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Lawrence VanDyke's Book review in the January 2004 Harvard Law Review was vociferously attacked by Brian Leiter, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, for its "scholarly fraud." VanDyke's note was a review of Francis Beckwith's 2003 monograph titled "Law, Darwinism, and Public Education" that concluded that a fair reading of current constitutional jurisprudence very well could allow presentation of Intelligent Design (ID) in schools.
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"'I know the pain of being unequal and I will not impose that on anyone else,'" Prof. Martha Minow quoted Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, a black woman, as saying during the recent constitutional convention to ban same-sex marriage in this state. "This issue," Minow continued, "breathes life into the debate of what is the meaning and legacy of Brown."
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The proposed changes to the FYL program, including the removal of BSA as an integral part of the program, have already created a stir on campus. BSA has written a guest opinion in this issue of The Record, and has engaged in a petition drive. At the same time, many students favor decreased BSA involvement in the FYL program (or oppose the FYL program in general). For its final issue, The Record specifically invites letters of 200 words or less on this topic. Pro, con, or anywhere in between. Make your voice heard.
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All students are encouraged to attend the Auction and to dig into their pockets, no matter what their depth.
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WITH MY LAW-SCHOOL days fast escaping me, I find myself thinking more and more about how much I'm going to miss my HLS life. Of course I'll miss friends, and I'll miss the leisurely schedule of a student. I may even miss classes from time to time. (I've certainly been missing a lot of class working on my 3L paper.) But as I stop to think about what I'll leave behind in a month, I find myself surprisingly moved by one imminent loss: Boston.
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LAST WEEK, THE COMMITTEE on the First Year Lawyering Program released a report recommending an extensive overhaul to FYL. The report suggests that teaching assistants would not come from the Board of Student Advisers (BSA). In this essay, the BSA seeks to respond to some of the report's questionable contentions and spell out why BSA ought to remain an integral component of whatever new first-year legal writing program emerges.
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As election season gears up, Harvard Law students are beginning to grow more involved in the presidential campaigns, working to elect their chosen candidate. One student, however, has been working not on electing a specific candidate, but on reforming the system so more candidates can enter the field and compete.
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Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the Jesse Climenko professor of law and vice dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School, has been appointed director of the new Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. The Institute is named in honor of Charles Hamilton Houston, a visionary lawyer who spearheaded the litigation in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that ended segregation in public schools.
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"THANKS FOR COMING TO Wexis training, even though your firm is forcing you. I'm a relentlessly happy woman whose biggest joy comes in the pleasure on students' faces when I give them free Wexis points that they can redeem for booze and hookers. You, checking your e-mail, here's 100 points just for smiling.
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"GO TO FIRM SOCIAL events, and collect information from what people say when they're drunk - but you can't be hammered yourself." This is apparently what the Office of Career Services exists to tell us. I'm serious, these are real quotes. At Monday's session, "What Law School Doesn't Teach You, But You Really Ought To Know," I learned that I should spend my summer lying, manipulating, brown-nosing, scheming, and "the most important rule: don't be yourself" in order to ensure my law firm success.
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CCHRIS GIOVINAZZO HAS issued a challenge to the Christian Right ("Who Would Jesus Tax?" April 15, 2004). I would like to answer that challenge. I am not so bold as to claim to speak for all Christians, or even all Christians of the "Right," even though my political and social views place me squarely within that realm.