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Dean Kagan should be congratulated for attending the Lambda conference over the weekend and delivering the welcoming remarks. It was obviously a hard decision for someone who had decided only the previous month that Harvard Law School would not join the FAIR lawsuit or file its own legal action challenging the Solomon Amendment.
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IN ORDER TO REACH ITS objective of removing the most coercive aspects of the pull to private practice, the Low Income Protection Plan needs to scale its benefits to reflect the reality that public interest salaries increase over time but remain insufficient, without loan forgiveness, to meet the need for savings for retirement, home ownership and family.
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On Thursday, October 9, author Scott Turow presented his upcoming book, Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty. Turow also discussed the writing of his famed account of Harvard Law School, One L, before a book signing that followed his presentation.
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Pope John Paul II celebrates his 25th anniversary as head of the Roman Catholic Church this week. It is a papacy that will be recorded as one of the longest in the history of the Church, and also as one of the most visible in recent history. Having visited more countries in his twenty-five years as Pope than any other Pope, Pope John Paul II stands at the dawn of a new millennium as possibly one of the most influential popes to ever head the Catholic Church.
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IT'S NO EXAGGERATION to say that this month could come to stand as a major turning point in the history of American Conservatism.
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IN THE MONTHS leading up to Dean Kagan's appointment, the HLS faculty complained that they were shut out of the dean selection process. Faculty members argued that the process should be more transparent and that their voices should be recognized and valued by President Summers as he made his decision. Yet the very faculty that clamored for transparency maintains an impenetrable wall of silence around the faculty selection process.
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PRESEASON NBA IS back but Kobe isn't. I've never liked Kobe Bryant anyway. The way he walks; the way he talks; the way he licks his lips; scores 30 points a night - there's nothing I like about him. Truth be told, Dr. Condoleezza Rice is not much of a Lakers fan either.
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"I COULD TOLERATE the Hark last year; but this year... I don't know what happened." One of my friends said something like that over dinner (not at the Hark, thankfully) a few nights ago. And while it would give me a great excuse to write about the Hark and how I'd rather Dean Kagan's "build a new bathroom in Pound" funds had gone to "get some better food in the Hark," that's not what it made me think about.
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In her most public comments yet about the Solomon Amendment lawsuits and Harvard Law School's military recruiting policies, last Friday Dean Kagan explained why HLS decided not to join the suit, but remained guarded about her discussions with Harvard University administrators.
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On Tuesday afternoon in the John Chipman Gray room, an awards ceremony was held for this year's winners of the Gary Bellow Public Service award. The award is given each year to a student and an alumnus who have demonstrated their commitment to social justice.
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Democratic New Mexico governor Bill Richardson delivered the 2003 Wurf Memorial Lecture at Harvard Law School on Tuesday to a crowd of students from several area schools as well as representatives of Boston political campaigns. His speech focused on the relationship between Latino voters and candidates for national office.