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Harvard Law School faculty, students, and alumni frequently discuss issues and weigh in on a variety of topics on local, national, and global media. HLS also produces videos of symposia, lectures, conferences, and other important on-campus events that highlight the vibrant intellectual contributions of our faculty, students, and distinguished lecturers.
Gabriella Blum LL.M. ’01 S.J.D. ’03 delivered the lecture “The Fog of Victory” on April 10 to mark her appointment as the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School.
On April 3, Brigadier General Mark Martins ’90, chief prosecutor at the Office of U.S. Military Commissions in the Department of Defense, delivered a major address at Harvard Law School on Legitimacy and the Limits of Command in Reformed Military Commissions. The lecture was sponsored by the National Security Journal and the National Security & Law Association.
[L-R] Paul Volcker, Malcolm Salter, and Lawrence Lessig
Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Carter and Reagan, and former chairman of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, was on campus in early April as a guest of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics series on institutional corruption. The Center’s director, HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig, introduced him to an at-capacity crowd in Ames Courtroom before yielding the floor to Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Malcolm Salter, who moderated a conversation with Volcker on the historical context of today’s financial crisis and current efforts to thwart future crises.
Georgetown University Law Center professor and libertarian legal theorist Randy Barnett '77, who represented the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) in their challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act joined HLS Dean Martha L. Minow April 12 to discuss the case in a program sponsored by the HLS Federalist Society.