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With only a hundred days left until graduation Kermit pulled out his messenger bag from Admitted Students Weekend. Fondly he remembered the first time that he walked through the doors of the Austin Hall and the first time that he stumbled out of the doors of the Kong.
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This week, Harvard Law announced possibly its biggest recruiting coup in years: Professor Cass Sunstein, the most-cited scholar in the legal academy, will be joining the HLS faculty next year from the University of Chicago Law School. Sunstein, who has written widely in administrative, environmental, and constitutional law, as well as other areas, will be heading a new Program on Risk Regulation.
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It's the season for transitions at Harvard Law - in the last few weeks, both the Legal Aid Bureau and the Harvard Law Review have elected new leadership. Over at Gannett House, the Law Review's 122nd president was 2L Robert "Bob" Allen, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Emory University and a Sears Prize winner.
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In a letter sent in November to Dean Kagan and other law school heads across the country, consumer advocate and oft-presidential candidate Ralph Nader '58 posed critical questions about American law schools' career services policies, their choice of preferred lenders of student loans, and their high tuition rates.
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Take a deep breath my fellow 3Ls and imgaine inhaling the scent of freedom. For me in San Francisco, it smells like damp fog and the salt of the sea, with a faint hint of garlic fries, but for you it might be the pizza and Indian joints downstairs in your Brooklyn flat, or the freshly cut grass of your parents' house somewhere in the suburbs.
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Dear Editor, [In your 2/7/08 edition] your Editorial Board showed maturity and leadership when it took a courageous stand in favor of maintaining the 3L writing requirement, despite the decision of the Harvard Law School administration to essentially destroy it, with minimal advanced consultation with the students of Harvard Law School.
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Last week the administration sent an email to the student body announcing that the law school Coop and the Harkness Commons mailboxes would be displaced by the new building construction from this summer until the new building is complete, which will be several years from now.
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Construction on the Northwest Corner Project is proceeding apace, Mark Johnson, Harvard's Director of Major Capital Projects and Physical Planning, told students at a town-hall style meeting on Tuesday, February 19. Johnson praised the project's architectural firm, Robert A.
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Bob Allen Elected 122th Law Review President The Harvard Law Review has elected 2L Bob Allen as its new president, replacing outgoing president Andrew Crespo. "Bob is a warm and caring leader who is deeply respected by all of our editors," said Crespo. Through his dedication to the Law Review and his insightful approach to legal scholarship, he will make a real contribution to our organization and to the pieces we publish.
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With law school graduates like Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and CNN's Jeffrey Toobin '86 rapidly becoming media mainstays, it comes as little surprise that journalism ranks as one of the most sought after alternative career choices among HLS students. The school, and at least one student group, have responded to demand: last Thursday presented a banquet of options for students interested in entering the field.
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As part of a multi-year commitment to studying National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program invited Morten Kjaerum, Executive Director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, to speak at the law school last Friday.
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Michael Clayton tells the story of attorney Clayton (George Clooney), an in-house "fixer" at Kenner, Bach & Ledeen, one of the largest corporate law firms in Manhattan, New York. The career of Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton), the in-house chief counsel of an agrochemical company, rests on the firm's settlement of a suit.