Vote Yes: Why Harvard Should Divest from Fossil Fuels
Harvard has the largest university endowment in the world, totaling around $30.7 billion. In November of last year, Harvard undergrads voted overwhelmingly to demand that the University divest that endowment...
Harvard Law Should Teach Hacking
Change is not something that comes easily to legal education. We still employ the casebook and Socratic methods adopted by Christopher Columbus Langdell in the 1870s. So the prospect of...
Gunners & Gun Violence: BigLaw as the Rich Man’s NRA
For Bertrand Russell, the mark of a civilized person was “the capacity to read a column of numbers and weep.” By his standards, we law students must be one notch...
The Pundits Are Wrong: Corporate Money Can Still Destroy the World
In a flood of recent articles, political pundits are gleefully proclaiming that the GOP Super PACs got an embarrassingly small return on their investments this election season. Seems straightforward and self-evident, right? The GOP’s robber barons...
America’s Not a Business – the Metaphor That’s Too Close for Comfort
“[T]he continued failure of our societies to be clear-eyed about the role of the for-profit corporation endangers the public interest. Instead of recognizing that for-profit corporations will seek profit for...
The Middle Shall Inherit the Earth: America’s Sin of Omission
My first job after college was as a teacher in Cotulla, Texas, in a small Mexican-American school. Few of them could speak English and I couldn’t speak much Spanish. My...
Class Denial at HLS: Rich People Defending Rich People
It’s not the speeches or the blunders or the hilarious rewriting of the Reagan era. No, my favorite part about election season is how easy it becomes to recognize class...