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Surrounded by a small crowd of Harvard Law School students and faculty, former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger spoke Monday on the importance of liberal constitutional interpretation. “Today the institutions of national government are being weakened and in some venues are held in low esteem,” he said.
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Kenitra Fewell doesn't have time to sit around the Hark pool table and whine about the burdens of 1L year. During such rituals Kenitra is likely either caring for her son, Hughie, or completing tasks that will allow her more time to care for him.
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Professor Alan Dershowitz continues to speak out on the controversial issue of using torture in terrorist cases and other sticky situations, Miss America has HLS in her future, and HU President Lawrence Summers blasts anti-Semitism at Harvard.
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The Office of Public Interest Advising is both desperate for a hire and not going to settle. Though authorized last spring, the search for a second full-time OPIA adviser still continues. And unless someone is hired after the coming rounds of interviews, students are likely to experience advising delays akin to last year’s record.
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The battle over the pledge of allegiance finally made its way to HLS last Thursday, as Professor Alan Dershowitz took on Dean Douglas Kmiec of the Catholic University School of Law.
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The Supreme Court recently upheld a Kansas prison regulation that required sex offenders to participate in a rehabilitation program or else suffer transfer to a maximum security prison facility, with severe limitations on virtually all of their freedoms. CLIFFORD GINN writes that this makes a mockery of our criminal justice system.
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For law students eager to enter the world of big firm law, autumn of 2L year brings a refreshing change: For a few weeks, the most oft-uttered phrase on campus ceases to be, “Isn’t there a public policy justification?” Unfortunately, it is replaced by an only slightly less disconcerting phrase: “I’m selling out.”
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In her first epistle from the west cost, COLLEEN CHEN ponders where she’s headed and how she can change the world. The answers don't come easy even at Boalt Hall.
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"I'm having pizza at the Prison Legal Assistance Program meeting, dessert at the Society for Law, Life and Lemon Meringue, and cocktails at the Target Shooting Club's practice round." Sound like your life? Anyone who's been worried about cooking dinner anytime over the last couple of weeks simply hasn't joined enough organizations. There's no excuse for it.
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"Of the 88 members of the Harvard Law Review, only 28 are women. This year’s incoming class of 43 contained only 11 women. So how is the Review addressing the situation? Well, I’d tell you, but then I’d be violating the Review’s Rule of Confidentiality," GREG LIPPER writes.
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A reader responds to an allegation of rollbacks at a Boston firm and 3L Austin Bramwell challenges the claim that opponents of JAG all want to preserve the military.
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We are scarcely a month away from November, and the Office of Public Interest Advising’s hiring process is standing still. Meanwhile, students trying to use the Office of Career Services’ snazzy new web site have been met with constant frustration, as the site has crashed repeatedly, and at the most inopportune times.