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...program, which has faced criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, takes center stage today as Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, a Harvard Law School (HLS) alum, testifies before the Judiciary Committee in an attempt to mollify lawmakers’ criticisms...
...January 23 news article "HLS Profs Weigh in on Targeted Killings" stated that a 2002 book by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz "drew fire from many civil libertarians because it advocated torture of terror suspects in certain instances." While critics of Dershowitz have made those claims, the article should have noted that Dershowitz' book, "Why Terrorism Works," does not recommend torture. And Dershowitz has stated publicly, including in The Scottsman newspaper in May 2004, that he is "personally opposed to torture...
Former Harvard Law School (HLS) Dean Robert C. Clark resigned his seat on the board of investment bank Lazard last month after a growing chorus of criticism that his seats on both Lazard and Time Warner’s boards of directors represented a conflict of interest...
Wasserstein, a graduate of both HLS and Harvard Business School, has been a major benefactor of HLS—he was one of 11 alumni who gave $5.1 million in Clark’s honor when he stepped down from the HLS deanship in 2003 and the Wasserstein family has endowed both a professorship and public interest law fellowship at the law school...
...group of prominent law professors—including two from Harvard Law School (HLS)—wrote a letter earlier this week to Congressional leaders in which they rebutted the Bush Administration’s legal case for permitting spying on American citizens. Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 and Ames Professor of Law Phillip B. Heymann, a former deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, were among the 14 signers. The letter was largely a point-by-point response to a formal defense of the domestic spying program issued by the Department of Justice...