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Legal experts say prosecutors enjoy wide latitude in deciding whom to charge in criminal cases. But according to Laurie Levenson, a former assistant U.S. Attorney and a prominent expert in legal ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, there are limits. "Certainly prosecutors would face a professional obligation to check out or verify the allegations in this case," she says. "Not doing so would represent a potential abuse of prosecutorial discretion." The key, she adds, is whether prosecutors chose not to pursue evidence of criminal activity by Republicans because of political bias or a conflict of interest. Sometimes prosecutors...
...Knoll, molecular genetics professor Andrew W. Murray, and engineering and applied mathematics professor Howard A. Stone. The student members of the committee are John M. Sheffield II ’09, Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08, and Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu...
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94 planned to leave last night’s Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize award ceremony early to put his 10-month-old daughter to bed. But the quality of the dessert served at the catered Eliot House event persuaded him to stay, and it was fortunate that he did: Liu, along with Professor of History Daniel Lord Smail, was awarded the senior faculty award for excellence in teaching. The Levenson Prize is awarded each year by the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Undergraduate Council...
...report quotes an anonymous Ph.D. candidate as saying.Senior professors quoted in the report voiced the same concerns, worrying that a focus on teaching may prove detrimental to their younger colleagues’ careers.“There are still pockets of the University where winning the Levenson award for teaching as a junior faculty member is considered the kiss of death with respect to promotion,” the report quotes one anonymous senior professor as saying.The result, according to the report, is that Harvard’s academic offerings can alienate students from classroom learning rather than engaging them...
...There are still pockets of the University where winning the Levenson award for teaching as a junior faculty member is considered the kiss of death with respect to promotion,” the report quotes one anonymous senior professor as saying...