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Celebrating 40 years of environmental protection Chief Justice Roberts ’79 n commemoration of the En- the and the presides vironmental Protection Agency’s Harvard School of Public Health. The I40th anniversary, Harvard Law Dec. 3 conference, “The EPA @ 40: Pro- at Ames School hosted a major conference tecting the Environment and Our Com- sponsored jointly with the Harvard munities,” featured panel discussions University Center for the Environment, between leading environmental >>7 ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PHIL FARNSWORTH “I decided very early my first semester that I wanted to participate in an Ames final, Founding EPA and I decided that the easier way would be to get appointed chief justice and come Administrator back as a judge than to do what you have had to do,” said Chief Justice John G. William Roberts Jr. ’79, congratulating Ames participants at HLS in November. Roberts made Ruckelshaus ’60 surprise visits to Judge Michael Boudin’s Antitrust Law class and Professor John with luncheon Manning’s Legislation and Regulation class. >>4 speaker Al Gore MARTHA STEWART MARTHA

FutureEd 2: best about traditional legal education even as A major conference they undergo reform. explores the effects of “The overarching theme was that this was really an important moment, and there’s a globalization on legal growing realization that legal education re- education ally needs to change in important ways,” G To view videos of the said Professor David conference go to: http:// egal education is in a period of Wilkins ’80, faculty bit.ly/FutureEd2 profound and much-needed change. director of Harvard LThat was the unanimous assessment Law School’s Program on the Legal Profes- of a group of experts at FutureEd 2, a con- sion, which hosted the conference, the sec- ference at in October ond in a three-part series co-sponsored with that attracted more than 150 legal educa- New York Law School to explore the current tors, practitioners and businesspeople from state of legal education and help shape its around the world. future. Yet how, exactly, law schools will be differ- DYDYK CHRISTOPHER The conference provided the opportunity ent in five or 20 years is less clear, although C. Raj Kumar LL.M. ’00, vice chancellor, O.P. Jindal to gather examples of reforms and innova- there are many suggested paths, ranging Global University; Daniel Foote ’81, professor, tions, as well as solicit recommendations for from a greater emphasis on global education University of Tokyo Law School; and HLS Professor reform. to more practical training for budding law- William Alford ’77, discussing “Global Perspectives Proposals for improving legal education yers. And, at the same time, there are strong on Legal Education” in October ranged from more distance learning to more voices urging law schools to maintain what’s experiential learning in various forms. >>6

Harvard Law Today Nonprofit Org. INSIDE Harvard Law School U.S. Postage 125 Mount Auburn Street PAID , MA 2 Adventures in social entrepreneurship Cambridge, MA 02138 Permit No. 54112 3 Forecast for lawyers and libraries 5 Still arguing after 100 years 6 Mr. Secretary 8 Battle-tested soldiers

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BRIEFS Advice for future social entrepreneurs: Tribe returns to Harvard Law School “Go for it” Carl M. Loeb University Professor Lau- rence H. Tribe ’66, who most recently served as the first senior counselor for ac- eginning in 2013, Alan Khazei ’87, co-founder of cess to justice in the Justice Department, Harvard Law School’s , and Brooke Richie ’04, returned to the Harvard Law School faculty Bnew Public Service Ven- founder and executive director of the Resilience Advocacy Project in January. He will resume teaching in the ture Fund will provide $1 mil- 2011-12 academic year. Recurring symptoms of a benign lion per year in grants to sup- brain tumor first diagnosed and treated in 2008 led Tribe port new and recent graduates to inform HLS and the Justice Department in mid-Septem- who will be working for pub- ber that he would cut short the two-year leave he took to lic service employers, and also serve in the Obama administration, in order to resume a to support those who want to treatment regimen at Massachusetts General Hospital. start their own organizations. As a first in a series of Fellowship of trust (and estate) workshops and panels de- signed to foster an entre-

