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Over the past weekend, the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) hosted its 22nd Annual Spring Conference. The theme of the conference was "A Call to Consciousness," and was co-chaired by second-year students Tara Curtis, Jenee Desmond-Harris, and Francesca Lewis.
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The reserves of his heart plummeted towards the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. She put her arms around him. She handed him Kleenex. She stood beside him at the funeral. She gave him time and space to recover. Only little by little did she realize that there was nothing she could do.
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As the summer gets closer, I thought I would help the 1Ls and 2Ls heading to firms figure out how to approach law firm life. First, here's an internal memo I stumbled across that may help you figure out what kinds of clothes to buy in preparation for your summer.
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Female Empowerment... and Pink Tiaras Move aside Catherine MacKinnon, here comes the Vie Society, the "first female social organization at HLS" dedicated to "beauty, strength, and power." You know you're onto something when the first value listed in the mission statement of a society dedicated to female empowerment is "beauty.
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Dr. Robert Kahn presented a lecture entitled "Holocaust Denial and the Law: A Comparative Survey" sponsored by JLSA on March 10th, 2005. Dr. Kahn has written extensively on the topic of Holocaust denial and recently published a book on the topic in which he analyzed how courts in different countries have attempted to reconcile the tension between legal fairness and protecting the Holocaust from its denier.
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Following an annual tradition, the HLS Republicans took a trip to Washington D.C., spending two days in D.C. meeting with leaders from all three branches of government. The first item on the itinerary was a meeting at the Old Executive Office Building with Harriet Miers, White House Counsel, and John McConnell, Deputy Presidential Speechwriter.
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This year, the HLS Parody featured two major changes from previous years-it ran a reasonable length, clocking in at about two hours and fifteen minutes-and it did not feature the infamous clown that has popped up at the end of each parody show in years past.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes. But gentlemen marry brunettes. Or so the sayings go. The debate has raged for, well, a while now, as to whether or not blondes really do have more fun. I'd always suspected we did, but I was biased and had been blonde by inertia for a long time.
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Fenno was standing in the Hark, perusing the First Year face book. She'd gotten' to the K's and was wondering whether or not Robert Kent's photo was a glamour shot when Andria Boateng walked by. "Hi, Fenno," she said, flashing her patented dimpled smile.
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By a one-vote margin, the Supreme Court last week reversed a Missouri jury's decision to sentence a 17 year old to death for kidnapping and drowning an innocent woman. According to Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority in Roper v. Simmons, the Missouri jury's decision to sentence Simmons to death violated "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
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Part of going to law school today consists of reading earnest articles about how hard the job of being a young lawyer in a large law firm has become. Professional behavior is down, hours are up, and novice attorneys are slowly but inexorably ground in the teeth of the law firm machine.
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The question must be asked - what constitutes a bigger example of false advertising, a good padded push-up bra or breast implants? They both misrepresent what is being sold with the package. In the case of the former, while it may be tricky at the outset, once you get to the point of encountering "reality" first, ah, hand, you can get a better sense of what is - or as the case may be, isn't - involved.