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President Barack Obama '91's plans for energy and climate-change policy could alter the balance of power between the federal and state governments, according to Adam White '04, an Associate at Baker Botts LLP who specialized in energy litigation.
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On Monday, the American Constitution Society held a panel with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New Yorker editor Hendrik Hertzberg and visiting Professor Akhil Amar, of Yale Law School. The topic of discussion was the National Popular Vote Initiative, which would replace the current Electoral College with a direct popular vote for the President of the United States.
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IT WAS the last day of class, and students seemed alert: the sound of keyboards being tapped echoed through the classroom like digital rain beating on its desks. Fenno looked to his left, where one student was engrossed in eight simultaneous GChat conversations (and even an MSN Messenger chat with someone in Europe) and then to his right, where someone was furiously composing last minute emails to the owners of several cramped New York apartments he was scrolling through on craigslist.
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The Harvard Law Forum recently hosted two of the top insiders in last year's Presidential Campaigns, Democratic strategist David Plouffe and Republican Tom Ridge, the former Governor of Pennsylvania and first Secretary of Homeland Security. Both events were held off-the-record, but the Harvard Law Record was able to take photos.
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Escaping to the tunnels to avoid wintry weather just got a whole lot more interesting. An exhibition of 25 photographs from the 2008 Presidential Campaign opened in the tunnels beneath the Law School on January 26. The exhibit, titled "On the Road: Campaign '08," is the work of Brett Marty, a photographer and filmmaker based in San Francisco.
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During the 2008 election campaign, the Barack Obama '91 crowed to no end about reuniting the country and achieving bipartisanship - while simultaneously promising such stock sundries of Democratic Party politics as universal health care and improved education.
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Judge Guido Calabresi, former Yale Law School dean and current YLS professor and Circuit Court Judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New Haven, delivered a lecture to HLS students on Sunday, April 5, entitled "What Does a Catholic Judge Do When the Law is Wrong?" Calabresi's first question was an unexpectedly religious one: "How can somebody of faith even be a judge," given Jesus's words in the seventh chapter of Matthew, "Judge not, lest ye be judged?" Calabresi answered by explaining that a judge, while required to play his or her part in protecting the broader society by convicting the guilty, must never render a personal judgment - must never, in his words, see a defendant as "scum.
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What is it that is destroyed when car bomb explodes in Baghdad? How is the world changed when an affable shopkeeper, caught in that blast, is consigned to the anonymity of death? When does life return to normal in a country which has become divided along sectarian lines? Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid has learned the deeply human answers to these imponderables while spending more than a decade in the Middle East reporting on the conflicts in Lebanon and Iraq as well as events and social changes throughout the region.
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In Ankara last week, President Barack Obama '91 could not have been more explicit: "we are not at war with the Muslim world," he said, in a widely-reported address to the Turkish parliament. Such seemingly obvious but important statements - along with moments of symbolism, such as Obama's visit to Istanbul's Blue Mosque - might be among the most significant actions the U.
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Major General Antonio Taguba called for an independent commission to investigate war crimes committed by senior members of the Bush Administration in remarks in Ames Courtroom on Tuesday, April 14.