HLS Professor Robert H. Sitkoff was elected an academic preneurial spirit, the Dean’s DYDYK CHRISTOPHER fellow of the American College of Trust Office and the Bernard Koteen and Estate Counsel, a national professional Office of Public Interest Advising sponsored a ing and knowing where your organization fits into organization of lawyers who specialize in November “Conversation Between Social Entre- the existing world of nonprofits. Both stressed the trusts and estates. Sitkoff, co-author of preneurs” with Alan Khazei ’87, co-founder of City importance of taking full advantage of Harvard’s “Wills, Trusts, and Estates,” the leading Year, and Brooke Richie ’04, founder and executive resources, urging students to talk to as many people American casebook on the subject, was director of the Resilience Advocacy Project. as possible about their ideas, to help develop them recognized for his outstanding contributions in scholar- Dean Martha Minow, who in- before they leave HLS, and to ship, teaching, lecturing and professional activities. troduced the panelists, said the find mentors. WE ARE committed to fund was inspired by alumni such Three years after launching Freeman selected as ACUS member as Khazei and Richie. “People making it possible for the Resilience Advocacy Proj- come to Harvard Law School with students to pursue ect, Richie said the most diffi- This fall, Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95, the Archibald dreams about how the world could those dreams.” cult thing is “the balancing act Cox Professor of Law at HLS, was selected as a public be different,” said Minow. “We Dean Martha Minow I have to engage in on a daily member of the Council of the Administra- are committed to making it pos- basis: fundraising, managing tive Conference of the , an in- sible for students to pursue those staff, standardizing programs, dependent agency of the U.S. government dreams.” building an institution.” tasked with improving the efficiency and Khazei praised HLS for starting the fund and said Khazei agreed. His advice for students who want fairness of federal agencies. Freeman most he hoped other schools would follow its example. to be social entrepreneurs was simple: “Go for recently served as White House counselor Reflecting on his own experience starting City Year it.” You’ve got to have a passion, he added. “But if for energy and climate change. with Michael Brown ’88, he said their HLS educa- you’re passionate about it, take the risk. It’s hard. tions opened many doors. Intellectually, they were But you get to be your own boss, and more impor- Repercussions of robo-signing strongly influenced by HLS Professor Frank Mi- tant, you get to pursue your dream.” ø chelman ’60, Professor David Rosenberg’s course At a hearing on the TARP Foreclosure on core theory, and the idea of civic republicanism HLS PUBLIC SERVICE VENTURE FUND Mitigation Programs, Visiting Professor as promulgated by then Visiting Professor Cass ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS Katherine Porter ’01 testified on how the Sunstein ’78. Josh Bedell ’07, associate, investment banking division, allegations of legal errors in the foreclo- Richie’s program, located in , is Goldman Sachs sure process may impact housing markets. working to fight intergenerational poverty, by train- Alan Jenkins ’89, executive director, The Opportunity Porter argued for an increase in legal re- ing low-income teens to serve as advocates for other Agenda quirements for foreclosures, given widespread allegations low-income youth. Richie came to HLS knowing Alan Khazei ’87, founder, Be the Change of paperwork problems and procedural irregularities. she wanted to start an organization that would con- Brett Messing ’89, senior adviser, Los Angeles Mayor nect the law to the idea of resilience. Antonio Villaraigosa It was HLS Professor Lani Guinier’s Community Martha Minow, dean, Harvard Law School Lawyering class that helped her take the next step. HARVARD LAW TODAY Rebecca Onie ’03, co-founder, Project HEALTH Among other things, the class taught her to rethink Earl Martin Phalen ’93, CEO, Reach Out and Read Assistant DeanDean/Chief for of Editorial Office the role of the lawyer and see “a facilitator and a Communications Harvard Law Today Susan Butler Plum, director, Skadden Fellowship Robb London ’86 125 Mount Auburn St. problem-solver, an advocate who empowers his or Foundation Editor Cambridge, MA 02138 her clients, rather than [the attorney as] the sole Christine Perkins 617-495-3118 Paul Rosenberg ’79, partner, The Bridgespan Group [email protected] expert in the room,” she said. Managing Editor Josh Rubenstein ’06, chief admissions officer, Harvard Linda Grant Send change of address to Alumni Records Although Khazei and Richie are at different Law School Design Director 125 Mount Auburn St. stages in their careers—22 years after he founded Ronn Campisi Cambridge, MA 02138 Alexa Shabecoff, assistant dean for public service, Contributors [email protected] City Year, Khazei now heads an advocacy organi- Harvard Law School AsliGreg Bashir, DiBella, Emily Jill Greenfield, Dupraz, Stepha- Volume 910 Number2 Number 2 zation called Be the Change—in many ways their nieCarolyn Ehresman Kelley, ’10, Jenny Carolyn Lackey Kelley, Kurk, Harvard Law Today is published Carol Steiker ’86, professor, Harvard Law School ElaineSarah Marston,McArdle, Elaine Emily McArdle,Newburger, by Harvard Law School advice to the room full of students was similar. LoriEmily Ann Newburger, Saslav, Marc Lori Steinberg,Ann Saslav, © 20092011 by by the the President President and and Kenneth Zimmerman ’88, member, Lowenstein AmyErica WyethSheftman Fellows of Khazei advised finding a partner and building a Sandler

