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Last weekend, leaders from across Europe gathered in Brussels for an emergency conference to discuss the measures needed to prevent recession-fuelled protectionism. However, when the gathering convened the subject which dominated discussions was the looming risk of a currency crisis in one of the European Union's eastern member states or neighbors.
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With the passage of his first major piece of legislation, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Barack Obama '91 has already embarked on a bold domestic policy aimed at rejuvenating a struggling economy and retooling the nation for the century ahead.
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Amidst a rough economic climate, students from Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, and the Kennedy School of Government hosted this year's Harvard Asia Business Conference, "Asia in a Whole New World" on February 14-15. The global economic crisis and the rising specter of economic nationalism weighed on the minds of participants, but several speakers suggested that while Asia has not been isolated from the economic downturn, the long-term outlook for the continent remains positive.
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With a Senate Judiciary Committee vote to confirm Dean Elena Kagan '86 as the next Solicitor General imminent, Harvard University has turned to the task of selecting a new law school dean. On Friday, February 20th, University President Faust announced that a cadre of senior HLS faculty members had been named to an advisory board in order to assist her search.
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The judicial philosophy of Judge Robert Bork and his views on the role of federal judges took center stage in a discussion with Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The lecture and question -and-answer session, co-sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Journal of Law and Public Policy.
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The Harvard Human Rights Journal held its 2009 Symposium "Responsibility to Protect" on February 20th at the Sheraton Commander hotel in Cambridge. The event started with a lunchtime lecture on the U.N. doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect, and afternoon panels featured panel discussions of the operationalization of the doctrine.
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Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times from 1978 to 2008, was the keynote speaker at the Third Annual Women's Law Association Conference. Greenhouse's speech "What Judges Know," focused on the struggle over the role of women in the judiciary and the process by which judges are informed about the realities of the world.
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HLS fared well both individually and collectively at the annual Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the world's largest moot court competition, with participants from over 500 law schools in more than 80 countries. The HLS team consisted of four oralists, Kyle Dandelet '10, Kurt Chauviere '10, Daniel Purisch '11, and Larkin Reynolds '10, and one student researcher, Michael Addis '10.
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On February 23, Major David J. R. Frakt, '94, a Judge Advocate General, discussed his experience defending Mohammed Jawad, a young man detained at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. Following ten years on active duty in the United States Air Force JAG Corps, Frakt remained in the reserves while taking a position as an Associate Professor of Law at Western State University College of Law, where he also is Director of the Criminal Law Practice Center.
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Harvard Law School alumnus Stanley Chang '08 returned to Cambridge on February 27th as a special guest and panelist for the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association's (APALSA) annual conference and to promote his candidacy for the Honolulu City Council.
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Students and faculty got their first glimpse of a prospective Howell Jackson '82 deanship on February 24th, when the longtime professor stepped out into public as the de facto head of the law school for the first time. In a town hall meeting, the prospective interim dean moved to address many previously unanswered questions about the school's future that had been percolating among the student body and general Harvard Law School community for weeks.
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Some time between 4:00 p.m. on Friday, February 20 and 10:00 a.m. the following Monday, an unidentified person entered the offices of the Harvard Law Record and stole the newspaper's digital camera. When I entered the office that Monday, I was not immediately alarmed by its absence, for any of our many other staff members (Andrew or Chris) could have been using it to photograph an event on campus.