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Re: "Judges??What Do They Know?"?(page 1, Mar. 5): Former New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse recently made a false claim at HLS that exemplifies her sloppy reporting. She claimed the Supreme Court's 2007 Ledbetter decision, which held that a worker's claim of discrimination was time-barred, failed to understand that people often learn "of pay disparities long after they started.
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A disquieting storm brews over the west coast of the Indian subcontinent. In Mangalore, a group of ideologically armed and morally dangerous radical Hindus have suddenly risen to national prominence by threatening to defend an amorphous notion of 'Indian culture' from 'western' influences.
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BOARD EDITORIAL American International Group (AIG), the once-proud and preeminent insurer, got a good old-fashioned dose of American anger this week when it announced that it was paying over $165 million of bonuses to 418 employees. AIG insisted that the bonuses, dozens of which exceeded $1 million, had to be paid or else it would be violating its contractual obligations.
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When Rishi Reddi graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in English, she made a deal with her parents. They would let Reddi attend law school - and finance her studies, at Northeastern - rather than fulfilling their hope she would go into medicine, only if she agreed not to go into medical malpractice.
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We wanted to let you that we are running together for President and Vice President of Student Government for the 2009-2010 year, and we want your support. We are committed to preserving the student-oriented focus that Dean Kagan forged at Harvard Law School.
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We are the ticket that can accomplish your goals and we have a track record of doing so. When you look at what we have already accomplished, we hope that our ability and willingness to represent you will become clear: ? Brought the donuts back to Construction Cart Wednesdays.
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From Crazy at Law to Farewell my Dean, the Harvard Law School Drama Society's The Hark Knight, offers, in the words of co-directors Megan Gaffney '09 and Harry Drozdowski '09, "a chance to laugh at ourselves and others, and remember that the best way to get through this strange law school world is with humor.
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It was a disgustingly early 3:30 in the afternoon, but Fenno was uncommonly excited to haul himself from bed and into the skin-splintering cold of a rejuvenated New England winter. He had only one class that day - the Law and Anthropology Workshop - and it was the one time slot on Fenno's schedule he had never fudged neither the beginning or the end of.
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Once again the Record catches up with JESSICA CORSI, our correspondent from the other Cambridge, who is pursuing her LL.M. at that vaunted U.K. institution. This week, Jessica explores Britain's intricate hangups over class. I remember reading an application for Oxford study abroad programs when I was an undergraduate in which the FAQs section helpfully informed interested parties that if they thought they were coming to Oxford to meet British royalty, they were sorely mistaken.
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This year's Student Government still has work to do-but it's already time to start thinking about picking next year's representatives. Elections will take place on March 18th and 19th, and candidacy statements must be emailed to me, David Kessler (dkessler@law.
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When the Troubled Asset Relief Program was first implemented by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the primary rationale put forward for departing from an asset protection model to a recapitalization model was the need to provide confidence to the markets without wasting taxpayer dollars.
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When we learned Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project, was coming to speak at HLS as part of a Journal on Legislation panel on border security and immigration reform, we were skeptical. We knew that the Minuteman Project sends groups of armed individuals to the U.