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PROFESSORS TAKE ENDOWED CHAIRS Palfrey proposes a new information environment In a November lecture marking his appointment as the Henry N. Ess III Professor at Harvard Law School, Professor John G. Palfrey ’01 called for a new legal information system grounded in a set of open data.

Palfrey, who is also the vice dean for we are embarking upon an equally library and information resources at ambitious venture to remake the legal HLS, delivered the lecture to a stand- information environment for the 21st ing-room-only audience in the Caspers- century, in the digital era. A new legal en Room in Langdell Hall. information environment, drawing Introducing the lecture, Dean Martha comprehensively from contemporary Minow noted that the award of the Ess technology, can improve access to jus- Professorship to Palfrey “is especially tice by the traditionally disadvantaged; Wilkins makes the case for wonderful” because Ess, like Palfrey, enhance democracy; promote innova- was extraordinarily devoted to the col- tion and creativity in scholarship and educating global lawyers lection and preservation of law books. teaching; and promote economic devel- KATHLEEN DOOHER KATHLEEN Ess, a 1944 graduate, bestowed his rare opment.” David Wilkins ’80 delivered a lecture, “Making Global book collection, doubling HLS’s collec- Palfrey acknowledged that a new tion of legal books printed before 1501 information environment also will have Lawyers: Legal Education, Legal Paradox, and the and making Harvard’s the largest trove unintended and sometimes negative Paradox of Professional Distinctiveness,” to mark his of early English law books in the world. consequences. “This trajectory toward appointment as the Lester Kissel Professor of Law. “If Ess had the persistence and vision openness is likely to change the way to collect special legal materials, John that professionals and the public view Wilkins began his Oct. 19 lecture by which has moved from a U.S. to a global Palfrey has the persistence and vision the law, and the process of lawmaking noting that today’s legal world is often phenomenon. He cited India’s Tata to reinvent what legal materials will be hierarchies between those with special- seen either as undergoing a fundamental Group as an example. like and how people will access them in ized knowledge and power and those paradigm shift or as “just business as Wilkins also noted that the market this very exciting and challenging age,” without will continue its erosion.” usual.” He cautioned that while it’s too for lawyers is changing dramatically. Minow said. He concluded by discussing how, early to tell which of these views is cor- There used to be relatively few lawyers In his lecture, Palfrey proposed a unlike the physical library in Langdell rect, “it’s probably unlikely to be either.” concentrated in bounded geographic new legal information environment Hall, the structure of the digital infor- Wilkins observed, “We’re seeing big areas, and lots of policies that restricted that is predominantly digital in nature, mation environment has not yet been trends that have been going on long competition. Today, we have what which draws from advances in cloud thoughtfully designed. “Our students before the crash of 2008, that were ac- some economists call “winner-take-all computing, the digital naming systems just as frequently come in through centuated by the crash and that are competition,” he said, both for clients and youth media practices, as well as our virtual front door as our physical likely to have important implications for and for lawyers, and we have seen the classical modes of librarianship. front door,” he said. “I think what we everything we do.” He provided several “rise of market practices.” He explained how this new digital need is a design charrette to build this examples of these changes, including But complexity increases demand, era grows out of a long history of evolu- new, thoroughly connected system of the globalization of economic activity, and Wilkins predicted an increased tion in the publishing of legal informa- legal information for a hybrid age, for a the rise of information technology and demand for what lawyers do. The bad tion over more than 900 years: “Now, digital-plus era.” ø the blurring together of the categories of news for attorneys, he said, is that many knowledge that we have come to rely on people are competing for this work—and G To view a video of the lecture go to: http://bit.ly/Palfreychairlecture at least since the 19th century. they are not all lawyers. Technology will According to Wilkins, the institution- further decrease the need for “bespoke” alization of legal practice and its global- legal services. And at the same time, the ization have moved the profession from demand for an increasingly mobile legal firms that are sealed off tightly from one workforce is emerging. KATHLEEN DOOHER KATHLEEN another to much more fluid networks, This raises an array of important leading to intense competition across questions for legal education, Wilkins global markets. said, including whether the purpose of Despite these changes, he said, it’s im- this education is to socialize students portant to recognize that most lawyers into this new world or challenge it. around the world continue to practice “Should we embrace the market, fight it in ways that are very similar to the ways or try to lead it?” he asked. in which lawyers practiced a century How we figure out the answers, said ago, through solo or small firm practice. Wilkins, is important not just for us Nevertheless, Wilkins observed that re- but also for society because of the role cently, we have seen the rise of large law lawyers will continue to play in the ø firms, and the rise of in-house counsel, development of the modern state. 2011 january today law harvard

