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President-elect Barack Obama '91 tapped Professor Cass R. Sunstein to serve as his regulatory czar Thursday, January 8. The post is relatively obscure but packs significant power, with the ability to oversee the administration's entire regulatory regime. Cass Sunstein, an expert on risk and regulation, joined the faculty only last year.
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Lawrence Lessig, renowned scholar of internet law and professor at Stanford Law School, will rejoin the Harvard faculty in summer 2009, taking up a joint appointment as a professor at Harvard Law School and as director of Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
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Dean Elena Kagan broke the news to the Harvard Law School community Monday that President-elect Barack Obama '91 would nominate her for the post of Solicitor General of the United States. If confirmed by the Senate, Dean Kagan would resign the deanship and take a leave of absence from the faculty.
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Justice Gilmar Mendes, the President of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court, spoke at HLS on Monday, October 27 about Brazil's constitutional jurisprudence since 1988, describing the development of norms and institutional controls by the independent Brazilian judiciary as a critical element of the nation's transition to democratic government.
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Multiculturalism, an ostensibly liberal idea, cannot be so easily reconciled with other aspects of liberal thought. Professor Noah Feldman goes so far to suggest that it is little more than a form of social control handed down from 19th century imperialism.
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Samantha Power '99 roared back into the spotlight last week after being named to President-elect Barack Obama '91's transition team. Power was assigned to vet choices for appointment to the State Department. This development - which raises important questions about the future president's foreign policy agenda - marks a re-entry into public life for Power, who served as an advisor to the Obama campaign until resigning under controversy in March.
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In 1978, Deng Xiaoping's slogan was "only capitalism can save China." Thirty years later, it has been replaced by "only China can save capitalism." These slogans, recounted by Cam Cowan, the managing partner of Orrick's Washington D.C. office, opened a panel discussion celebrating the F. Y. Foundation's twentieth anniversary. The Foundation seeks to promote Sino-US exchanges and the rule of law by sponsoring legal education of Chinese scholars.
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On Monday, Governor Deval Patrick '82 (D-MA) nominated Superior Court Judge Ralph Gants '80 to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the state's highest court and the oldest continuously functioning appellate court in the Western Hemisphere (1692). Prior to his appointment to the Superior Court in 1997, Gants was an Assistant U.
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More HLS alums are joining the Obama team: Louis Caldera '87 will lead the White House Military Office, while Robert Malley '91 back as Middle East advisor.
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The NBER declared this week that the nation's economy has already been in recession for a full year. One economic hit after another is pushing the country into the deepest contraction in almost a century. While I agree that orthodox economic theory teaches us to have faith in the market as the soundest driver of efficiency, I believe that necessity should guide our choices in this critical, historic moment.
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Why do some people believe that President-elect Barack Obama '91 is a Muslim? How is it that such a completely false claim could be universally accepted in some communities? As children we were told that it is rude to gossip about others, but according to Professor Cass Sunstein '78, there are innate social forces that can strongly impact the vulnerability of individuals to persuasion and the propagation of false information.
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Valerie Caproni, General Counsel to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, defended the Attorney General's revised guidelines which govern the F.B.I.'s domestic operations, in a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Law School Forum on Tuesday, December 2.