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A recession era guide to the public interest job search<br />
This year there have been many changes to the legal market and to the HLS job search process that will require students to start thinking now about the choices that face them.
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Human Rights Program founder’s visions of human dignity<br />
Photography has been Prof. Henry Steiner '55's passionate hobby for more than four decades, and his photos span more than 25 countries in which he has done human rights work and taken hiking treks. His next trip is to Mongolia.
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We still have no transparency at HLS<br />
While adjustments seem to be a natural part of budgetary discipline, I suspect that the law school and all of Harvard's colleges are facing deeper, fundamental challenges. Despite the rumors that have abounded in the press, there remain no clear explanations available as to how the quality of our education will be maintained in the face of the economic crisis.
Opinion
How long will California burn?<br />
It should come as no surprise when after a summer of high temperatures and no rain there are fires that cannot be stopped before they spread and consume huge tracts of land. Living in L.A. brought home to me the immediacy of these problems. A desperate situation should not be ignored and action delayed until there is a massive conflagration bearing down on one's home. We need to look at the broken state budgetary process in California and in other states as an indication that we are creating the conditions that will spawn a social and economic disaster.
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Supreme Court analysis: in free speech and campaign finance debate, is precedent passe?<br />
With Justices Anthony Kennedy '61, Antonin Scalia '60 and Clarence Thomas having explicitly urged reversal of two key campaign finance reform cases in previous opinions, all eyes were on Chief Justice John Roberts '79 and Justice Alito at the re-argument of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
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Rainbow chairs sprinkle Harvard Yard<br />
Portable, colorful chairs are the latest addition to Harvard Yard, the result of a student survey on public spaces conducted at the behest of University President Drew Gilpin Faust last year. The chairs have proven popular, attracting heavy use on warm, early autumn days.
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Scenes from Southern Sudan<br />
Over the recent summer, Record News Editor Rebecca Agule lived in Juba, Sudan and interned with Pact-Sudan, a development NGO, working on human rights and local governance issues. Rebecca's adventures included a night spent at the infamous Camp-15, a rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army base; two threats of arrest; numerous blown out tires, and several encounters with the bat family who occupied her outhouse.
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Raising the bar: building a bigger, better Harvard<br />
The return to campus has revealed a major change in the campus skyline. Progress on the Northwest Corner project has moved above ground to the erection of high steel girders.
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Minow Tapped as Next Dean<br />
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust announced to the HLS community on June 11 that Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law Martha Minow had been selected as the next Dean of the Law School. A professor at HLS since 1981, the selection of Minow continues the tradition of selecting the Dean from among the members of the Law School's faculty.
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Dental School H1N1 Cases Create Fear of Outbreak<br />
The administration of Harvard University has activated an emergency response plan for the containment of the suspected H1N1 influenza cases at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. In order to reduce the chance of an outbreak throughout the university, the Longwood area clinic was closed on Thursday, and Friday classes were canceled in the schools of public health and medicine. To date there have been no suspected cases of H1N1 in the Harvard Law School community.
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Justice Souter ’66 Announces Retirement<br />
During the evening of Thursday, April 30, NPR broke the news that Justice David Souter plans to retire at the end of this term, opening a vacancy on the Supreme Court as early as June of this year. With commentators expecting the creation of a 60 vote Democratic majority in the Senate, Obama will likely have wide leeway to consider the appointment of a replacement.
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Nur Munir Free to Complete Studies<br />
Nur Munir, a student at Harvard Divinity School who had recently been detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, has been released from York County Prison in Pennsylvania so that he may complete his studies at Harvard. A letter which Munir wrote while in prison, expressing gratitude for support from the Harvard community, is reprinted below.