2008 Woodie Awards
Harvard Tops Skadden Fellowships Again. 3L 2007 Fellows Eager to Begin
Harvard Law School alums and students have once again earned more Skadden Fellowships than those of any other law school. The fellowships pay a one-year salary of $46,000 and benefits, allowing fellows to pursue public interest work in a variety of fields.…
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Brown and the Limits of Originalism
Can the Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education be defended with an original understanding of the Constitution? Last Tuesday, students filled Pound 107 to hear Professor Michael Klarman and Judge Michael McConnell debate the question while enjoying pizza provided by the Federalist Society.…
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Harvard Legal Aid Bureau Fights for Tenant Rights
The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau has recently embraced a new approach in its ongoing mission to ameliorate the dual problems of lack of affordability and dilapidated living conditions facing low-income tenants in certain Boston neighborhoods. While still representing a number of individual clients facing eviction, Bureau students have now begun using collective bargaining agreements between tenant associations and their landlords and meetings with community organizers and local government officials in efforts to set the stage for improved tenant-landlord relations in local low-income communities.…
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Law School Deans Denounce Government Official's Statement
Harvard Law School's Dean Elena Kagan and more than 100 deans from the nation's law schools denounced statements made by a Pentagon official urging corporations to pressure law firms to stop representing terrorism suspects. Last Thursday, Charles "Cully" Stimson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, called on corporate clients to avoid doing business with law firms that provide pro bono legal services to Guantanamo detainees.…
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