Archive for Seen & Heard
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Shaq Attack!
(Guest blogger Trisha Ananiades is a 2L. She is an Assistant Technical Editor for the Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law.) I have been a sports fan as long as I can remember – an oddity in my family, given that no one else knows or cares about sports. One of the biggest reasons I [...]
January 19, 2011
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The HLS Public Service Tradition Continues After Graduation…
The American Immigration Lawyers Association recently selected HLS alum Marilia Zellner as the inaugural “Face of AILA.” Marilia is a supervising immigration attorney for Community Legal Services of East Palo Alto. She works with the poor immigrant community of East Palo Alto and also conducts many volunteer immigrants’ rights training programs on weekends. In 2008, [...]
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Professor Tribe to Return to HLS from DC
Professor Laurence Tribe, one of the world’s foremost experts on Constitutional Law and who has been serving in the Obama administration as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice in the Justice Department, will be returning to HLS this January and resuming teaching in the 2011-2012 school year. We know DC will miss him, [...]
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Chief Justice Roberts and the Ames Moot Court Competition
A couple nights ago, Dean of Admissions Josh Rubenstein surrendered his office for a very good reason – the annual Ames Moot Court Competition. Each year, three distinguished judges, usually including a Supreme Court justice, come to HLS for a night to judge the final round of the Ames competition. The closed-door deliberations are held [...]
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Around Campus
One of the best perks of my job is that I get to sit in on a few of the many amazing events hosted by HLS each day. And for the last few weeks, I’ve had yesterday and today marked on my calendar for a couple of especially interesting events. Last night I joined about [...]
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So You Want to Go to Law School?
Cartoons with robot voices talking about law school seems like an odd thing to be gaining a lot of attention among lawyers, but about fifteen people have all forwarded me the same YouTube video entitled “So You Want to Go to Law School.” It features a young woman who [...]
November 3, 2010
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Meet our 1L Class…
I wanted to take a minute to introduce you to our newest students here at HLS, the class of 2013. This year’s entering class is unique in several ways. To start, they are one of the most experienced groups in school history with over half 2 or more years out of college and nearly ¾ [...]
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Shaq as a Classmate?
You just never know who you might bump into on the Harvard campus! Shaquille O’Neal recently spent an afternoon hanging out around Harvard and shared some good advice with the Boston Globe for students considering coming here: “If you have the academic ability to come here, I think you should. I can come visit, but [...]
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Sheriff Elizabeth Warren, Rap Star
Yes, many law schools have many well-known faculty members. But how many law schools can boast of rap videos being made about their professors?!? And then having said rap video profiled in the Wall Street Journal blog? Presently, we can think of only one law school and one professor with that honor: HLS’s Professor Elizabeth [...]
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Justice Elena Kagan!
You may have heard recently that HLS Alum and former Dean Elena Kagan has been confirmed as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Kagan embodies the HLS spirit for public service and justice and we are proud that yet another distinguished HLS alum will fill the bench of the highest court in the [...]
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Professor Jody Freeman in the New York Times on “Carrots” in Environmental Regulations
Professor Jody Freeman, the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program, recently returned from serving in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change. Professor Freeman wrote an op-ed in the New York Times this morning about ways to restructure incentives to reward good behavior instead of the [...]
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Grapevine gossip confirmed!
My post a couple days ago on Law School Prom conveyed the unconfirmed rumor that Russell Brand and Jonah Hill showed up at our party, and lo and behold, after my submission went up on the website I was sent photographic proof! Russell Brand at the Liberty Hotel with HLSers. This is amazing! Yes, amazing [...]
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Law School Prom
For those of you nostalgic for the good old days of high school dances, don’t worry! They come around again in law school! In case it’s not enough of a throw-back for you that you’ll get a locker here, we also have law school prom. As with most things, we call it something different. It’s [...]
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“Guys and Dolls, Bids and Calls” – The HLS Public Interest Auction
In order to raise money for the Summer Public Interest Funding (SPIF) program, the law school holds an annual public interest auction. Basically the structure behind the event is that members of the HLS community donate various items to be auctioned off, then people come and bid, and all the money goes to fund students [...]
April 9, 2010
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Private Sector/OCS Week: Erin Walczewski
In honor of this week’s private sector theme, I wanted to shed some light on what happens when private law firms come here to HLS to recruit. Whether you hear people calling it OCI or EIP (On-Campus Interviewing or Early Interviewing Program), it’s the same thing — hundreds of firms and companies descend on Cambridge [...]
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Jody Freeman Returns to HLS as Director of the Environmental Law Program
Professor Jody Freeman will return to the Harvard Law School faculty in March 2010, after serving in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change since January, 2009. You can read more about Professor Freeman and what she has been up to at the White House here and also here.
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Harvard Law School…and The Daily Show
It is perhaps no surprise that over 70 Harvard Law School faculty and alumni — including former Dean Elena Kagan and Professors David Barron, Cass Sunstein, and Jody Freeman — have been playing an integral role in the Obama administration. (See http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotligh…) These faculty and alumni are carrying on the HLS public interest tradition and making [...]