Harvard Law Tag

Students at Harvard Law School Call for ‘Automatic Bar Admission’

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 21, 2020 12 Comments

"Not only would this raise justifiable concerns about their competence to practice law when they were doing so, but it also would create the problem of nascent law practices having suddenly to close shop"...

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Harvard Law Students Want to be Licensed Without Taking the Bar Exam

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 06, 2020 23 Comments

“emergency diploma privilege”...

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Harvard Law School Hosts Discussion About Abolishing Police

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 02, 2020 9 Comments

"acknowledged the impossibility of eradicating all police services at once"...

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Democrats follow Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe off the impeachment cliff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2019 103 Comments

Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe has a somewhat storied history, long considered a leading liberal legal light, someone who was talked about in the past as a possible Supreme Court nominee. Tribe's scholarly accomplishments always mixed with pugilistic politics. He was involved in developing what now is known as "Borking":

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Harvard Law Students Angry Over Official Response to Racist Emails and Texts

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 29, 2019 16 Comments

“My first initial reaction was this is like a gut punch”...

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Professor Ron Sullivan and Stephanie Robinson Speak Out Over Their Removal as Harvard Deans

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 19, 2019 26 Comments

Harvard Law School professor Ron Sullivan Jr. and his wife Stephanie Robinson, who also teaches at the school, were removed from their positions as residential deans for Harvard's Winthrop House this spring. They were targeted by social justice warriors on campus who claimed they felt "unsafe" due to Sullivan's decision to join the defense team of Harvey Weinstein, even though he dropped Weinstein when he learned the trial would conflict with his teaching schedule.

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Harvard Removing Law Professor Ron Sullivan as Residential Dean for Representing Harvey Weinstein

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 12, 2019 43 Comments

For months now, students at Harvard have expressed outrage and even held protests because law professor Ron Sullivan is representing disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Now, the school is removing Sullivan from his position as a house dean.

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Harvard Students Call for Firing of Law Prof for Representing Harvey Weinstein

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 14, 2019 27 Comments

Harvard Law School professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. has taken a role on the defense team of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Now some students are protesting and calling for his firing.

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Harvard Law Prof Defends Decision to Represent Harvey Weinstein

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2019 6 Comments

“every citizen charged with a crime is cloaked with the presumption of innocence”...

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Harvard Law Course Will Examine Ways to ‘Push Back Against’ Trump Strategies

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 26, 2018 1 Comment

"Constitutional Strategies For the McConnell/Trump/Kavanaugh Era”...

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Harvard Students File Title IX Complaints to Prevent Kavanaugh From Teaching Course

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 03, 2018 36 Comments

Judge Brett Kavanaugh was supposed to teach a course at Harvard Law School this winter, as he has since 2008, but that's no longer happening. Students, fueled with rage supplied by Democrats and the media, have successfully used Title IX complaints to keep Kavanaugh off campus.

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Harvard Law Students Support Nationwide ‘Prison Strike’

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 07, 2018 0 Comments

"attendees demanded reforms at federal and state prisons"...

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Harvard Law Prof Wants to Lower Voting Age to 16

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 20, 2018 6 Comments

“Teens between 14 and 18 have far better BS detectors"...

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Harvard Law Prof Says #MeToo Movement Endangers Consensual Relationships

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 23, 2018 1 Comment

"due process may be in danger of being thrown out"...

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Harvard Law Profs Claim Trump Exhibits all the Criteria of an Authoritarian

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 14, 2018 5 Comments

"shows only a weak commitment to democratic rules"...

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Harvard Law Acknowledges Ties to Slavery With New Plaque

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 18, 2017 4 Comments

“We should not hide that fact nor hide from it”...

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Harvard Law Establishes Professorship to Honor Antonin Scalia

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 03, 2017 0 Comments

“Justice Scalia had a singular impact on statutory analysis and legal thought."...

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Harvard Law School’s Choice for New Dean Draws Praise From Conservatives

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 04, 2017 0 Comments

“This is a fantastic choice”...

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