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On Thursday, November 2, the American Constitution Society hosted a debate between Professor Mark Tushnet and historian Saul Cornell over the challenges and possibilities for progressive gun control policy. Tushnet joined the Harvard Law School faculty this year as William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law after spending twenty-five years teaching at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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With another election over, and lawsuits looming on the horizon in Virginia, the Democrats have something to celebrate and the Republicans face a difficult next two years. The outcome of this election, however, is not as clearly an endorsement of the left as Democrats might wish.
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Many Harvard Law students come to campus hoping to have fulfilling careers doing public interest work. Unfortunately, the number of students who take up those careers upon graduation is far lower than the number who come here hoping to do that kind of work.
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So karma has finally gone and bitten Coral Gables on the ass. On Saturday, the now unranked University of Miami Hurricanes couldn't turn a solid defensive effort into a homecoming victory against the barely ranked Virginia Tech Hokies. As a UVA fan, I felt dirty rooting for the Hokies.
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For the past five years, the three branches of government have all been under Republican control. These years have shown what happens under right-wing rule without checks and balances: executive incompetence combined with a lack of an opposing viewpoint in government has made America weaker, both at home and abroad.
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In early September, nearly fifty students from the Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School convened in Hauser Hall to hear from Patrick Murphy, a then-obscure Democratic challenger for Congress. The 33-year old Iraq war veteran, competing for a congressional seat in the Philadelphia suburbs, won a lot of fans that fall evening.
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Director: Larry Charles Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Pamela Anderson This past weekend's top film was the surprise hit Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (coming in second place for longest film title, behind Dr.
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be printed in... OVERHEARD IN THE HARK During happy hour in the Hark: "But then Hohfeld comes back and says, 'You DON'T have a legal right!'" During the MPRE when students have to fill in what state their score should be reported to: Confused student: "The state where we report the score has nothing to do with where we take the bar, right?" Proctor: "Oh, that's a good question.
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The Boston Lyric Opera went all out for the first production of the season - Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The beautiful performance showed why Butterfly is a repertoire staple at opera houses across the globe. The BLO's production was of Puccini's favorite of the three versions he wrote at the turn of the twentieth century.
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On Tuesday, October 31, HLS hosted a Halloween Bash in Ropes Gray for 2Ls, 3Ls, and LLMs. With a live deejay, a few 1L crashers, and plenty of kegs, HLS students relieved the stress of flyout week (four-star hotels, Mexican resorts) by dressing up and getting down.
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The race for the First Annual Harvard Law School 1L Cup began appropriately - with a race. But this wasn't your ordinary Olympic event. This was a banana race, where competitors had to make a loop carrying a banana in between their legs and then eating the banana as quickly as possible before the next person in their teams' line could do the same.
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Congratulations, 1L. You've decided to take the Summer Public Interest Funding and volunteer your services this summer. Not only do you get to help with the SPIF Auction, which is one of the highlights of the spring semester, you're going to help others without going broke.