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...Jason P. Mehta is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. In January, he volunteered at the Mississippi Center for Justice in Biloxi, Mississippi...
...Sachs. Then I got to law school and I realized, “Oh my God, what am I doing?”...I took a couple of undergraduate creative writing classes and I persuaded this professor named James Vorenberg [’48]...to let me write my third-year paper...as a creative third-year paper. I sort of wrote a spec script for “Law & Order?...
...faculty for ensuring that our University can act as a harbinger of change for higher education. Over the next three years, HLS plans to condense the standard first-year offerings first put in place by Langdell, Harvard College Class of 1850, and introduce courses in international and comparative law, legislation and regulation, and “problems and theories”; it also will implement a January Term for its first year students (one already exists for second- and third-year students). While no single piece of the review is unprecedented in legal education, the breadth of change is. That...
While the newly approved revisions focus on the first year, the faculty approved changes to the second- and third-year curriculum late last year. The revisions are an effort to add focus to the later years by creating optional, guided tracks of study for students who wish to specialize in some area of the law. In the past, students had spent their upper-class years primarily taking introductory courses, Kagan said, and so the new tracks will allow for a “progression through the three years...
...June struck down the military tribunal system used in Guantanamo to try terror suspects. An HLS third-year student, Britton A. Schwartz, told the audience that the recent measure “leaves Guantanamo in its status as a legal black hole.” Deborah A. Popowski, a member of HLS Advocates for Human Rights and second-year student at HLS, claimed the bill “leaves ample room for torture.” But an HLS first-year, Justin R. Walker, said he approved of the administration’s handling of terror suspects. He claimed that...