“We ordinarily don’t try to respond to the news of the hour,” said Frank Vogel, director of the HLS Islamic Legal Studies Program. But for Vogel, like for so many other people, everything changed on September 11.
HLS Celebrates Second Worldwide Alumni Congress in the City of Light.
Jenö Staehelin LL.M. ’65 is the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations. A member of the HLS Dean’s Advisory Board, Staehelin last fall hosted more than 200 alumni at a dinner with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. You’ve been a UN ambassador for four years now. How do you like your work? It’s a fascinating […]
By the 20th time Wade Coriell ’01 argued for this year’s Philip C. Jessup International Moot Law Court Competition, he was certain he could respond to just about anything. Coriell and his teammates, Woo Lee ’01, William Burke-White ’02, and Natalie Reid ’03, joined the 300 other teams from 60 countries that participated this year […]
A Harvard law degree is not always advantageous. In fact, for Nguyen Ngoc Bich LL.M. ’73, it was downright dangerous. Largely because of his HLS education, Bich spent 12 years in prison in his native Vietnam. The experience has not diminished his will, his sense of humor, or his affection for the School. Indeed, he […]
Most law school papers don’t get glowing reviews from the New York Times Book Review. But most law school papers aren’t like Mohsin Hamid’s.
With the support of Professor Philip Heymann ’60, a joint Harvard project seeks to foster cooperation and progress for countries in transition.
The new leader of Taiwan’s capital city, Ma Ying-jeou S.J.D ’81 has already tackled a controversy over prostitutes’ licenses and overseen disaster relief following an earthquake. Now he’s busy working on public safety and creating “an Internet city.”
Sandra Babcock ’91 fought long and hard on behalf of client Stanley Faulder, a Canadian citizen who spent 22 years on death row, employing a novel legal argument in her struggle to save his life.
Even as a Law School student, Abrams was drawn to the world of art. He has divided has time between lawyering and collecting, building with his wife, Maida, one of the world’s preeminent collections of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings. Recently, this famous collecting duo made a dazzling gift to the Fogg.
