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ALSO:A LSO: THE LAWS OF ADAPTATION | GIVING VOICE TO BRAZIL’S PRISONERS | HLS’S FIRST CENTURYCENTURY Harvard Law Fall 20152015 bulletinbulletin TEN YEARS IN A TributeTribute toto JohJohnn G. RobertsRoberts Jr.Jr. ’79’79 onon HisHis FirstFirst DDecadeecade as ChChiefief JusJusticetice of tthehe UnitedUnited StatesStates | BY MARTHA MINOWMINOW C1-13_HarvardLawBulletin_FA15_r1.indd c1 9/28/15 4:43 PM CONTENTS Fall 2015 | Volume 67 | Number 1 | Fernando Delgado ’08 works with HLS students in Brazil’s prisons, where there are constant reminders of the limits of legal advocacy. ▼ FEATURES 14 The Chief, Ten Years In A tribute to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79 by Martha Minow 18 Undermining Injustice, One Prison Visit at a Time Fernando Delgado ’08 and his students put prisoners’ voices at the heart of a human rights case. 24 All-Star Team on a Winning Streak Corporate law scholars at HLS keep putting up great numbers. 32 Beyond Obergefell After the landmark ruling on mar- riage equality, the Bulletin looks at the terrain ahead. 40 The Laws of Adaptation Change is coming to the legal pro- fession. HLS is at the forefront of efforts to prepare students for it. DANA SMITH DANA ON THE COVER Photograph of John G. Roberts Jr. ’79 by Steve Pyke/Contour/ Getty Images Peter Renn ’06, staff attorney at Lambda Legal, is among those focused on the work ahead after Obergefell, the landmark ruling guaranteeing a right to same-sex marriage. ▶ AMANDA FRIEDMAN AMANDA C1-13_HarvardLawBulletin_FA15_r2.indd c2 9/29/15 10:29 AM DEPARTMENTS Michele DeStefano ’02, a visiting 2 professor at From the Dean HLS this year, is the creator of 3 LawWithoutWalls, Letters an innovation space for law 4 students and Writ Large: Faculty Books lawyers. Regulation and freedom; The ◀ global prosecutor; HLS’s first century; Books in brief 10 Inside HLS Tailored lawsuits; Making the state pay for its wrongs 63 In Memoriam 64 Faculty Tributes Daniel J. Meltzer ’75 David Grossman ’88 67 HLSA News 70 Leadership Profile James A. Attwood Jr. J.D./M.B.A. ’84 72 Gallery SCRANTON JESSICA Turning over a new leaf Harvard Law Bulletin ASSISTANT DEAN FOR Editorial Office COMMUNICATIONS Harvard Law Bulletin Robb London ’86 1563 Mass. Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 EDITOR Email: [email protected] Emily Newburger Website: MANAGING EDITOR today.law.harvard.edu/bulletin Linda Grant Send changes of address to: [email protected] EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE The Harvard Law Bulletin (ISSN Lana Birbrair ’15 1053-8186) is published two Michelle Deakin times a year by Harvard Law Lorin Granger School, 1563 Massachusetts Christine Perkins Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138. Lori Ann Saslav © 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. DESIGN DIRECTOR Printed in the U.S.A. BETH PERKINS Ronn Campisi Jonathan Hiles ’16 (right) helped Kareem Bellamy sue for the 14 years he spent wrongfully imprisoned. Bellamy says if he could give up the money to change what happened to his 26-year-old self, he “would do it in a second.” ▲ C1-13_HarvardLawBulletin_FA15_r1.indd 1 9/28/15 4:45 PM FROM THE DEAN | Continuity and Change through Law “THERE IS NOTHING SO STABLE AS CHANGE.” So said Bob Dylan (and Heraclitus, too). Yet we yearn for continuity. Chief whom I fi rst met when we served as law Justice of the United States Melville Fuller (who attended clerks during the Supreme Court’s 1980 HLS briefl y in the 1850s) noted, “Without continuity, men term. would become like fl ies in summer.” Law and legal training Change and continuity run through the new book by Dan Coquillette ’71 help ensure both continuity and change for individuals about Harvard Law School’s fi rst centu- and for societies. This is good to remember as the legal ry, and we are especially delighted that profession faces fundamental challenges and opportunities. the book’s publication coincides with our eff orts to plan the school’s third As new technologies and businesses century. As we launch the HLS Cam- introduce disruptive innovations in paign for the Third Century in October selling and buying everything from as part of the university’s campaign for books and music to transportation renewed resources, we also are excit- and travel accommodations, now it is edly planning to celebrate our 200th the turn of the learned professions. anniversary in 2017. Please stay tuned Artifi cial intelligence can accurately for more information about events and diagnose malignancies and mine data Technology has projects of refl ection and rededication, to identify optimal treatment. A virtual already begun critique and celebration! psychologist may actually elicit more In May, HLS lost a revered professor, honest conversation than a human to alter the work public servant and alum, Dan Meltzer one. Thus far, the closest connection of lawyers and ’75; in July, we also lost a treasured between A.I. and theology may be access to justice advocate for the poor, colleague and in Steven Spielberg’s