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A relatively new take on a centuries-old statute has stirred up serious questions about how U.S. courts can be used to litigate international human rights abuses.
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The pace of the short race to get on the ballot for the special election to Massachusetts' vacant U.S. Senate seat is accelerating to a full sprint. Two Harvard alumni are running, Alan Khazei '87 and Steve Pagliuca HBS '82, and both came to HLS last Thursday to discuss their campaigns and rally support. After the event, the Harvard Law Record was able to meet briefly with Khazei to discuss his grassroots strategy for getting on the ballot. Khazei, who founded the non-profit community outreach organization City Year and was instrumental in the enactment this year of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, shared insights into the influence of Senator Kennedy on his strategy and his purpose for participating in the election.
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It was one of the most notable perks introduced to Harvard Law School by former Dean Elena Kagan '86, who is now Solicitor General. But as many suspected, the free coffee that graced the school's hallowed hallways was cut back following budget cuts early this year. Now, free coffee will flow through the veins of HLS students more liberally than ever, thanks to a new pilot program to provide it all day long.
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An increasing number of Harvard Law School students is being infected with the H1N1, or swine flu virus, according to an email to the HLS community by Dean of Students Ellen Cosgrove, leading the school to take extraordinary steps to deal with the situation. The measures come seven months after the first known outbreak of the virus in Massachusetts took place at Harvard Dental School, and three weeks after the university reported running out of regular flu vaccine (it has since acquired more).
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In his latest return to Harvard Law School, consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader '58 attacked the Obama administration's too-timid taming of Wall Street, tore into its unwillingness to investigate abuses of power under Bush and Cheney, argued against law schools' narrow curricular emphases. He also presented his latest book, a "work of utopian fiction" called Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, in which billionaires unite to solve America's social ills. Nader said he had come to the conclusion that social action on the part of plutocrats may, in fact, be the best way forward.
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"Sleep No More," a coproduction of the British theater troupe Punchdrunk and the American Repertory Theater, is part Macbeth and part Hitchcock, but one needn't need to be familiar with either to be taken by the experience, as KAN YAN found when he joined the audience, wearing white masks and following actors through the halls and classrooms of the Old Lincoln School in Brookline.
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True, after a long and dreary December some sun-worshipping law students might prefer to opt for a warm and ‘beachy' location for their winter holidays. But selecting on the basis of the quality of sun, sand and sangria is a much too easy way out of the difficult question how to best spend your winter holidays. Austria, which recently made Forbes' list of best retirement destinations, also offers benefits for law students looking for a relaxing winter.
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When Barack Obama '91 campaigned for and won the U.S. presidential election, he was supported not only by Americans, but by millions of people across the globe who believe in his message of "hope". For us in Africa, Obama symbolizes the renewal of hope for global peace and security.
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This past weekend, a team of Harvard Law students won first place at the Fourth National Puerto Rico Trial Advocacy Competition in San Juan. The "invitation only" competition was sponsored by the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico School of Law and held at the Old San Juan District Courthouse.
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Michael Leiter's current role – Director of the National Counterterrorism Center – puts him in a position to know quite a bit about the world, and during a visit to HLS, he led a discussion on the security situations of regions ranging from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and even to the potential for domestic Islamist terrorism in the U.S. Controversially, Leiter also argued that oversight for national security was best pursued behind the scenes rather than in public.
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Cyberterrorism is a buzzword that has been thriving in President Barack Obama '91's administration, but it has such a nebulous meaning that it managed to eluded three expert panelists last Wednesday.
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Many claim that President Barack Obama '91 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to express international support for the U.S.' reengagement with multilateral peace efforts, including efforts to bring an end to wars in Iraq and elsewhere. This new U.S. foreign policy stands in contrast to the U.S. Special Forces' recent targeted assassination of a highly wanted Al Qaeda member in Somalia.