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Ex-feminist encourages tradition
“I claim the right to participate in the labor market as women, not men in skirts,” declared Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD and founder and president of the Ruth Institute. Dr. J, as she is more commonly known, gave a lecture entitled “Alternatives to Feminism” at the Law Center on Feb. 10.
Sister Dorinda’s donation helps family
Shauna Prewitt, 3L, and Ebony Rivon, 3L, met Ms. Brown, a 73-year-old widow, who still works at a daycare to try to make ends meet, at the Domestic Violence Intake Center at the D.C. Superior Courthouse. She was there because her 47-year-old son, who lived with her and shared the title to the house, had threatened to kill her.
Though it was hard for her to come forward and admit the problem, her children had said she needed to deal with it.
Georgetown BLSA chapter has deep roots
On the heels of World War II, newfound optimism engulfed the nation. War-weary Americans looked to various sources for hope of a more promising future. African-Americans, long denied equal access to education, began pushing for entry into institutions of higher learning. Eventually, they were successful in opening the door to Georgetown University Law Center. In the fall of 1948, Winston Douglas, Elmor Henderson, William Martin, and Lutrelle Parker were the first black students to enroll at the Law Center.
OAS tools and practices provide unique opportunity
On Wednesday, Jan. 28, the Director of the Department of International Law at the Organization of American States (OAS), Dr. Dante Negro Alvarado, joined Law Center students and faculty to discuss current legal issues at the OAS.
Wal-Mart lawyer shares experiences and perspectives
The retail behemoth Wal-Mart has grown at a blistering pace since its 1962 founding, and management was sometimes unprepared for the social side effects of such a shift in scale. Throughout the last decade, critics have attacked Wal-Mart as racist, sexist, harmful to the communities in which it operates, and disastrous for the environment on a local and global scale.
Decisions on big cases come down
Discussing PEARSON et al. v. CALLAHAN, LOCKE et al. v. KARASS, STATE CONTROLLER, et al., and LAWRENCE W. NELSON, aka ZIKEE v. UNITED STATES.
Panel gives Palestinian perspective
“We don’t care about civilian casualties unless they’re American,” said Amjad Atallah, director of Middle East Task Force, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at a panel on the invasion of Gaza. The Arab Law Students Association (ALSA), the Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA), and the Global Race and Identity Project (GRIP) sponsored the panel, which largely focused on the Gaza crisis from the perspective of the Palestinian people.
Court to rule on legality of poker game
For nearly 30 years, Bob Chimento of Mount Pleasant, SC hosted a weekly game of Texas hold ‘em for some of his old college buddies; the group would crowd around a table and play poker, each contributing $20 for pizza, soda, and beer.
Kenneth Starr lauded at Georgetown Law
Thursday, Feb. 5, the Georgetown Law Federalist Society presented its sixth annual Lifetime Service Award to Kenneth Starr, the Dean of Pepperdine Law School. Starr is best known for the Starr Report, which he compiled and presented to Congress after his Office of the Independent Counsel investigation into the suicide of deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster and President Clinton’s Whitewater land transactions, and which eventually led to Clinton’s impeachment for perjury in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Panel discusses the lessons learned from Prop. 8
For members and allies of the LGBT community, Nov. 5 was a bittersweet day. While many viewed the election of President Obama as a step in the right direction for civil rights, supporters of gay marriage were disheartened by the passage of California’s Proposition 8, which amended Article I of California’s constitution to include the phrase “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”