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BY JOEY SEILER II. During his service, Henkin rights, including "Foreign Af-
convinced a German force of fairs and the Constitution,''
Columbia Law Professor 78 soldiers to surrender to his "The Rights of Man Today,''
The HL Record
Louis Henkin ‘40, often 13-man group and earned the "How Nations Behave,'' and
called the Father of Human Silver Star. Upon his return, "The Age of Rights." Collec-
Rights, died on Oct. 14 at the Henkin clerked for Justice tively, the New York Times
age of 92. Felix Frankfurter at the referred to his work as "re-
According to the New York United States Supreme Court. quired reading for govern-
News
Times, Henkin applied to Still, Henkin's most remem- ment officials and diplomats." • Law School Gets Crafty at Fair
Harvard Law School on a bered achievements are his "Loius Henkin was a giant
whim after graduating from • Suk Awarded Tenure
contributions to Human in the field and a pioneer in
Yeshiva University in 1937. Rights scholarship and advo- the cause of human rights in
He went on to edit the Har- cacy. Henkin founded Colum- the United States," said Pro- Culture
vard Law Review and clerk bia's Center for the Study of fessor James Cavallaro, Exec-
for Judge Learned Hand at the
• Soul Food Exists in Cambridge
Human Rights in 1978 and its utive Director, Harvard Law • Costumed Revelers Celebrate
United States Court of Ap- Human Rights Institute in HLS YEARBOOK/PHOTO COURTESY School Human Rights Pro-
peals for the Second Circuit in 1998. He authored forceful Henkin appears in HLS’ gram. Halloween with Boos and Booze
Manhattan before serving in works in the field of human 1940 yearbook.
the Army during World War
Mock Trial Team Wins Puerto Rico Competition
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it connects with and influences many right bill draws from the work done by
different areas of the law. Her work as Suk and co-author C. Scott Hemphill, a
a Guggenheim Fellow and Humanities professor at Columbia Law.
Harvard
Har vard Sq
Square
quare Fellow at Harvard College this past ac- Suk is currently co-teaching a course
Brrattle Square
1 Brattle Square ademic year allowed her to research the on Performing Arts and the Law with
topic and its intersections with other acclaimed dancer Damian Woetzel.
Second Floor
disciplines.
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OPINION
RALLYING FOR APATHY
November 12, 2010 Page 3
HLS to host
Nobel Prize
winner, ex-
Haitian PM
BY JENNY PAUL
A Nobel Prize winner and the for-
mer prime minister of Haiti are among
the speakers who will discuss how to
tackle development challenges nations
face after natural disasters at a sym-
posium to be held at the law school
Friday, Nov. 19.
Amartya Sen, a Harvard professor
who was awarded the 1998 Nobel
Prize in Economic Sciences, and for-
mer Haitian Prime Minister Michele
Pierre-Louis will be the keynote
speakers at the HLS Law & Interna-
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Harvard Law Record Cosgrove estimates that several
Harvard Law School hundred community members passed
Cambridge, MA 02138-9984 through Ropes Gray over the two-
hour block — and those shoppers
were excited by what they saw.
Letters and opinion columns will be Faculty Assistants Melinda Eakin
published on a space-available basis. and Lauren Schauff ("If a professor
The editors reserve the right to edit works in criminal law, we probably
for length and delay printing. All work with them," joked Eakin) said
letters must be signed. Deadline for they had no artistic skill of their own,
submissions is 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. but were already variously draped in
or carrying "gorgeous necklaces" and
The Harvard Law Record is a publication
earrings they had picked up while JOEY SEILER/HL RECORD STAFF
of The Harvard Law School Record Cor-
poration. All rights reserved. The Harvard making their rounds. Many were gifts Flora Amwayi ‘13 picked up jewelry design from a friend while work-
Law School name and shield are trade- purchased in advance of the holidays. ing as a consultant in New York City before coming to law school.
