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Last week, Southern California saw some of its worst fires in decades, displacing more than half a million residents, evacuating over 350,000 homes and destroying over 2,000, and resulting in five deaths and over 140 injuries. Among those affected were the families of dozens of Harvard Law students, as well as many Southern California law firms and businesses that had been planning to interview law students during the week.
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On Tuesday, October 16th, Ames Courtroom was filled with 150 students who were there to watch Jonathan Hafetz, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, moot his upcoming argument before the 4th Circuit's en banc rehearing of Al-Marri v. Wright. The event, presented by Dean Kagan, the American Constitution Society, the Federalist Society, and the Appellate Practice Clinic, featured a panel of Professors Jonathan Hacker, Martha Minow, Gerald Neuman, and Mark Tushnet, along with Mr.
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On Tuesday, October 16, Harvard Law professor Daryl Levinson gave a lunchtime presentation to students interested in entering legal academia. Levinson acknowledged that there has always been a great deal of mystery surrounding the qualifications for becoming a law professor.
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Director: Tony Gilroyu Starring: George Clooney, Sydney Pollack, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson Every year there is at least one law-related movie heavily publicized as a definite hit. Michael Clayton is this year's movie and it lives up to its publicity. George Clooney portrays Michael Clayton, the in-house "fixer" of the nationally renowned law firm Kenner, Bach & Ledeen.
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Fenno slicked back his hair and adjusted his tie, then glanced at his reflection in the mirror. Damn, he looked good. After several weeks of fervent preparation (or at least preparations as fervent as the average 3L could work up the energy to be), Fenno was ready for OCI.
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Last Wednesday, October 10th, Senator Hillary Clinton took the stage at Boston Symphony Hall to lay out the case for her presidency. She was, admittedly, among friends -- a couple thousand who had paid at least twenty dollars to sit through hot and cold speeches and Wellesley a capella, sing along to the Goo Goo Dolls, and then cheer wildly in her presence.
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I am an outspoken critic of Harvard on many administrative issues. In the wake of last year's grade viewing fiasco, for example, the Harvard Crimson interviewed me on the subject, publishing the cattiest-sounding quotes they could pick out of the interview (thanks, Crimson...although to be fair, there were probably a lot of catty-sounding quotes to choose from).
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On September 30th's edition of 60 Minutes, journalist Steve Kroft profiled Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for his upcoming book, My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir. Thomas comports himself genially. He appears affable, engaging and slightly funny. Thomas has many detractors, especially among black Americans who conclude he swapped his racial consciousness for a permanent seat on the nation's highest court.
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Last Wednesday, Harvard Law School Alliance For Israel co-sponsored a lively discussion held at Harvard Hillel on the subject: "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Challenges of Moderation." The featured speakers were Sari Nusseibeh, President of Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, and Benjamin Pogrund, INSPIRE Fellow at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University.
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What is the appropriate response to events such as those reported from Burma over the last number of weeks? That was the question in the air for the crowd that gathered last Tuesday night for the first event of the newly-formed HLS Burma Campaign. Captivated by the troubling images that had flooded our airwaves - images of saffron-robed monks and unarmed civilians lining the streets, of peaceful protest met by a military response and of a dictatorship engaged in violently crushing efforts at democracy - students from a variety of disciplines at Harvard turned their minds to the question of response.
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The work of Benedict Anderson has long been a staple of history and anthropology classes. His 1983 book, Imagined Communities, capped academic debates about nationalism that had been raging for decades. Circumventing the Marxist rhetoric that had become orthodox in academia by that time, it dared to discuss nationalism in literary terms, such as "narrative" and "imagination".
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Last Thursday the American Constitution Society hosted a Supreme Court Preview with Tom Goldstein and Patricia Ann Millet, co-heads of the Supreme Court practice group at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld. Goldstein, also the head writer for SCOTUSblog, drew a crowd of avid Supreme Court followers and blog readers as well as a number of other students curious about the future of the Court.