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Last week, the Record profiled the many HLS affiliates on the advisory board and senior staff of Barack Obama '91's presidential transition team. In this edition, we delve into the rumors about the President-elect's cabinet selections to speculate on which alums might make the cut.
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Describing the detention of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) as a "net loss" for the United States, John Bellinger '86, Legal Advisor to the Secretary of State, called for the new administration to close the beleaguered military base, but admitted that this was easier said than done.
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Calling the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller a "Second Amendment revolution," Profession Cass Sunstein '78 declared in a panel discussion about the landmark Supreme Court decision on Tuesday, November 18. Sunstein was joined by fellow HLS Professor Lani Guinier and Yale Law School Professors Akhil Amar and Reva Siegel.
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On March 9, 2007, Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said "no" to President Pervez Musharraf's request that he resign, and his defiance sparked a revolution of lawyers who refused to allow guns to drown out the voice of the law.
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Visiting Professor Lynn LoPucki LLM '70 and Yale Law School Professor Jonathan Macey, discussed whether the free market can effectively police financial institutions, in a panel sponsored by The Federalist Society.
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Legal scholar and technology expert Orin S. Kerr '97 spoke on an important and long-standing Fourth Amendment issue: search and seizure protection in the age of the Internet. Kerr focused his discussion on the "third party doctrine," the theory that a subject gives up his Fourth Amendment rights with respect to information revealed or disclosed to a third party, saying it is critical to how criminal law and criminal procedure apply online.
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As far as action movies go, Quantum of Solace was adequate. Most of the good parts from past Bond movies turned up: lavish opening credits (including silhouettes of giant nude women in sand-I'm not kidding), M, beautiful Bond babes (yes, he does sleep with one of them), exotic locales, and an ending scene with explosions galore.
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Record Editor-in-Chief Andrew L. Kalloch corresponded with Record writer Joel Pollak '09 during his recent book launch in South Africa. Pollak's book, titled The Kasrils Affair: Jews and Minority Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa, will be available soon.
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"They've removed the Halloween decorations...for Christmas ones. Didn't there used to be some holiday in between? And didn't it even have some serious, pseudo-patriotic, quasi-religious significance?"
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Students living in on-campus dorms have been issued a challenge and an appeal to their competitive spirit: try to be more efficient than the next dorm. The challenge, issued by the administration's new Office of Sustainability, offers incentives (a victory party with food and drink) for the competition winners, as a supplement to the more intangible reasons typically given for energy efficiency, such as energy security and global warming.
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On a day that witnessed its namesake rewarded with the Law School's highest honor, the Honorable Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Team took home top honors at the 97th annual Ames Moot Court Competition on Tuesday night. The Harper Lee Team was awarded Best Brief, while the Chaudhry Team won best oralist.
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The election of Barack Obama '91 has unleashed a flurry of speculation over who will be considered for the new President's administration. Many of the choices will be made from among the horde of prominent liberals at the nation's top universities, and it comes as no surprise that one of the heaviest concentrations of these individuals - and one of the greatest potential sources of Obama administration appointments - is Harvard.