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It's not every day that you run into HLS students who have changed the law with real life wins and losses, if even briefly, toward their own vision of right and wrong. Three-L Kevin Walsh is just one of those select few. He's pretty cagey about his experience -- he doesn't like to talk about his accomplishments and places ample credit on those around him.
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My polemical punching bag, J.R. Parker, attacks substantive due process, or the judicial protection of individual liberties not explicitly enunciated in the Constitution as a bad thing because it is anti-majoritarian. He points to the Dred Scott case as the first major example of a judicially created individual right (the right of "property" in slaves), and argues that this decision, as much as later decisions like Roe v.
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HLS Lambda represents a diverse population of law students with widely varying opinions about Kelly's column. We choose to respond as individuals, rather than as an organization for the following reasons: (1) We believe that our strength as a community derives from our diversity, and to summarize the plethora of different bases on which Ms.
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What is most disappointing about Kelly's "Coming out of Homosexuality" is not learning that bigotry is alive and well at Harvard Law in the HLSRECORD, or even that this same forum failed to publish a competing view on an issue of such social importance. Far outweighing these issues is my concern for what that article says about the caliber of scholarship at Harvard Law School such that one of its students, advanced to 3L status, could author such a piece.
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Harvard Square is some of the most valuable real estate in Cambridge. It is also some of the most boring. During their Harvard careers, students witness the disturbing disappearance of beloved small businesses and a speedy proliferation of chain restaurants and clothing stores, cell phone retailers and office buildings.
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I found Kelly Hartline's recent op-ed encouraging gay people to "come out of homosexuality" disturbing on many levels. My main impression, however, was that Ms. Hartline has probably never had any meaningful interaction with gay people other than those at her church who are suffering not from their homosexuality, but rather from their own internalized homophobia.
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Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. But actually there are events that repeat themselves endlessly, and when they do, it's not funny anymore. Indeed, since the debate regarding "Exodus" (the ex-gay ministries organization) and coming out of homosexuality has been going in the United States for quite a while now, gays have lots of responses to those who promote it, and Kelly Hartline ("The Right Side: Coming Out of Homosexuality") cannot but expect those reactions to present themselves.
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In Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court upheld the contribution limits in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974, but struck down expenditure limits (an expenditure is the spending of money "relative to a clearly identified candidate"). Buckley did not, however, make expenditure limits per se unconstitutional, and a quarter century of experience under the Buckley framework demonstrates exactly why they should not be.
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"Political reasons have not the requisite certainty to afford rules of juridical interpretation. They are different in different men. They are different in the same men in different times. And when a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we no longer have a Constitution; we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of what it ought to mean.
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Compassionate communication I'm new here, so I don't know anything about the politics of the RECORD, or Kelly Hartline's. Nor, for that matter, do I know much about my own politics. I do, however, know I'm gay. It's hard for me to communicate this, and it's odd that I feel compelled to.
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Former Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz is likely to raise the highly controversial argument during his presentation Thursday that "law is preferable to war." This argument is controversial because current members of Congress and the Administration recently accepted the American Servicemembers' Protection Act (HR 1794 and S 857), which would ban U.
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Harvard's future is anchored both in maintaining the University's intellectual traditions and becoming a "global university" by adjusting to changing demands, Larry Summers said during his installation ceremony last Friday. Summers was installed as the 27th president of Harvard University under sunny skies in front of a crowd of thousands, including faculty, students and delegates from academic institutions.