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November 11, 2005|Volume 34, Number 11

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Expert on corporate governance to deliver Raben Lecture

Lucian Arye Bebchuk, the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics and Finance and director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, will give the John R. Raben Fellowship Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

Titled "The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise," Bebchuk's lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. A reception will follow in the Alumni Reading Room. The talk is free and open to the public.

Bebchuk joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1986 as an assistant professor, becoming a full professor in 1988 and the Friedman Professor of Law, Economics and Finance in 1998.

A research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Bebchuk is also an inaugural fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

Bebchuk's main areas of research are corporate governance, law and finance, and law and economics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. The academy cited him as "one of the nation's leading scholars of law and economics," who "has made major contribution to the study of corporate control, governance and insolvency."

His recent writings include "Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation" (co-authored with Jesse Fried), "The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power" and "The Costs of Entrenched Boards" (co-authored with Alma Cohen).

Celebrated filmmaker to speak on the Holocaust and the law

On Tuesday, Nov. 15, author and filmmaker Joshua M. Greene will present a talk on the Dachau war crime trials.

Greene's talk will be held at 4:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. Co-sponsored by the Sobotka Yom Hashoah Fund of the Slifka Center and the Manuscripts and Archives department at Yale University Library, the talk is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, e-mail nancy.lyon@yale.edu or susan.jeanette@yale.edu.

The Dachau war crime trials, conducted by the U.S. Third Army from November 1945 to August 1948, involved some of Hitler's most notorious henchmen: nearly 1,600 men and women responsible for atrocities inside the concentration camps.

In his lecture, Greene will highlight the challenges confronted by chief prosecutor Colonel William Denson, whose personal papers are held by Manuscripts and Archives, and will examine issues raised by the trials, including what principles guide the pursuit of justice, whether there are degrees of guilt in extreme war crimes, and what role forgiveness and reconciliation play in the peace process.

Greene, who teaches in the Religion Department at Hofstra University, is the author of "Witness: Voices from the Holocaust" and producer of an award-winning companion film that aired nationally on PBS. His most recent book is titled "Justice at Dachau: The Trials of An American Prosecutor."

The New York Times has described Greene as "a storyteller in film and video who traces journeys to enlightenment."

Greene's many honors include an Emmy nomination and the International Reading Association Award.

Founder of Essence magazine is next Gordon Grand Lecturer

Ed Lewis, founder and chair of Essence magazine, will deliver the next Gordon Grand Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

Lewis will discuss "Passion, Peril & Persistence: The Story of Essence" at 4:30 p.m. in the Branford College common room, 74 High St. A reception will be held prior to the lecture at 4 p.m. The talk is open to the public free of charge.

Lewis is one of America's foremost African-American entrepreneurs, community leaders, political activists and philanthropists. Over the past three decades, he has established Essence as the number one brand for black women and built a multi-media empire spanning magazines, TV, the Web, festivals, conferences and retail catalogues to expand its message of empowerment.

For over 35 years, Lewis has developed Essence into a media powerhouse and the preeminent brand for a national sisterhood of black women seven million strong. He also changed Madison Avenue's perception of black women and awakened corporate America to their achievements and massive purchasing power. Lewis and one of his publishing colleagues, John Johnson, were relentless in championing the moral imperative and business sense in taking this segment of the population seriously.

John Whitehead, chair of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, said of Lewis: "When I met Ed Lewis and heard about his vision for a magazine dedicated to black women over 30 years ago, I immediately believed in the brilliance of the idea and in him. Its enormous success today makes me proud to have been one of his early supporters."

Author on the U.S. military to give Grand Strategy Lecture

On Tuesday, Nov. 15, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and best-selling author Robert Kaplan will give a lecture on campus.

Titled "The Last Frontiersmen: The American Military Facing the Environmental and Demographic Challenges of the New Century," the lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of the International Security Studies Grand Strategy Lecture Series and the Poynter Fellowship Program.

A widely published essayist and long-time reporter for The Atlantic Monthly, Kaplan is the best-selling author of 10 books on international affairs and travel. His latest work, "Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground," the first of a series of books about the U.S. military, was published in September.

Kaplan's essays have appeared on the editorial pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Army's Special Forces Regiment, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marines.

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