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To the Editor: SILENCE Several HLS students contacted the Administration to express their concerns about the racial stereotypes and derogatory portrayals of minorities in this year's Parody. Students informed the Administration that these portrayals (which may have been unintentional), along with students' responses, implicated the state of racial awareness and racial tension on our campus.
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This column is largely a shameless plug for the Ninth Annual Harvard Latino Law & Public Policy Conference. As Co-Director, I have no qualms about using whatever medium possible to spread the fact that if you are Latino and at Harvard, you should be at this conference, and if you are interested in law or policy, you, too, should be at this conference.
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This year, Harvard Law School is making a definite pledge - to be energy efficient and conserve electricity. Recently, many Harvard Law dorm residents joined the effort, by pledging themselves to a variety of activities in order to reduce their overall electricity use.
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Past genocides have taught us three important lessons. First, genocide is more costly to end than to prevent. Second, the US will be slow to respond unless it has a direct national security reason to get involved. And third, "never again" lacks the proactive force that it was originally intended to have.
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The flag of the Navajo Nation stood next to that of the United States in the Ames Courtroom last Wednesday when Harvard Law School hosted the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation for the second time. Brought to campus by HLS, the Harvard University Native American Program, and the Native American Law Students Association, the three Justices heard arguments in the case of Perry v.
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Three distinguished panelists gathered Monday evening to discuss "The Fate of Progressive Politics in the Face of a Conservative Court" on a panel sponsored by the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. The panelists - Professor Michael Klarman, civil rights activist Cheryl Jacques, and Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York - talked with moderator Professor Martha Minow and the crowd of students about the interplay of the law and social change.
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A memorial service in honor of Professor Arthur Taylor von Mehren will be held on Wednesday, April 19, 2006, at 3 p.m. in The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. Everyone is welcome.
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Lights, Camera, Auction!, the 13th annual Public Interest Auction at Harvard Law School, played to a motley crowd of HLS students and professors last Thursday night in Austin Hall. Some in attendance used the event's theme as an excuse to drape themselves in Dior and Dolce - or at least decent knockoffs.
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What's Kermit doing? Send your caption to msugar@law. The winner will receive an unclaimed prize from the Public Interest Auction.* *prize must be picked up at the law school, sorry alums.
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Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard Directed by Sam Mendes The Film: Jarhead, as a film, is a little hard to define. It's not exactly a war movie about honor and valor and soldierly brotherhood like Saving Private Ryan, for example.
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V for Vendetta Review by Matt Justus This adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel is set twenty years in the future, in a dystopian London ruled by a fascist government that has eliminated people's civil liberties and does not hesitate to murder its citizens for speaking out against the state.
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Verdi can do no wrong. His genius, combined with the talented cast of the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO), make for an enjoyable production. As part of the 2005-2006 Diva Season, the BLO presented Verdi's masterpiece La Traviata. Translated as "The Fallen Woman," it is the story of Violetta Valery as she falls from a life of pleasure to the pain of a lost love.