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128 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec128 and id is 1 raw text is: LOOK INSIDE FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON CHANGES COMING TO THE RECORD The Independent Newspaper E R T at Harvard Law School arvar Record January 22, 2009 www.hrecord.org Vol. CXaX, No. 1 AMIDST GATHERING CLOUDS AND RAGING STORMS . *' Kagan to AMERICA HAS CARRIED ON ... BECAUSE WE THE PEOPLE, ,!gaLt HAVE REMAINED FAITHFUL TO THE IDEALS OF OUR FOREBEARS, AND TRUE TO OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS. Leave OBAMA TAKES OFFICE Deanship 44th President is the First African-American and Second HLS Alum in the White House for D.C. Howell Jackson to be Acting Dean if Kagan Confirmed as Solicitor General ALUMS DOMINATE JUSTICE DEPT. HLS students, faculty, and staff celebrated the inauguration ofPresident Barack Obama '91 at a party hosted by the Dean ofStudents in Harkness Commons South on Tuesday, January 20th. More photos of the inauguralfestivities on page 7. Lessig Rejoining Faculty Changing Focus From IP to Political Corruption BY CHRIs SZABLA Lawrence Lessig, renowned scholar of internet law and professor at Stanford Law School, will rejoin the Harvard fac- ulty in summer 2009, taking up a joint appointment Photo by FlicA as a professor at Harvard Law School and as director of Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. Lessig previously taught at Harvard as the Berkman Professor of Law. With the reacquisition of Lessig, the hiring spree begun by Dean Elena Kagan '86 has now succeeded in bringing nearly all the United States' foremost experts on internet law to HLS - although the move is actually an opportunity for Lessig to shift away from his focus on copyright to his new scholarly in- terest in political corruption. Lessig's public profile has been on the rise in recent years. In 2002, ar- guing the Eldred v. Ashcroft case be- fore the Supreme user eschipul Court, he and HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain '95 attempted to overturn the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. In February of this year, HLS Pro- fessor John Palfrey '01 began an effort to draft Lessig to run for Congress. Lessig explored the option, but ulti- mately decided not to run for the seat. A supporter of open source code, he founded the free culture movement. He has also been a columnist for Wired magazine. Lessig, continued on p. 3 COMPILED BY RECORD STAFF Dean Elena Kagan '86 broke the news to the Harvard Law School community Monday, January 5, that then President- elect Barack Obama '91 would nomi- nate her for the post of Solicitor General of the United States. If con- firmed by the Senate, Dean Kagan would resign the deanship and take a leave of absence from the faculty. Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust acted quickly to name an acting dean; on Thursday, January 15, she announced that she had selected Professor Howell Jackson '82 to fill Kagan's shoes, becoming Acting Dean if the she were confirmed. Earlier, Faust had congratulated Kagan and announced that she was ini- tiating a search for Kagan's ultimate successor. Among the names of possi- ble successors obtained by the Boston Globe were Jackson and current faculty members Martha Minow and David Wilkins '80. Anne-Marie Slaughter '85, currently Dean of Princeton's Woodrow Kagan, continued on p. 2 SUNSTEIN NAMED REGULATION CZAR Recent faculty addition Cass Sunstein '78 will also be heading to Washington to assist the in- coming ad- ministration. Sunstein will serve as President Obama's regulation czar. The prolific scholar was also named the world's third most influential public intellectual. See p. 2. INSIDE TeHL Record News * Alumni Updates: The Good, the Bad, the Departed * Dershowitz Wins Again Opinion * Immigrant Says No to More Immigration * Pardon Me: Executive Power Run Amok * Dubya's Really Done Features * The New Administration: A Statistical Sampler * Che: A Revolutionary Film * Beating the Boredom of the Law in Cambridge, UK * Toby Stock's Last Interview kr

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