2008 Woodie Awards
Above the Law Gets Down with the Record
Andrea Saenz
Issue date: 9/13/07 Section: News
So there may be a schadenfreude effect going on here. People at other schools derive pleasure and amusement from seeing that pettiness and infighting exist at the legendary Harvard Law School, just like anywhere else. We enjoy HLS gossip for the same reasons that we enjoy celebrity gossip. Harvard Law School students - they're just like us!
We are VERY excited about having both Prof. Noah Feldman and Prof. Jeannie Suk on campus at last. Do you think that, if necessary, the Brangelina of the legal academy could "take" the Bogie and Bacall of the legal academy, Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum? You know, like in some kind of ACS panel discussion gone horribly wrong.
I would pay good money to watch a tag team wrestling match between Feldsuk and Sunbaum! And if I were the oddsmaker on such a battle, I might have to give the edge to Feldsuk. Sure, Sunstein and Nussbaum are more seasoned, with more books under their belts - maybe about 40 between the two of them. But Feldman and Suk have youth on their side, plus the whole multicultural thing (even if it got Noah in trouble with his yeshiva). They're a perfect power couple for the 21st century.
And have you seen that mansion of theirs?
About the Nixon Peabody Theme Song Debacle: Why do you think the whole thing turned into such an internet phenomenon? And did you ever get the chorus out of your head?
ThemeSongGate had all the ingredients for a good internet controversy: a little idiocy, in terms of the song; a little illictness, in terms of the unauthorized leak; and a David-versus-Goliath quality, in terms of a single blogger facing off against a giant national law firm.
As for that chorus, it's terribly infectious! I can't listen to it anymore, because if I listen to it just once, it gets stuck in my head for the whole day. Sometimes I need to engage in reparative therapy after listening to it, by exposing myself to some less odious song with an equally catchy chorus - like, say, "I'd Do Anything for Love, But I Won't Do That."
We are VERY excited about having both Prof. Noah Feldman and Prof. Jeannie Suk on campus at last. Do you think that, if necessary, the Brangelina of the legal academy could "take" the Bogie and Bacall of the legal academy, Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum? You know, like in some kind of ACS panel discussion gone horribly wrong.
I would pay good money to watch a tag team wrestling match between Feldsuk and Sunbaum! And if I were the oddsmaker on such a battle, I might have to give the edge to Feldsuk. Sure, Sunstein and Nussbaum are more seasoned, with more books under their belts - maybe about 40 between the two of them. But Feldman and Suk have youth on their side, plus the whole multicultural thing (even if it got Noah in trouble with his yeshiva). They're a perfect power couple for the 21st century.
And have you seen that mansion of theirs?
About the Nixon Peabody Theme Song Debacle: Why do you think the whole thing turned into such an internet phenomenon? And did you ever get the chorus out of your head?
ThemeSongGate had all the ingredients for a good internet controversy: a little idiocy, in terms of the song; a little illictness, in terms of the unauthorized leak; and a David-versus-Goliath quality, in terms of a single blogger facing off against a giant national law firm.
As for that chorus, it's terribly infectious! I can't listen to it anymore, because if I listen to it just once, it gets stuck in my head for the whole day. Sometimes I need to engage in reparative therapy after listening to it, by exposing myself to some less odious song with an equally catchy chorus - like, say, "I'd Do Anything for Love, But I Won't Do That."
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