August 2013

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  Samantha Power '99 confirmed as U.N. Ambassador

  Samantha Power ’99, who has served as an adviser to President Barack Obama ’91 on foreign policy and national security, won confirmation Thursday as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

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  HLS faculty weigh in on the week's legal news

  In a week of many developments in the world of law, Harvard Law School faculty were online, in print, and on-the-air offering analyses and opinions.

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  Clinical opportunities and a new class at the intersection of immigration and criminal law

  Crimmigration—the intersection of criminal law and immigration—is a burgeoning legal area, and one that is of great interest to students, according to Harvard Law School Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor Phil Torrey. This fall, Torrey, who supervises the Harvard Immigration Project's Bond Hearing Representation project, will be offering a new clinical course on the topic.

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  Sen. Richard Blumenthal at HLS: bring more accountability to the FISA Court (video)

  On Thursday, Aug. 8, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) delivered an address at Harvard Law School on proposed legislation to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, just hours after news outlets reported additional revelations concerning the scope of information gathered by the National Security Agency. 

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  HLS faculty weigh in on the week's legal news

  In a week of many developments in the world of law, Harvard Law School faculty were online, in print, and on-the-air offering analyses and opinions.

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  Nanda appointed director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

  Ashish Nanda, the Robert Braucher Professor of Practice, faculty director of executive education, and research director at the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, has been appointed director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), in India.

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  Scott Westfahl ’88 will lead Exec Ed at HLS

  Dean Martha Minow announced this week that Scott Westfahl ’88 will be the new director of Executive Education at Harvard Law School.

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  Detlev Vagts (1929 – 2013): Scholar of international law and transnational law

  Detlev Frederick Vagts '51, a renowned scholar of international law at Harvard Law School and one of the world's foremost experts on transnational business problems and the laws affecting international commerce, died Aug. 20. Vagts' career at Harvard Law School spanned more than 50 years.

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  HLS faculty weigh in on the week's legal news

  In a week of many developments in the world of law, Harvard Law School faculty were online, in print, and on-the-air offering analyses and opinions.

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  HLS Library digitizes student notebooks from transitional law school

  The Harvard Law School Library's historical and special collections recently digitized its collection of 64 bound volumes of notebooks drafted by 17 students of the Litchfield Law School from 1803–1825. Litchfield is generally regarded as the first formal private law school in the United States.

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  Sitkoff contributes to Uniform Powers of Appointment Act

  In early July, the Uniform Law Commission approved a new act, the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act, at its annual meeting held this year in Boston. Harvard Law School Professor Robert H. Sitkoff, who focuses his research on economic and empirical analysis of the law of trusts and estates, served on the drafting committee for the Act. The Act codifies the law of powers of appointment, a staple of modern estate-planning practice.

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  HLS faculty weigh in on the week's legal news

  In a week of many developments in the world of law, Harvard Law School faculty were online, in print, and on the air offering analyses and opinions.

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  Former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski '91 will teach Fall Semester course at Harvard Law and Business Schools as Klinsky Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress

  Julius Genachowski '91, who served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2009 until May of this year, will teach a course to students from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School in the fall semester. The course, 'Running a Federal Agency: Lessons from Business, Technology and Game Theory,' will be offered jointly by the two schools.

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  Steven and Maureen Klinsky endow Professorship of Practice for Leadership and Progress at Harvard Law School

  Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow has announced that Steven Klinsky J.D. '81 M.B.A. '79, and his wife, Maureen Klinsky, have endowed the Steven and Maureen Klinsky Professorship of Practice for Leadership and Progress at HLS. The new chair is the first endowed professorship of practice established at Harvard Law School, and is designed to bring visiting leaders from a wide range of fields beyond law to campus to teach and bring inspiration and broad perspective to the school and, more generally, to Harvard University.

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  Berkman Center’s Zittrain sees lessons in computer assaults on media

  Computer network hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army earlier this week disrupted The New York Times’ website for nearly a day and electronic publishing on the Twitter social network for several hours. Also targeted were the Huffington Post and other media outlets. To better understand the attacks, Harvard Gazette staff writer Christina Pazzanese asked Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain to comment by email on what happened and how institutions will have to react in order to protect themselves from future disruptions.