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The Registrar's office is proud to announce the Spring 2009 Exam Schedule. Some of the more popular classes are listed below-- just use our handy abbreviations!' Tribe, Con Law: SDTHCB 5/6 in AHWES Fallon, Federal Courts: ICOBX4 5/12 in LILC201T4 Sunstein, Environmental Law: TBFACU, Any Day, WW of WH Minow: 1L Civ Pro:?ICCB in READ?IT?& WEEP, 5/13 Feldman, Race, Religion, and the Law:?WHATEVS.
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Just in case you had any doubts, I am still the most qualified, most successful, and most impressive lawyer who has ever lived. Period. I know some of you harbor some doubts because Barack hasn't yet nominated me for anything, but let me remind you of why they call me the Nivian of the Ninth Circuit, the Galadriel of Pro Bono, and the Cruella of Corporate Litigation.
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Recently I have received some complaints from students who were disappointed that I chose to accept the most kickass job known to man, Czar of All Things, rather than sticking around your dumpy school. Truth is, I spent about five minutes, 57 seconds between Elena introducing me at HLS and Obama (who I once had a say in hiring, FTW) conferring me with the power of a regulatory god.
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It worked. I can't believe it actually worked. I mean, when all the gossip rags started crowing about the HLS faculty lounge moving to the Potomac, they had no idea how right they really were. But now I've got Cass, Jody, and Barron all down here successfully, and the Senate has made me the Crimson-haired lioness in Holder's legal lair (it's a pity you couldn't have taken your rightful position, 'Tree, but, you must be aware by now, 'Bam had debts to settle at Columbia, too).
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Carl M. Loeb University Professor Laurence Tribe published a 1200-page treatise on something this week. Rumors are that the subject of the book is a thorough history of Equal Protection, but no one really knows because only a single person in the entire world has actually read the book, 3L Varson Cadillac.
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Despite a shrinking budget and cost overruns, Harvard Law School will push forward with a plan to open two satellite campuses in the growing global hotspots of Beijing and Dubai. The move follows other universities, Georgetown, NYU, and Yale, which have moved aggressively to open facilities in countries outside the United States and more traditional study abroad locations, like Europe.
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Cambridge, MA-Students in Professor Akhil Reed Amar's Constitutional law class cringed in horror Tuesday as Amar's ego plunged its sword through the heart of the scholar, felling him in the midst of another soliloquy by the Professor pronouncing his own unparalleled brilliance.
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The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) lived up to its reputation of responding quickly to emerging crises by expanding its service to include representation of displaced, disgraced bankers. Said HLAB Managing Attorney Grave Drossman, "Few people know that HLAB was one of the first groups on the ground helping Greenwich, Connecticut residents coping with a catastrophic .5% increase in their property taxes."
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President Barack H. Obama '91 shocked the nation today in a joint announcement with Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg by indicating that the cancer-stricken Ginsburg will be stepping down from her position immediately to undergo intensive chemotherapy and allow the President to nominate as her replacement First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama '88.
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On March 17th, the Journal of Law and Technology held its annual symposium, and this year the title and focus of the event was "Delivering Medicines to Developing Countries." A series of panels featuring professors, pharmaceutical industry representatives, and non-governmental organizations discussed some of the legal, political, and technical barriers that make it difficult to provide essential medicines to the developing world.
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The frozen global credit markets and blizzard of bad economic news have cast a snowy winter upon corporate legal work, and with each passing week more firms are announcing cost reduction strategies that signal a tightening legal labor market. The Harvard Law School Office of Career Services recently convened a panel to address the concerns of HLS students, especially 3L's, and share information about the current downturn in legal employment.
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The U.S.-led War in Afghanistan, plagued by unclear goals and unintended consequences, must change course, according to Tariq Ali. Condemning the conduct of the conflict, the influential London-based Pakistani historian, journalist, and editor of the New Left Review also touched on the regrouping of the Taliban and the geopolitical motivations for NATO's presence in the region.