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BRIEFSAMES AT 100

The Ames Moot Court Competition Celebrating a century

or 100 years, the Ames Moot Court education since Harvard Law’s earliest moot court competition at HLS created Competition has showcased the days. Early on, professors dissected cases in honor of James Barr Ames LL.B. 1872, Fmost talented oral advocates to at- to show students the value of techniques dean of the law school from 1895 to 1910. tend Harvard Law School. Today the in argument and analysis. These Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. competition draws standing-room-only exercises eventually grew into G For video ’79 of the U.S. Supreme Court pre- crowds to Austin Hall as two 3L teams faculty-run moot courts. By the coverage, go to: sided at the Ames final round on compete for the coveted recognition of 1830s, students had formed law http://bit.ly/ Nov. 16. He was joined by Judge Julia their advocacy skills from a panel of clubs to discuss and argue cases, AmesMoot2010 Smith Gibbons of the U.S. Court of eminent jurists. Making the final round as had been done at the Inns of Court in Appeals for the 6th Circuit and Judge of the competition is one of the school’s England since the beginning of the Eng- Diana Murphy of the U.S. Court of Ap- highest honors. lish legal profession. peals for the 8th Circuit. This year’s case, Arguing mock cases has been an in- This year marks the centennial anni- McBride v. United States, was written by tegral pedagogical component of legal versary of the establishment of the formal Tejinder Singh ’08. ø

9 2010 AMES 5 BOARD OF STUDENT ADVISERS PARTICIPANTS Vice President Chloe Kolman ’11 gather following the states the case before the court. competition for a group Since its inception, the Board photo. of Student Advisers has been charged with administering and supervising the Ames competition.

THE 2010 AMES COMPETITORS

THE GRIFFIN BELL THE HON. WILLIAM Best MEMORIAL WAYNE JUSTICE Team; TEAM MEMORIAL TEAM Best (RESPONDENT) (PETITIONER) Written Brief DUSTIN CHO JASON HARROW (Oralist) Best (Oralist) (Oralist) Oralist DAVID DENTON PHILIP MAYOR TAYLOR HATHAWAY-ZEPEDA JASON MURRAY LUKE McCLOUD AMANDA RICE LINDSAY SEE (Oralist) ZACHARY SCHAUF BENJAMIN SNYDER YUJING YUE

