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Dean Martha Minow took the helm of Harvard Law School at a time when a dwindling endowment and university-wide budget cuts have forced the school to employ cost-cutting measures. Still, during her first months as dean, Minow has faced these challenges head on and has worked to address student concerns and create new programs tailored to meet student needs that have arisen as a result of the economic downturn.
Opinion
Attention all 1Ls: Professor Einer Elhauge shares his suggestions for success in law school, in convenient top ten countdown form!
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OCI is over. You have survived three weeks of multiple interviews every day. You have taken full advantage of the unique opportunity to hone your interviewing skills by sampling the interviewing techniques of the representatives of over 30 firms. And hone you have.
Opinion
I'm grateful for the opportunity to share some OCI expertise with you, 2Ls. After a full year at a law firm, it's about time that I speak with expertise on something. Let's call a spade a spade: OCI is chaotic. Each of you has the opportunity to interview with dozens of law firms.
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THEPRESIDENT, WHO BELIEVES so strongly in states' rights in other contexts, should let the states do their jobs and work out their marriage laws before resorting to a constitutional amendment. With those words, the editors of the New York Times (Feb. 25, 2004) summed up one prong of the public criticism of the President's proposed Defense of Marriage Amendment.
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Fenno was standing in the Hark, perusing the First Year face book. She'd gotten' to the K's and was wondering whether or not Robert Kent's photo was a glamour shot when Andria Boateng walked by. "Hi, Fenno," she said, flashing her patented dimpled smile.
Opinion
Okay, I don't have anyone to blame but myself. I should have taken the MPRE in the fall, but I was lazy and saved it until the spring. On the plus side, had I taken it in the fall I would have had to go to downtown Hartford to find an open testing center.
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I COULD NOT HAVE ATTENDED law school at a more crucial time. In the three years that I've studied here, the critical issues of our generation have emerged - some in catastrophic clarity, some in unsettling stealth. Of course, upon hearing such things the minds of my classmates turn to the morning of September 11, 2001, which exploded into our consciousness mere weeks into our legal education.
Opinion
WITH MY LAW-SCHOOL days fast escaping me, I find myself thinking more and more about how much I'm going to miss my HLS life. Of course I'll miss friends, and I'll miss the leisurely schedule of a student. I may even miss classes from time to time. (I've certainly been missing a lot of class working on my 3L paper.) But as I stop to think about what I'll leave behind in a month, I find myself surprisingly moved by one imminent loss: Boston.
Opinion
AFTER WEEKS OF BOASTING the support of international leaders in his bid to unseat President Bush, John Kerry finally received a foreign endorsement he didn't want. Kerry's subsequent denouncement of foreign involvement in the race, a speedy retreat and reversal, reveals less about his own principles than it does about the failings of unquestioning support of "internationalism.
Opinion
I'VE PAID DEARLY FOR MY HLS education, and for that reason I don't take lightly those who accuse my professors of being "embarrassments." Imagine my confusion, then, when I discovered that Professor Laurence Tribe has taken to calling himself "embarrassing."
Features
This is a dispatch from Laredo, Texas, the last town on Rt. 35 before Stetsons turn to sombreros and Homeland Security no longer has your back. To my right, beneath the window, Border Patrol crawls along the river in Suburbans with their parking lights on; to the left is a Trinitron as old as the hotel, hue and contrast stuck at full-tilt, and I'm on it, because four hours ago, I placed eighth in the annual La Costea International, the world's largest hot-pepper eating contest.
Opinion
THIS WEEK I WAS TOLD THAT some at Harvard Law Review suspect that I am a plagiarist. A thief. On Friday, my editor and I received a letter from a member of the Review. He wrote in reaction to my Feb. 19 column comparing Judge William Hastie, a black man "too conservative" for a Kennedy-era Supreme Court nomination, with filibustered nominee Miguel Estrada.
Opinion
Amidst February's annual Black History Month observances, Harvard Law Students turn their attention to the achievements of blacks in the history of American law. A name that won't make it into the official program for this month's commemoration is William Hastie: The first black contender for the Supreme Court bench blocked by Democrats for being "too conservative."
News
HAVING COMPLETED THEIR 39-hour marathon debate, Senate Republicans must now choose their next course of action in trying to force an up-or-down vote on the President's unconfirmed judicial nominees. The conventional wisdom dictates that the GOP should now conduct a frontal attack on the Senate's filibuster rule itself.