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"If you come to law school wanting to do public service for a career, and you leave stripped of that ambition, and then you blame the law school, well, quite honestly, if you do that, you won't be taking appropriate ownership of your career and your choices.
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These are historic days. The establishment is coming down hard on Professors Ogletree and Tribe, seeking to punish them for their attempts at pioneering a new brand of legal scholarship. Like so many heroes of history, their efforts are not appreciated by their contemporaries.
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I would like to take a moment to thank my readers for their incredible response to last week's column. Reader Paul Boswell was so impressed he offered, "Top Drugs For You! Best Prices! No Perscription Required!" I was also invited to join in the "Law School Advisory Panel," which I can only assume is a great honor.
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As 2Ls begin their long and intensely boring search for summer jobs, fate is conspiring to make the whole process seem, well, glamorous. Some of you may know, for example, that the newest version of Donald Trump's hit show, The Apprentice, features a Harvard Law School graduate.
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It's quickly becoming apparent that OCI may not prove to be that helpful in actually getting a job this summer. However, all is not lost; if nothing else, the hospitality suite's chocolate pretzels are pretty good. My OCI experience started off with a bang.
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My shirt is wrinkled. My shoes are untied. My tie is a bit wrinkled as well, but it's difficult to tell because I've tied it into a malformed ball halfway down my chest. I wouldn't hire me. Or at least I wouldn't hire the person who dressed me (which, unfortunately in this case, happens to be me).
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In the stress and anxiety that are my 1L year, I am trying to cling to the little things to get through each day. So, now that we are an entire month into the year, in sad attempt to not sound like Oprah, let's recount... 1. The one (ok, maybe two) times I have read a case, thought I understood it and sat through a class discussion to find I actually wasn't laboring under a misapprehension.
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Professor Alan Dershowitz and Senator Joe Lieberman visited Jewish strongholds in Florida in what they described as a Unity Rally for the Democratic ticket. "Tragically, this election is about life and death," Dershowitz told audiences in comments reported by the Palm Beach Post.
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Given each year to an alumnus who has made a contribution to public service work in the government, the Cox/Richardson/Coleman Award was presented to California State Senator Sheila Kuehl '78 by Dean Elena Kagan.
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James S. Reid, Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio made a gift to Harvard Law School to endow a professorship "dedicated to the teaching of accounting, statistics and related subjects." A gift in the amount of $3 million includes funds given by Reid, John D. Drinko and others will be used to fund the salary, benefits and research endeavors of a tenured Harvard Law professor.
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According to The Crimson, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia surprised the audience when he said in comments at the Harvard John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last week that "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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It took me almost ten years of my life - from the moment that puberty hit until my last year in college - to finally tell my parents that I was gay. I spent a lot of those ten years wondering in paranoid fear what their reaction would be. Even after I finally made the decision to tell them, it took me months to finally get the words to come out of my mouth.