Letter from Baghdad
Nick Brown ’02 gained fame as a contestant on the reality show “Survivor.” Today his reality is the Green Zone in Baghdad, where he carries a laptop and a rifle as a U.S. Army JAG officer.
Gateway to a better world
Expanded program helps Harvard lawyers advance human rights abroad.
The Other Side of the Story
On a day when Israeli and Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza and negotiations in the region were at a standstill, a group of Harvard Law students in a classroom half a world away examined some of the challenges that have made the negotiation process so difficult in the Middle East and other lands torn by ethnic and religious strife.
The Laws of War
In April, during one of the most violent periods of fighting in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Assistant Professor Ryan Goodman’s Public International Law class struggled to determine when the use of force is legal and what to do when force may be illegal yet legitimate.
Darkness Visible
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.
A Healing Practice
It was December 2000 in Ingushetia, Russia, where 170,000 displaced citizens of neighboring Chechnya were hiding from Russia’s federal forces. Leonard Rubenstein ‘ 75 sat talking with a young man, one of dozens of Chechens he interviewed during his monthlong stay.
Our Man in Laos
When Brett Dakin ’03 was living in Laos, he sneaked into a performance not meant for foreigners, commemorating the founding of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party.
At Home Abroad
HLS faculty and students look to other countries to better people’s lives and increase their own understanding of the world of law.
Day For Knight
Years ago, when Wes Williams’ children attended their first knighting ceremony, they asked, “Is there going to be a beheading?”
Visa Not American Express
A Harvard Law School student works a few weeks in a London firm over the summer and can’t get back to the United States in time for his fall semester.