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...Boston Globe has named Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren its 2009 Bostonian of the Year for bringing “a sense of sanity to the economic crisis” as the official overseer of the U.S. bank bailout program...
...creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which would regulate financial products like mortgages and credit cards to improve transparency and customers' understanding of their terms and conditions. She has envisioned the creation of an agency overseeing such financial products "for a long time," according to Law School Professor Charles Fried...
...head of the TARP oversight panel, Elizabeth Warren has been an extremely effective and influential monitor of one of the consequential economic programs in history, and in this role she has successfully and effectively put a spotlight on issues of great significance," said Law School Professor Lucian A. Bebchuk, who has written prolifically about TARP and executive pay, in an e-mailed statement from abroad...
...veterans of the gay-rights movement fearing disaster for gay marriage, should the issue be decided by the conservative-leaning Justices. "When I try to count the votes in favor of same-sex marriage on the Supreme Court, I have trouble getting to one," Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University, told TIME. (See a pictorial history of the U.S. battle for gay rights...
...stakes are extremely high," adds law professor Samuel Marcosson of the University of Louisville, author of Original Sin: Clarence Thomas and the Failure of the Constitutional Conservatives. "I think the plaintiffs are (unfortunately) very likely to lose - at least if the case makes it all the way to the Supreme Court - and set a precedent that didn't need to be, and shouldn't have been, set. The case was premature and ill-advised." (See why the California Supreme Court upheld Prop...