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1. Brutal Winters There are many great aspects to being a native New Englander. But few of them produce such unvarnished delight as watching people matriculate from the South and West and get bludgeoned by the realities of the Cantabridgian winter. Indeed, even those Columbia alums that think they have experienced the worst of the worst find that there is an entirely new level of cold, an entirely new level of wind, and an entirely new level of frustration that comes with a winter that seems to last six months.
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The winners of Harvard Law School's 56th annual Williston competition were announced on Tuesday, April 28. The competition, sponsored by the Board of Student Advisers and organized by Harvard Negotiators, offers first-year students the opportunity to practice negotiation and contract drafting.
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As we head into the summer, rising 2Ls and 3Ls should be thinking about the 2009 Early Interview Program ("EIP") when hundreds of employers from all over the globe will travel to Cambridge for the sole purpose of recruiting HLS students. While the size of the event may seem overwhelming, the Office of Career Services ("OCS") is here to demystify the process and to help you best prepare for EIP.
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EVERY YEAR has its highs and lows, but the peaks and valleys of the past academic year seem to have been more pronounced than usual. September began as any other, as Dean Elena Kagan '86 announced the recruitment of yet more faculty members, the renovation of yet more buildings, and the offering of yet more clinicals.
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How did you get involved with the topic of HLS and slavery? It is something I have been thinking about on and off since I learned about HLS's slavery connection through a presentation given by Professor Daniel Coquillette '71 when I was in school. How did the Record build skills you could use in your legal career/academia? Journalistic writing is great training for legal writing.
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Acting Dean Howell Jackson congratulated Professor Robert Sitkoff on his appointment as the John L. Gray Professor of Law this Wednesday in a Chair Lecture event in the Caspersen Room. Jackson noted that at thirty-two, Sitkoff is the youngest chaired member of the faculty in the history of Harvard Law School.
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Annette Gordon-Reed '84 won the Pulitzer Prize in History last week for her book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. The same book had already won a National Book Award last year, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Gordon-Reed, a graduate of Dartmouth College who was on Law Review at Harvard, holds professorships in law at New York Law School and in history at Rutgers University, Newark.
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Representative Jane Harman '69 (D-CA) found herself at the center of a massive probe into both National Security Agency wiretaps of American citizens and allegations that members of the powerful American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby group served as spies for Israel.
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Samantha Power '99 and Cass Sunstein '78 welcomed their first child, Declan Power-Sunstein, over the weekend. Power, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, Kennedy School professor, former Yugoslav War journalist and current National Security Council director of multilateral affairs, met Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who was recently confirmed as head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (or "regulatory czar"), while they were working on the presidential campaign of Barack Obama '91.
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Louis Caldera '87, the former Clinton administration Secretary of the Army and University of New Mexico president who is now serving as head of the White House Military Office, faces a probe connected to the Monday flyover by an Air Force One jet and several fighter planes of Lower Manhattan.
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Nur Munir, a student in the Harvard Divinity School, disappeared in late March, leaving students and professors wondering where the Indonesian student of Islam had gone. Last week, Professor Baber Johansen discovered that Munir's absence was due to his detention by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the York County Prison in Pennsylvania, pending deportation.
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Harvard Law professor and former Ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon rejected an honorary medal she was to be awarded at the University of Notre Dame's commencement ceremony, citing the university's invitation of President Barack Obama '91, a longtime advocate of abortion rights and stem-cell research, to speak during the proceedings.