9 THE CROWD shows its support for the two teams competing in the final round of the competition. LINDSAY SEE, oralist for the Griffin Bell Memorial Team, responds to one of the judges’ comments. RECOGNIZED as Best Team, the Hon. William Wayne Justice Memorial Team celebrates. 5 CHIEF JUSTICE Roberts greets Best Oralist David Denton and Lindsay See. harvard law today january 2011 january today law harvard

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Still arguing after 100 years: Ames from the archives

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1 An oralist makes his case before a panel of judges circa the 1950s. Among the judicial luminaries who have presided over Ames are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Owen J. Roberts, William O. Douglas, Byron White, Tom C. Clark, Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens, Warren E. Burger, Harry Blackmun ’32, 2 William J. Brennan Jr. ’31, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’56-’58, Sandra Day O’Connor, Stephen Breyer ’64, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia ’60, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter ’66 and most recently John G. Roberts Jr. ’79. 2 Former California State Sen. Sheila Kuehl ’78 won Best Oralist in the 9 THE HONORABLE 1977 final round of Ames. Other past CHIEF JUSTICE John G. Roberts Jr. winning oralists include Judge H.J. ’79 presided over Friendly, 1927; U.S. Supreme Court the oral argument. Associate Justice Harry Blackmun, 1932; The panel also included Judge Julia Professor and former Dean of Stanford Smith Gibbons Law School Kathleen Sullivan, 1980; (left) and Judge and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Diana Murphy 1981. (right). Prior to announcing the winners, Roberts 3 A student prepares for his day in said: “It was the Ames Courtroom in a classroom in very difficult for Austin Hall. us—and it’s not always the case 4 when we do these Before the creation of the Ames 3 4 moot courts—but competition, HLS students, as early as we found the 1825, met in clubs to practice arguing choices here hard cases. Future Supreme Court Justice ones to make. Certainly all the Louis D. Brandeis LL.B. 1877 was a advocates should member of the Pow-wow Law Club, be congratulated ... pictured here. it was a very good presentation all 5 around.” A bequest in honor of James Barr Ames LL.B. 1872, dean of HLS from 1895 to 1910, pictured here, formalized the moot court competitions at HLS. 6 Early arrivals at the 1971 Ames competition.

5 6 PHOTOGRAPHS 2–6 FROM HLS HISTORICAL AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND SPECIAL HLS HISTORICAL FROM 2–6 PHOTOGRAPHS harvard law today january 2011 january today law harvard

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BOOKSHELF Counsel for the situation Coleman’s career celebrated

illiam t. coleman jr. Martha Minow and ’43 (’46), the venerable civil his daughter Lovida Wrights lawyer who served as Coleman, who said her a lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education, father, through his work as counsel to the Warren Commission at the NAACP Legal and as secretary of transportation in Defense Fund, “brought the Ford administration, was a guest the promise of equality speaker at HLS on Dec. 1. of opportunity closer to The event, reality for many others.” William Coleman Jr. ‘43 (‘46) sponsored by the She said, “He is still in (center) shares stories from his legal career, with daughter Lovida Charles Hamilton pursuit of the perfection Coleman and HLS Professor Houston Institute of that promise.” Charles Ogletree ‘78

for Race and Justice Coleman, now 90, STEWART MARTHA at HLS, celebrated recalled vivid details Coleman’s nearly of his extraordinary career. He told a a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court. Coleman is a senior partner and the 70-year career and packed room that there is still work to be He clerked for Associate Justice Felix senior counselor at O’Melveny & Myers his recently released done to fulfill the promise of civil rights Frankfurter LL.B. 1906. He was the in Washington, D.C. memoir, “Counsel in this country. second African-American to serve as He was awarded the Presidential for the Situation: Shaping the Law to Coleman graduated at the top of his a U.S. Cabinet secretary, when he was Medal of Freedom in 1995, the highest Realize America’s Promise.” class at Harvard Law School and was appointed secretary of transportation honor given to civilians by the U.S. Coleman was introduced by Dean the first African-American to serve as in 1975. government. ø

