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Harvard Law Today: April 2012

Left: On March 26, Cass R. Sunstein ’78, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, presented a talk to students on the net monetary benefits of new regulations. Right: On March 23, Harvard Law School’s S.J.D. Program hosted a Global Legal Education Forum that drew hundreds of attendees and participants from around the world.

New directions in regulatory policy

Here’s the scorecard: Bush $3.4 billion; Clinton $14 billion; Obama $91.3 billion. These numbers represent the net monetary benefits of final federal agency regulations issued through the third fiscal year of each of these administrations. They were presented to HLS students and faculty on March 26 by Cass R. Sunstein ’78.
2012 Great Negotiator

Former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III was at the law school on March 29 to receive the 2012 Great Negotiator Award and to talk about some of the notable challenges he faced during his tenure at the State Department, including the reunification of Germany within NATO, the Gulf War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
HLS Forum: Globalization’s impact on legal education

Harvard Law School’s S.J.D. Program celebrated its 100th anniversary the weekend of March 23 by hosting a Global Legal Education Forum that drew hundreds of attendees and participants from around the world.
Briefs

Barron appointed to higher-ed board; Halley: Lifetime achievement award; Holder named 2012 Class Day speaker; WTO team wins North American regional; Gertner briefs on fair sentencing; Tie compensation to long-term results; and Martins delivered a major address at HLS
A judicious gathering

More than 300 judges, attorneys and academics attended the National Association of Women Judges’ leadership conference at Harvard Law School on March 9 to 11.
Volcker Rules

Paul Volcker, former chair of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Carter and Reagan, and former chair of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, was on campus in early April to discuss financial reform legislation and the banking system crash.
How to make a public interest career part of a happy life

Former Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine ‘83 and First Lady Anne Holton ‘83 discussed work-life balance at a March 6 event sponsored by the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising.
‘We have a moral obligation to check government abuses’

Ralph Nader ’58 and Bruce Fein ’72 discussed “America’s Lawless Empire: The Constitutional Crimes of Bush and Obama” at HLS on Feb. 8.
Spring Break 2012: Where in the world were HLS students?

During the third week in March, a number of Harvard Law students traveled around the world and to remote areas in the U.S. to offer their legal services. With funding from the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, teams of students worked with farmers in the Mississippi Delta, immigrants in Alabama and patients living with HIV/AIDS in New Orleans.
Faculty Q&A: Jon Hanson

Director of the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School, Professor Jon Hanson has long combined social psychology, economics, history and law in his scholarship. After PLMS hosted several conferences featuring leading mind scientists and legal scholars, Hanson collected the work of many of the contributors in a book he edited, “Ideology, Psychology, and Law” (Oxford University Press, 2011).
The Caspersen Student Center features a new HLS pub.

Channeling Shakespeare, the new pub in the Caspersen Student Center encourages students to “strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.”