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Professors Debate Court’s Future As Supreme Court Begins Fall Term<br />
In the first Dean's Forum for the 2004-05 year, Professors Richard Fallon, Richard Parker, Carol Steiker, and Larry Tribe discussed the future of the longest continuous Supreme Court since the early nineteenth century, with no justices having retired in ten years.
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Letting Go<br />
1. A couple years ago, Yale professor David Gelernter wrote that today's political divide in America is between those who draw competing historical analogies. Half the country thinks of our current war as a Vietnam Moment (racist American imperialists indiscriminately bombing darker-skinned foreigners, motivated by war profiteering, absent all hope of victory) and those who see it as a World War II Moment (freedom and democracy threatened by totalitarian-terrorist states, the Jewish nation demonized worldwide, French collaboration).
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No clerkship for you<br />
Dear student at one of the nation's most well-manicured law schools, Thank you so much for thinking of me when you sent out resumes and cover letters to perhaps up to 300 of my colleagues. I'm glad to have made it onto your mail merge, and feel fortunate to have had the chance to let one of my current clerks toss your package into the trash.
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Baseball Playoff Preview (Special Section)<br />
Atlanta Braves The Braves will win the World Series because their fans simply can't take another near-miss. No team this side of the Buffalo Bills has teased its fans with so much success only to come up just short of a championship. Since 1991, the Braves have won 1341 games and lost only 859, a remarkable winning percentage of .
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Michael Negron speaks to Democrats at the Fleet Center<br />
The incoming Harvard Law School 1L class had a worldwide audience this summer, with two of its members appearing at the major political conventions this past summer. First-year student Michael Negron, 24, delivered remarks at the Democratic National Convention in July, and Erika Harold appeared at the Republican National Convention in August.
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Undue Diligence: Yaliens<br />
So you didn't get accepted to Yale. That's fine. YLS is totally academic, and you actually want to practice law. The classes are so small it's almost incestuous. New Haven is many things, but a city it is not. And the H-Bomb actually makes a bigger crater, right? Whatever HLSers tell themselves about how much they don't care about Yale, there's no doubt that a lot of Yale rumor buzz floats around our campus.
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Restaurant Review: Cambridge restaurant provides a taste of the North End closer to home<br />
If you have the time, in between myriad interviews and frantic evenings trying to figure out what to do with the rest of your life, treat yourself to a great meal. Ristorante Marino is located at 2465 Massachusetts Avenue. Leave Rialto for the firms who will try to dazzle you with extravagance at the cost of quality (a symptom of the firm's own business plan).
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News Brief: Ogletree part of Kerry legal team<br />
Professor Charles J. Ogletree is part of a high-profile legal task force created by the Democrats to ensure access to the ballot among minorities. Ogletree said he feared an "October surprise" in which bogus notices appear in the black community urging residents to "vote Nov.
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Dean of Mass law school central figure in discovery of Tribe plagiarism<br />
The recent discovery of improperly credited passages in Professor Laurence Tribe's book, God Save This Honorable Court, came about because of an unidentified law professor who tipped off the Weekly Standard. This unidentified professor apparently was prompted to take such action after becoming upset over comments made by Tribe that were posted on the weblog of Dean Lawrence Velvel of the Massachusetts School of Law, a weblog which has now found itself as a mediator in the debate over plagiarism in the legal profession.