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Dachau author recounts post-WWII justice<br />
Joshua M. Greene's Justice At Dachau: The Trials of An American Prosecutor offers a poignant account of the largest yet least known series of Nazi trials in history. The book chronicles the story of the Dachau trials through their chief prosecutor, William Denson, an American Harvard Law School graduate whose role in the proceedings was introduced to Greene one year after his death in 1998.
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Dean’s Forum examines effects of judicial politics<br />
In certain cases, the votes of federal judges can be predicted based on the ideology of the president who appointed them, according to research by Cass Sunstein of The University of Chicago Law School. Sunstein joined Professors Charles Fried and Martha Minow this past Monday for a discussion on the topic "Beyond Bush & Estrada? Ideological Judges and the Confirmation Process" as part of The Dean's Forum.
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3L debates anti-Pledge Newdow<br />
Freedom in America means the ability to refrain or participate in religious practice, not to be free from religion in the public square, argued 3L Carrie Campbell on the television show "Nitebeat" that airs on New England CN8. Appearing on the show to discuss the Supreme Court's Pledge of Allegiance case, Campbell, president of the HLS Society of Life, Law & Religion, shared screen time with Michael Newdow, the plaintiff in the case, and other guests such as Suffolk University constitutional law professor Victoria Dodd.
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Civil libertarians bemoan legal impotence<br />
Three prominent civil libertarians visited Harvard Law School on Tuesday to plug a new book titled, The War on Our Freedoms, a collection of essays by leading scholars about current threats to civil liberties. The three panelists spoke on the legal status of terrorist detainees, the extreme difficulty of being a civil liberties lawyer in the current climate and the effect of the Patriot Act on biochemical research. All three spoke with a mixture of legally-confident outrage, and, unfortunately, wistful defeatism that the American public has yet to become outraged itself.
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George Mason prof highlights antidiscrim laws’ threat to civil liberties<br />
The interaction between antidiscrimination interests and civil liberties served as the centerpiece of a lecture and discussion hosted by the Harvard Federalist Society this past Monday. The event, titled "You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws," was headlined by David E. Bernstein, a professor at George Mason Law School and author of the book that served as the foundation for the lecture. Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy also participated in the event, offering a critique of Bernstein's comments and posing questions to the speaker.
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RECORD EDITORIAL: Summers must call a town hall meeting<br />
WE'VE HEARD A RALLYing cry this week against Solomon. Forty-six Harvard Law School faculty have signed a letter to President Summers urging him to either join the present litigation challenging the amendment or to initiate a separate legal action on behalf of the school. The letter did not criticize Harvard Law School for allowing military recruiters full access to OCS services in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. The letter did not claim that Harvard University had traded in the civil rights of some for a considerable amount of cash. The letter was much more concise and to the point.
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Emotionally searing Mystic River<br />
"Mystic River" begins with three young boys playing in the street of a working-class neighborhood in Boston. A car pulls up just as they are tracing their names in a freshly cemented sidewalk, and a middle-aged man emerges. Identifying himself as a cop, he rebukes the boys for vandalism while at the same time sizing them up narrowly.
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Mixed verdict for Runaway Jury<br />
"Runaway Jury," the latest John Grisham movie adaptation, offers little in the way of insight into the workings of jury selection or jury deliberations. What it does offer is reasonably competent, disposable entertainment, notched up a class by the collective talent of its high-powered cast.