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The long-awaited renovation of Hemenway Gymnasium has almost been completed, and the gym opened to Harvard Law students and the rest of the Harvard community on Wednesday, Sept. 21. The new facility has received rave reviews thus far. "When I took a tour of campus last April, the one place the guide refused to take us was Hemenway Gym," said 1L Gus Nguyen.
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Inspired by last year's moot court of the Ten Commandments cases, hosted by the American Constitution Society (ACS), Dean Kagan brought ACS and the Federalist Society together to "institutionalize" the practice of hosting moot courts for Supreme Court litigators.
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Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones Since 2001, moviegoers have been questioning the sanity of Steven Spielberg. AI: Artificial Intelligence was incomprehensible, though at the time we chalked it up to Spielberg having a tough time jelling with Stanley Kubrick's material.
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For most students here at Harvard Law School, the fall of 2L year is a frenzied time - daylight hours are spent trekking to twenty-minute interview after twenty-minute interview while weekday nights consist of riding the meet-and-greet, firm-sponsored cocktail party circuit.
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I can safely say I didn't go to law school because of legal procedurals, which compete only with the 87 versions of CSI for the title of "Most Boring Thing on Television." Nevertheless, I've seen enough episodes of Law and Order: Trial by Fire over the years that I knew what law school had in store for me.
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"Amos," began the German graduate student at Columbia University having brunch at my table in International House New York on a sunny Saturday in June, "I've heard that America has black colleges, universities full of black students and professors. What?" "Yes, we do," I replied to the young man of about 25 years puzzled by such an arrangement.
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I've only just gotten here, but I've already got this law school thing figured out. They told me law school would be hard. They told me that material would be dense, the teaching methods opaque, and the participation mandatory. They told me I'd be struck dumb when called upon to answer even simple questions.
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It's 8:35AM in the belly of Griswold and my Property professor is straddling - then riding - the wooden podium, beside which lies a stuffed fox. The blackboard is already graffitied with menacing Latin phrases like "capias ad respondendum," and a question about the procedural history of Pierson v.
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Last week's announcement that the Law School would be re-allowing military recruiters on campus was a great disappointment to members of Lambda who believed that the administration would stand by its stated commitment to "the principle of equal opportunity for all persons, without regard to sexual orientation.
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Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has a clear strategy to gain support for a 2008 presidential bid: stoke fear and hate of Muslims to win the hearts and minds of "red-state folk." In front of a very receptive audience at the Heritage Foundation on September 14th, Romney, HLS class of '75, suggested that intelligence agencies should consider engaging in even further surveillance of foreign students and in wiretapping mosques.
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The only time most law students make it over to the Lamont Library on the southeast corner of the main campus is to pick up books for journal subcites (don't worry 1Ls, you'll know exactly what I mean all too soon). 2Ls and 3Ls may pass it on the way to an interview at The Inn at Harvard, stopping briefly to check email or to do last-minute web research on a firm that's about to feed them both brownies and a line about how their firm does sophisticated work for sophisticated clients.
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The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, founded by Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, officially opened on Thursday, September 15, 2005, featuring a program dedicated to the life and accomplishments of Charles Hamilton Houston.