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"Would we have been better off without a bill of rights?" This is not a question that is often asked at Harvard Law School, yet it was just this sort of deeply philosophical question that a student asked during Dr. Roger Pilon's January 31st remarks on unenumerated rights.
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For all that it sounds like the writer's strike might end as early as this week, we can expect American television to be a wasteland for quite some time while shows gear back up into production. So what's a 3L with a bit of free time on their hands to do? Many people might suggest you become an "American Idol" fan or pick up a Netflix subscription.
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We find ourselves largely confused by the law school administration's decision to reduce the 3L writing requirement into functional irrelevance. Certainly we can see that there are some rationales for the decision - it might encourage students to take seminars and to get involved with journals; it removes a hoop students have to jump through for graduation; and it will presumably reduce the burden on faculty to supervise such papers.
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Monday's event on the Heller v. District of Columbia gun rights case, sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society, felt more like a lesson in history than a legal battle. Attorneys Tom Goldstein, arguing for the District, and Alan Gura, speaking for the gun owners, took those in attendance into the depths of Constitutional history.
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Primaries and caucuses in nearly half the states in the country failed to resolve the presidential race Tuesday, sending the candidates on to later primaries to gather the delegates necessary to clinch the nomination. On the Republican side, the path looked best for Senator John McCain, who won a large number of states, and because most Republican contests were winner-take-all, locked up several hundred delegates.
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2008 has proven another busy year for fellowships at the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising. In addition to the fellowship winners already reported on in the Record, a host of recent graduates and 3Ls have received funding to pursue public interest projects.
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Visiting Professor Roger Ballentine invited Senator John Kerry to speak to his Law of Climate Change class on January 16. Ballentine, the former Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton, introduced Kerry as one of the most involved politicians in climate change policy.
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January 2007: my husband Dan suggests we take the Jeopardy! online test, the first step in qualifying for the quiz show we've both been watching our whole lives. For no good reason, I don't do it, and he does. It's not like he will actually get on the show, so I don't think much of it.
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Admin Announces New, Friendlier 3L Paper Requirement At the end of the 2L/3L finals period, the HLS administration announced a sweeping change in the law school's written work requirement, allowing students to opt out of the traditional long research paper and substitute two pieces of writing from clinicals, moot court, seminar reaction papers, or journal writing.
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Fenno took a sip of his coffee and checked his e-mail one wintry December morning, the first of several breaks from his half-hearted stab at completing his take-home professional responsibility final. But the first message in his inbox made him gasp so hard he almost spilled his lukewarm-but-free beverage.
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After the state of South Carolina gave the wag of its finger to Kermit's favorite candidate, Stephen Colbert, Kermit had to decide who to vote for. So putting his law school skills to work he drafted a three part analysis where each candidate would be ranked on a scale of 1-10 on each part leaving him with a clear decision of who he must vote for.
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Macbeth, Shakespeare's epic tragedy, is a story of ambition gone awry. Macbeth's drive for power, encouraged by the prodding of his wife, leads him inexorably to murder. After slaughtering King Duncan, Macbeth famously declares, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas in incarnadine, Making the green one red.