Former Harvard President and recent director of the White House National Economic Council Lawrence H. Summers stressed the importance of reducing the nation’s unemployment rate and bringing government spending and revenue into greater alignment at a talk hosted by the Harvard Law School Forum. Date: 4/12/2011

In a lecture marking the her appointment as Archibald Cox professor of law, Jody Freeman L.L.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95 (founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program) spoke about the problem of wasteful duplication in government agencies. Freeman also served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change from 2009-10. Date: 3/7/11

HLS professors Charles Fried and Laurence Tribe ’66 and Georgetown University Law Center Professor Randy Barnett ’77—whom HLS Dean Martha Minow called the “mastermind” of the legal challenge against the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—offered their different perspectives on whether the individual mandate portion of the ACA violates the commerce clause of the Constitution and infringes on personal liberties at an event co-sponsored by HLS Federalist Society and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law...

In the keynote address at the 2011 HLS Sports Law Symposium, former sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro—known as the "The Godfather of Basketball"—discussed his current role as an advocate for NCAA student-athletes. Date: 3/25/2011

In a lecture sponsored by the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School, Jim Cooper '80, Congressman for Tennessee's 5th District, offered solutions for how to improve a "deeply broken" legislative structure in his lecture titled "Fixing Congress."

This lunchtime debate between Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Stewart Baker, Former General Counsel for the National Security Agency, was the opening session of the National Security Journal's 2011 Symposium, titled "Cybersecurity: Law, Privacy, and Warfare in a Digital World." Harvard National Security Journal website: http://harvardnsj.com/2011/03/1979/

Giving the biennial Vaughan Lecture at Harvard Law School, former federal appeals court judge Michael McConnell contemplated the question "What would Hamilton do?," exploring Alexander Hamilton's vision for the United States and the implications for current issues.

Harvard Law School Professor David Wilkins '80 delivered a lecture, "Making Global Lawyers: Legal Education, Legal Paradox, and the Paradox of Professional Distinctiveness" to mark his appointment as the Lester Kissel Professor of Law.