January 2008

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  HLS professor appointed to Supreme Judicial Court advisory committee

  Harvard Law School Professor Andrew Kaufman '54 has been appointed to an ad hoc committee that will advise the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on whether to adopt changes to ethical rules disfavoring public comment by judges.

• HLS Professors among country's 'leading lawyers'

  Three Harvard Law School professors are featured among a group of 500 "leading lawyers," according to a new a list published in Law Dragon Magazine. Professors Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84, Jack Goldsmith, and Elizabeth Warren join five additional law professors from other law schools on the list.
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  Goldsmith receives honorable mention for book

  Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith’s book, “Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World,” received an honorable mention from Scribes, The American Society of Legal Writers. Goldsmith and co-author Tim Wu were one of two honorable mentions for 2007.
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  Kerry at HLS: U.S. must act now on global climate change

  In a Harvard Law School classroom today, Senator John Kerry (D - Mass.) stressed the urgency of the climate change problem, arguing that the federal government needs to take action immediately to combat global warming.

• Swabb says the Iraq war is improving U.S. military capabilities

  Erik Swabb '09 wrote the following op-ed, "The lessons of Iraq," which appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 14, 2008. Swabb served in Iraq as a Marine infantry officer.
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  Iraq is a vanishing issue in the presidential election, Professor Noah Feldman says

  The following article, Vanishing Act , written by Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman, was published in the New York Times Magazine on January 13, 2007.
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  Bebchuk ranks first among law professors on SSRN

  Statistics released by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) show that, as of the end of 2007, the works of Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84 have been downloaded more than the work of any other law professor.
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  Glendon becomes U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See

  Harvard Law School Professor Mary Ann Glendon's nomination to become the new U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See was confirmed by the Senate late last month, after President Bush announced the nomination on November 5.
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  Professor Noah Feldman examines Mormonism and presidential politics

  The following article, What is it about Mormonism?, written by Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman, was published in the New York Times Magazine on January 6, 2007.
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  An op-ed by Professor Robert Bordone: Slow healing in the Catholic Church

  The following op-ed, Slow healing in the Catholic Church, co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Robert Bordone '97 and Reverend Robert J. Bowers, was published in the Boston Globe on January 1, 2007.