As a renowned international attorney and a Holocaust survivor, Samuel Pisar LL.M. ’55 S.J.D. ’59 has experienced mankind’s capacity for genius and madness. His survival was a triumph of human spirit. His advocacy for peaceful coexistence is a message from one who has lived through hell on earth.
When Henry Steiner ’55 and Detlev Vagts ’51 published the first edition of “Transnational Legal Problems” in 1968, the collaboration marked a milestone in the field of international law.
Few students admitted to Harvard Law School question whether they should build roads instead. But when Rebecca Hamilton ’07 spent the summer of 2004 in Sudan trying to help thousands of displaced people get home, she found herself longing for such concrete solutions for the war-torn country.
Kenneth Scott ’79 makes sure there’s no whitewash after ethnic ‘cleansing’
Through literature and law, Larissa Behrendt LL.M. ’94 S.J.D. ’98 speaks for aboriginal rights.
After her people were slaughtered by neighbors, Geraldine Umugwaneza LL.M. ’05 knows that forgiveness is elusive, but she is determined to help Rwanda move forward.
A sampling from this year’s crop of 3L papers.
Expanded program helps Harvard lawyers advance human rights abroad.
Charlotte Sanders ’05 and José Rodriguez ’06 did legal outreach this summer to help workers who pick America’s produce. They reached out all the way to Mexico.
In his more than 20 years working and teaching in the field of international law, Professor David Kennedy ’80 observed something he thought no one was talking about–the negative consequences of good intentions. Kennedy discusses his book on the topic, “The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism,” published by Princeton University Press this spring.
