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And then there were two: nervous investors awoke Monday to the shocking news that Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old investment bank, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. That same morning, another storied bank fell victim to the deepening financial crisis as Merrill Lynch was purchased by Bank of America. Their failures left only two independent investment banks on Wall Street: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall in an address entitled "Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future," on the morning of Thursday, September 11, 2008. The passionate but precise economist called for the recognition of the intermeshed dilemmas posed by an overcrowded planet and an increasingly interconnected globe.
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Widely considered one of the most ambiguous areas of legal scholarship, the separation of powers often comes to the fore at times of divided government and international conflict. Three renowned legal scholars discussed and debated current separation of powers issues before a nearly-full Ames Courtroom on Sept. 9. The event was the first in a series of panels sponsored by the Federalist Society. Professor Noah Feldman, Professor Jack L. Goldsmith, and William K. Kelley, the Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School treated audience members to a lively discussion.
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The events that have shaken the financial world were the culmination of an all too common refrain in America's market-exuberance: fueled by obscene greed, followed by a sobering crash which leaves the taxpayers holding the bag for those who grasped at the Golden Ring one too many times. One would think that we would have learned our lesson from history.
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Speaking to a standing-room-only audience in the Ames Courtroom during her State of the School Speech on Monday, September 16, Dean Elena Kagan remarked that Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis' enthusiasm about HLS' future had been born out today, as the school again worked to reshape legal education. Touching on five areas - faculty appointments, public service, curricular reform, campus improvements, and technology - she outlined the school's achievements over the last year as well as its goals for the next.
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Early on the morning of Saturday, September 13th, Hurricane Ike, a roaring behemoth of a storm, swept off the Gulf of Mexico, blasting the island of Galveston, Texas with a wall of sea water. As the eye of the storm passed overhead, residents who had been warned of "certain death" ventured into the streets to survey their battered community and seek high ground.
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After seeing reports in the US media of xenophobic violence in South Africa prior to my departure for Cape Town, I was originally concerned about my safety. However, as I soon discovered, xenophobia in South Africa means only a dislike of other black Africans, not white legal interns from America. Instead, the violence was directed at people from other African nations, primarily the DRC, Somalia, and Zimbabwe, who fled to South Africa to escape violence and/or poor economic situations in their home countries.
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As we head into the fall On-Campus Interview Program (OCI), the Office of Career Services would like to de-mystify the process and help you prepare for the intense, exciting, and busy weeks ahead.
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Can this really mean peace? This question swirled in my head as I looked at the draft agreement in my hands. For the past thirty or so years, Filipino Muslim separatists have waged an armed rebellion against the Philippine government. Was it really possible that after seven years of negotiations with the main rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), peace was no more than a signature away?
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At OPIA, we believe that practicing law is about more than making a living or representing clients competently and ethically. We have found that no matter what your ideals are, if you are not in the right job, you will not be happy.
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Conventional wisdom has it that first-year law students can only talk about the law, and new parents can only talk about their children. Try being a 1L and becoming a parent in the same year. For the past six months all I've been able to talk about is how my son Andrew is unconstitutional neither facially nor as applied, and how Mass G.L. c. 234A,
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As he shut the phone on his former boss, Fenno had an epiphany. Maybe life wasn't about being smugly satisfied with one's righteous - yet strictly nine-to-five - work on behalf of the less fortunate. Maybe, life had more to do with that dreaded list of estates in property, the order of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or even, god help him, Bluebooking.