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Antonio Gramsci's greatest work was written on little fragments of biscuit wrapper. Jailed by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, his words were smuggled out of prison by his sister. Gramsci died shortly after his release but he has since become a potent symbol of the heroic intellectual.
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A few weeks ago, I was at Mt. Auburn hospital thinking about the bar exam. No, I was not in the pysch ward, at least not yet. I was in the maternity ward. No, it was not because I was found on the street curled up in a fetal position rocking myself back and forth.
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On Thursday of next week, the Harvard Black Law Students Association will open its 23rd annual conference, "Forging a New Path to Empowerment: Reconnecting the Past, Present, and Future of a Multi-Faceted Black Community." "This conference will serve as a catalyst for discussion about how the law can be used as a tool to empower the black community," explained 2L BLSA Board Member Diane Lucas in a recent announcement.
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Summer vacation is fast approaching. Not fast enough, of course, a realization forced on me the other day when right after thinking "Hey, it's almost March! That means Spring!" I saw someone actually skating on the ice skating rink. But maybe that's a good thing, because with the advent of summer, I have to leave the sheltered, wireless-enabled, no Friday-class-having realm of school and set off into the world to have a real job.
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Six years ago, HL Central was nothing more than a website with information about where Harvard Law students could gather for drinks each week. Today, the organization has expanded into a multi-faceted student-run business that has become a cornerstone of the HLS experience.
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Despite a 9 a.m. start time, attendance was high at last Friday's moot court presented by the Supreme Court Advocacy Project and co-sponsored by Dean Kagan, The Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society (ACS). The case, Travis County, et al.
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The evening quiet that once reigned in the lower level of the Harkness Commons, broken only by the occasional Chopin-plunking pianist, is no more. The Hark Pub now operates there five nights a week, serving up beer, wine, specialty coffee and munchies to Harvard Law students and staff.
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Have you ever wondered why it is that adaptations of your favorite novels are usually so woefully inadequate? The latest film from 24 Hour Party People director Michael Winterbottom might prove illuminating on that score. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is about the attempt at adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century masterpiece of digression, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
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Alton Maddox is the best attorney you've never heard of. He has been called the most brilliant litigator in the history of the city of New York. In the courtrooms of those boroughs, he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to win acquittals for criminal defendants when the odds appeared to be all against them.
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We are fast becoming mirrors of ourselves. Our shadows fall in the same positions, at the same clockwork time. A stranger confers lessons our predecessors have learned in the same way Earth redeems its raindrops, over and over again without volition.
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So, originally my title was supposed to be, "Myths and Facts in the Global War on Follies," and not a homage to Lord of the Flies. But Roger Pao, Editor-In-Chief of The Record, he says to me, "Karl, I like this, but you need to man up. We've got standards here at The Record.
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In February, a young law student's fancy anxiously turns to thoughts of careers. Not the search for summer jobs, even though that can be stressful at times - we know we'll somehow end up gainfully employed. The angst I've been hearing around campus is about life choices.