 2007), written with Damien Geradin, a professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
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  Ryan Goodman named Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

  Professor Ryan Goodman delivered a talk in honor of his recent appointment to the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law on Monday evening, April 16.
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  International moot court team advances to quarterfinals

  A team of students representing Harvard Law School at the Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court were the only U.S. team made it to the quarterfinals of the competition on April 4-5.

• Fried and Heymann weigh in on U.S. attorney dismissals

  Professor Charles Fried is a former solicitor general in the Reagan administration and a former justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Professor Philip Heymann is a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.
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  An op-ed by Professor Charles Ogletree: The lessons of Dred Scott

  The following op-ed, The lessons of Dred Scott, co-written by HLS Professor Charles Ogletree and Johanna Wald, director of strategic planning at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, was published in The Boston Globe on April 5, 2007.
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  HLS adds five clinical professors

  This year Harvard Law School appointed five new clinical professors, who will teach a range of courses and provide leadership of important clinical programs.
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  HLS students organize legislative briefing to honor trauma-sensitive schools

  Approximately 300 legislators and community members attended a legislative briefing at the Massachusetts State House on March 19 organized by third year students Marie Scott '07 and Jocelyn Chung '07 as part of their clinical work for the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI).