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At a law school where class ranks are not assigned and grade distributions are not published, it is often difficult for students to have a sense of where they stand in the class. However, four students recently received the satisfaction of knowing that their course performance went unmatched.
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Since the beginning of the California recall process, pundits have been labeling it "another Florida." Until the Ninth Circuit decided to step in and delay the recall, however, this comparison was more one of rough parallels than of similar legal situations.
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On Monday the Federalist Society hosted a debate titled "Campaign Finance Reform and the Supreme Court," with two distinguished speakers: Bradley Smith, Vice-Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and Alan Morrison, a co-founder of Public Citizen.
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The reasons for the moratorium on accepting clerkship applications a year later than had been conventionally practiced were an attempt to restore order to the hiring process and provide students with an extra year to develop their skills, interests and relationships with faculty.
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Rumors were circulating that HLS had plans to initiate campus-wide wireless Internet access; unfortunately, those rumors proved baseless. The Committee on Healthy Diversity is expected to release it's report soon, but likely without any "speech code." And McDonalds is testing a Happy Meal for adults containing healthy alternatives, possibly in response to a recent wave of litigation.
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"In the wake of accounting scandals at some of the country's largest companies, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 passed the House 423-3 and the Senate 99-0 . . . Whether the net effect is an increase in the quality of corporate governance such to compensate society for the cost of drawing management's focus from their paramount duty to run their businesses remains unclear."
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CHRIS GIOVINAZZO wants to spend his first column praising Bush's recent environmental leadership. "No kidding!" Honestly, what's wrong with an administration that has a revolving door moving high-ranking EPA officers between high-paying jobs with energy companies and their law firms?
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Columnist GARRY GRUNDY sees a lot of similarity between G.W. Bush and rapper 50 Cent. Both look out for their friends, and present a cock-sure gansta' attitude to the rest of the world. "We'll see where 50 Cent is sitting on the charts in November 2004."
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Professor PHILIP B. HEYMANN writes a guest column this week discussing the current war in Iraq and the reality of what the United States now needs to achieve given our involvement in the region, whether or not we believe that involvement was justified.
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Two-L JOHN HILTON writes that, "President Bush has consistently stated his commitment to keeping coalition troops in Iraq for as long as it takes." HILTON feels that, to his credit, the President has steadfastly refuses to abandon the Iraqi people in their hour of greatest need.
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"America's leading Universities are proud of the minds they produce," writes MICHAEL F. LORELLI. "Unfortunately, at times our debates and conversations are downright pathetic."
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Opinion Editor ADAM WHITE writes, "While Schumer is not generally one to change course on account of, frankly, facts and other indicators of reality, someone should warn him: given the last couple of months, he should start looking for dangerous ideologues in different places. He won't find them in Alabama, at Gibson Dunn, or near Robert Bork's office. He will find them, however, on the Ninth Circuit."