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This is the time of year when we all take a few moments before freaking out about finals to reflect upon the events of the past year. 1Ls ponder the vast quantities of legal seafood, I mean statutes, that have been stuffed into our heads by professors. 2Ls wonder if New York was a better choice than D.
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Larry Flynt's visit to HLS incited even more controversy than anticipated. During and since the event, allegations have been flying that Flynt refused a debate on campus and that his refusal taints his commitment to free speech. Some are concerned that Flynt may profit from using the Harvard name in the filming of a documentary about his life.
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New Orleans is in the news again, but this time we're not courting disaster. In the face of all that's happened, it's nice to be able to focus on elections, on the politics of recovery rather than the experience of evacuation. There's little doubt that our future will be full of stories from storms past, and from adventures yet unknown.
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As we wrap up another school year, and as the book closes on another volume of The Record, I figured it might be a nice time to take a look back. You know, see where we've been so we can better figure out where we're going. As I boil it down, '05-'06 goes a little something like this... The 2005-2006 academic year was a turbulent one at HLS that saw a number of challenges conquered and a number of issues surface that remain works in progress.
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Dean Kagan, we love what you have done for the law school. We appreciate the stay of execution for our beloved volleyball courts, at the expense of a well-sodden lawn in time for commencement (who looks at the grass during commencement anyways?). However, one of The Record's spies has gotten wind of your decision to discontinue the noble tradition of the winter ice skating rink next year.
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[disclaimer: while both authors know Ms. Bradley personally, in no way did they allow their pre-existing affection and admiration of their subject to influence their objectivity in researching this piece.] When asked what she is going to do after graduating from HLS, Sarah Bradley pauses - the plan, she says, is to take the New York bar before returning to Toronto, where she hopes to develop a cross-border corporate-commercial practice.
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Your correspondent was hard-pressed to come up with a topic for this final issue. The trip to the Lesley University lunch buffet was filling, but it is rather hard to write 800 words on that cafeteria changing its prices back to $5.25 for lunch for Harvard students.
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"How we answer the question of a guest worker program, and whether we allow people to come and ultimately become part of American society, has real consequences for native-born Hispanics," warned Maria Echaveste, former deputy chief of staff to President Clinton and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, in her keynote speech for last weekend's Ninth Annual Latino Law & Public Policy Conference, "Nuevas Fronteras: Latino Leadership at the Forefront," co-sponsored by Harvard Law School's La Alianza and the Latino Caucus of the Kennedy School of Government.
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Laptops with wireless are found in classrooms around the country at varying levels, not just law school. High schools all over the country have engaged in programs whereby every student is given a laptop, the teachers are given laptops and training for two/three years before, and a wireless network is set up on campus to facilitate the use of the internet in the classroom.
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On April 18, 2006, the Harvard Federalist Society honored U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod Rosenstein '89 with its 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award. In his talk accompanying the recipient of the award, Mr. Rosenstein discussed his vision of his role as a federal prosecutor and how his office handles the day-to-day challenges of law enforcement.
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Members of the faculty and administration will soon be making a decision about whether or not to implement a ban on wireless internet during class. Some students have responded with outrage, while others are excited to hear that they will no longer be distracted by other students' instant messaging in class.
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Last week, first year law students completed the final trial of First Year Legal Research and Writing: oral arguments in one of two mock appellate cases. Besides the usual benches of professors, Climenko Fellows, and upper-class students, a host of out-of-state practitioners came to interrogate the students - and in one case, to literally fight crime.