2008 Woodie Awards
Investigating the Grading Curve
By Andrea Saenz Every semester, as grades are released, Harvard Law students examine their transcripts and proclaim themselves either pleased or disappointed with the results. More than a few students, however, are unsatisfied with seeing letter grades without context.…
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Lambda Holds 3rd Annual HaLLA Conference
Despite the frigid temperatures, there was a flurry of activity this past weekend at HLS Lambda's third annual Harvard Lambda Legal Advocacy (HaLLA) Conference. For the past three years, the HaLLA conference (previously called GaLLA) has brought together legal professionals, scholars, activists, and students from around the country to examine complex legal issues facing members of the LGBT community.…
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Asian Pacific American Conference Explores "Generation Heroes"
The 14th Annual Asian Pacific American Conference on Law and Public Policy, dubbed "Generation Heroes," took place from February 29 to March 1. The conference was jointly hosted by the Law School's Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and the Kennedy School of Government's Asian American Policy Review.…
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Panels Examine GPS Tracking of Domestic Batterers
Several students, judges, and professionals spoke at the law school on Friday, Februaru 29, at the Coalition on Gender Violence's conference on GPS tracking of domestic batterers. The discussion was centered around a recent piece of Massachusetts legislation that authorized the use of GPS tracking of convicted batterers in order to enforce orders of protection.…
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Far from the Madding Crowd: Unique Jobs Right Out of HLS
This article is the first in a series talking with 3Ls who have decided not to work in Big Law after graduation. Sasha Shapiro, a professional classical musician as well as law student, came upon her job with the United Steelworkers Union in Pittsburgh largely through HLS connections.…
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The Deal with the Superdelegates
The Democratic primaries in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont this Tuesday (March 4) were crucial for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton. Though Senator Barack Obama won Vermont-which was expected-Clinton swept Rhode Island and Ohio, and, much to many people's surprise, also won the Texas primary (at the time this article went to press, the Texas caucus was too close to call).…
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SALDF Hosts 2008 Animal Law Moot Court and Closing Argument Competition
Does the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act violate the First Amendment? What liability, if any, does a person have for killing her neighbors' dogs as they charge an injured deer in her own backyard? How should damages be calculated? During the bitterly cold weekend of February 15-17, 2008, law students from all over the country traveled to Cambridge to grapple with these questions at the 5th Annual Animal Law Moot Court and Closing Argument Competition.…
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