HLS in Focus

The campaigns are in high gear already, as 2L Sarah Isgur has found. Here’s what she recently sent me:

“It was 70 degrees on Saturday. As much as I miss my friends back in Cambridge, it was well worth it to be able to call them from the Lincoln Memorial in a t-shirt. We have all been having a fantastic time down here. Four of us HLS-ex pats took a six-hour walking tour to introduce the DC neophytes to the city. At one point I actually got a phone call from one who was lost that went like this: ‘I think I might be at the Supreme Court…I’m not sure but it seems eerily legal.’ But between performances at the Kennedy Center and parties with alumni, I guess we have been working quite a bit too.

“Once it became clear that Gov. Romney (HLS ’75) was going to be a serious presidential candidate for 2008, I decided I needed to be involved. During the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention, I ran into Barbara Comstock, former Director of Research and Strategic Planning for the RNC and Assistant Attorney General for Public Affairs. She offered to let me help her with strategic communications planning for the Romney Exploratory Committee. When I brought this to the administration, I was expecting to have to put up a fight (to shoehorn this opportunity into the clinical program). But from the second I walked in the office, Lisa Dealy, the Clinical Office Director, was as enthusiastic about it as I was. The school is even defraying the cost of travel and lodging.

“Without going into detail about the type of work I am doing, let it suffice to say that it is some of the most fun and intellectually stimulating work I could imagine doing on a political campaign. And since the headquarters are in Boston at this point, I will get to continue my work with Comstock and the general counsel’s office when I get back to Cambridge in a few weeks.

“This has also been a great time to work on some side projects. On the weekends, I am finishing up a piece I am trying to get published in our Journal on Law and Public Policy on the Establishment Clause. Today, I spent a few hours scheduling various cabinet officials, congressman, and Justices to meet with the HLS Republicans during our Spring Trip that I am putting together. And perhaps most importantly, I am catching up on old episodes of The Office.

“The temperature is back in the 30s tonight, but a bunch of us are getting to watch Ohio State beat up on the Gators [editor’s comment: this didn’t end up happening]. I love J-Term!”