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Harvey Silverglate, '67 graduate of HLS and co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Inc (F.I.R.E.), spoke with members of the Harvard Law Republicans on the death of parody at Harvard Law School last Thursday. Silverglate's new book, The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses, details the rise of "self-appointed 'progressives' who seek to enforce moral and political orthodoxies through abuse and coercion rather than reason.
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The first stop on Kermit's road trip out west for his call-backs was Gonzo's bachelor party in Chicago. Most people would have been angry if their girlfriend ran off with another man thing. However, for Kermit it was like water running off his back. To prove that there were no hard feelings, Kermit prepared a pizza with a surprise inside.
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be printed in... OVERHEARD IN THE HARK A 2L stares at his laptop screen: "This firm wants me to list the people I want to meet with during my callback. Any suggestions?" A wise 3L: "Ask to see all the grouches.
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On Thursday, October 5th, the Harvard Law School faculty held a closed-door meeting, in which they accomplished something no one thought was likely: They unanimously voted to change the first-year required curriculum, which has been largely unchanged since it was created by Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell in the 1870s.
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A crowd gathered in Pound Hall on October 4th to see four successful nonprofit lawyers talk about public service, work-life balance, and "the best loss ever." The World of Law: Nonprofits panel, hosted by the Bernard Koteen Office for Public Interest Advising, was moderated by Legal Aid Bureau instructor David Grossman, and featured a lively and honest discussion of the realities of working in the nonprofit center.
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The 20th century provided minimal progress by the way of North Carolina race relations. In 1960 four students spoke their minds simply by sitting at the Woolworth's counter, but their bravery, and that of others did little to change the local atmosphere. Living in Greensboro, as Jews with Yankee parents, my brothers and I constituted the local minority, but our family hardly stood out in that world.
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When you've had your fill of Mt. Auburn sandwiches at Darwin's or need a plan of escape from your daily visits to Oxford Spa, try your luck at the newly opened and highly touted All Star Sandwich Bar in Inman Square. Close enough from campus to walk on a warm day, but probably not the best idea for a quick and light lunch in between two classes, All Star is the brainchild of Chris Schlesinger, whose neighboring restaurant East Coast Grill has long been a local favorite.
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During the 12-month Halloween season that precedes the holiday each year, Salem can seem like a one-industry town: witches. There is a Witch House, the Witches Dungeon Museum, witch-themed restaurants, and a play called "Cry Innocent," in which you, the audience, get to cross-examine the alleged witch, just like in TAW.
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What happens the day you realize that, somewhere deep inside, where you try to avoid looking, you are not actually a very nice person? Does this rude awakening cause an actual shift in reality, or is it simply a more active consciousness of a nasty trait that has lurked beneath the surface all along? Last Wednesday, as I watched the Phillies survive a 14-inning marathon against the Nationals to remain just this close in the Wild Card hunt (a dream that has since died), I noticed something beautiful ticking across the bottom of the screen.
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Analytical Methods David Cope *** This class is alternatively referred to as "the easiest class on campus" and "remedial thought." Cope tries very hard, and the material is stuff that everyone should know. The class is bearable, and at times even entertaining.
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It's that time of year again when the Fall doldrums set in and we start the long, cold march towards Thanksgiving. A time when classes, once really fresh and exciting on a deep intellectual level, have descended into unending monotony. When our casebooks, once impressive volumes that we imagined standing on a shelf behind us while we projected an image of cool outrage and professional competence to the cameras, start looking merely pretentious and extremely heavy.
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What do Harvard Law women wear to their on-campus interviews? I admit, I've had suit envy all week. I naturally assumed there was a law firm interview uniform in law school, just as there had been an investment bank interview uniform in business school. When I interviewed for my i-banking job coming out of undergrad, I wore a navy blue skirt suit with a white collared shirt and black two inch pumps.