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This weekend, the HLS Ballers took the world of competitive law school softball by storm, defying expectations and making it to the quarterfinals of the 23rd Annual National Law School Softball Tournament at the University of Virginia. The crew of ten stalwart 2Ls flew out of Cambridge on Friday afternoon and played its way through Virginia and Chicago teams in the elimination round.
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On Monday, members of the law school's Harvard Immigration Project participated in a rally and march for immigration reform organized by the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA). The march from Boston Common to Copley Square was part of a National Day of Action that included large pro-immigrant rights demonstrations in New York, Phoenix, Atlanta, and a dozen other cities.
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This year's Africa Summit, organized by Fasil Amdetsion and Heather Cannady, found members of Harvard's Black Law Students Association (BLSA) visiting the countries of Ethiopia and Tanzania. The BLSA students themselves were representative of the African Diasporas from the USA, Ethiopia, Haiti, Barbados, and the Dominican Republic.
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For over two years, HLS students have had wireless internet access in the classroom, allowing them to surf the web, Instant Message (IM) each other, and check email during class. It also potentially provides both professors and students with new and innovative ways of engaging with the material under discussion.
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Following an annual tradition, the Harvard Law School Republicans took a trip to Washington, D.C., on March 16 and 17, meeting with Republican leaders from all three branches of government. The trip began at the Republican National Committee where the group met with Political Director Mike DuHaime.
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IMs have been buzzing about the proposal to ban wireless internet in class. This worries me. Like most law students, I am acutely aware of the important pedagogical opportunities created by internet access. Can't we all think of a dozen examples off the top of our heads? Like that time the professor mentioned a legal scholar you hadn't heard of and so you Googled him, only to discover that there's a minor actor of the same name who just happened to have been in that E.
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Last Wednesday, in an event sponsored by the HLS Republicans, Rachel Brand '98, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy (OLP), talked to 40 students about the judicial nomination process. Brand has previously served as Associate Counsel to the President and as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and to then-Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Charles Fried.
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The Harvard Law community returned from spring break last week to difficult news: the death of 2L Shirin Shakir, 24, in a whitewater rafting accident in Peru on March 31. Several HLS students attended her funeral on April 4 in New York. Brown University senior Alison Michener, 21, also died in the accident.
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On Friday, April 21st at 5pm, the ACLU of HLS invites the law school community to come to the Ames Courtroom to hear Larry Flynt discuss his notorious First Amendment battles. In one of his two Supreme Court appearances, he won a ruling that citizens may lampoon public figures without fear of legal reprisal, a proposition that is central to public discourse.
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CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 4, 2006 - I am troubled that a Congresswoman who responded normally after being touched by a police officer is now facing an effective Congressional repudiation plus federal charges for the minor incident, even though Rep. Gerry E. Studds, D-Mass.
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Your international correspondent has finally returned from the Tokyo bureau, after a 15-minute flight delay was magnified by Continental Airlines into multiple missed connections, two taxicab rides across New York City, an overnight hotel stay, a harrowing race to board at 6:28 the next morning a plane that departed at 6:30 AM, and the discovery of previously unknown ways of waiting in line and blaming problems on the computer.
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Law students seem to find plenty of time to surf the Internet, which is why it's so surprising how ill-informed many us are about current events. This may be attributable to our selective viewing. For example, most of my news comes from the New York Times Arts Section and Salon.