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...membership of fifty undergraduates who wanted to respond to frustrations over an absence of “meaningful” human rights work at Harvard, according to co-founders Tamar Ayrikyan ’07 and Caitlan L. McLoon ’07. Modeled after the Harvard Law School (HLS) Student Advocates for Human Rights, the new group aims to work in conjunction with NGOs and other human rights organizations overseas on research and consultation. “It’s important that people interested in human rights maintain that interest,” McLoon said...
...Mehren grew up in Minneapolis during the Depression. He and his twin brother Robert became local legends when one was accepted to Harvard and the other to Yale. After graduating from Harvard College in 1942, von Mehren went on to place first in his class at Harvard Law School (HLS), where he served as president of the Law Review. He earned a doctorate in government in 1946 and entered the HLS faculty. As a professor, von Mehren specialized in international and comparative law and conflicts of law. He spent time in Switzerland, Germany, and Japan studying international legal systems...
Applications to American law schools have declined almost 10 percent to a total of just over 60,000 from 66,000 a year before, according to the Law School Admission Council. Though other schools have reported consistent declines in the number of applicants over the years, Harvard Law School (HLS) has seen its pool stabilize after falling 3.5 percent last year. Though applications fell to 7,127 from 7,386 in the 2004-2005 cycle, officials claim that there has been no change this time around. “Applications are still coming in,” HLS Director...
...debate began when Posner, an HLS alum, critiqued the letter authored by the 12 professors as overly reliant on legalistic arguments...
...sharpest questioning during the hearings will likely come from Sen. Russel D. Feingold, D-Wis. Feingold, a fellow HLS alum, who is angry about what he considers misleading testimony from Gonzales during the attorney general’s confirmation hearing...