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On November 12th, 2007, the Human Rights Program at the Harvard Law School hosted Professor Brian Burdekin, former Special Advisor on National Institutions to the first three UN High Commissioners of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
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Harvard Law hoopsters extended their reign of terror November 16th, when they won the HLS v. YLS Court Classic, 58-43, for their third victory in a row over regional and US News rival Yale Law School. The game, which was held in New Haven this year, was part of the Harvard v.
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1L guy sits down next to a girl he knows. She is drinking a Mountain Dew. He says, "Gah! That stuff is going to kill your sperm!" No laughter. She just stares at him. He laughs and says, "Uh, sorry." Then he pulls out his four highlighters - all stuck together like a baton, and twirls them.
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Over the break Kermit delivered jambes de grenouille to the writers on the WGA picket line and he felt inspired. Then the registrar sent out the notice that they would not return student's key drives this semester. This was a bridge to far and Kermit dropped his books and went with his friends to picket around Pound until the registrar relented.
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Massachusetts is one of 16 states that still allows dog racing. There are two greyhound racing tracks in Massachusetts, not far at all from the law school: Wonderland Greyhound Park is in Revere, MA and Raynham Park is in Taunton. Each one of these tacks requires at least 1,000 dogs to be operational, and the life of a racing greyhound isn't what the owners of the "parks" would have you believe.
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While TV is awash in lawyer shows (most of them terrible), it's funny that one of the best - and certainly most humorous - lawyers on TV comes from a sitcom. Marshall (Jason Segel) on How I Met Your Mother spent the show's first two years as a second and third year law student at Columbia.
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Although Battlestar Galactica: Razor, a two hour made-for-TV movie connected with the Sci-Fi channel television series, doesn't air on TV until November 24th, two Record staffers managed to see a sneak preview in theatres Monday night (by which I mean we signed up on-line like the rest of the dorks).
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Starring: Tony Leung. Tang Wei Director: Ang Lee Ang Lee's latest movie, Lust, Caution, exhibits considerable lust and much less caution. One leaves the cinema with mixed emotions and the feeling that this was a movie that was almost great; it comes so close that I feel that I ought to love it, I want to love it, but I merely feel that I ought to want to love it.
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Kermit decided to accept his big firm offer with Dewy, Cheetum and Howe. With visions of perennial special one time off-track bonuses floating before his eyes he decided to stop in Vegas on the way back to California. With his financial future secure he could afford to try and double his little nest egg.
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Building A Better Legal Profession (www.betterlegalprofession.org), founded in January 2007 by Stanford Law School students, promises to be a welcome addition to the universe of information available to the vast majority of upper-echelon law students entering large private law firms.
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The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin '86, Fox News' Lis Wiehl '87, and author James B. Stewart '76 offered very distinct perspectives in last Thursday's panel, "Lawyers in the World of Journalism," on how the media should look at the law. Moderated by Professor Noah Feldman, himself a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, the three lawyer-journalists discussed topics ranging from celebrity trials to writing for non-lawyers.
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A look into the rights of the terminally ill to have access to experimental drugs was the focus of debate Monday night in an event co-sponsored by The Journal of Law and Technology, The Federalist Society, The American Constitution Society, and The HLS Ethics, Law, & Biotechnology Group.