FutureEd HLS Professors Todd Rakoff ‘75 (left) ed the effort to estab- OVERHEARD continued from page 1 and David Wilkins ‘80 (right), with ABA lish India’s first global President Stephen Zack law school, the Jindal Of the 30 proposals, five or Global Law School, “We are at a pivotal time six will be highlighted at and serves as its dean. of change, when all these the final conference next “There is also great in- ideas about changing mar- April at New York Law terest among lawyers ketplace, changing regula- School. But, as HLS Dean around the world to tory expectations, changing Martha Minow urged, measure up to the kind public expectations are sud- during an address to the of ‘best standards’ that denly beginning to come together,” CHRIS group, law schools should the legal profession KENNY, inaugural chief executive of the not abandon what they do has been fostering in

Legal Services Board, United Kingdom so well: “Sharp analysis, DYDYK CHRISTOPHER the U.S.” Kumar added teaching people to think that her school requires stu- Since American legal that it is important for the “What clients and in-house hard through a problem by dents to spend a semester education is still widely ABA to send the “right lawyers want from the law- taking it apart, question- studying abroad, in order regarded abroad as the best, signal” to lawyers and gov- yers that they work with is ing assumptions, tracing to understand the law of other nations are looking ernments around the world great results, and responsive- consequences of potential a different jurisdiction, to to the U.S. to lead the way that the U.S. is not engaging ness. But it goes far beyond avenues of response—these develop personally by living in legal education reform. in protectionism with re- that. We really look for peo- are the hallmarks of legal in a foreign culture and to Many foreign law schools gard to legal services. ple who will help us win, who are very pro- education.” begin building a network of are seeking accreditation Wilkins said the confer- active, who are great with project manage- Driving much of the international colleagues. from the American Bar As- ence exceeded his expec- ment skills, communication and listening conference agenda was Other topics included sociation, a proposal that tations on many fronts, skills,” LAURA STEIN ’87, Clorox’s senior the rapid globalization of the problem of retaining the ABA is considering. including the high level vice president and general counsel economic and government women in the legal profes- ABA President Stephen of engagement among the relationships, as panelists sion, especially women of Zack—one of four ABA offi- participants: “I can’t claim “Legal institutions, as well as law schools, from law schools around color; “cradle to grave” pro- cers attending FutureEd 2— to know what it was like ought to have a far more the world discussed how fessional development; and asked panelists to explain when Christopher Colum- global orientation when to best educate lawyers for Harvard Law School’s new why ABA accreditation was bus Langdell was operating, it comes to their teaching, an increasingly intercon- model for a public service so important to them. but there is a willingness research and, in many ways, nected and interdependent venture fund to support the “The U.S. as a country, now to re-examine what’s capacity building,” international environment. launch of public service ca- and its legal system, are happening in law schools C. RAJ KUMAR LL.M. ’00, Birte Gall, director of the reers to encourage students profoundly influential in relation to tremendous founder of India’s Jindal Global Law International Exchange to begin thinking about around the world,” re- changes in legal practice School. Program at Bucerius Law their legal careers more sponded C. Raj Kumar around the world, in a way ø harvard law today january 2011 january today law harvard School in Germany, noted entrepreneurially. LL.M. ’00, who spearhead- I’ve never seen before.”

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EPA@40 FACULTY APPOINTMENTS continued from page 1

