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The electoral victory of President Barack Obama ‘91 in 2008 brought the inevitably bittersweet departure of many of the brightest stars at HLS for top posts in Washington, including Dean Elena Kagan ‘86, Prof. Cass Sunstein, Prof. Dan Meltzer ‘75, Prof. David Barron ‘94, and until recently, Prof. Jody Freeman LL.M. ‘91, S.J.D. ‘95. But after more than a year of service at the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change, Prof. Freeman has returned to HLS to teach environmental and administrative law - and share her experience.
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What is the highest actual interest rate that you pay on a credit card? What would it take to bring a lawsuit against the issuer if they cheated you? What would happen if you missed a payment on your student loans? If you own a house, how much will the mortgage cost you over its lifetime? If you think you can answer these questions, Elizabeth Warren thinks you are probably wrong.
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What is the highest actual interest rate that you pay on a credit card? What would it take to bring a lawsuit against the issuer if they cheated you? What would happen if you missed a payment on your student loans? If you own a house, how much will the mortgage cost you over its lifetime? If you think you can answer these questions, Elizabeth Warren thinks you are probably wrong.
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What is the highest actual interest rate that you pay on a credit card? What would it take to bring a lawsuit against the issuer if they cheated you? What would happen if you missed a payment on your student loans? If you own a house, how much will the mortgage cost you over its lifetime? If you think you can answer these questions, Elizabeth Warren thinks you are probably wrong.
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The electoral victory of President Barack Obama ‘91 in 2008 brought the inevitably bittersweet departure of many of the brightest stars at HLS for top posts in Washington, including Dean Elena Kagan ‘86, Prof. Cass Sunstein, Prof. Dan Meltzer ‘75, Prof. David Barron ‘94, and until recently, Prof. Jody Freeman LL.M. ‘91, S.J.D. ‘95. But after more than a year of service at the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change, Prof. Freeman has returned to HLS to teach environmental and administrative law - and share her experience.
Opinion
Nine of them. Nine Justices. And now all that remains for all my plans to be fulfilled is for any one of those nine to have some unfortunate, random thing happen, for some minor illness to worsen inexplicably, and I will take my place among the eight that remain.
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as prt of move to cut csts and increase rdrship, the newly formed @harbuslawcitizen announced plans thurs 2 publish exclusively in #twitter
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On behalf of the fellow members of your employer, our most prestigious law firm, we wanted to offer a heartfelt congratulations to you, incoming associates of the Class of 2010! You're now only a month or two away from the end of your academic lives. Take a breather, enjoy your victory lap, and blow your savings on that extravagant bar trip to the new Club Med in Goa; when you check your account balance after that, you will only relish discovering the date that you will be beginning of your bondage to Me, LLP. And I may or may not mean literal bondage, but I don't think it would be a good career move for you to ask.
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Harvard Law School librarians made a stunning discovery in a long-sealed chamber in the basement of Langdell Hall Monday night, when they indicated they had found what they believed to be a copy of President Barack Obama's original certificate of live birth. Individuals who believe the president's extra-American birth invalidates his presidency rapidly seized on the document as further proof for their claims, flocking to courts to seek injunctions on a number of executives orders and bills recently signed into law, including the vaunted health care reform act. HLS archivists said that the birth certificate was "no doubt" the original copy submitted by the sitting President upon his enrollment in the law school in 1988.
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April Fool's - For the first time in Harvard Law School history, many graduating 3Ls find themselves in a situation known as the "no-offer": having worked as summer associates at law firms following their 2L year, they ended the summer without an job offer and without any offers on the horizon. In response to this surprising situation, HLS administrators have decided to offer a full tuition refund to students who graduate with zero job offers.
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April Fool's - Dean Martha Minow has unveiled a new hiring policy for Harvard Law School, designed to ensure a comprehensive range of ideological orientation among the law school's faculty. The hiring policy aims to ensure that HLS's ranks will be filled by everyone from right wing war hawks to left wing socialists, America hating jihadists to tree hugging anti-capitalists,