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Banned under Bush, Muslim scholar allowed to return to U.S.

A South African Muslim scholar from the University of Johannesburg, Professor Adam Habib, was welcomed back into the U.S. early this month after a ban on his entry was lifted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in January. Speaking at Harvard Law School, Habib took the opportunity to open the dialogue on ideological exclusion in one of his first speaking engagements in the country since the reversal of the ban. Full story

Green light for an internet red light district?

It is not as if there weren’t enough pornography on the web. Exact figures are difficult to come by, but estimates of the number of websites dedicated to pornographic material range from 1 to 25 percent. And soon there will be more. In fact, a whole Top Level Domain or TLD (the letters after the last dot in an address, such as .com or .biz) will soon be dedicated to “adult entertainment”: the new TLD dot triple x, or “.xxx”. Full story

"War Don Don" probes reality of international justice

Filmmaker and Harvard Law School graduate Rebecca Richman Cohen ‘07 first observed Issa Sesay in 2006, through the bullet proof glass of the gallery at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. While assigned to a different defence team for her 2L summer, Cohen felt drawn to the trial of the former Interim Leader of the Revolutionary United Front, the rebel army that had waged and lost a decade-long civil war against the government of Sierra Leone. Four years later, as the Court concludes its cases, the first major war crimes tribunal to do so since the Trials at Nuremberg over sixty years ago, Cohen presents “War Don Don”, the jarring product of her legal education and three years of filmmaking. Full story

Meet the man who revolutionized venture capital through blogging

After graduating from Harvard Law School, David Hornik ’94 went on to work at Cravath, Swaine & Moore before clerking for Judge Altimori at the Second Circuit. He returned to Cravath before eventually leaving in 1997 to join Venture Law Group, a start-up boutique in Silicon Valley. From there he helped start Perkins Coie’s Bay Area practice and, a decade ago, Hornik joined August Capital to himself become a venture capitalist, financing start-ups as an investor. Hornik returned to HLS this spring to teach a course in Entrepreneurship and Company Creation, and he sat down with the Harvard Law Record to speak about his career and the tech industry. Full story

KAGAN SELECTED AS
SECOND OBAMA JUSTICE

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Elena Kagan, former Harvard Law dean, chosen to succeed Stevens

President Barack Obama '91 praised Solicitor General and former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan '86 for her intellect and public service in his announcement of her nomination in a ceremony held in the East Room of the White House on May 10th. If confirmed, Kagan would become the 112th justice, the fourth female justice, and the third female on the present Court. Full story

Harvard Law Record, Vol. 130, No. 7 - April 15, 2010