experts, government officials and scholars, including EPA Suk gains tenure as a Administrator Lisa Jackson, Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren, Founding EPA Administrator William D. professor of law at Harvard Ruckelshaus ’60 and White House Council on Environ- mental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley. eannie suk ’02 has gained tenure as a Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow opened the professor of law at Harvard. She is the first conference with a welcome address, and HLS Profes- Jtenured Asian-American woman at the law sor Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95, who most recently school. served as White House counselor Suk—whose research interests are criminal NINA SUBIN for energy and climate change, G To view videos of the law and procedure, family law, art law and en- served as a panelist and mod- conference go to: http:// tertainment law—joined the law school faculty Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society As- erator. Panelists highlighted the bit.ly/EPAat40 as an assistant professor in 2006. She currently sociation this year. EPA’s past achievements and teaches courses on criminal law and on per- In 2009, Suk was awarded a Guggenheim analyzed its future environmental, economic and political forming arts and the law. Fellowship to research the legal construction challenges. “Jeannie Suk’s imaginative, probing, and of trauma and was the inaugural Senior Fellow Former Vice President Al Gore, who spoke during the sometimes provocative scholarship builds of the Humanities Center at Harvard. Her third conference’s luncheon, celebrated the EPA’s accomplish- bridges between criminal and family law, be- book, “The Trauma Society,” is forthcoming. ments, discussed the global climate crisis our world is fac- tween law and the humanities, and between Last year, Suk co-wrote a highly influential ing and emphasized the need for U.S. policymakers to step theory and practice,” said HLS Dean Martha article in the Stanford Law Review (vol. 61, up as global environmental leaders. ø Minow. “Her superb teaching and intellectual issue 5, March 2009) arguing that American leadership model the life of the mind, and I fashion designers should have their designs know her colleagues and students are thrilled protected by law against close copies. to celebrate the recognition of her accomplish- Suk—who immigrated to the United States ments signified by her promotion.” from Seoul, South Korea, as a child—received Suk is author of two books, “Postcolonial her bachelor’s degree in literature from Yale Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing” (Ox- University. She earned her doctoral degree ford University Press, 2001) and “At Home in from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolu- and went on to attend Harvard Law School on tion Is Transforming Privacy” (Yale University a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship. She has Press, 2009). Her book “At Home in the Law,” served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter ’66 which examines how legal feminism is trans- on the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Harry forming privacy in the home through the regu- T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the lation of domestic violence, won the Herbert D.C. Circuit. ø

Giannini appointed develop the concept of corporate ATS litigation, From left: HLS Professor clinical professor of law one of the most important vehicles for modern Jody Freeman, EPA international human rights law reform. Administrator Lisa Jackson “Tyler Giannini is a creative thinker and and HLS Dean Martha yler giannini has been appointed a pioneer in the development of theories of Minow clinical professor at Harvard Law School. liability in the field of human rights,” said HLS MARTHA STEWART MARTHA THe was formerly a lecturer on law at HLS. Dean Martha Minow. “His work has guided Giannini—who teaches in the fields of IHRC and our clinical students in ground- business and human rights and on Alien breaking and influential work in human rights Tort Statute litigation, as well as on the link advocacy. He was already a key member of our between human rights and the environment—is community, and I am delighted that Tyler joins also clinical director of HLS’s Human Rights our permanent faculty.” Program. He is a specialist on Burma, Southeast Giannini wrote “Prosecuting Apartheid-Era Asia, and South Africa. He joined HLS as a Crimes? A South African Dialogue on Justice” clinical advocacy fellow in the HRP in 2004, ( Press, 2009), with Susan was appointed as a lecturer on law in 2006 Farbstein ’04. and became director of the Prior to joining Harvard International Human Rights Law School, he co-founded Clinic in 2007. and co-directed EarthRights Giannini’s theories of International for a decade in tort liability have played a Chiang Mai, Thailand. significant role in holding Giannini is a 1992 cum laude Jay Williams, left, mayor of corporations responsible for graduate of the College of William Youngstown, Ohio, and Michelle the human rights ramifications and Mary, where he majored in DePass, assistant adminis- of their enterprise activities. history and government with an trator for the EPA’s Office of As one of the architects of emphasis on international rela- International and Tribal Affairs, discuss “Global Problems, Local the Doe v. Unocal litigation tions. He holds a Master of Arts Solutions” at the conference. concerning the Yadana gas in foreign affairs and a law degree ø JON CHASE pipeline in Burma, he helped PHIL FARNSWORTH from the University of Virginia. 2011 january today law harvard

