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Harvard Law Today: December 2012

Left: Martha Stewart / Center: AP Photo Steven Senne

Left: At a reunion of Latino alumni at HLS in September, Julián Castro ’00 urged audience members to support political leaders who support the Latino community. Center: Warren made history as the first woman elected to serve as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts. Right: At HLS, Justice Breyer and nine appellate judges revisit Cooper v. Aaron.

Latino Leadership: ‘Our time is now’

“We need to encourage and harness professional development in the next generation,” San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro ’00 said in a keynote address. His talk was part of the Celebration of Latino Alumni, held at HLS from Sept. 27 to 30.
Massachusetts sends Warren to U.S. Senate

HLS Professor Elizabeth Warren—bankruptcy expert, Wall Street reformer and consumer watchdog—won a hard-fought race for the U.S. Senate. The Democratic nominee defeated her Republican opponent, incumbent Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown.
Looking back at Little Rock

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling mandating school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 is considered a landmark decision. But the implementation of federal law prohibiting state-mandated school desegregation required a subsequent ruling in 1958, in Cooper v. Aaron, which held that states could not avoid desegregation by legislative action.
Briefs

Experts-in-Residence appointed at HLS; Virtual interviews for J.D. candidates; UN investigator announces probe of drone attacks; Zittrain named ‘Top Global Thinker’; and A white tie and tails event
On campus

‘The Paper Chase’ at 40; On Constitution Day, debunking myths about the document’s founding; The legacy of Judge Henry J. Friendly; A roundtable on corporate time horizons; and Solicitor general at HLS
Shay on profit shifting and the U.S. tax code

Professor Stephen Shay testified before the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in September.
More than law in common: A diverged family converges at Harvard Law

It wasn’t inevitable that Harvard Law School graduate students Erum Khalid Sattar and Rebecca Zaman would meet so soon, or even at all. Sattar has been at the law school for three years, pursuing a doctorate of juridical science (S.J.D.); Zaman arrived in August to begin a year of study for a master’s in law (LL.M.).
Serving veterans and veterans who served

Jesse Reising ’15 was eager to start his career as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps upon graduation from Yale—until his dream was derailed by a violent collision he made as a tackle during the 2010 Harvard-Yale football game, resulting in partial paralysis of his right arm.
Faculty Q&A: Hal Scott

The Program on International Financial Systems fosters the exchange of ideas on capital markets, financial regulation and international financial systems through its portfolio of Symposia on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century.
Current students cheer for former students on election night

Democrats, Republicans and Independents stood side by side at Harvard Law School on Nov. 6 to follow the presidential election results at a party organized by the Dean of Students Office.