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Bulletin COMPLEX PROBLEM-SOLVING: Newneneww Cocoursesouo and Exercexercises,Exeercisciseseses,S,,,P Plusp More Focusfocufocuss Onn Teteamworkeea Harvard Law WinterWinter 200808 bulletin COMPLEX PROBLEM-SOLVING: NewNeNeww cocoursesouo and exercexercises,exeercisciseseses,s,,,p plusp more focusfocufocuss onn teteamworkeea INTERNATIONAL LAW: Indispensable to a 21st-century legal education STATUTES AND REGULATIONS: Moree emphaphasisphaasis The next version of the curriculum is here. It’s already changing the way today’s students prepare to become tomorrow’s lawyers. MORE INTERDISCIPLINARY, MORE CLINICAL: A calendar full of new opportunities NEW PROGRAMS OF STUDY students from the >WhlWhZBWmM_dj[h(&&.M_dj[h(&&.&. 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As you will \ehkff[h#b[l[b ijkZ[dji be teaching students, and at what stage in learn in these pages, the returns will their legal education will it be most helpful start in the first year. As part of that Volume 59 for them to learn it? foundational experience, students will be Number 1 Winter 2008 Four years ago, when introduced, much more comprehensively we embarked on a major than before, to statutory and regulatory curricular review at Harvard aspects of law as well as to its comparative Law School, our starting point and international dimensions. Just as assistant dean for communications was a curriculum that was important, they will focus on complex Michael Armini already the finest in the world. problem-solving—working in teams executive editor In the time since Christopher (not just as individuals) to address the Robb London ’86 Columbus Langdell laid down complicated amalgams of facts, law and senior editor Emily Newburger the blueprints in 1872, HLS had ethical issues that arise in the work of managing editor built upon and improved its today’s lawyers. Linda Grant curriculum on the foundations Building on these foundations, the class notes and in memoriam of his design, and had developed an array new curriculum will give students more editor Christine Perkins of course offerings unrivaled anywhere. guidance in their upper-year studies, editorial assistance Emily Dupraz, Amy Gutman The question for us, really, was how to so they can advance, in new “programs ’93, Flynn Monks, Christine make the strong even stronger—and how of study,” from introductory to truly Perkins, Mariah Robbins, Lori Ann Saslav, Jocelyn Sedlet to ensure a fully up-to-date curriculum for sophisticated work in the areas that design director a new legal world. Our goal was to keep interest them. 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As a result of these discussions and dean elena kagan ’86 in this ISSUE SPECIAL SECTION: DEPARTMENTS CURRICULUM VERSION 2.0— A NEW BLUEPRINT 2 LETTERS FOR LEGAL EDUCATION 4 STUDENT SNAPSHOT Showing Russians—and the rest of us— what “no 18 A Curriculum of New Realities child left behind” really means The case method is still important, but it will be 6 ASK THE PROFESSOR supplemented by a new emphasis on statutory, For future interests, an interesting future regulatory and international sources of law, 7 THEORY INTO PRACTICE plus clinical work, interdisciplinary studies and Generations of Harvard Law students have tried to comprehend the ideas of Roberto Unger. Now, it’s complex problem-solving, and new upper-level Brazil’s turn. programs of study. 9 ON THE BOOKSHELVES Hands on Jack Goldsmith on the terror presidency; Gabriella 24 Blum LL.M. ’01 S.J.D. ’03 on managing endless con- It’s hard to be cynical in a clinical. Especially flicts now, when there are so many choices. 13 HEARSAY 32 At Home in the World Faculty short takes Resolved: “No student should graduate from law 14 TRIBUTE school without exposure to law beyond the United Two hall-of-famers leave the diamond States.” 42 CLASS NOTES Negotiating Africa’s uncivil wars; one lawyer’s 38 Crossing Lines gospel truth; our man in Ramadi; fall reunions Law students are increasingly encouraged to 44 HUSTINGS explore other disciplines as part of a strong legal David Gergen ’67 and Robert Shrum ’68 have been in education. Harvard’s “calendar reform” will help the innermost circle of American politics. Here, they assess campaign ’08. them do it. 59 IN MEMORIAM Robert Keeton S.J.D. ’56; Clark Byse 67 COMMITMENT Sheela Murthy LL.M. ’87 68 GALLERY When you visit this professor’s office, you get to know him pretty well. Even if he isn’t there. winter 2008 harvard law bulletin 1 LETTERS “Recent studies ... have demonstrated a significant correlation between levels of gun ownership and rates of both homicide and suicide.” —Kenneth Handley ’62 ALSO : Who Can Lay Claim to Blackness? and its limitations. and a power presumably held by state Harvard Law The Bill of Rights, on the other government does not transfer the Summer 2007 hand, speaks exclusively of rights. right from the people to the state or bulletin The First, Second, Fourth, Sixth and make the people’s exercise of the right Seventh Amendments enumerate dependent on the state’s exercise of its particular rights retained by the power. Nor does the state’s exercise of people: to assemble and petition, its militia power depend on the people’s be secure against unreasonable exercise of their right to keep and bear LALAWgoesoesoeoeses searches and seizures, enjoy arms. 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Each is protected against the right cannot be limited by or made Guns and Money” (Summer 2007), I denial, disparagement or infringement dependent on the state’s exercise of the write to suggest that the meaning of by government, not derived from militia power.
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