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JEFF LEVEN writes, "Harvard at this time of year feels something like that last little graphic after you kill Dracula in the old Castelvania video games where all the ghosts and goblins melt away." With a free schedule, why not enjoy a little music?
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If you're not sure how to commemorate Earth Day this week, ALEX SUNDSTROM has just the cure: "think about sinking your teeth into a delicious mass of ground beef." He takes a look at some of the most popular local burger joints.
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Former Attorney General Janet Reno spoke on Wednesday about the ability of lawyers to make a difference in a changing American society. Reno visited Harvard Law School for a speech hosted by the American Constitution Society entitled "Terrorism, Technology and Law Enforcement."
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His office is starting to empty out. Almost half the bookshelves in his spacious Griswold office are cleared. Boxes stuffed with papers lie along the outside wall. RECORD editor JONAS BLANK takes a look at the 14-year deanship of Robert Clark.
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In just a few short weeks, the Class of 2003 will bid farewell to Harvard Law School. The 3L class marshals have been as busy as law firm recruiters organizing activities, including happy hours, Halloween costume parties, and a trip to the Boston Symphony.
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We had so many letters this week, we decided to place some of them in a web-exclusive article. Readers discuss the corporate nature of HLS, a recent column by LEE STRANG about the Catholic church, the state of the HLS environmental law program, and the law school give and take.
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This week, JONAS BLANK takes a look back at his career as editor. Although he has another year of law school ahead of him, he's turning the RECORD reins over to a new team. "As Robert Clark told me this Monday, HLS will change your life forever, and for the better. With one year left to go, I am already confident this is true."
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ADAM WHITE writes, "The current state of Liberal politics and Liberal jurisprudence is one of intellectual atrophy. They are slaves to New Deal politics, judicial Brennanism, Keynesian economics and a 1945 worldview."
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"Until now," writes GREG LIPPER, "lawyering has been an exercise in make-believe. The clients were invented out of whole cloth by Michael Meltsner's brain (a term I use loosely); the factual and legal issues were crafted such that each side had an equal shot on the merits; and at stake was not money or liberty, but rather bragging rights over Fenno."
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ANGELA WU feels she has undergone a "remarkable process of socialization" during her 1L year. Her life is an interesting mixture of sleep deprivation, wide-eyed optimism, and complacency.
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With the end of the school year approaching, JEREMY BLACHMAN decided it was time to look back on the 1L experience and reflect. He has a few "pearls of wisdom" that he wishes someone had told him back on the first day of orientation.
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Harvard Law School alum and cartoonist Stu Rees present's his unique take on the legal profession.