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ScotusBlog: Dean Minow on her new book ??In Brown??s Wake?
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow??s new book, ??In Brown??s Wake,? which examines the legacies of Brown v. the Board of Education, was released last week by Oxford University Press. In an interview on ScotusBlog, Minow discusses the book and the reverberations of Brown in American schools.
Ogletree in Washington Post: After Shirley Sherrod, we all need to slow down and listen
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
HLS Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. co-wrote an op-ed, ??After Shirley Sherrod, we all need to slow down and listen,? with Johanna Wald, that appeared in the July 25, 2010, edition of the Washington Post. Ogletree is the executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and the author most recently of "The Presumptions of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America." Johanna Wald is director of strategic planning at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.
David Pogue interviews John Palfrey in NYT
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
The following column by David Pogue, ??Q & A: Rumors, Cyberbullying, and Anonymity,? appeared in the New York Times on July 22, 2010 and featured a q & a with Harvard Law School Professor John Palfrey.
A Most Disarming Warrior
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Last spring, a young woman named Grace Akallo sat in the U.N. Security Council chamber and told its delegates her story. In 1997, when she was 15, soldiers of the Lord??s Resistance Army abducted Akallo from her school in northern Uganda. She learned to use an AK-47 in battle and shot other girls who tried to escape, so as not to be shot herself. She was repeatedly raped over the course of seven months, until one day she herself escaped. When she finished telling her story, she asked the delegates to help bring home other girls and boys who hadn??t been so lucky. Sitting at Akallo??s left in the chamber was Radhika Coomaraswamy LL.M. ??82, U.N. special representative for children in armed conflict.
Fried in Boston Globe: Obama should give Warren a recess appointment
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
In a Boston Globe op-ed, ??Obama should give Warren a recess appointment,? HLS Professor Charles Fried supports an interim appointment for Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Fried served as solicitor general in the second Reagan administration and as a justice on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His op-ed appeared in the July 29, 2010, edition of the Boston Globe.
Whiting interviewed on WBUR radio about new ICC post
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Alex Whiting, an assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School, will join the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the investigation coordinator this December. On Monday, July 26, he spoke with WBUR radio about his new post.
Former students endorse Elizabeth Warren
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
One hundred sixty-two former students of Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the White House on July 28, urging President Barack Obama ??91 to appoint her as director of the newly created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
Steiker in The National Law Journal: Kagan and the legacy of Marshall
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
HLS Professor Carol Steiker wrote an op-ed in The National Law Journal on former HLS Dean Elena Kagan and the legacy of Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall. Steiker, the Howard and Kathy Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, served as a co-clerk with Kagan for Justice Marshall during the 1987-1988 term of the Supreme Court. Her op-ed, "Kagan and the legacy of Marshall," appeared in the July 26, 2010, edition of the Journal.
A Most Disarming Warrior
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Last spring, a young woman named Grace Akallo sat in the U.N. Security Council chamber and told its delegates her story. In 1997, when she was 15, soldiers of the Lord??s Resistance Army abducted Akallo from her school in northern Uganda. She learned to use an AK-47 in battle and shot other girls who tried to escape, so as not to be shot herself. She was repeatedly raped over the course of seven months, until one day she herself escaped. When she finished telling her story, she asked the delegates to help bring home other girls and boys who hadn??t been so lucky. Sitting at Akallo??s left in the chamber was Radhika Coomaraswamy LL.M. ??82, U.N. special representative for children in armed conflict.
Wilkins in USA Today: USDA official victim of ??high-tech lynching??
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Today??s edition of USA Today includes an op-ed by HLS Professor David B. Wilkins '80, ??USDA official victim of ??high-tech lynching,??? on the firing of U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law at Harvard and the director of the Program on the Legal Profession.
