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...missed, but the kids can busy themselves with inexpensive cookie decorating, Long said. And they will still receive the gift bags purchased during an after-Christmas shopping spree when everything was “deeply discounted,” Long said.“I know the HLS party has always been quite an event,” said Mark C. Webster, a former Law School employee currently working at the Divinity School who crashed the party last year. “It’s pretty opulent by Harvard standards.”Nor is the party...
When Harvard Law School (HLS) first offered a class entitled “Animal Law” in the spring of 2000, the Harvard Salient predicted catastrophe. “Radical Ape Activists Storm the Law School,” screamed the satirical headline, in a piece that went on to claim, rather more sternly, that the course would lead to lawsuits against Harvard’s own research laboratories for abusing animals...
...Eight years on, the ape activists are not yet at the breach. But “Animal Law” is a biannual course at HLS, offering Harvard’s attorneys-to-be a chance to question how the law views animals. Some animal lawyers now hope that the course and others like it could help challenge one of the oldest assumptions of our legal system: the property status of animals...
...Back at HLS, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Cass Sunstein advocates a middle course. He argues that the real problem is not animals’ property status, but the lack of enforcement of current animal welfare statues by state prosecutors indifferent to institutionalized animal cruelty. He proposes allowing private citizens or advocacy groups to take suits on behalf of animals—a system that would both bring animal abusers to book and disincentivize abuses in the first place...
Alan M. Dershowitz has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1964, and he’s met his fair share of would-be presidents: a couple dozen from HLS, he estimates, and maybe three or four from the College. Most of them fit the same good-looking stereotype, Dershowitz said. They were always men, of course. “Very tall, chiseled face, you know, with a lot of gravitas.” “I think people used to look at themselves in the mirror and think, ‘I look presidential...