By Jay Schweikert, J.D. 2011 After many years of disappointment, the House of Representatives has finally delivered on the promise of representative democracy. Yesterday, in an act of shocking political honesty, the House rejected President Bush’s $700 billion Wall Street bailout, a plan designed to protect and promote the idea that men, companies, and nations […]

The 1Ls are up in arms about the new grading system–and why they’re not getting a piece of the pie. Below is the full copy of the petition. Like other recent posters, I agree that the current system is superior. A critique of the petition is to come. — Hereford Dean Kagan, We are the […]

By Jay Schweikert, J.D. 2011 Whoever has seen The Ten Commandments would be hard pressed to forget the scene where Charlton Heston’s Moses spurns the seductions of Pharaoh’s court and famously retorts back: “Man shall be ruled by law – not by the will of other men.” Whose mind doesn’t proudly nod in support of […]

By Publicola Dean Kagan announced today via e-mail that Harvard Law School would adopt a new Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail grading system beginning with the class of 2012. At this hour, it seems that the faculty have not yet decided whether the new grading system will apply to current students. Dean Kagan has invited student input on […]

We’re off to a new year here at Ex Parte! Things have been quiet for a while, but expect the pace to pick up in the coming days and weeks. We have a new look and some new writers, and we’re looking forward to a lively discussion of legal issues, philosophy, conservative, libertarian, and moderate […]