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The sequence is as common as the changing seasons: every year, 1Ls enter HLS hoping to convert their liberal arts educations into an "engaged" career. But after all is said and done, almost all of them will wing up working for firms. Against these odds, the Student Public Interest Network organizes an annual event, "To OCI or not to OCI?" Aimed at convincing these students that On Campus Interviewing ought not be the be-all and end-all of their 2L experience, it functions more like a definite answer than an open question.
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After my 1L summer where I received significant hands-on trial and courtroom experience at the New York Attorney General's office and the criminal defense division of the Legal Aid Society of New York, I sought a public service experience which would challenge me intellectually and improve my writing skills.
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During the course of the year, The Harvard Law Record will showcase a series of photographs of New York City which are linked by a common image: the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. While the Towers were tragically erased from New York's skyline seven years ago, they remain a pervasive part of the city landscape.
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On the eve of China's entry into the club of Olympic host states, a major landmark in the history of peaceful globalization, the tensions which had been building in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia erupted in a conflict which echoes the bygone era of Russian imperialism and the strategic manipulation of satellite states by superpowers.
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He preached the audacity of hope to crowds across the country. He wowed Americans, young and old, with rhetorical flair and a seemingly singular capacity for breaking down barriers of race, class, and ideology. But as spring turned to summer and the pundits began to question whether his new brand of politics was viable in the general election, Barack Obama got scared.
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While we were away this summer: Obama got nominated, Kaine and Romney got snubbed, Sunstein came to Cambridge, SJD Pillay became the new UN Human Rights head, and the new HLS website made its debut.
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Led by The Dark Knight, Hollywood studios brought in more than $4 billion during the summer season. I will not bore you with tired opinions about the box office hits. What I will do is highlight a couple of limited release, independent films.
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The editorial board of the Harvard Law RECORD welcomes the Class of 2011 to the hallowed halls of HLS, and extends a warm hello to the Classes of 2010 and 2009, in particular the loyal readers of the RECORD, who have come to grace us with their presence once more.
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At least week's RNC, VP nominee Sarah Palin and former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani delivered speeches that embraced Republican stereotypes in an effort to rally the party base . What if their opponents had tried to do the same? Record editor Chris Szabla imagines the nomination speech you didn't hear at the Democratic National Convention.
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Last Wednesday, Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left hosted "Beyond Coercion: Radical Voices on Sex Work, Feminism, and the Law," the last panel in Unbound's Spring Speaker Series. The Speaker Series aimed to foster critical dialogue regarding a wide-range of legal issues.
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The chant of change is all around us. For years, Latino (as used here, meaning men and women with ancestry from Spanish-speaking countries and residing permanently in the United States) students and alumni have lobbied for a Latino professor at Harvard Law School.
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By Matt Hutchins If you are seeking broad generalizations and bickering over the next step for our forces in Iraq, you can turn on any TV talk show or presidential election debate, but if you want to hear about boots in the sand, military checkpoints, tribal sheiks, and sectarian politics, you should look for one of the Iraq veterans currently studying at HLS.