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With over 40 clinical courses, Harvard has, as the school proudly boasts, "one of the most extensive clinical programs in the nation." Hale Dorr Legal Services Center, in Jamaica Plain, is the home to many of HLS's clinical programs. Founded over 20 years ago by Professors Jeanne Charn and the late Gary Bellow, the Center is "a laboratory for innovative approaches to the delivery of high quality, civil legal assistance, and has an active caseload of 1,000-1,200 cases at any one time," according the Center's website.
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I'll come right out and say it: I don't think FYLRW is all that bad. Last week in The Record, Katie Mapes criticized the legal writing and research program as being simplistic, condescending, and hard to take seriously. I've heard other 1Ls, across multiple sections, make similar complaints.
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This review was originally intended to have been written many weeks ago, but your correspondent has been greatly depressed after receiving an overall mark of 'Needs Improvement' on his memo: the grave depression was only alleviated after reading some of Harriet Miers's memos.
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I wear ridiculously short shorts on Sunday mornings. Ludicrously short. I mean so short that if these shorts got any shorter they'd be considered Daisy Dukes. Why? No I'm not acting out any hidden fetishes-at least not consciously. Rather, the short shorts are part of the wardrobe for my IM football team, Simon's Angels.
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The Record has published an editorial urging Justice for Palestine to disinvite Professor Norman Finkelstein, arguing that his work violates "a consistent standard of decency and tolerance across racial and ethnic lines." Much to the contrary, Professor Finkelstein's latest book, Beyond Chutzpah, has been received as an important study posing a crucial question: Why do demonstrably flawed apologetics for a country with a human rights record as poor as Israel's often receive such widespread acclaim in American public life? In answering this question, Finkelstein meticulously catalogues various distortions, fabrications, and other instances of scholarly malfeasance in one such widely acclaimed work, Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel.
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The indictment of Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for perjury, false statements, and obstruction of justice in an investigation into the outing of a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame, has led some to conclude what many have known for some time now: that the Bush administration deceived the American public regarding the war in Iraq.
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One of the most astonishing findings of the recent Record rankings was the great discrepancy between JD and LLM students' perceptions of which school retains that coveted number one spot. Over eighty percent of LLM students placed Harvard first on their lists, while JD students were almost evenly split on the issue: only fifty-four percent gave the top spot to Harvard.
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"Coffee will now be available in Langdell from Sunday through Thursday evenings from 9pm to closing. There is [a] new individual brew machine on the fourth floor located between the Main Reading Room and the Caspersen Room (on the right side). Never let it be said that Dean Kagan doesn't read The Record.
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Being November, I thought it was time to start studying old exam questions. I know, it's early, but that's just the kind of dedicated student I am. And for a dedicated student like me, the advantage of being at one of the oldest universities in the country is that there are a lot of old exams to study.
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Fenno had always been a huge fan of Halloween. He could still fondly remember eating so many Three Musketeers that he tossed his cookies onto the neighbor's porch. His mother instructed him that he should have politely used his trick-or-treat bag, but he wasn't about to spoil the hard-earned sugary loot that he still intended to polish off before midnight.
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Arrow Street's "About Hair" Bordello Until recently, sex acts were allegedly among the eclectic offerings of About Hair, a salon/art gallery/antiques shop at 1 Arrow Street in Harvard Square. Owner Duncan Purdy, 52, was arrested on October 7 and charged with maintaining a house of prostitution and deriving support from prostitution.
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Reading Martha Jeong's article, "Beautiful Loot: Continuing Efforts to Repatriate Nazi-Spoiled Art" provokes similar questions relative to stolen art currently in the hands of the world's drug lords and others in the underworld hierarchy. Some have documented that Pablo Escobar commissioned the theft of major works of art, and it is widely recognised that landmark paintings in particular are currently used as collateral in illegal trades of multi-millon dollar proportion.