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There is one constant to Harvard Law School. Far more perpetual than dispiriting grade reports, infinitely more unchanging than the faculty itself, it is the hand-me-down. First-year students will surrender unbridled enthusiasm to next year's admits. Second-year students will pass on interviewing tips and bundling strategies.
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Did nothing at the World of Law panels strike your fancy? Do both corporate law and public interest leave you cold? Maybe there's a possibility you haven't considered: You could be a novelist. Take the example of Amy Gutman '93. After a four-year stint as a corporate attorney, Gutman quit her job and wrote a novel.
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Starting this week, there are some new faces at the helm of HLS's most selective student organizations. The Harvard Law Review and the Board of Student Advisors have announced the election of new officers for the 2001-2002 school year. The Harvard Law Review elected second-year student Matthew Hellman '02 as its 115th president.
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On almost the other side of the world, in South Africa, in a small town on the ocean, at the bar in an Irish pub, I recently overheard a young woman make a comment that reminded me of countless remarks made in these United States. She was plump, perhaps 20 years old, and had just downed her first beer.
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For the thousands of victims of Haiti's military regime, D. Austin Hare '02 and Israel Soong's '01 clinical project wasn't academic, it was about justice. The two spent part of the fall and winter terms helping lawyers hold the leaders of Haiti's military coup accountable for the rapes and other crimes that human rights groups said were used to terrorize political opponents.
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Distinguished members of the hip-hop community gathered at Ames Courtroom on Monday, Feb. 12, to discuss the potential derailing of the social movement within hip-hop music. The dialogue, entitled "A Panel Discussion on Ownership and Social Movements in Hip-hop," focused on the uncertain future of the genre, as well as hip-hop's progression from a rebellious and revolutionary art form to a commodity packaged by executives in the recording industry.
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The Harvard Law School Forum hosted Steve Kroft, co-editor of the popular television program "60 Minutes," last Wednesday for an "Off the Record" discussion. The discussion turned into a live example of its title, as Kroft carefully set the ground rules for such holding a conversation.
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Sujata Barai's '03 uncle is a surgeon in Ahmedabad, India. He is helping to provide medical relief to the victims of one of India's worst earthquakes. Thousands of miles away, Barai is showing the same compassion. On the morning of January 26, India was hit with an earthquake that measured 7.
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In Contracts class, they teach us that specific performance clauses are unenforceable. Clearly, they have never signed up for a clinical course at HLS and later tried to drop it. The Office of Clinical Programs has a policy that once students sign up for clinical placements, they must complete their clinical work or receive an incomplete for both their placement and the accompanying classroom course, even a course from a previous semester.
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Alan Stone held up the final piece of paper. On it was handwritten, in black marker, "Fenno." "I'm sorry, Fenno," Stone said, "It appears your blazing torch of intellectualism has been extinguished, at least in this seminar." Stone had imaginatively imposed the Survivor game rules onto his seminar Law, Psychology and Morality: An Exploration Through Film.
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A new basketball season has dawned on the Hemenway hardwood. In the C-league, early action saw What's Happening Now defeat BarGul-MusLinMan 41-36 in a defensive struggle. Jessica Ernie Ellsworth '01 played an excellent defensive game, coming up with key steals to build What's Happening's lead.
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There he was. Hunched by the muddy bank of a mosquito swollen river, Nick pointed casually downstream to the scantily clad Elisabeth. He said something about a pig ... that was all it took to send Mike off, knife in hand, to commune with the spirit of Jimmy Dean.