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In collaboration with ACS, DOS Grant Fund, and others, we bring you... Ron Klain: The Economy & Ebola Monday, November 14 at 12 p.m. in WCC B015 Serving as the "Ebola Czar," chief of staff to VP's Biden and Gore, and top debate prep advisor to a number of Democratic Presidential nominees are just a few of Ron Klain's many claims to fame in the political world. In Klain's talk, he will discuss how President Obama made major …
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By Lisa Heinzerling* As I have argued elsewhere, the transparency achieved by federal laws relating to food is only partial, and sometimes only serves to conceal a lie. If one wanted to see this principle in operation, one might turn to a recent federal district court decision from California. In Backus v. Nestlé, the court granted a motion to dismiss a state-law consumer protection complaint objecting to the use and labeling of artificial trans fats in Nestlé's "Coffee-mate" products. The …
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By Ronald E. Hampton* Critics of community policing say that the idea of a friendly beat officer acting as some magic bullet solution for serious crimes such as murders, rapes, assaults, big-time, sophisticated drug dealing and the rising tide of violence fueled by drugs, is laughable. Yet community policing techniques are appropriate for more serious crimes. Once one starts analyzing who commits crimes, one finds that to the extent people do experience serious crimes—especially assault, …
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Panelists: Franklin Zimring, William G Simon Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley Philip Heymann, James Barr Ames Professor of Law at Harvard Law School By Kate Epstein “Every year there are dozens of articles in law reviews about capital punishment, and there are none about the use of lethal force,” said Prof. Frank Zimring. The third day of the HLPR Symposium focused on that lethal force, centering on a discussion of police killings in the United States through a comparative …
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HLPR is seeking submissions for its Student Note Competition, to be published in Vol. 10.2 in summer 2016. We are seeking policy-oriented pieces that are 4,000–13,000 words, shorter in length than a typical journal article. The deadline for submissions for the Summer 2016 issue is Friday, January 8th. Submissions should be sent to HarvardLPRSubmissions@gmail.com with the subject line "Student Note Competition." The title of your submission should include your name. Do not include your name in …
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