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...CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT DEANObama’s gain, though, is already being viewed by Law School faculty as Harvard’s loss. Many say they agree that Kagan’s successor will find it difficult to follow Kagan, who was described by law professor Einer R. Elhauge as “the greatest dean in her time.”Other legal academics have expressed uncertainty over whether Harvard can build upon the institutional improvements that Kagan has enacted or whether it will backslide after her departure.“The question is how much of this...
Fifteen-year-old Mahzarin R. Banaji says she dreamed of living the adventurous life of a secretary upon graduating from high school because she believed that further academic pursuit was useless and was thirsting for an independent life away from her home in Secunderabad, India...
...young woman, I cannot tell you how she has influenced the generations after her,” Dana R. Carney, a former post-doctoral student of Banaji’s, wrote in an e-mail. “She is like the Madonna of our field: masculine, feminine, fierce, warm, irreverent, creative, inspiring.” Carney is now an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. She says she still remembers listening to Banaji’s “mesmerizing” speech as a first year graduate student, five years before...
...International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School received a total of $161,261 in 2006 and 2008 for its South Africa Apartheid Litigation project. “We’ve received the full amount. The grants are completed essentially,” said Clinical Director Tyler R. Giannini. The project aimed to seek accountability for U.S. corporations allegedly complicit in abuses committed by the South African government under apartheid. Giannini added that if the clinic plans to do a similar project in the future, it would have to find new donors. “But we are constantly...
...obvious that this press release carefully sidesteps the Administration's calamitous failures, from the economy to Hurricane Katrina. But whether this review of the past eight years spurs applause or outrage, anyone attempting to take stock of Bush's policies should know which ones he's putting on his résumé. He might prefer that we postpone appraisals - history, as he likes to say, will be his judge - but one last clear-eyed argument for his legacy is warranted. It's not as though the President's critics lack fodder for a compelling rebuttal...