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Harvard Law Today: November 2010

Associated Press

When Elena Kagan ’86 clerked for Thurgood Marshall, he sometimes called her “Shorty,” affectionately. On the day of her investiture in October, Shorty stood tall alongside her new colleagues.

Elizabeth Warren will shape the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

President Barack Obama ’91 introduced Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren as his choice to head the steering committee of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Warren will serve as an assistant to the president and as a special adviser to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Panelists offer a roundup of Arizona’s new immigration law

In a Harvard Law School discussion on immigration law, expert panelists offered perspectives from the trenches on Arizona SB 1070, the controversial immigration law enacted earlier this year.
Briefs

An Act to Stabilize Neighborhoods; Frug wins architecture competition; The Great Negotiator; Read & Ride; BSA celebrates centennial; and Eleven HLS Scotus clerks
Dean Minow welcomes incoming classes

Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow welcomed this year’s classes of incoming law students at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Aug. 30.
John Manning: The separation of powers as ordinary interpretation

Professor John Manning ’85 delivered a chair lecture, “The Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation,” in October to mark his appointment as the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law.
In their own words: Chayes Fellows share their international public service experience

Chayes Fellows Laura-Kate Denny ’12, Teel Lidow ’12, and Petko Peev ’12 share their international public service experience
Overheard on campus

Former State Department legal adviser offers advice to students; In the echo of Gekko; and When ‘The Nine’ Overrule the 9th
Faculty in the Spotlight

Gordon-Reed wins a MacArthur Fellowship; Whiting to join International Criminal Court; and Neuman elected to the Human Rights Committee
Homestretch

The construction of the Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, Clinical Wing project is now in the homestretch—the building is scheduled to open in December 2011.