movie “A.I.,” alum, David Grossman ’88. As we deal which has a soundtrack by the music for nonlawyers. with this hardest kind of change, their group Ministry. But digital resources friends and students renew eff orts to are already altering how lawyers do carry on the superb work they forged. research and generate documents— and, increasingly, how nonlawyers can gain access to legal help. This Bulletin learns from eff orts by the HLS Center on the Legal Profession, led by my visionary colleague David Wilkins ’80, KEN RICHARDSON to understand, assess, and infl uence innovations in law-related technology OLIVER MUNDAY and business. Our faculty and students benefi t from this vital work, teaching us to change before change happens to us. The center’s pathbreaking research on women in the profession is also featured. Legal institutions, such as courts, legislatures, and corporate boards, channel change through formal proce- dures, precedent, and structured par- ticipation. Marriage equality litigation in the United States, prison reform in Brazil, corporate governance reforms, and global national security initiatives are distinct areas of notable change and also of continuity, as explored in stories presented here. And I off er refl ections on the fi rst decade of leadership by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’79, 2 HARVARD LAW BULLETIN Fall 2015 C1-13_HarvardLawBulletin_FA15.indd 2 9/25/15 1:04 PM News and views LETTERS | INSIDE HLS from campus What’s First Amendment law exists to allow all political FACULTY VIEWPOINTS Trial Advocacy Workshop). Will Corporate ‘Speech’ got to do with it? Undermine Productivity? speech—not merely that Extending First Amendment rights to corporations is bad for capitalism, argues Coates I had the great privilege of THE FIRST AMENDMENT PRO- John Coates links misguided extension of First are increasingly using the First tects the political speech of the explosion of Amendment rights to corpo- Amendment to attack laws and corporate First AS A LONGTIME CORPORATE which is or is deemed to corporations, the U.S. Supreme Amendment rations—what he calls “the regulations intended to rein being taught by Professors Court decided in Citizens Supreme Court corporate takeover of the First in harmful corporate activity United. Critics say the ruling litigation to the Amendment”—has dire conse- (think consumer and environ- influence of corrupts our democracy by Justice Lewis quences not only for American mental protection laws), and allowing billions in corporate Powell. democracy, but also for Ameri- that the federal courts are, law practitioner who has be economically desirable money to fl ood American elec- ▲ can capitalism. alarmingly, obliging them. Charles Ogletree [’78] and tions, drowning out the voices of In his new paper, “Corporate His paper contributes to the those without the wealth needed Speech and the First Amend- scholarly literature on the sub- to compete for the attention of ment: History, Data, and ject in two ways: by examining elected representatives. Implications” (forthcoming the rise of First Amendment lit- also taught law and written or productive. Plausible Harvard Law Professor John in a special issue of the journal igation by corporations, through Mary Prosser, who were Coates has other concerns about Constitutional Commentary), empirical data, and by reconcep- the ruling. He says that the Coates argues that corporations tualizing the trend in economic law review articles on cor- arguments may be made 8 HARVARD LAW BULLETIN Spring 2015 ILLUSTRATION BY MITCH BLUNT, PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK OSTOW and remain mentors and C1-19_HarvardLawBulletin_SP15.indd 8 4/24/15 12:44 PM porate governance, I cannot for and against Citizens friends. In those classes, help but express mixed United based upon the text being economically unproductive. I learned from the best feelings on Professor John of the First Amendment and We will have to disagree about defense lawyers in the world Coates’ thoughts [“Will related jurisprudence and other points. Nothing in Supreme how to be a defense lawyer, Corporate ‘Speech’ Under- scholarship. I am not aware Court precedents or the text of and how defense lawyers mine Productivity?,” Spring of any authority allowing the First Amendment supported think and why they do what 2015]. or requiring that speech be the result in Citizens United. On they do. I also conducted On the one hand, I share scrutinized for its impact on the contrary, Citizens United a jury trial, obtaining an his view that in too many productivity. expressly confl icts with two acquittal on behalf of my cases, corporate executives Indeed, much individual prior Supreme Court decisions, client charged in Roxbury do a disservice to their speech can be said to be and more generally confl icts court with a mandatory organizations and custom- economically unproductive with 150-plus years of judicial minimum drug off ense—in ers with an inordinate focus such that the speaker or deference to prudential decisions what remains one of the on legal issues.