Word: legalism
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From the Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights to Miranda v. Arizona, western legal systems have been making steady progress toward providing the accused with sufficient due process in the name of justice. While the guarantee of defendants’ rights has fortunately caught on in much of the world, the Administrative Board of Harvard College remains an unfortunate exception. Since its establishment in 1890, the Ad Board has operated under rules and restrictions that are fundamentally unfair to students. When students are called before the Ad Board, the deck is clearly stacked against them. Students are not allowed...
...While legal scholarship has become less ideological and more interdisciplinary, making it easier to build consensus among the faculty, Elhauge credits Kagan with breaking the political deadlock in lateral hiring, just as her predecessor, Robert C. Clark, did when it came to the hiring of assistant professors...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan has spent her first half-decade in office shaking up her venerable legal institution, convincing her faculty to approve major revisions to the Law School’s curriculum while raising gobs of cash and laying the groundwork for a large physical upgrade to the school’s campus...
...Harvard moves to increase the size of its faculty—already large compared to the faculty of 60 full-time professors at Yale and 47 full-time professors at Stanford—it has shaken up the market for legal academics. Brian R. Leiter, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who publishes the blog Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, called Harvard “the sleeping giant of legal education,” whose recent faculty expansion has forced its competitors to reconsider their hiring strategies. With a $1.85 billion endowment bolstered...
...dispiriting for gays, who have otherwise grown used to hailing spectacular victories in the courts. Three state supreme courts - in Massachusetts, California and, just last week, Connecticut - have ruled that gays have the fundamental right to marry. Those courts have ruled that not even civil unions with all the legal trimmings of marriage can compensate. Gay-rights activists hope that Iowa's high court, will hear arguments in December and then rule as soon as January 2009 on a lower court's decision in favor of gay marriage, will bring judicial victories in state high courts to four...