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Rescuing MLK and his Children’s Crusade

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In “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality,” Harvard Law Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin traces the tactics of the groundbreaking lawyer amid pivotal protests.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Civil Rights, Criminal, Family, Gender & Children, Human Rights, Legal History

In Memoriam: Lloyd L. Weinreb: 1936–2021

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Described as one of the great figures in the history of Harvard Law School, Lloyd L. Weinreb ’62, a leading authority on criminal and copyright law, and an HLS professor for nearly a half-century, died Dec. 15, at the age of 85.

  • Harvard Law Bulletin: Winter 2022
  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Criminal, Intellectual Property

In Memoriam: Philip B. Heymann 1932 – 2021

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When asked what he wanted to be remembered by, longtime Harvard Law Professor and former Watergate prosecutor Philip B. Heymann ’60 replied: “Speaking truth to power.” Heymann, a beloved colleague and distinguished public servant, died Nov. 30 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89.

  • Harvard Law Bulletin: Winter 2022
  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Constitutional, Criminal, International, National and International Security, Public Policy

Acquitted: Assessing the Rittenhouse trial

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Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner, now a senior lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, talks about the verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, how the trial was conducted, and comparisons to the ongoing trial of the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Constitutional, Criminal

Tribute: Teresa A. Miller ’86: 1962-2021

She personified grace, justice, and joy, and she applied her legal training to wide-ranging realms of human endeavor, encompassing teaching, writing, legal reform, film production, and, if indirectly, even opera.

  • Themes: Alumni Focus
  • Topics: Criminal

Studying law while fighting illicit finance

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Harvard Law student Michael Chang-Frieden ’23 discusses writing a global watchdog report on Japan’s ability to fight money laundering, terrorist financing, and nuclear proliferation financing.

  • Themes: Student Spotlights
  • Topics: Criminal, International, National and International Security

Intisar Rabb has been appointed special adviser to ICC prosecutor

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Professor Intisar Rabb, director of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School, was appointed as a special adviser on Islamic Law to the new chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Civil Rights, Criminal, Family, Gender & Children, International, Islamic Law

John B. Bellinger III ’86: ‘I really mostly worry about the future’

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Former legal adviser to the National Security Council during the Bush administration says 20 years after 9/11, he’s frustrated there hasn’t been more progress toward an international legal framework for dealing with terrorism.

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Juan C. Zarate ’97: ‘There’s a lot of presumption of the demise of American power, and I’m raging against that’

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A counterterrorism czar in the Bush administration, and the first-ever assistant secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes, says the U.S. needs to reconceptualize what power means in the 21st century.

  • Themes: Alumni Focus
  • Topics: Business, Civil Rights, Constitutional, Criminal, National and International Security, Public Service

Jane Harman ’69: ‘We haven’t learned that when we work together we overcome’

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Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, a former California congresswoman and ranking member of House Intelligence Committee reflects on events of that day and the calamities we still confront.

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