Up on Downloading
HLS professors propose different ways to address the proliferation of music downloading.
Author of ‘One L’ Speaks on Death Penalty
Best known for his mystery novels and a memoir about his first year at HLS, author Scott Turow ‘ 78 spoke on campus in mid-October about a weightier issue: the death penalty.
Courting Recovery
It wasn’t long before newly elected Judge Karen Freeman-Wilson ’85 began to know the defendants by their first names–they just kept coming back to her Gary, Ind., courtroom.
The Sorrow and the Hope
Benjamin Ferencz ’43 had an opportunity Eli Rosenbaum could never have–to bring Nazis before a criminal tribunal. In 1947 Ferencz served as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial of 22 SS officers, including six generals, accused of mass murder.
Never Forget
Eli Rosenbaum ’80 is driven to bring Nazis to justice before it’s too late.
Passing the Bars
In defense of inmates, students in HLS’s Prison Legal Assistance Project test their legal skills and their beliefs.
The Mumia Chronicles
Sometimes it seems that Daniel Williams ’86 is still on the case. When he talks about a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal and the defense strategy and the public relations campaign and the possibility that a client he represented for nearly ten years could be executed, Williams speaks like an advocate girded to continue the fight of his career.
Breaking the Chain
Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. ’78 and Randall Robinson ’70 want to educate Americans about the lasting impact of slavery. A lawsuit will be part of that education.
James Vorenberg [1928-2000]
Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, 72, the ninth dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate associate special prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on April 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest.
Stuntz Brings Criminal Justice Focus to HLS
In what Dean Robert Clark ’72 called a “stunning addition” to the criminal law faculty, University of Virginia Law School Professor William Stuntz will move north to Harvard in July.