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Tom Goldstein, the moderator of SCOTUS blog, partner at Akin Gump, and veteran of 18 Supreme Court oral arguments, visited the Law School on September 17th. The American Constitution Society-sponsored presentation was billed as a preview of the upcoming Supreme Court term. In truth, the clinical professor in Supreme Court Literature at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools gave a general commentary on the last few terms of the Supreme Court, tailored to requests from the students in attendance.
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Hailing his career as an "inspiration for law students," Dean Kagan introduced Deval Patrick '82, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as the keynote speaker of the American Constitution Society's kick-off event. The governor encouraged HLS students to become "citizen-lawyers" who can "temper the passions of the time with reason and courage."
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For some students going through OCI, the lure of splitting or even spending their whole summer in Asia is hard to resist. Whether it is the money or the opportunities, more and more lawyers want to practice in Asia. Law students similarly want to get exposure to the Asian legal market. Working in the legal market in Asia, however, is in some ways a strange desire.
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Professor Noah Feldman was honored in the Casperson Room by Dean Elena Kagan with the Bemis Chair in International Law. Feldman used the occasion to call for a "constitutional foreign policy" which would allow the United States to be a leader in the formation of international law. He says that the balance of the rule of law and foreign policy is a role for the court.
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Traitor fits clearly into the parade of recent titles - Syriana, Munich, the Bourne franchise - that try to emphasize the gray nature of both belonging and decisionmaking in the supposedly black-and-white Age of Terror.
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For the first time in its history, the Harvard Art Museum is displaying works from all its collections under one roof. The recently opened Re-View exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum features world-class items from throughout the history of civilization, combined in ways which evoke inspiring comparisons and reveal the continuity of artistic and cultural symbolism across thousands of years.
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Pandora, the online radio, is a fantastic invention. It allows us to set our preferences, while simultaneously exposing us to songs and artists that we otherwise may have breezed by on the virtual walls of iTunes. There's only one problem with it for me: It makes me feel like a girl. And for an all-American man like myself, that just doesn't sit well.
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After 27 years at the University of Chicago, Cass Sunstein '78 is back in Cambridge as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law. Record Editor-in-Chief Andrew L. Kalloch sat down for a chat with Harvard's newest superstar and life-long member of Red Sox Nation.
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Of the roughly 10,000 people who were in the Towers below the crash zones, the vast majority survived thanks to the Herculean efforts of emergency personnel. One can imagine, therefore, the FDNY's reluctance to changing their logo, which includes silhouettes of the now-fallen Towers. Indeed, the City as a whole has kept the image of the Towers in its logos-from the Manhattanville Bus Depot, to the Downtown Alliance, which has officially changed its logo, but whose trash bags, purchased by the millions in the 1990s, eerily retain the Towers' image.
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Fenno glanced around in abject horror. It was true: the room was as devoid of LCD screens as 1972. The situation was unthinkable. How would he pass the time without his painstakingly bookmarked gossip blogs? How would he be able to answer any question at all without someone to IM him a clue? Indeed, how could he even survive without be able to scour News@Law for events with free food?
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On Tuesday September 16, the National Security Law Association gave Harvard students the unique opportunity to peer into the minds of former Islamic extremists. Maajid Nawaz and Ed Husain spoke about their distinct journeys, from growing up in England to serving as leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir and, finally, to heading up Britain's first counter-extremism think tank, the Quilliam Foundation.