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From the Editorial Board: After our investigation of the grading curve - which resulted in a resounding "it exists, but we can't tell you what it is" from the administration - we at the Record are starting to wonder something. If "the competition is over," if everyone gets a job, if the Sears Prize isn't even announced, if we don't know our class rank, and if OCI employers can't pre-screen candidates, why do we even have grades at all? We don't mean that facetiously.
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Last week, a California appeals court ruled that California law requires parents to send their children to full-time schools or have them taught by credentialed tutors at home. The right at stake, said the court, was not the right of a parent to send their children to a school of their choice, ala Pierce v.
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Kermit puts on the Hawaiian shirt and packs his car for the traditional 2 week 3L spring break. He had his sweatshirt, tux and a cold brew and soon he would be laying on the beach in Florida forgetting Corps and Secured Transactions.
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This year's law school parody, "Harry 'Issue' Spotter and the Goblet of Breyer," was a spectacular concoction of singing, dancing, and, of course, jabs at professors, law firms, a certain very conservative Supreme Court justice, and Harvard Law School in general.
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A stellar career in law and politics came apart this week when New York governor Eliot Spitzer '84 resigned from office after evidence of his patronage of an international prostitution ring came to light Monday. "I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong," Spitzer said at a brief press conference Tuesday.
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"We need to change the soul of the Turkish constitution," claims Turkish leader Dengir Firat, "not just perform aesthetic surgery." In the last few years, Firat's country has emerged as a crucial fulcrum between the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Several professors, professionals, and Lilly Ledbetter, the Supreme Court plaintiff in Ledbetter v. Goodyear (2007) spoke at the law school on Friday, March 7, at the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender's conference on pay discrimination. As noted by the Journal of Law & Gender, on average, women in the United States are paid seventy-seven cents for every dollar earned by men.
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This article is the second in a series talking with 3Ls who have decided not to work in Big Law after graduation. Deborah Popowski worried that her tightly focused job search would limit her options, but with encouragement and a lot of patience waited till she found a job tailored to fit her interests.
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National security, immigration raids, and the workings of the immigration courts were all under discussion March 5 as Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security, spoke at Harvard Law School, hosted by the Society for Law and National Security.
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Professor Hadley Arkes brought his view of the correct way to view judicial opinions to the Federalist Society in Hauser Hall on Thursday February 28th. Arkes, the Edward N. Ney Professor in American Institutions at Amherst College, primarily spoke about the need to reread judicial opinions of the past to understand the approach the judges took.
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Domestic human rights abuses were the focus of the Harvard Human Rights Journal's annual conference. "The United States and Human Rights: Bringing Rights Home." The conference, held at Harvard Law School on March 8, brought together scholars and activists and was moderated by Professor Martha Minow and Mindy Roseman, Academic Director of the Human Rights Program.
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Fenno gasped and exclaimed, "No, he didn't. Hamsters?!" He had, at some point during the previous year, realized it couldn't hurt to cultivate friendly relationships with some of the faculty's secretaries. In fact, it had been an excellent idea; not only had he managed to slip several of his late seminar response papers into already collated piles, the project had also led to the most enlightening gossip sessions over a cozy cup of coffee.