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To the Editor: In your most recent edition, Erin Archerd wrote an article in which Erin describes in great detail what is currently missing from Harvard Law School. She listed: free copies, free water, free public transportation, better tampons, a financial advisor, better bathrooms, cloth towels, perfume, deodorant, combs, tissues, hand moisturizer and mini toothbrushes, just to name of few.
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The newly elected Board of Directors for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau has voted to overhaul its annual selection competition for the incoming 2007-08 Bureau class. The Board has decided to abandon the traditional blind process to one that will take into account applicants' experiences, skills, and investment in the 94 year-old institution.
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Tony Leon, Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Africa, will address Harvard Law School students and faculty on the subject of South Africa's record on the United Nations Security Council. Questions, debate and discussion will follow, and refreshments will be served.
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Observers were witness to a contentious debate over the future of Jarvis Field at Monday's Alternative Sports Law panel in Pound 103. Co-sponsored by the Office of Career Services and Law Students for Sports and Leisure, the panel sought to bring together recent alums to share their experiences working in the alternative sports industry.
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As part of the World of Law series, OCS and OPIA held a session exploring in-house counsel last week. Pound 107 filled up with students eager to learn about what this career path offers and how to become in-house counsel. To introduce the panelists and answer one of the main questions, moderator Ginny Greiman began by asking the participants to speak about their jobs and how they got there.
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It could be your bright young college student, your neighbor, or your wife and mother whose life is shattered when her credit is "Maxed Out" warned this eponymous film, screened last Wednesday in the Ames Courtroom at an event co-sponsored by the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center - Predatory Lending/Consumer Protection Clinic and Americans for Fairness in Lending.
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Jennie Lin (3L, Housing) recently won a victory for a client who had been denied an apartment because of illegal discrimination. In a handful of places in the U.S., it is illegal to discriminate against potential tenants based on their source of income. This means that landlords can't turn away apartment-seekers because they're receiving government assistance.
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Media coverage has focused on whether Barack Obama, 2008 presidential candidate, is Black enough for African-American voters.(1) The fact that he is not descended from African-American slaves has caused some Blacks to hesitate in supporting him. On the other hand, little analysis has been made about Barack Obama's Whiteness.
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"Welcome to Harvard Law - the most unreasonable of all." Robert Langdell (Kees Vandenberg) is just another typical 1L, running to get to class ten minutes before it starts, fretting about Ames, and frantically signing up for professors' office hours. That is, until he finds Professor Charlie Nesson dead in his office.
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St. Patrick's Day had been a blast and after a day of hard drinking Kermit went home to pop open a keg. The next thing he knew it was Tuesday and he was lying on his kitchen table. Kermit decided to just start Spring Break a week early.
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To the Editor: On March 19th, 2007 the New York Times wrote an article under the headline "When Rendering Decisions, Judges Are Finding Law Reviews Irrelevant," in which it was written, "In a cheerfully dismissive presentation, Judge Jacobs and six of his colleagues on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in a lecture hall jammed with law professors...that their scholarship no longer had any impact on the courts.
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be printed in... OVERHEARD IN THE HARK -------------------- Who wants to participate in a medical study? Ad for McLean Hospital study: Seeking healthy smokers or healthy cocaine users.