February 2009

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  Todd Stern '77 appointed climate change envoy

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  Zittrain at Davos: Cybercrime threat rising

  Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95, co-founder and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, participated in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. He joined leading Internet experts in a panel discussion on “Is the Internet at Risk?”

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  Michael Froman ’91 joins White House in joint security, economic post

  Michael Froman ’91 has been named deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, a position to be held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council.

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  Urs Gasser joins Berkman Center as new executive director

  Urs Gasser LL.M. ’03, an associate professor of law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, has been named executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 

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  Bebchuk: Pay caps don't go far enough

  The following op-ed by HLS Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. ’80, S.J.D. ’84, “Pay Cap Debate: They don’t go far enough … ,“ was published in the Feb. 6, 2009, edition of the Wall Street Journal.

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  Scott: From awful to merely bad: Reviewing the bank rescue options

  The following op-ed co-written by HLS Professor Hal Scott, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Luigi Zingales, “From awful to merely bad: Reviewing the bank rescue options,” was published in the Feb. 7, 2009, edition of the Wall Street Journal.

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  WEBCAST: Kagan confirmation hearing

  The nomination hearing for Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan ’86 to become the U.S. Solicitor General took place today. The Senate Judiciary Committee  also considered the nomination of Thomas Perrelli ’91 as Associate Attorney General during the same hearing. (Watch a CSPAN webcast.) A blog account of the hearing is here.

   

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  Anne-Marie Slaughter ’85 appointed director of policy planning at State Department

  Former HLS faculty member Anne-Marie Slaughter ’85 is the new director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department. She will provide Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with strategic policy analysis aimed at advancing U.S. interests around the world.

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  Huey elected president of the Harvard Law Review

  Joanna Huey ’10 was elected the 123^rd president of the Harvard Law Review on February 7. She succeeds Robert Allen ’09.

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  SJD candidate pens op-ed on arresting heads of state

  The following op-ed, “You're under arrest, Mr. President, by HLS S.J.D. candidate Noah Weisbord appeared in the Feb. 12, 2009, edition of the International Herald Tribune.

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  Sullivan and Robinson appointed co-masters of Winthrop House at Harvard College

  Harvard Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. ’94 and his wife, Law School Lecturer Stephanie Robinson ’94 have been chosen as the new house masters of Winthrop House at Harvard College.

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  Feldman in NYT: In Defense of Secrecy

  The following article, “In Defense of Secrecy,” by HLS Professor Noah Feldman appeared in the February 10, 2009 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

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  Bebchuk in WSJ: Congress gets punitive on executive pay

  The following op-ed, “Congress gets punitive on executive pay,” by HLS Professor Lucian BebchukLL.M. ’80 S.J.D. ’84 appeared in the February 16, 2009 issue of The Wall Street Journal. He recently published an article about Congress’s economic stimulus plan entitled, “How to make TARP II work.”

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  Coates in NYT: Bailout is Robbing the Banks

  The following op-ed, “The Bailout is Robbing the Banks,” co-written by HLS Professor John Coates and Harvard Business School Professor David S. Scharfstein appeared in the Feb. 18 issue of The New York Times.

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  Harvard Law School's First Cyberlaw Clinic Fellowship Established by Cooley

  Cooley Godward Kronish has established the first fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The first Cooley Fellow will be announced this spring.

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  Mann elected to Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society

  Professor Bruce H. Mann has been elected a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
  

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  Zittrain on “Facebook rules”

  The following article, entitled, “Facebook rules,” including commentary from Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95, was published in the February 18 edition of the New York Times.

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  HLS students win writing competition

  Papers written by three HLS students received top honors in this year’s H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competition.

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  Cavallaro: We need a truth commission to uncover Bush-era wrongdoing

  The following op-ed, “We need a truth commission to uncover Bush-era wrongdoing,” by HLS Clinical Professor James Cavallaro appeared in the Feb. 20 issue of The Christian Science Monitor. Cavallaro is executive director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

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  HLS mock trial team wins first place at Black Law Students Association’s Northeast Regional Conference

  In February, the Black Law Students Association’s Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial team won first-place honors at the Black Law Students Association’s Northeast Regional Conference. The team will move on to the National Conference in Irvine, California, on March 18.

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  Cogan establishes fund for International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School

  A gift of $6 million from John F. Cogan, Jr. ’52 will be used in support of Harvard Law School’s International Legal Studies (ILS) program, Dean Elena Kagan ’86 announced today.

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  Panel marks launch of Houston commemorative stamp

  On Saturday, Feb. 21, the United States Postal Service released a new commemorative stamp in honor of lawyer and noted social justice reformer Charles Hamilton Houston ’22.

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  William Coleman ’46 honored in the U.S. Senate

  In commemoration of Black History Month, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) offered a tribute to William T. Coleman Jr. ’46, the former secretary of transportation and one of the lead strategists and co-authors of the legal brief for the appellants in Brown v. Board of Education, in the Senate on Monday, February 23.

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  HLS launches joint TRIALS program with NYU and Advantage Testing Foundation

  Harvard Law School has partnered with NYU School of Law and the Advantage Testing Foundation to launch the Training and Recruitment Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools (TRIALS), a five-week summer residential program aimed at helping underrepresented students of modest means get into the nation’s top law schools.

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  JAG offers an insider’s account of defending GITMO detainee

  Major David J. R. Frakt ’94, a U.S. Air Force JAG officer, discussed his ongoing representation of a detainee in the war on terror, in a February 23 panel discussion at HLS. The event was sponsored by the American Constitution Society, the National Security and Law Association and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Copies of Frakt’s article, “Closing Argument at Guantánamo: The Torture of Mohammed Jawad,” which will soon appear in the Human Rights Journal, were distributed to the audience.