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In your most recent edition, Taylor Dasher wrote an excellent article concerning the challenges that many HLS students have in trying to have pure fun in the Cambridge area. Taylor points out that the weather is often cold, the punks in Harvard Square are often scary, and the pubs often close early, and the rents are incredibly high.
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Government agencies tend to accumulate like barnacles on a ship's hull - once created, they're pretty hard to remove. Journalist Jonathan Rauch described this petrification of bureaucracy as "demosclerosis" in his book of the same title. So it's not every day that a government agency passes on to that happy regulating ground in the sky.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article complaining about our pro bono service requirement. As some may remember, my specific objection was that the program is both too broad (in that it allows people to fulfill the requirements through service that is obviously not pro-bono, such as DOJ work) and somewhat counterproductive.
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The Harvard Project on Wrongful Convictions was launched this semester to exonerate people wrongfully convicted and to advocate reform in the criminal justice system. "The advent of DNA and the subsequent exoneration of over 150 people nationwide has really focused attention on general procedural problems in the criminal justice system, and provided an opportunity for reform," commented Ben Maxymuk, Co-Chair of the Project.
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The Second Annual Harvard Law School Democrats Conference came to a close last week, with a succession of panels on Thursday. Covering a range of topics from "Effective Use of the Media" to "Community Building" to "Building a Stronger Farm Team" the panels continued the overall theme of the conference, "Rebuilding the Democratic Party and the Left".
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Perhaps you came to HLS as a 1L interested in criminal law and decided as a 2L that environmental law was in fact your true passion. Perhaps you thought you'd never be interested in corporate work, but after a summer at a firm came back interested in taking corporations as a 3L.
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Hill Harper, HLS/KSG '92, is a man living his dream. As a graduate of the Law School and Kennedy School, Harper could have had his pick of jobs in the legal profession or in government service. Instead, he currently has a starring role in the CBS series CSI: New York as Dr.
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Fenno was minding her own business when - HOLY S*** - she felt herself falling and falling and falling and - BAM! - she finally hit the bottom. She looked around? Where was she? She felt the walls around her, brown and sticky, and - OH NO! - it suddenly hit her.