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harvard law today january 2011 Army Maj. Gen. John Altenburg, ap- asalegaladviserserving toretired U.S. of Military Commissions, while also was officialspokesperson for the Office intense scrutiny in2004,McGarvey terrorists at Guantánamo Bay under Navy. U.S. vey’s legalcareer asaJAG officer inthe one extraordinary experience inMcGar- 2006. trial, and he was hanged onDec. 30, charges inapriorproceeding, the Dujail 5, 2006, Hussein was found guiltyof the Navy’s legalrepresentative. OnNov. including McGarvey, who was there as ticipants inthe trialfrom the observers, ordered inthe late 1980s. for the Anfalcampaign, the genocide ofKurds that he in the courthouse when Saddam Hussein was ontrial U.S. Navy Lt.Cmdr. SusanMcGarvey ’11was LL.M. Susan McGarveyLL.M.’11 Veteran ofwarandservice With the legalityofdetaining accused Observing the Hussein trialwas just A glass wall separated the direct par- STUDENT PURSUITS Susan McGarvey Force headquar- LL.M. ’11(right) NATO Kosovo ters inspring served atthe 2004. HERATCH PHOTOGRAPHY 1 rules ofengagementrules and law as ethics, law ofarmed conflict, the USS Stennis onsuch issues Carrier Strike Group 3aboard vised the admiral incharge of coming toHLS, McGarvey ad- earthed bodiesofthe slain. military’s massgrave unitun- family members, while the U.S. the Iranian border who’d lost 1991. She interviewed peopleon Shia Iraqis insouthern Iraq in to the slaughter ofprimarily Hussein for war crimes related system tobuildacaseagainst judge inIraq’s inquisitorial legal was toassist the investigative the State Department. Her role Crimes LiaisonOffice under Navy JAG officer inthe Regime situation, inIraq, as serving herself inanequally intense Dame Law School in1998. after graduating from Notre was commissioned inthe Navy tánamo,” recalls McGarvey, who say they were treated at Guan- and practices, and how we could attention ondetainee policies Iraq had come tolight. abuses at Abu Ghraib prisonin sions was inquestion and the commis-tionality ofmilitary as spokesperson, the constitu- commissions. Duringher time pointing authority for military For the two years priorto In 2006, McGarvey found definitely“There was alotof she can’t seeretiring until she’s put commitment, butshe loves itsomuch the Navy past her initialthree-year program. LL.M. is concentrating inthat area inthe manitarian law,” says McGarvey, who which isinternational hu- I work in now and love, to find the area oflaw that was there that Iwas able of Slobodan Milosevic. “It charges ofmurdering collaborators prosecution ofKosovar Albanians on command onthe politically complex where she worked in NATO Navy base, and Kosovo, a hashish ringat the U.S. Italy, where she prosecuted also taken her toNaples, of the sea.Her has service McGarvey never planned to stay in G studentveterans veterans: http://bit.ly/ Read profiles ofall PHOTOS 1 – 5: HERATCH PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTO 6: PHIL FARNSWORTH McGarvey, they are: both. Inadditionto Iraq, Afghanistan or the war effortsin of whomserved in HLS thisyear, all matriculated at military U.S.veterans Seven active duty or Seven veterans joinHLS From combattoclass 5 4 2 great tohear.” applications tothe JAG Corps, which is of HLS. “There’s alotofinterest inand whelmingly welcoming,” says McGarvey she says. to dismantle the Mexican cartels,” drug in Times ofEmergency withVisiting studies, including Constitutional Norms in 20years. For now, she’s enjoying her “The climate“The here isalmost over- “We’re going tofigure outhow with Philip Heymann ’60. tional CriminalOrganizations and Prosecuting Transna- Professor Sanford Levinson ø U.S. Navy, lieutenantcommander 6. Sylvaine Wong LL.M.’11 U.S. Army, captain 5. Steven ’13 Schartup U.S. MarineCorps, captain 4. Courtney Walsh LL.M.‘11 U.S. Army, captain 3. IanGore ’13 U.S. Army, sergeant 2. Graham Phillips’13 U.S. MarineCorps, captain Velandy1. Siddhartha LL.M.‘11 1 6 3 1/5/11 12:24 PM