HLS News September 2007

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  Tushnet and Neily debate the right to bear arms

  Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet and Clark Neily, senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, squared off about Second Amendment rights yesterday afternoon in an event sponsored by the HLS Federalist Society.
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  Sitkoff named an up and coming lawyer for 2007

  Harvard Law School Professor Robert H. Sitkoff has been named one of Lawyers Weekly’s up and coming lawyers of 2007. A leading expert in trusts and estates, Sitkoff joined the HLS faculty this year.
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  Recording mogul Clive Davis to speak at HLS

  Clive Davis ’56, chairman and CEO of BMG North America, will speak at Harvard Law School on Friday, September 28 at 5 p.m. in Langdell North.
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  HLS co-hosts 10th annual U.S.-Japan summit on financial systems

  Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS), together with The International House of Japan, co-hosted the 10th annual Japan-U.S. Symposium titled “Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Japan and the United States” at HLS over the weekend of September 14th-16th.
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  Janet Halley takes the Royall Chair

  Professor Janet Halley formally took the Royall Professorship of Law yesterday in a ceremony in Langdell Library’s Caspersen Room, marking the occasion with a lecture on the legacy of Isaac Royall, Jr. (1719 - 1781), the colonial American slaveholder who played an important role in the creation of Harvard Law School.
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  Bebchuk named to list of 100 most influential players in corporate governance

  Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk’s LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84 work on executive pay has netted him a spot on Directorship Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential players in corporate governance in the United States.
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  Harvard's BLSA chapter selected to receive national award

  Last spring Harvard Law School’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) was selected by a committee of individuals from around the country to receive the national Johnny Cochran Chapter Award for Social Consciousness.
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  Berkman Center brings 13 experts in new media to Harvard Law School

  Leading experts in social networking, intellectual property, open access, citizen media, and open software communities make up a new class of fellows at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The 13 new fellows join the Center’s already dynamic community of scholars who are doing groundbreaking work in new media.
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  An op-ed by Professor Alford: Building civil society, step by step

  THESE ARE not the happiest of times in the US-China relationship. Stories of tainted foods and dangerous products have been news for weeks. Controversies continue over exchange rates, labor conditions, outsourcing, and intellectual property infringement. And long-standing issues regarding human rights, the environment, and foreign policy remain prominent.
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  Houston Institute hosts panel on racial integration in public schools

  The Supreme Court’s recent rulings overturning desegregation plans by school districts in Seattle and Louisville were the focus of a special panel discussion sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice on September 6.
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  HLS welcomes new students from across the county, around the world

  This week Harvard Law School welcomes 737 new students as degree candidates in the J.D., LL.M. and S.J.D. programs.
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  Goldsmith's new book examines 'The Terror Presidency'

  A new book by Professor Jack Goldsmith is receiving significant attention in both the mainstream media and in the political blogosphere -- and it has yet to hit bookshelves.