Independent at Harvard Law School since 1946
Every story published on our website. For print editions back to 1946, see Print.
News
"Isn't it enough that I even bothered to show up? Why are you making me avert my eyes, stare intently at the pages of the casebook, fake a sneeze, tie my shoe, and take a bite from my imaginary sandwich? The class enrollment is sixty-two and there are thirteen people here.
News
Sometime in the next couple of weeks, grades for 1Ls will be released. If this year's crop of students is anything like those in my class, there will be a certain amount of nervousness, and relief, and annoyance as the day gets closer. I'm here to tell you that it's okay to be anxious - after all, this is the first time you've been measured in any serious way against all these smart classmates of yours, most of whom spent the entire semester working like wounded banshees.
News
When did ignorance become an adequate replacement for ethics? Former Ohio State Athletic Director Andy Geiger invoked this reasoning to justify his university's lack of action following the discovery that highly touted and highly hyped running back Maurice Clarett was, in fact, ineligible during OSU's run to the BCS National Championship at the Fiesta Bowl in January 2003.
News
Whenever you totter over the ravishing snow in your steel-toed boots, that is the hour I feel sentimental for you, for who you will become is not the one who will totter forever through my heart, unmelting, season upon season, almost falling out of your scarf.
News
It's that time of year again where the previous year's movies and moviemakers are endlessly ranked and awarded by organizations seemingly created for this sole purpose. Organizations like the New York Film Critics Circle, the Hollywood Foreign Press, the Academy, and even the falsely progressive-sounding "People" have their choice of films and actors on which to lavish their bountiful praise.
News
1. No matter what your politics, you have to admire the nerve of the National Organization for Women. For years, NOW spoke out against the most misogynistic regime on Earth, calling on the United States to overthrow the Taliban. Then, just days after Sept.
News
What irony that I learned of Lawrence Summers' First Amendment faux pas while surfing the net during a lull in my winter term course, Equality. There's nothing like a healthy dose of sex essentialism from the leading voice of your own university to make you sorry you didn't read that Catherine MacKinnon article you were assigned last night.
News
A raucous debate is taking place in progressive circles these days, and it is one largely free from the abstract and absolutist sentimentalism of past periods of similar introspection. The defeat of November 2nd, so heartbreaking because of the clarity of Bush's victory despite the unprecedented unity of the Democratic Party, left progressives with a taste for pragmatism.
News
Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University, came under a flurry of criticism recently for comments he delivered regarding women in math and science. Speaking before the National Bureau of Economic Research conference, Summers speculated as to why it was that women were underperforming in the math and science fields.
News
On Monday, January 24, while Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino asked businesses to reduce work forces and gave most city employees the day off, Harvard Law School held its Winter Exams despite the more than 20 inches of snow from the Blizzard 2005. However, Harvard did cancel the first day of classes for 1L's returning from winter vacation.
News
A new Board of Directors began their tenure this week at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a student-run legal services office and two-year clinical program. The Bureau currently consists of forty-four 2Ls and 3Ls who provide free legal services to low-income people in Middlesex and Suffolk counties.
News
The careless comments made by Harvard President Lawrence Summers have drawn considerable criticism, and rightfully so. The question of whether innate gender differences as to scientific and mathematical aptitude should be discussed is besides the point of Summers being the one to make the suggestion.