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Ed Norton, HLS '71, spoke to a standing room only crowd in Hauser Hall Tuesday night in a presentation entitled "Environment and Law: Lessons from China and Indonesia." Norton spoke about his work with the Nature Conservancy in China and Indonesia, particularly China's Yunnan province, where he had worked to establish a system of nature preserves and to strengthen the protections on already existing reserves.
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On Wednesday, September 26th, the law school administration hosted a town hall meeting to discuss progress and future plans for the construction of the Northwest Corner building. Mark Johnson, Harvard's Director of Major Capital Projects and Physical Planning, began his presentation by explaining good-naturedly, "I'm the scapegoat...everything that you see is my fault in one way or another.
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On Monday, October 1, the Berkman Center and the Heyman Fellowship Program hosted a panel of government experts to give some advice to President Bush's nominee for Attorney General, former federal Judge Michael Mukasey. Assembled in front of a standing-room-only crowd of students and on speakerphone from around the country, and moderated by Senior Heyman Fellow in Residence James Flug, the veterans weighed in on what the new Attorney General will need to do in terms of hiring, prosecutions, national security, and working with the White House.
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Priscilla Smith, Supreme Court litigator in Gonzales v. Carhart, spoke about the impact the case will have on reproductive rights litigation in Austin East on September 26th. Approximately sixty students attended the talk, entitled "Gonzales v. Carhart: Expanding Restrictions on the Right to Choose", and many stayed late to ask questions.
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Eight 1Ls took home prizes at the 54th annual Williston Competition, run by the Program on Negotiation at HLS. Teammates Mary-Hunter Morris and Sean McDonnell and teammates Evan Simpson and Harry Drozdowski won for best contract overall. Teammates David Kessler and Trevor Cox and teammates Avery Day and G.
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Second Amendment interpretation and the future of gun control laws in America were the focus of a September 27th debate between Harvard Law Professor Mark Tushnet and Clark Neily, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice. The event, sponsored by the Harvard Federalist Society, came in response to the expected certiorari grant for Parker v.
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Feldsuk Hits HLS! HLS almost had it all...skating rink, finals massages, flat screens...but we didn't have our own Brangelina. Until now. Rejoice, mortals: Feldsuk has arrived! Lawker caught new hire Prof. Noah Feldman at the Hark recently pushing a hip orange stroller containing, we hope, the next generation of really good-looking Supreme Court clerks and law professors.
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Snack Cart * * * 1/2 The quality of the snack cart snacks is almost beside the point (and, for what it's worth, ice cream sandwiches can never be bad, precisely). The point is that the school is giving us free snacks on Wednesday afternoons. Why Wednesdays? Who cares? They're free! The cynical may point out that this, like the ice skating rink and free coffee, is a remarkably effective marketing ploy that (a) builds a sense of brand loyalty among students, and (b) distracts them from larger issues, such as last year's Legal Services Center budget cuts.
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"Coming out" as the first openly nontheist member of the United States Congress, Representative Fortney "Pete" Stark (D-CA) quipped, "I'm pleased that I'm in Cambridge and not in Salem!" On September 20, 2007, Congressman Stark spoke publicly for the first time about his atheism to an audience of approximately 300 members of the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, the Harvard Law School Heathen Society, and various other atheist, agnostic, secular, humanist, and nonreligious groups.
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ANDREA SAENZ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A long list of protections have been put in place by law schools and the National Association of Law Placement to allow students flexibility in their job searches. Among other things, NALP employers agree, under threat of beatings with firm logo-emblazoned umbrellas, to allow students to consider job offers for long periods of time, so as not to unduly pressure them.
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After I arrived in Hong Kong for my study abroad program, the most common question I received from friends and family was, "How are you adapting? Are you feeling some culture shock?" Adapting to life in Hong Kong society has been remarkably easy. Adapting to life at Hong Kong University has been spectacularly hard.
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Four Harvard Law School students attended a rally in Jena, Louisiana to protest against the treatment of the "Jena 6," six black students charged with the assault of a white teenager after a string of racially-charged events that have drawn national attention.