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Now that Halloween has passed, it's time to take those un-carved pumpkins off your porches and bake the pumpkin pies the month of November seems to necessitate devouring. What, you say you are too tired to make a pumpkin pie from scratch because you are a busy law student? What, you don't have a porch because you live in a dorm? And even if you did, you wouldn't have had time to buy a pumpkin, because, as already noted, you are a busy law student? The Record has the solution! It's quite simple, actually.
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Launched in 1999 as TeacherRatings.com, converted in 2001 to RateMyProfessors.com, sold in 2005, and then resold in January 2007 to a subsidiary of Viacom, RateMyProfessor.com took a few years to develop into the intriguing resource for undergraduate and graduate students it is now.
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Fenno exited the Hark, dragging his wheely suitcase behind him. Thank God enough of his on-campus interviews had come through that he had been able to jettison the public interest deadwood and schedule himself with a full slate of callbacks for fly-out week.
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After 15 minutes of soul searching Kermit decided to make his first political endorsement. He decided to endorse Stephen Colbert for the Office of President. Stephen will not let facts influence his decisions, he will bring truthiness back to Washington and be able to explain his policy decisions in half-hour self promotional news conferences.
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It's time for some study abroad dim sum! In the tradition of dim sum - the traditional Cantonese cuisine that involves an array of light plates and finger foods - this week's column will offer a little taste of various observations and goings on from around Hong Kong and mainland China, where I spent my fall break.
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In Tuesday's Boston Globe, Professor Charles Fried compares the departures from the Constitution by Lincoln and FDR to the warrantless wiretapping and rendition of the Bush administration and bemoans the loss of "prudence and reasonableness" as a guide to legal action in emergency situations.
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BOARD EDITORIAL Environmentalism, long a fairly dead topic, has been getting a lot of press lately, and it's nice to see that HLS is beginning to pay attention. Recent improvements in the Hark, for instance, are heartening, and we applaud the non-disposable salad bowls and the napkin dispensers designed to prevent people from grabbing entire stacks and throwing them away, unused, thirty minutes later.
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Director: Sean Penn Starring: Emile Hirsch "Into the Wild" may be the perfect fall movie. As classes move inexorably toward finals for which we are not prepared, and as the days get shorter and colder, there is something highly satisfying in watching a movie about someone who (a) opts out of the system entirely, and (b) endures physical conditions much more strenuous than even the worst that the Boston winter will throw at us.
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On October 29, Harvard Law faculty and students gathered in the Caspersen Room of Langdell Library to honor Professor Mark Tushnet on the occasion of his appointment as the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law. Following a brief introduction by Dean Kagan, Tushnet gave a talk entitled "Four Models of the First Amendment.
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Dina Awerbuch's October 18th article, "Prof. Levinson Demystifies the Path to Legal Academia," drew discussion on law blogs including the Volokh Conspiracy (www.volokh.com), Concurring Opinions (www.concurringopinions.com), and ELS talk (http://els-talk.blogspot.
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The Record has reported on, editorialized about, and made fun of the Autoadmit message board (www.autoadmit.com or www.xoxohth.com) a number of times over the past two years, most recently covering HLS's panel on anonymous Internet speech ("Panel Debates Online Anonymity," April 12, 2007) and running board administrator Jarret Cohen's editorial about the same subject ("Free Expression on the Internet," April 12, 2007).
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Prof. David Kennedy Heads to Brown Brown University's new position of vice president for international affairs will be filled by international law professor David Kennedy, a 1976 graduate of Brown. Kennedy will officially take the post January 1st, but remain at HLS as a visiting professor.