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The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau has recently embraced a new approach in its ongoing mission to ameliorate the dual problems of lack of affordability and dilapidated living conditions facing low-income tenants in certain Boston neighborhoods. While still representing a number of individual clients facing eviction, Bureau students have now begun using collective bargaining agreements between tenant associations and their landlords and meetings with community organizers and local government officials in efforts to set the stage for improved tenant-landlord relations in local low-income communities.
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Some people think that the Winter Writing Program is a chance to slack off for three weeks and then throw together a musical theater version of Legally Blonde at the last minute while everyone else is slaving away in class for three to eight hours a day. This, however, is not true.
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Can the Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education be defended with an original understanding of the Constitution? Last Tuesday, students filled Pound 107 to hear Professor Michael Klarman and Judge Michael McConnell debate the question while enjoying pizza provided by the Federalist Society.
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Harvard Law School's Dean Elena Kagan and more than 100 deans from the nation's law schools denounced statements made by a Pentagon official urging corporations to pressure law firms to stop representing terrorism suspects. Last Thursday, Charles "Cully" Stimson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, called on corporate clients to avoid doing business with law firms that provide pro bono legal services to Guantanamo detainees.
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Harvard Law School alums and students have once again earned more Skadden Fellowships than those of any other law school. The fellowships pay a one-year salary of $46,000 and benefits, allowing fellows to pursue public interest work in a variety of fields.
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If recent news reports are to be believed, Dean Kagan is on the short list of candidates to become the next president of Harvard University. This is the second time rumors are swirling that our dean may be whisked away to some loftier post. First there were rumblings all the way back in 2004 that if Kerry won the election, there might be a Justice Kagan on the bench once a vacancy opened up.
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Fenno has left the online community for the time being. Check out his column in the print version. Sorry to disappoint.
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On Wednesday, November 29, a large group of concerned students and community members gathered in the Ames Courtroom to assess the continued relevance of the landmark desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education. The panel, entitled "Is Brown Still Relevant?: The Seattle & Louisville School Cases," was motivated by then-pending oral arguments for the two cases, which took place in the U.
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The latest news from Russia reads like a political thriller. Ex-KGB agent Vladimir Litvinenko dies from apparent exposure to radioactive polonium-210, a rare and deadly poison. On his deathbed, Litvinenko, a frequent and harsh critic of Vladimir Putin, accuses the Russian president of personally masterminding his murder.
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While the 2Ls and 3Ls are just starting to think about the exams they have starting - oh, God - Monday, I imagine they've been on the mind of you 1Ls for quite a while. Probably, if this year's class is representative, since before you started law school at all.
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This is a true story. I'm still here to tell it, so rest assured, 1L, that you will likely survive finals, sanity intact. I don't tell you any of this to scare you, but to help you avoid my pitfalls and to enjoy your winter break. 1. Do What Works for You.
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Supreme Court of the United States Justice Antonin Scalia, a 1960 graduate of Harvard Law School, spoke to a packed Ames Courtroom on Nov. 30. HLS Dean Elena Kagan gave opening remarks, and moderated the discussion as Scalia fielded questions from both students and professors.