but I also wanted--indeed I felt I needed--the status that came along with a Supreme Court clerkship in order to obtain the kind of job offers I would be seeking after finishing my clerkships. Two of my other mentors at law school
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and he went on to become Dean of Hofstra Law School and one of the nation’s leading experts in legal ethics. I tried to follow in his large footsteps but I’m not sure I ever made as good an oral argument as he did in the Morgan case. It was quite a way to begin my career as a l...
which continue to influence me to this day. There could be no better preparation for my life as a professor at Harvard Law School.
I tended to spend an enormous number of hours preparing for each class. I stayed up the night before planning my questions and strategies and got to the law school at 7:00 am before each class. Naturally I parked in the first available slot in the parking lot. Several days int...
[who] got his appointment at age 24.” It quotes me as making the heretical statement that: “there’s no such thing as The Law….Law is one of our many processes for ordering society. You can’t view this process as a neatly compartmentalized entity. It must be viewed in its full...
the law student is going to have to know his ‘law’ as his preliminary basis for the experience to cope with existing institutions and do a lawyer’s job. One cannot deny the credentials of Professor Dershowitz’s genius
Derek Bok became the Dean of the Law School. We never got along all that well. One day he called me into his office with a smile on his face and told me that I was a very expensive professor. Since salaries are fairly standard at Harvard
that I was the only assistant professor ever to turn down an invitation to speak at that club and that it was important for untenured faculty to present their work there because several of the members served on the Harvard Board of Overseers that had to approve all tenure decisio...
he had nearly graduated and the school told the justices that he would be allowed to graduate even if the Supreme Court ruled against him. For that reason
as well as other applicants who are economically and culturally deprived; none of them would offend the Constitution. But what the school may not do
but he applauded Harvard College for employing a process that eschews “target-quotas for the number of blacks” but allows “the race of an applicant [to] tip the balance in his favor just as geographic origin or a life spent on a farm tip the balance in other candidates’ cases.”
don’t eat shrimp—and to ask our Rabbi what to think about such esoteric issues. They know the religiously correct answer. Yet the addition of the two words to the pledge forced me not only to think about them but to try to place them in the context of my own role as a young Ort...
she called me and we discussed her situation. She had been indicted for acts she was accused of committing after she retained top flight lawyers. She then hired another top flight lawyer
as long as I was willing to promise not to mention Israel. An administrator at the Trondheim school said that Israel was too ""controversial.""
investment building skills. ] don’t see much avenue for investment in adult human capital except through textbooks and tuition. Some happens. I went back to school at the Conservatory myself, and I buy lots of textbooks. But I just don’t see enough of it around me. Models must si...