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James Bopp of the James Madison Center for Free Speech appeared before the moot court judges panel Friday in preparation for his anticipated argument before the United States Supreme Court in FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life. Bopp represents Wisconsin Right to Life in this case concerning whether "genuine issue ads" are subject to the same regulations as candidate support ads under campaign finance laws.
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On Wednesday, April 18th, a long list of student organizations hosted Dinner for Darfur, an all-you-can-eat buffet in the Ropes Gray room to benefit displaced persons affected by the genocide in Sudan. The proceeds went to buy solar cookers for refugees in the Iridimi and Toulom camps in Chad.
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On Wednesday, students from around the country began a coordinated two-day campaign of protests and legislative advocacy calling for the restoration of habeas corpus and fair hearings for the almost 400 detainees who still remain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 effectively stripped the Guantanamo detainees of their right to challenge their detention.
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The Harvard Federalist Society along with the National Security & Law Society hosted a discussion on law, liberty, and national security between Professor Adrian Vermeule and Professor David Barron last Friday. Professor Vermeule opened by describing the premise of his new book entitled Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts.
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To the Editor: Recently many newspapers have reported that many Universities have given advantages to private lenders, with dire consequences to overcharged students who must borrow to pay for increases in tuition that have often outpaced inflation. Obviously the students suffer as a result.
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Instead of studying, Kermit and his friend the Grinch-who-Stole-Christmas had a couple of Newcastles and decided to look for the brooding omnipresence of the law in the first four seasons of the X-files. The truth is out there!
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In the shimmering sunlight of the first Friday afternoon of spring, sixteen teams competed in the First Annual Harvard Law School Dodgeball Classic. Although very few HLS students have received formal dodgeball training (except, perhaps, for the tournament's organizer, 1L Brendon Carrington), sixteen teams of fifteen players each signed up for the single-elimination bracket-style tournament, and a good time was had by all.
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When I was a 1L, Professor Dershowitz told my section an anecdote about something a former dean here used to tell the students: "Movies are very important to us here at Harvard Law School," he mock-boomed, "choose the one you see this year very carefully." Thankfully, things have changed since that point, as the very existence of my position here attests.
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On Monday night, the Museum of Bad Art held a Rejection Collection Auction, raising $1,080 dollars for charity. MoBA, whose permanent collection is "conveniently located just outside the men's room" in the basement of the Dedham Community Theater, is the world's preeminent institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, and advancement of bad art.
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Last week's article on the closing of the Law School Coop incorrectly stated that the Coop is owned by Barnes & Noble. The Coop is independently owned, and hires Barnes & Noble for contract management under the Coop's name and cooperative structure. We apologize for the error.
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With this issue, the Record concludes another year on the Harvard Law beat. We hope you've enjoyed our coverage this year, from curriculum changes to salary raises to the difficulties of being green. As it must, the Record board is turning over. Last year, when "that other HLR," the Harvard Law Review, elected its first female president in several years, we responded by electing a female editor-in-chief, Anna Brook, as well as female news and opinion editors.
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Gone are the days of general practice lawyers, or even of general "litigators" and "corporate" and "criminal" lawyers. Those few jack-of-all-trades small-town lawyers have referral networks, and the harried in-house counsel who wear ten hats rely heavily on a menu of outside law firms for complicated matters.