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Constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 will take a leave from Harvard Law School to lead a new initiative that seeks to improve access to legal services for the poor and the middle class...
...Access to Justice program will focus on improving indigent defense services—legal assistance for people who are unable to afford a lawyer. Tribe will serve as a primary liaison to the federal and state judiciary, working with judges and attorneys across the country to improve the delivery of legal services, according to Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler...
Voicing ethical and legal concerns about the project, as well as allegations that UC leaders had not properly ascertained adminstrative approval, Ellen V. Lehman ’11—a representative from Adams House—made a motion to strike all of the operative clauses from the legislation passed last week...
...representative who had attended last Thursday’s Committee on Undergradute Education meeting said that Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris and other committee members had expressed reservations about proceeding with the project before its legal and ethical implications were further considered...
...only a start, many transsexuals in France say. In practice, the declaration will do little to improve their legal or medical rights in the country. For example, transsexuals are still required to have a sex-change operation before they can change their gender in the eyes of the law. And to get the green light for surgery, they must still undergo extensive medical and psychiatric evaluations. "It's a symbolic victory," says Louis-Georges Tin, president of the Paris-based IDAHO committee, which fights homophobia and what it calls "transphobia," or discrimination against transsexuals. "Transsexuals are no longer mentally...