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Charles O. Porter (HLS '47), the Founder and First President of the Harvard Law Record, recently passed away. We express our condolences to his family and friends and acknowledge his vision in establishing the nation's first law school newspaper. We are proud to continue his work.
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Most graduates of Harvard Law School have long and storied careers ahead of them. They will make marked contributions to our society and go on to reach great heights in fields such as legal practice, politics, and academia. But for the first few years after graduation, many young lawyers are stuck paying their dues in less-than-glamorous (but well compensated) junior associate positions at large law firms, or working slowly up the government or political ladders.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, a Category 5 hurricane is on its way to Cambridge. There is no need to panic and it is not necessary to prepare for an evacuation, but someone needs to pick him up at Terminal B in an hour... Widely known through the 1999 film, The Hurricane, in which Denzel Washington gave an Oscar-nominated performance, Dr.
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To the Editor: Law and Mind Games Continue Last Thursday, during his first Law and Mind class, Professor Hay asked the ten year old daughter of a student what sex was. She said she didn't want to talk about it; but he continued to ask her, repeatedly.
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Last year, the world was outraged to hear about possible religious desecrations at Guantanamo Bay. Reports of flushing the Quran down the toilet, splashing urine on the Quran, preventing Muslim prisoners from praying, and other religious indignities were condemned as impermissible within American interrogation protocols.
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Bravo, at long last, to the Europeans. By choosing to republish a series of cartoons through which artists created various depictions of Mohammed - through this medium expressing the artists' differing perceptions of Islam - the European press voted strongly for Western freedom of expression over Islamist-style oppression.
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In the wake of Harvard Law School's decision to allow JAG on campus (for now) because of the Solomon Amendment (which bars universities from receiving federal funds if they do not allow the military to recruit on campus), I have been wrestling with the implications of the anti-Solomon Amendment position.
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President Bush and Congressional leaders of both parties are determined to achieve defacto amnesty in 2006 for millions of illegal migrants. Why should Americans concerned with racial harmony and national unity take a close look at the social and political impacts of massive Mexican immigration? Professor Samuel P.
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At the young age of 25, Indiana Pacers forward Jonathan Bender has decided to retire from NBA due to chronic knee problems. Bender has suffered knee problems since before entering the NBA out of high school in 1999 (he was selected 5th overall in the 1999 NBA Draft).
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Fresh off winning a record-breaking number of Skadden Fellowships in December, Harvard students continue to show their dominance in collecting post-graduate public interest fellowships. Under the direction of the fellowship office and Director Judy Murciano, HLS students and alumni picked up four more fellowships in January that will fund a year's worth of work on immigration, lending, civil rights, and environmental issues.
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I decided that, after months of writing this column, it was time to finally make a name for myself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many people I had to hurt and leave broken along the way. And what more pressing question is there to HLS students, at least a certain segment of them, than why Gropius is still standing.
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To the Editor: I'm glad to see the recent New York Observer article (http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=11980&ic=News+Story+3) about the conservative presence -- both student and faculty -- at Harvard Law School. One of the reasons I looked forward to attending HLS is that I knew I would be surrounded by a large number of people who didn't agree with me on a wide range of issues.