Word: legalism
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This past winter semester, all 550 Harvard Law School first-years donned their formal business attire and assumed the roles of lawyers in a multinational corporation or as legal aid attorneys while Boston lawyers evaluated their performance for course credit...
...part of the Law School’s curriculum overhaul—a three-year process ending Oct. 2006 under former Law School Dean Elena Kagan—a new hands-on course based on solving realistic legal cases was introduced to the first-year curriculum this year...
...staying at Harvard as an undocumented student was something she simply could not do, both on principle and because of the dangers and limitations that accompany an undocumented life. “Even though I would be fine as far as Harvard, I would have no way of becoming legal later,” she says. “I would graduate and I would have this pretty, shiny Harvard degree and no way to get a job, so it was kind of pointless...
Jaramillo’s only legal option to complete her Harvard education was to go back to Colombia and apply for a student visa. Even though Jaramillo was uncertain about her chances of obtaining such a visa—it would be difficult to prove the required intent to return to her home country after having done most of her growing up in the U.S.—it was worth the risk...
...confident about her potential as a legal resident. “Once I get those nine digits, I will be unstoppable,” she says. “I will shake things...