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Tangoing with Terrorism

With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the horizon, a group of distinguished judges and lawyers, faculty, trustees, alumni, and their guests gathered in...

Following Words with Action

After stories of abuse and torture at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility began seeping out in 2003, human rights groups demanded basic rights for detainees. But...

Opening Ceremony

Trustees Leonard Wilf (LL.M. ’77) and Mark Wilf ’87 cut the ribbon on the Law School’s newest building, Wilf Hall, which they generously underwrote. Located at...

Seizing the Moment

Many lawyers map out their career plans with precision. They know exactly what kind of law they want to practice almost from the minute they begin...

Charles Conley (1921–2010)

A half-century ago, when audacious black southern men had grave reason to fear for their lives, Charles Swinger Conley ’55 hung a shingle in his native...

Charity Begins at Home

As environmental policy coordinator for WE ACT for Environmental Justice in Harlem—her first job after graduation—Stephanie Tyree ’08 watched from afar as residents in her home...

The Closer

Beginning in late 2002, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was hit with a torrent of lawsuits brought by women who alleged that its two controversial hormone-replacement-therapy drugs Prempro and...

Acts of Courage, Revisited

In 1946, 12-year-old Gordon Martin Jr. played for Boston’s all-white West Roxbury baseball team. It was a year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, and...

Joakim Dungel (1978–2011)

On April 1, Joakim Dungel (LL.M. ’07), 33, died when a large group of demonstrators attacked the U.N. mission where he worked as a human rights...

A Chat with Robert Kindler ’80

For a guy who has been at the top of both Big Law and Wall Street, Robert Kindler has a pretty idiosyncratic background. Start with the...

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