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Speaking in front of a packed lecture hall of more than 150 people at Harvard Law School, a panel of experts offered sharp, and at times very harsh, criticism of the effects of United States abstinence-only until marriage policies within the U.S. and abroad.
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On Saturday, September 30, a record turnout ushered in a new training session for the HLS Advocates for Human Rights. Now in its fifth year, Advocates has experienced tremendous growth from the time of its inception. The opening class had approximately 20 participants; now over 150 students contribute to activities throughout the school year.
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The American Constitution Society hosted Thomas Goldstein at HLS this past Wednesday. Goldstein, the Head of Supreme Court Litigation for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld and a lecturer at HLS and Stanford Law School, spoke about his path to prominence, recent Supreme Court jurisprudence, and his predictions for the Court going forward.
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On September 26th, HLS administration unveiled the proposed design of the new multi-purpose building commonly referred to as the Northwest Yard Project. Representing the administration were Professor Daniel Meltzer, Story Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Physical Planning, and Mark Johnson, Director of Major Capital Projects and Physical Planning.
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Wasserstein Fellow Jordan Schreiber is a 2001 graduate of Harvard Law School and is now a Deputy Public Defender in California at the Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender. He advises and represents adult and juvenile low-income clients in felony criminal proceedings, ranging from petty theft to murder.
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Rejecting a protest by over 600 law professors from around the country, the Senate on September 28 passed a bill providing for tough interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects, 65 to 34. The House of Representatives passed the same legislation 253 to 168, and President George W.
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Filmmaker Victor Buhler presented an abridged version of his Showtime documentary "Rikers High" at a screening last Friday hosted by the Child Advocacy Program (CAP). The movie traced the lives of three black teens doing time in New York's Rikers Island, focusing on their experiences in the prison high school, Island Academy.
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Now that he had his callbacks and law school was effectively over, Kermit prepared to head back to the fantastic state of Californ-eeya for interviews. He noticed that he was getting a little pasty, so he took advantage of the delayed week 3 drop period to cancel all his interviews and drive his convertible back west.
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be printed in... OVERHEARD IN THE HARK In the Hark quiet room, during the second week of school, statement by nervous 1L to another anxious 1L: "Hey I just finished my first practice test - do you want to talk about it?" 1L on the phone during the second week of classes: "Yeah, but I don't think you get it...the people are a lot lamer here.
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After three interviews and three hospitality suites full of yummy pretzels, Kermit was stuffed. (Luckily he had saved some for later.) With 32 interviews how would he ever make it through so many snacks?
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"Where is the United States?" Professor Gerald Neuman asked the audience in Memorial Hall during Harvard University's observance of Constitution Day. "And where do constitutional rights apply?" Professor Neuman, the Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and a recent addition to HLS's all-star faculty in constitutional and international law, gave Harvard's second annual Constitution Day lecture, entitled "The Constitution and Human Rights in the War on Terror," on September 20th.
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Author and law professor Marc Galanter spoke at HLS on Tuesday about his new book, Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes & Legal Culture. Lawyers, he explained, occupy a unique position in society, being simultaneously indispensable and despised. While lawyer jokes have been around for well over a century, they have increased in frequency and viciousness in the United States since the 1980s.