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By Chris Szabla The election of Ma Ying-jeou SJD '81 as president of Taiwan has reverberated well beyond East Asia. In comments to the Record, several students concerned with Taiwanese affairs - including Harvard SJD students following in the newly elected president's footsteps - voiced their opinions on the election, and offered to explain Ma's ascendancy.
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By Katie Mapes It's popular advice to tell us graduating 3Ls to look back at the personal statements we wrote applying to law school to remind ourselves what type of person we entered law school hoping to become. Now, as I leave to take a job that has nothing to do with "International Human Rights Law," I realize I need a different metric of how law school has changed me.
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By Rebecca Agule The Iraq War provided the all the necessary context for the Friday, April 18, event entitled "Blackwater and Beyond: Panel on Military Contractor Liability in Iraq." Sponsored by the American Constitution Society, the panel convened three distinct voices in the on-going discussion regarding the legal regime necessary to properly manage the ever-increasing presence of U.
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By David Fotouhi "Change is in the air" on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, despite its reputation as the most liberal court of appeals in the nation. Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. discussed this change, one he has termed "a metamorphosis," in a recent lecture and discussion sponsored by the HLS Federalist Society and HLS Latter Day Saints.
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The Great Library of Alexandria, founded around 300BC, was the locus point for philosophers, mathematicians, and scholars of every kind. At its height, the Library held 750,000 scrolls, acquired by the Ptolemies from the many markets of the Mediterranean.
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By Andrea Saenz After three years as an editor for this paper, it's finally time for me to stop emailing you and begging for low-quality pictures of your moderately attended panel. The Record closes up shop for the year this week, and I'm feeling pretty nostalgic about the good times with this fine publication during my law school career.
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Board Editorial What will HLS look like five years from now? There will be an imposing new edifice standing in the Northwest Corner, but otherwise, we suspect, things will be much the same. Dean Kagan will rock her same black pants and colored blazer duo, and Dean Cosgrove will sport her bright red sweater.
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Right after his last final Kermit's agent called. Kermit wouldn't have to practice law!!! Instead he had an offer to co-host a talk show with the former Mayor of Cincinnati. On the show he would use his negotiation and mediation skills to help regular people work through complicated issues.
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Some of my fellow LL.M. students have asked me to share my sentiments about our experiences at Harvard Law School. I am honored by their request and humbly comply. This is not a good-bye essay but an "until we meet again" message. First and foremost, I congratulate the LL.
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In a few short weeks, the current crop of 3Ls will graduate, and make their way into the world. Doubtless the vast majority will be headed to law firms, which have showered them with gifts and dinners in the course of passionate summer courtships, and now promise them the stability of a long-term commitment: an easy entry (or re-entry) into the "real world.
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Editor's Note: The issue of sex work forms the basis of one of the most heated contemporary arguments among feminists. Those who support the abolition of prostitution often look at poststructuralist/postmodern feminists with confusion and anger. The "pro-sex" position seems like capitulation to male prerogative that lacks any threat to patriarchy; guaranteeing unlimited access to women's bodies is something that men have always demanded, is one of the bases of sex inequality, and damages all women.
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Editor's Note: The issue of sex work forms the basis of one of the most heated contemporary arguments among feminists. Those who support the abolition of prostitution often look at poststructuralist/postmodern feminists with confusion and anger. The "pro-sex" position seems like capitulation to male prerogative that lacks any threat to patriarchy; guaranteeing unlimited access to women's bodies is something that men have always demanded, is one of the bases of sex inequality, and damages all women.