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This past weekend, there was an election. Not for something silly like the President of the United States, or the leader of Iraq, or the head of the local school board, but for the person who will lead this nation's - nay, the world's - most important student-edited legal journal for the next twelve months, through all of the trials that a student-edited law review must face: whether to run the article about reconciling sovereignty and global governance through global government networks, or the article about organizations as internal capital markets: the legal boundaries of firms, collateral and trusts in commercial and charitable enterprises.
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Not a burgundy nightingale: the roofer stands atop Austin Hall: snow sheds its gravitational beauty in a gust of wind: what a fine cemetery-gray morning!: you can hear law students whisper about the edges of their gymnasium like no yesterday could sustain their tomorrows: all in their minds: your professors like to chant: all weighing in their minds: you march up the winding asphalt hill towards Austin: a carriage: a windmill: a stadium: in foreign contracts lay the sources of un-oxygenated stones: stone upon stone: until you wall inside portraitures of 19th century men: a lowly famed artist had a hand in making our men: witness the travels of students long enough and you will comprehend that the Socratic method survives on arousal from fear: the method's vulnerable power can suffer from manslaughter: I wonder what the roofer thinks of me now: if he sees me from afar: if he senses my presence from his sienna-tiled perch: he seems bent over: wobbling in the wind: tool-belt heavy: without a harness: about to fall through the winter sunbeams: many of us are risky nowadays: it is what we like to call free will: against doctrine.
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For those of you who came to Harvard Law School with the hope of eventually working at a prestigious corporate law firm, negotiating the minutiae of mergers and acquisitions, and defending multinational corporations from pesky ambulance chasers, more power to you.
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This is a landmark year for our Journal. After publishing for twenty-seven years as the Harvard Women's Law Journal, we have now become the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. Our new name does not signal a change in our Journal's content. Rather, it reflects our long-standing commitment to publishing diverse feminist scholarship that approaches gender as an axis of power within law and throughout society.
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I agree wholeheartedly with Lt. Jonathan Freimann's statement [in last week's op-ed] that "All students should have the chance to...decide for themselves whether serving in the United State military is a noble and worthwhile career." Problem is, the decision was made for me, and dozens of my HLS classmates, back in 1993 with the passage of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Don't Pursue, Don't Harass) legislation governing the military's policy on homosexuality.
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Dean Kagan strikes again! In announcing that the Hemenway Gym will be renovated this summer, Dean Elena Kagan has once again demonstrated the same decisive leadership that she showed in quickly renovating the Harkness Commons upon first being appointed Dean of the law school.
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Recognizing the inherent difficulty in raising a family and staying on the tenure track for an academic position, the National Panel of Presidents and Chancellors (NPPC) issued a report last Thursday recommending that tenure track demands be balanced by family-friendly policies.
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I once sat in an English seminar at Harvard College and listened to my professor spend a full fifteen minutes arguing that anyone who could support President Bush must be a "fascist," that people in "red states" are probably too "ignorant" to know any better, and implying that all conservatives must be racists and homophobes.
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The Saturday edition of The New York Times had an interesting article for all of us who plan on actually practicing law. "When Law Firms Collide", the headline ran, "Things Sometimes Get Ugly." According to the newspaper, a law firm called Parker & Waichman promised to refer a competitor some fen-phen related personal injury clients in exchange for a piece of the eventual settlement.
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fenno Fenno grinned. It had taken three painful semesters, but he was finally on the sweet side of HLS. 1L year and its associated seventeen-credit workload was a distant memory. First semester of his 2L year was quickly becoming a blurry melange of chocolate-covered pretzels and Fried-spewed obscenities.
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This summer, Hemenway Gymnasium will be radically renovated, according to plans announced by the university last week. "We're renovating Hemenway because students deserve convenient access to a first-class fitness facility and Hemenway isn't that right now," explained Dean Elena Kagan.
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My family is not very religious. While we attended Sunday school, it never seemed overly important. But if religion is really just pure unconditional worship based on an established belief system, we value an incomparable holiness. My grandfather celebrated his own set of holy days - the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four and Championship, and every game of the Major League Baseball playoffs.