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Term Limits for the Supreme Court?<br />
A recent debate sponsored by the Federalist Society examined whether Supreme Court Justices should enjoy life tenure. Before a crowd of 80 students, Professor Steven Calabresi of Northwestern Law School and Professor Ward Farnsworth of Boston University School of Law presented very different views about life tenure on America's highest court.
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Great Lawyer Series: Ted Wells<br />
Dean Kagan characterized Ted Wells (JD/MBA '76) as the "common denominator" on everyone's list of the country's most influential attorneys. He is one of the nation's leading white-collar criminal defense attorneys. A partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,Wharton & Garrison, Wells has served as general counsel to the New Jersey Democratic party and the New Jersey NAACP.
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Updates from the Hale Dorr Legal Services Center<br />
Jeremy Peterson (3L, Employment) won a victory for his client at an administrative hearing at the Division of Unemployment Assistance (DUA), a Massachusetts state agency. Peterson's client has a severe allergy to a number of scented products that were present in her workplace; things like perfume and a colleague's plug-in air freshener.
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Present, Future, Past<br />
Present In my column four weeks, but three issues ago, I joked about the issue of papal infallibility and the Supreme Court. This sophisticated, gentle jibe at Catholic doctrine referenced Justice Jackson's oft repeated chiasma that "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.
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Books Bound in Human Skin; Lampshade Myth?<br />
On a daytrip to Providence during fly-out week, I stumbled across an unusual and startling artifact on display at Brown University's John Hay Library - an anatomy book bound in human skin. While such specimens are unusual, they are not as rare as you might think.
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Letters to the Editor, Part II<br />
Dear Editor, I admire and applaud your initiative and hope your ranking does something to reduce the hegemony of the U.S. News and World Report rankings. Regarding your results, I find the shift over time to be interesting, as is the potential East-coast bias that you may have uncovered.
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Dude, Where’s My Laptop?: Property Theft at HLS<br />
Harvard Law School may seem to be a world unto itself, but the school in fact shares a zip code with tens of thousands of non-law students, some of whom traverse the campus daily. Harvard undergraduates and Lesley students, local residents, and visitors pass through Harkness Commons daily, and frequent the underground tunnels.