On April 9, a lecture by Elizabeth Papp Kamali '07 titled "Felony and the Holy Face" marked her appointment as Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard.

Professor Kamali teaches criminal law and English legal history, and her research focuses on the medieval English common law and the history of criminal law, with a particular interest in the early criminal trial jury. Her current projects include studies of doubt and proof in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century English law, medieval understandings of the effect of intoxication on legal responsibility, and the influence of Roman- and canon-law ideas on the early development of the common law.