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97 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1993)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec97 and id is 1 raw text is: America oOldst Law SOol Harvard Law RECORD3z' Volume 97, No. 1 Cambridge 02138 Friday, September 17..1993 Changes in Store for HIS Faculty New Profs Arrive as Others Depart A group of ILs at the alLaw School Reception last Friday. Several Students Claim That By Lia Zornberl 'Me Ilarklmx Caf only part of ILS that it major fare hIM thi. the Law School's fa looks differntt this year. With several new appointnents, three rettrementst, two leaves to the Clinton administra- tioni, and one perma- nent departure. sht- dents can expect to soe some unfamiliar faces before their classrooms. And there will bi a few familiar faces miss- the past 12 years. *Mnookin', g primary area of interest ti dis, pute resoltution. with a wptialt ve is not the in family Iaw. and thus fall he is underwent leading an interdisciplinary sumtn r -,- researrh semiriar on negot ;aion iculty also and dispute resolution. Asked why he decided to join the' lI S flcilty. MNlrcokin hstid ' hilve, I gwal f-tr the m, xt ten years to really help train the next generat for young academics nd profi, 4.siona I who can make a con tribution to dis- Prof. Robert Mnookin pute relution a a field. What I con- ing. cluded Was that hpcaule of the The newest face on the size of Harvard Law School, I tenured faculty is Robert would have the best chance of turned up missing. said belongings. M1nookin '68. Appointed in the doing that here. By Greg Stohr Harvard Police Detective Dick In an exclusive interview spring of 1992. he recently Mnookin is just fabulous. Estes. who is investigating the with the RECORD, Thompson arrived from Stanford Law More than a dozen Harvard allegations. Hfe said approxi- denied the charges, claiming the School. where he has taught for please see FACULTY, page 15 students -- many of them here mately 15 people have filed garage in which he stored the at 11 -- say the owner of a reports alleging that Thompson items was broken into over the miving andstorag ecom,pany stole thousnds of dollars worth of IbongXI ihe was'ummadto have returned to them this fall The students allege that All Pro Moving and Storage Co. owner Walter rhompson stole computers, televisions, VCRs, stereos and other valuable items he was to have stored during the summer, Any big electrical stuff has By RECORD Staff Months of negotiations this summer between the Law School Council and University officials have rxtuced concrete improve- ments in the facilities that law students return to this fall. Most notably, Hemenway Gym is scheduled to reopen on September 20 with a host of equipment upgrades: two stair- masters, one rowing machine, additional benches and free weights, and a complete refur- bishing of the basketball court that includes new rims, padding, and a repainted floor. According to LSC President Enu Mainigi '94, negotiations were complicated, but at last bore fruit. Because Hemenway Gym is run by the College of Arts and Sciences, not the Law School. all facility improvements require College approval. Working closely with Director of Building Operations Frank Lamentea and Administrative Dean Sandra Coleman, LSC finally succeeded in convincing the College to make the much needed renovations, Mainigi said. HLS has agreed to pay for the rowing machine and stair- masters, and the College will Inas, motoll- er weir U eilC .1,1I ~in ings. m .....,,:la ftepar te*eat~L kast a half-dozen HILS students are try- ing to track down items stored over the summer by another company, Castle Moving Co. That company apparently has gone out of business, and stu- dents have been rummaging through a storage facility in Brookline in search of their finance the remaining equip- ment. Arm Machine Expected Soon Summer negotiations also produced a tentative agreement between the Law School and BayBank that would bring an ATM machine to the Harkness Commons this fall. That agree- ment is now being reviewed by Harvard University lawyers. 'Hopefully, it will go through by November, if there are no glitches, Mainigi said. The major negotiating obsta- cle to having an ATM machine in Harkness Commons stems from the fact that it would not be used very much during the summer months. Generally, ATM machines are installed only where they will be used consis- tently. To solve this problem, the Law School has agrmed to subsi- dize an ATM machine during the summer months if it falls short of the required cash turnover. Directing Focus to 1LA The LSC also opened the year with a stepped-up effort to embrace first-year students. On September 2, the ILC sponsored please see LSC, page 12 suieLI. Thompson said he did not know tlhe X'onth in which the garage, which he said was locat- ed in Somerville, was burglar- ized. He claimed he did not learn of the break-in until after he had been contacted by stu- dents seeking their belongings. lie said he filed a police report not to long ago. Estes said police had not questioned Thompson, as of Tuesday lie said that Thompson twice told Cambridge police over the phone he would come to the station for question- ing but that Thompson did not show up either time. 'I think he knows what's going on and Lhe fact that lie might be arrested if we do talk to him, Estes said, adding that please see MOVER, page 15 $5 Million for Islamic Legal Studies Center By Jeff Bucholtz The Law School received a gift of $5 million this summer from King Flahd of Saudi Arabia toward the establishment of a Center for Islamic Legal Studies. The donation will pay for ai$3 million endowed professorship and for $2 million of program support. Professor Frank Vogel. HLS's resident expert on Islamic legal studies, will ovor-,e the creation of the center. Vogel said he envisions the center as per- manent and comprehensive, with scholars in residence, fel. lowships for visiting professors and students, and a world.class research facility. As part of its campaign to raise S150 million. IHLS is cur- rently seeking additional fund- ing of $5 million to complete, the endowment of the center. Vogel predicted that we'll have the rest of the money and announce the whole center within a year. While evoking the Law School's extensive historic ties with the Arab world, including visiting scholars and a previous please ser ISLAMIC, page 14 New Dean of Students Revamps Orientation Programs for Its By April Rockstead If HI S seems more student friendly - at least for I Li - this year, it's due neither to coin- cidence nor to any good-behavior seasonings conjured up in the fac- ultystaff cafeteria. The credit goes at least in large part to the efforts of new Dean of Students Suzanne Richardson. whose innovations this fall range from map- and information-providing welcome tents to the all-Law-School party last Friday. The goal is to very strongly welcome the new students here, as well as to Harvard and Cambridge, Richardson said, Suzanne I Wand provide more points of con- tact in their first few weeks in the study of law - which we know can be a little bit confusing. Dean Clark offered the position to Richardson and she accepted effective June of this year. Richardson succeeds Sarah Wald, who served as dean of students until September 1993, when she resigned to take a position as special assistant to two Harvard University vice-presi- dents. Richardson served as acting dean of stu- dents during most of the lengthy selection process that followed Wald's resignation. Richardson, who began her tenure with HLS about 16 years ago and whose previous positions here include associate director of clinical programs and director of student activities, holds a bache- lor's degree in fine arts and a master's degree in educational planning and social policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. ichardson As part of the new and improved IL orientation this fall. entering students arrived two days before Labor Day weekend, received a new health services ori- p...eae see ORIENTATION, page 13 Law School Council Off to a Quick Start

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