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Fenno stomped into the Hark, chilled to the bone. It was still largely empty of 2Ls extending fly-out vacations through the weekend, and exhausted 1Ls and other do-gooders and failures did their best to fill up the campus. Sunday: the Coop was closed, and it was extraordinarily, creepily quiet.
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IN RE URBAN OUTFITTERS, 117 REC. 9 (2003) This was one of the most controversial issues the Court decided during its first term. In a rare move the justices read their opinion from the bench.
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Former Vermont governor Howard Dean came under attack during Tuesday's debate for recent remarks that he wanted "to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks." Rev. Al Sharpton, who said he was deeply offended by Dean's remarks, and Sen. John Edwards demanded that the governor apologize.
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White men don't fight and die for America like they used to. This country's poor and marginalized have always been the ones first to leave its shores to defend it. During the Vietnam era, America's military was heavily reliant on poor ethnic minorities. In 1973, 23% of the military was of non-white, non-Hispanic racial minorities; in 2000, that number was 37%. The New York Times tells us that Southern and Western states may provide far more members to the military today than they did during the Vietnam-era draft. Perhaps that explains the swath of red on the 2000 Electoral College map....
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Once upon a time, there was something dangerously forbidding about law school. Stories of abusive Socratic professors, cutthroat students and impenetrable readings gave law school an almost mythic quality. We, the simple 1Ls, were the warriors who would venture from the familiar wombs of our colleges and jobs to confront these demons. It would be apocalyptic.
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The percentage of women on the Harvard Law Review is at the lowest point in over a decade. According to an internal report acquired by The Record, Law Review studies indicate that most proposals to remedy the problem would have little effect. None of the proposed solutions would completely solve the problem, according to the report.
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This week The Record is publishing data that has been gathered by the Law Review to study the twenty-year-old gender disparity problem. This is the information that the Law Review has maintained must be kept secret in order to preserve the integrity of its selection process. Because many people may think The Record has done a disservice to the Law Review and its editors by divulging this information, it is important to state why this action was taken.
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I've heard talk of the "end of love" in Manhattan. At Harvard Law School, the end of love was the year firms stopped hiring 1Ls.
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This week's letters take issue with Vonn Christenson's controversial October 23 guest column, "Military debate lacks diversity of opinion."
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I promise that this will be the last column I'll write about law firm interviews. But as a guide for 1Ls, and (hopefully) an amusing look back for 2Ls and 3Ls...
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The Berkman Center for Internet and Society received a $600,000 research grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for the Digital Media Project. The project will explore the future of copyright law in a globally digitized environment.
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A multimedia look at the Democratic primary.