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The Friday before Thanksgiving, law students and others from all over the Harvard campus spilled out of Hark South to see Visiting Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon discuss her latest book, Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues. Her presentation was hosted by HL Central and the Harvard Women's Law Association.
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Sitting back in his U.S. Airways middle seat, Fenno realized that his Thanksgiving Break had been very strange. Very strange, indeed. He flashed back to Thursday night, remembering himself surrounded by a cloud of chittering relatives. "What was that firm you said you were going to work for again, Fenno?" "What kind of law are you specializing in, Fenno?" And from a particularly obnoxious uncle, "Hey Fenno, looking forward to that bar exam? Heh heh.
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In its October 18, 2007 issue, the Record ran an article entitled "Prof. Levinson Demystifies the Path to Legal Academia," covering a presentation Professor Daryl Levinson gave to students interested in careers in academia. The article received strong reactions from the legal blogosphere, with much criticism aimed at the wide gulf between academia and the "legal world.
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In a recent Record article published on November 8, Pamela Foohey reported that the Dean of Students Office had added a prominent link to Harvard Law School's Sexual Harassment Guidelines on its webpage following a Record investigation into problems some students were having accessing the guidelines on the web.
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Apologies for being out of print last issue. But as I was actually in the United States, attending my sister's nuptials (congratulations, Mila!), I thought it would be disingenuous to write a column called "Hong Kong Dispatch." Of course, I had no ethical problems checking in with updates from Malaysia and mainland China.
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2007 GOAL: 1,000 Gifts After an incredibly successful year in 2006, the Giving Tree at Harvard Law School will begin its third year this evening at the HLS Student Government Kick-Off Trivia Tournament. Presented by the Dean of Students Office, HL Central, the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and the Office for Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, the HLS Giving Tree will raise gifts for the children of families we serve in our clinical and pro bono programs.
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In late September, aspiring public interest lawyers nationwide scored a major victory in the battle against ever-increasing student loan debt. After years of negotiations and debate on loan repayment assistance programs, Congress passed, and President George W.
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Starring: Andrew Estes, Brad Rosen, Audrey Christopher Producers: Andrew Estes & Ariel Fox Director: David Joffe Every fall, the Harvard Law Drama Society stages a musical. This fall, the Drama Society presented "Kiss of the Spider Woman." The musical, with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and book by Terrence McNally, revolves around the relationship between Molina, a homosexual window dresser, and Valentin, a Marxist guerilla, in their prison cell.
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Your correspondent read with interest the recent Registrar's Office announcement that "for security reasons, we will not be returning the thumb drives that you use for exams." It used to be the case that when a student submitted an in-class exam on a thumb drive to the proctor, he or she had the chance to get the drive back once the student remembers months later.
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There is a disconnect between what most people think about environmental change and what some people choose to do. The problem, as we academic sophisticates love to say, seems to be a lack of education. Most people understand that our global environment is changing and that the problem is man-made.
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Five titans of the Harvard Law poker world entered the solitary Sterling Building with a hunger for victory. They would be taking on the best players Yale Law could offer in the ultimate test of poker expertise: heads up no limit Texas Hold 'Em. Each would play his respective opponent until one of them had all the chips on the table.
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The Oliver Hill Memorial Team won the 96th Ames Moot Court Competition Wednesday night. The competition was presided over by Justice Antonin Scalia. He was joined on the bench by Judge Debra A. Livingston of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Carlos F.