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Next year stands to be a crucial one for professional sports, with all four major leagues, including MLB, the NFL, the NHL, and the NBA, entering into collective bargaining between management and players. According to Robert D. Manfred, Jr. '83, Executive Vice President of Labor Relations for Major League Baseball, this will prove to be an important opportunity for all the leagues to engage in not only allocation of revenues but also for allocation of the price of competitive balance on the field of play. "Players and owners alike need competitive balance. Without it, the product suffers and revenues will decline. But like everything else in life, competitive balance has a price."
Opinion
$1 per day for 1 month from each student at the law school would fund a fellow classmate to work in the public interest for a year following graduation. The Post-Graduate Student Funded Fellowship is the result of students realizing there is much we can do to help one another and others in a time of economic and social distress.
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A South African Muslim scholar from the University of Johannesburg, Professor Adam Habib, was welcomed back into the U.S. early this month after a ban on his entry was lifted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in January. Speaking at Harvard Law School, Habib took the opportunity to open the dialogue on ideological exclusion in one of his first speaking engagements in the country since the reversal of the ban.
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Afghanistan's arduous road to the rule of law continues to encounter blockages and delays. In March, Rebecca Gang and Saeeq Shajjan, both Harvard Law School LL.Ms, who worked as defense attorneys in the country's nascent new legal regime, together with Jasteena Dhillon, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, shared their experience working in the country's legal institutions.
Opinion
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC does not have authority to regulate broadband Internet service providers, granting Comcast the ability to shape its consumers' use of certain web applications. This decision left the FCC with lesser regulatory power over broadband, and consumers with fewer rights against the industry. In order to ensure that consumers receive fair terms and competitive prices, either Congress or the courts need to reverse this trend and place broadband squarely under the FCC's authority to regulate.
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For those who criticize President Barack Obama '91 for showing more continuity with the Bush Administration's policies than change, Harold Hongju Koh '80 has one word. "Duh." Koh appeared at HLS as the keynote speaker for the Harvard International Law Journal's 2010 Symposium, where he outlined what he sees as an emerging "Clinton-Obama Doctrine" of international engagement, as well as his own role in the Department of State and his conception of how government lawyers shape international law.
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"When you have a lawyer for a client, it's the most difficult experience, and I had the best lawyer in America as my client," said Greg Craig, the first White House Counsel to President Barack Obama '91, who sat down with Prof. Charles Ogletree ‘78 at Harvard Law School on April 6 to discuss the Obama administration's accomplishments and his career in public service. "The White House is a remarkable place to work," Craig continued, "and you don't ever forget the significance of working so close to the President of the United States. At the same time, it is also very difficult."
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Barely hours had passed after Justice John Paul Stevens' announcement of his imminent retirement last Friday – widely anticipated after the 89 year old Supreme Court judge failed to hire the customary number of clerks for the court's next session – speculation began to swirl about a number of frontrunners to replace him on the bench – many, if not most, with Harvard Law School pedigrees. Foremost among them was former Dean Elena Kagan '86, now serving as Solicitor General. Not long after, however, Bloomberg News confirmed that another recent Harvard Law School Dean, Martha Minow, was also being seriously considered for a Supreme Court seat.
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It has become beyond cliché to say that the continuing evolution of communications technology has dramatically transformed the landscape of journalism. And it's no less the case for writers and reporters who cover law. But legal journalists face their own particular opportunities and challenges navigating the new formats, sources, and audiences available online.
Opinion
Dear Editor,I can't help notice that only one week after "General Kagan" demanded a Supreme Court vacancy open up in the April Fools' Day issue of the Harvard Law Record, Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement. I can only conclude that Stevens and the White House thought that the column was written by the real Elena Kagan, and jumped to oblige her. (This wouldn't be a first, as the Record April Fools' day issue has been tricking inattentive media and academic types since the 1970s.) The Record board should feel justified in claiming complete credit for Stevens' retirement.
Opinion
In 1987, when we were students at the law school, we formed a group called NOPE. No matter how rich we became, even if we could credit Harvard for our careers, we vowed to never contribute anything of financial value to its endowment: Not One Penny Ever. NOPE. We took our share of responsibility for three bitter years, but we also blamed the faculty for their indifference to higher values and to students.