January 2010

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  Lanni on Reconciliation after Mass Atrocity: Lessons from Ancient Athens

  On Dec. 14, Harvard Law School Professor Adriaan Lanni gave the annual Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Lecture on Aristotle and the Moderns at Columbia University. The title of the talk was “Reconciliation after Mass Atrocity: Lessons from Ancient Athens.”

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  Machen nominated to serve as U.S. Attorney for D.C.

  On December 24, President Barack Obama ’91 nominated Ronald Machen ’94 to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, pending confirmation by the Senate. Currently a partner at Wilmer Hale in Washington, D.C., Machen devotes his practice to complex civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and internal corporate investigations.

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  Obama names Hauser and Campos to Intelligence Advisory Board

  President Barack Obama ’91 has appointed Rita Hauser ’58 and Roel Campos ’79 to serve on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB). As members of the PIAB, Hauser and Campos will provide the President with independent advice on the effectiveness of the U.S. intelligence community.

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  Lessig receives honorary doctorate from University of Amsterdam

  Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig received an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam on January 8 for his well-known efforts to foster informational and cultural liberty on the Internet.

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  Soap Opera Stars Get Assist from HLS Negotiation and Mediation Clinic

  With the future of television soap operas looking grim, a group of actors participated in a day-long training with HLS’s Negotiation and Mediation Clinic to learn negotiation skills for dealing with networks during tough economic times and a changing daytime TV industry.

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  Stern in the Washington Post: Myths about terrorists

  “Five myths about who becomes a terrorist,” was written by HLS Lecturer Jessica Stern, the Academic Director of the Program on Terrorism and the Law at HLS. The op-ed appeared in the Jan. 10, 2010 edition of the Washington Post. 

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  The Green Bag honors HLS faculty and alumni for exemplary writing

  The Green Bag, a quarterly journal devoted to readable, concise, and entertaining legal scholarship, has named a number of HLS faculty members and alumni to its “Exemplary Legal Writing 2009” list.

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  Dispatches from Port-au-Prince: Pooja Bhatia '06

  “Haiti’s Angry God,” an op-ed by Pooja Bhatia ’06, appeared in the Jan. 14 edition of the New York Times. Bhatia is currently living in Port-au-Prince as a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, Bhatia is also filing reports and was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

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  Zittrain in the New York Times: On Internet censorship and what web sites can do

  On Jan. 15, The New York Times included commentary by HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 on “What web sites can do” in the wake of Google’s recent announcement that it would no longer censor search results in China.

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  President Obama taps Walter C. Jones ’88 for African Development Bank post

  President Barack Obama ’91 has appointed another HLS alumnus to a key post in his administration.  Walter Crawford Jones ’88 will serve as the United States executive director of the African Development Bank.

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  WEBCAST: Bebchuk testifies before House Financial Services Committee

  HLS Professor Lucian Bebchuk testified before House Financial Services Committee at a hearing entitled “Compensation in the Financial Industry,” on Friday, Jan. 22.

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  Bartholet on NPR and France 24 (video): On Haitian Orphans

  The op-ed “Amid Disaster, Haitian Orphans Find Homes,” co-written by HLS Professor Elizabeth Bartholet ’65 and Paulo Barrozo S.J.D. ’09, an assistant professor of law at Boston College, appeared Jan. 21, 2010 on NPR.org. Bartholet was also interviewed on France 24's International News  Program.

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  Petrie-Flom Center brings pharmaceutical executives and academics together at clinical trials summit

  On January 19, Harvard Law School Assistant Professor Glenn Cohen welcomed participants to the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Industry Summit at Harvard.

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  Corporate consequences of the Supreme Court’s speech decision last week: an op-ed by Mark Roe

  Professor Mark Roe assesses the Supreme Court's decision (in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) permitting more corporate spending for and against political candidates. The decision, says Roe, may ultimately be bad for the economy.

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  Bebchuk in Project Syndicate: The CEO Pay Slice

  “The CEO Pay Slice,”  an op-ed co-written by HLS Professor Lucian Bebchuk, appeared in Project Syndicate on January 18, 2010.

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  Robert D. Joffe ’67 (1943 – 2010)

  Robert D. Joffe ’67, former presiding partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and an active member of the HLS alumni community, died Thursday, Jan. 28.  He was 66.

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  Lucy Koh ’93 nominated to serve as federal district court judge

  Lucy Koh ’93 has been nominated by President Obama on to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.