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66 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1978)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec66 and id is 1 raw text is: 4ARAR 4 A5 RECOR America's Oldest Law School Newspaper () 1978 BY THE HARVARD tAW SCH00t RECORD CO PORATION JANUARY 27, 1978 Nearly two feet of snow fell on Cambridge last weekend, but through it all Harvard Law School survived. Classes were held as scheduled and the library stayed open for near-normal hours. Boycotted Firm Not Alone Handling S. African Interests By Terry Keeney Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles about representa- tion of foreign clients by American law firms. The next article will ap- pear in next week's RECORD. Last fall Harvard Law students organized a boycott against a Washington, D.C., law firm that was the registered lobbyist for the Republic of South Africa. Students were urged to boycott interviews with the firm in protest of the re- pressive apartheid regime of the firm's client. As a result of the boycott, only three students signed up to interview with Collier, Shan- non, Rill, Edwards & Scott, and the firm cancelled its trip to Cam- bridge. Today, two months later, the success of the boycott is open to question. Collier, Shannon has had more than 1,700 nationwide appli- cants for a handful of new associate positions. In addition, the activities of other law firms, some larger and more renowned than Collier, Shannon, have escaped notice in their representation of South Afri- can interests. Representation of foreign clients is today a vital component of American private law practice. Such representation can often be as diverse as that of domestic clients and may entail everything from fil- ing SEC documents for foreign cor- porations to advising foreign gov- ernments on U.S. law to drafting wills for diplomatic personnel to lobbying. (Continued on Page 4) CommitteeLauds Added Flexibility of New Schedule By Bill Ross The January interim semester established under the new 4-1-4 schedule will give the Law School an opportunity to experiment with innovative educational programs, according to faculty and student members of the Legal Education Committee. The curriculum at Harvard is extremely rigid -just like a strait jacket - but this breaks it wide open, said Joan Williams, 2L, a committee member, The thrust of education here is away from what people use in practice. This is a real structural change that moves us away from the Langdell model. I hope that people get on the stick to take advantage of this. The committee recommended to the faculty last fall that exams be scheduled before Christmas, with the' concomitant shortening of fall and spring semesters from 15 to 13 weeks, with an interim semester in January, The faculty voted last month to accept the pro- posal. Offers Innovation Of all the plans we discussed, the 4-1-4 was the best because it offered the greatest opportunity for educational innovation, said Phoebe Salton, 3L, a committee member. This is the perfect thing for really intensive clinical work. It will rmean that students won't be required to neglect their other (Continued on Page 8) VOL. 66, NO. 1 TWENTY CENTS

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