Their purchases were typical. Ac-
marks of the President and Fellows of She made many of the necklaces and earrings she was selling at the
cording to Dean Cosgrove, crafters
Harvard College and are used with permis- Harvard Law School Crafts Fair before her 1L year began.
sion from Harvard University. said they did well, especially those
selling pottery and jewelry. Several
said they had done better than at pre- while working at Harvard Medical Gray, center of much of HLS' social
vious staff craft fairs. Mira Singer, School. A co-worker who commuted scene. Every photographer I spoke to
Want to daughter of Dean Martha Minow and from Andover brought her own work at the Craft Fair commented on the
Professor Joseph Singer, almost sold in to the office and taught Conroy. poor lighting. Even in real life, the art
out of her photography and books. An- Now she is a part of a 25-woman knit- can look washed out. That's the archi-
write for the other table sold out of knit items for ting group at the Law School, mostly tecture, but there are also the people. I
babies and moved on to taking orders. made up of library staff. asked Amwayi if she'd told her sec-
While there was a constant crowd tion-mates that she'd be selling jew-
Harvard Law One student who was doing well in
sales was Flora Amwayi '13. Amwayi, around her table, Conroy said she had elry that afternoon. No, it was a bit
originally from Kenya, earned her un- not sold much. Mostly she was taking "embarrassing."
Record? dergraduate degree from MIT several orders as the items on display were
spoken for, frequently by Conroy her-
That's a shame. As the sign above
years ago in Electrical Engineering the library water fountain points out,
and spent time before coming to the self. lawyers can be some of the best peo-
Law School consulting in New York "I make almost all my own clothes," ple in the world to drink with. As the
News, City, eventually at Morgan Stanley. In she said. "I don't want to sell my various comedians, writers, chefs, and
her last year there, she picked up jew- closet." artists to ditch their esquires for cre-
book reviews, elry design from one of her friends at Time may be more of an issue for ative successes can attest, they can —
the same time she began applying to law students than staff. At a place like just maybe — be some of the best
interviews, law schools. Harvard, almost every student has at people to imagine with.
points of view — "Most of this is from before I came least one knack or hobby they've ex- Fortunately, it's not necessarily so
to law school," Amwayi said, indicat- celled at beyond the law. It's just the restrictive at Harvard Law. The crowd
all are welcome. ing her table full of necklaces and ear- function of gathering 1,600-odd Type cycling through Ropes Gray that af-
rings. (She prefers to design the A's to one campus. Dean Minow's ternoon is evidence.
earrings for their variety of colors and recitation of each class' previous ac- And, as Professor Daniel Halperin
designs: "Necklaces can be as easy as complishments in her welcoming quipped while standing next to his
Contact attaching an extension.") speech is a litany of commendations wife's pottery display, it's not univer-
Amwayi sold several pieces while and odd, but impressive quirks. But sal.
harvardlawrecord that's all before 1L. "When I first went into teaching
we spoke, but immediately began
@gmail.com to get packing up her things, still halfway To be sure, many students have [my wife] was a science teacher, and
through the event. She had class at 1 maintained their side pursuits. In any everyone at Penn was married to
involved! p.m. given lecture hall you can find stu- artists," he said. "Now here they're all
"It's too much work right now," dents racking up virtual poker chips, married to lawyers. I stay behind the
Amwayi said of designing more idly doodling caricatures that could be times."
November 12, 2010 OPINION Page 7
FEINBERG, cont’d from pg. 1 of mediating some of the country's most he joked, explaining that success in his assertions. One man inquired about the
Feinberg, one he believes is rivaled prominent crises. line of work depends on his ability to arbitrariness of placing a value on lost
only by World War II, the bombing of "You've got to love what you do, and effectively and compassionately appre- lives and, in a sense, playing God. After
Pearl Harbor, and the assassination of you've got to believe that you are doing ciate the emotional component of indi- all, Feinberg's task is, in part, to deter-
President John F. Kennedy in terms of something in the public good," he said. vidual cases and to step beyond his mine which lives deserve compensation
national significance. The decision to One attendee posited that the key to formal role as an attorney. and how much each life is worth. Fein-
introduce compensation as an option Feinberg's success at getting individu- Feinberg graduated from New York berg explained that judges and juries
for victims depends greatly on how a als to join victims' funds rather than University Law School in 1970 and is around the country, in deciding how to
tragedy affected the country as a whole, pursuing lawsuits was in his bedside an adjunct professor at various law compensate the negligent death of a
Feinberg explained, rather than on how manner. Feinberg agreed wholeheart- schools in addition to his role adminis- banker versus that of a busboy, value
it is perceived by individual victims. edly. tering compensation funds. lives similarly every day.
Feinberg also addressed his own atti- "I would've been better off with a di- Audience members got the opportu- "I am judge and jury structurally," he