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News and views from speakers at HLS
From the Boston Marathon to a deadly meningitis outbreak, a prosecutor shares negotiation lessons
Drawing from a wide variety of prosecutorial experiences, Assistant U.S. Attorney Varghese shared insights and anecdotes with the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program’s Negotiation Workshop about what it is like to negotiate in the real world.
Forging ahead
Six members of the Class of 2019 share their unique perspectives, varied experiences, and the lessons they will take with them from their time at Harvard Law School.
James O. Bass ’34: 1910-2019
James O. Bass, Sr. ’34, who was profiled in 2017 as Harvard Law’s oldest living alumnus, died on May 22, 2019, at the age of 108.
Logan Leslie: From active duty to actively recruiting veterans
Logan Leslie JD/MBA ’19 loved military service and planned to spend his lifetime in it. But a growing family—along with the ‘heartbreaking’ poverty and failed institutions he witnessed in Afghanistan—spurred him to serve in a different way.
Bebchuk’s study of index fund stewardship wins prizes from ECGI and IRRC
The European Corporate Governance Institute awarded its 2019 prize for best working paper in law to a paper by Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. ’80 S.J.D. ’84.
Memme Onwudiwe, making the most of a golden opportunity
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Few people at Harvard or elsewhere manage to pack more activity into a workday than Memme Onwudiwe ’19.
Harvard Team wins North American Round of the John J. Jackson Moot Court Competition
A team of students from Harvard Law School’s World Trade Organization won the North American Round of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition. The competition took place in Washington D.C., on April 10 to 14.
Klinsky Professor Mandy DeFilippo on leading ‘from the middle’
Klinksy Professor of Practice Mandy DeFilippo ’00 delivered a lecture in April on “Leading from the Middle,” in which she explored what defines leadership for those who are not “the boss,” and what the benefits and opportunities look like for people in those positions.
Sitkoff, HLS authors contribute to the study of fiduciary law
Harvard Law School Professor Robert H. Sitkoff has co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law, a handbook, slated for release today, that features important contributions from Sitkoff and from several other HLS scholars to the growing field of fiduciary law throughout its 48 chapters.