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Harvard Law Today: January 2011

Phil Farnsworth

Chief Justice Roberts ’79 presides at Ames. “I decided very early my first semester that I wanted to participate in an Ames final, and I decided that the easier way would be to get appointed chief justice and come back as a judge than to do what you have had to do,” said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79, congratulating Ames participants at HLS in November. Roberts made surprise visits to Judge Michael Boudin’s Antitrust Law class and Professor John Manning’s Legislation and Regulation class.

Celebrating 40 years of environmental protection

In commemoration of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 40th anniversary, Harvard Law School hosted a major conference sponsored jointly with the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard School of Public Health.
FutureEd 2: A major conference explores the effects of globalization on legal education

Legal education is in a period of profound and much-needed change. That was the unanimous assessment of a group of experts at FutureEd 2, a conference at Harvard Law School in October that attracted more than 150 legal educators, practitioners and businesspeople from around the world.
Briefs

Tribe returns to Harvard Law School; Fellowship of trust (and estate); Freeman selected as ACUS member; and Repercussions of robo-signing
Advice for future social entrepreneurs: “Go for it”

Beginning in 2013, Harvard Law School’s new Public Service Venture Fund will provide $1 million per year in grants to support new and recent graduates who will be working for public service employers, and also to support those who want to start their own organizations.
Professors Wilkins and Palfrey take endowed chairs

David Wilkins ’80 delivered a lecture, “Making Global Lawyers: Legal Education, Legal Paradox, and the Paradox of Professional Distinctiveness,” to mark his appointment as the Lester Kissel Professor of Law.
The Ames Moot Court Competition: Celebrating a century

For 100 years, the Ames Moot Court Competition has showcased the most talented oral advocates to attend Harvard Law School.
Bookshelf: Counsel for the situation

William T. Coleman Jr. ’43 (’46), the venerable civil rights lawyer who served as a lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education, as counsel to the Warren Commission and as secretary of transportation in the Ford administration, was a guest speaker at HLS on Dec. 1.
Appointments: Suk gains tenure and Giannini appointed clinical professor of law

Jeannie Suk ’02 has gained tenure as a professor of law at Harvard and Tyler Giannini has been appointed a clinical professor at Harvard Law School.
Student Spotlight: Veteran of war and service Susan McGarvey LL.M. ’11

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Susan McGarvey LL.M. ’11 was in the courthouse when Saddam Hussein was on trial for the Anfal campaign, the genocide of Kurds that he ordered in the late 1980s.