Word: legalism
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Harvard Law School has unveiled a new public service fellowship that will fund legal work in the public interest sector, an addition to the school’s long list of initiatives that encourage students to engage in public service...
...this difficult economic time, we want to support students in every way that we can and we also want to offer legal assistance to those who are most vulnerable,” Law School Dean Martha Minow said in a statement...
...fellowship might mitigate some of the anxiety that Law School graduates have experienced since large law firms—predominant employers of HLS grads—have been particularly hard hit by a sharp fall in demand for legal work in the financial industry during the recent recession...
...result, some students have chosen to do public interest work at legal aid agencies and non-profit organizations during their year...
...chaplain in 1993, and five years later the Navy opened the U.S. military's first mosque at Norfolk Navy Base in Virginia. The Pentagon is eager for the language skills of Muslims, and has been awarding signing bonuses and expedited citizenship (for the two-thirds of enlistees who are legal aliens) since 2003 to recruits fluent in Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish and Pashto. (The Army's website, in its typically patriotic but omnisciently weird way, declares these 450 new soldiers - all sent to Afghanistan, Iraq or the Horn of Africa - "100% support the Global War on Terrorism.") During Ramadan, fast...