The Many Dimensions of Larry Tribe, Part Two
A seat on the Supreme Court would be “boring compared to this,” Professor Larry Tribe recently said when describing his life at HLS. “This place is not static. It keeps changing, growing, becoming more diverse, more appealing to a wider audience, capable of exploring in greater depth new dimensions of law as they bubble up. No place else, no matter how good, has the kind of richness and diversity that we’ve got.”"Brains are a dime a dozen. But what’s really much rarer is decency, kindness, aspiration to do something valuable and important with your life. That’s here in great abundance. And much more so than before. Students were much more single-minded and careerist,” when he was a student here, he says.
I asked about the students who leave an impression. “My most amazing research assistant was Barack Obama. He’s a guy I hope will be president someday.”
But Professor Tribe makes Obama sound nearly representative of HLS students. “There are no students anywhere in the world that are comparably good. So much talent, richness, diversity in the student body.”
“When I have a supreme court case I always involve students right from the beginning.”
Podcast: Professor Tribe, Part 2 (10:09)
