2008 Woodie Awards
Pitching feverishly
I hate Drew Barrymore. Not "knock those perfectly capped teeth out of her pretty little face" hate. Or even "are we sure David Wells isn't still on the Yankees payroll??" hate. It's more of a traditionally bitter "girl sees another girl with something girl wants, gets urge to pull out hair" hate.…
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Weekend at Bernice
Ah, spring break. That time of year when we abandon the petrified routines of our sterile and quotidian lives. When the Apollonian gives in to the Dionysian, and concerns about firm receptions or utilities bills melt away like - as Roger Pao might put it - Jarvis Field ice rinks on a blistering Torts exam day.…
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Cutting funding for SPOs
Recent events on campus have led some to fear that the future of Student Practice Organizations (SPOs) at Harvard may be at risk. The Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP) was recently informed that the positions of its two clinical instructors were to be eliminated.…
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Dear Reader
Dear Reader: I recently e-mailed you (personally) asking you (personally) to participate in the Law School Survey of Student Engagement. If you have not yet taken the 15 minutes (give or take an hour) to do so, I (personally) hope that you will do so now. As I said then, the closer we come to 100% participation, the bigger my bonus will be.…
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TSA, RIP?
Government agencies tend to accumulate like barnacles on a ship's hull - once created, they're pretty hard to remove. Journalist Jonathan Rauch described this petrification of bureaucracy as "demosclerosis" in his book of the same title. So it's not every day that a government agency passes on to that happy regulating ground in the sky.…
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A new pro bono plan
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article complaining about our pro bono service requirement. As some may remember, my specific objection was that the program is both too broad (in that it allows people to fulfill the requirements through service that is obviously not pro-bono, such as DOJ work) and somewhat counterproductive.…
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