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DRONE WARS Praises Harvard-
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Experts Ponder Implications of Remote, Robotic Warfare New Book Probes Role of Children
Photo: U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt
BY MATTHEW W. HUTCHINS dramatically altering the psycho- kept apace with innovation. The in Post-Conflict Justice Processes
logical landscape of war. three elements of strategy, doc-
They are watching you. Thou- “My entire career was removing trine, and vision, he says, are each
sands of feet above, circling end- or displacing the cockpit pilot essential to maintain a proper bal-
lessly with cameras that record from the battlefield,” said Lt. Gen. ance between robotics and the
your every move. They are quiet, Tad Oelstrom, speaking at the other tools of modern warfare.
they are deadly, and you cannot symposium of the National Secu- Gen. Oelstrom's greatest fear is
stop them. They are Predators, rity Journal and National Security that we will fall down the slippery
drones sent into areas where the Law Association on March 5th. slope of unpredictable implica-
U.S. Army needs surveillance, From his time guiding the AGM- tions of technology that we put
where the Air Force needs to exe- 12 Bullpup missile as an F-4 pilot into action before it is fully under- BY CHRIS SZABLA
cute precision strikes, and where to the later introduction of the F- stood. “How is the U.S. looked
the CIA seeks to conduct covert 15 Eagle, Oelstrom, who is the upon by the rest of the world in Speaking at the launch of a joint Harvard-UNICEF
operations. The revolution in un- head of the National Security Pro- terms of the way we go to war? publication on the role of children in international jus-
manned aerial vehicle (UAV) tech- gram at Harvard's Kennedy What would we look like as a na- tice, South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu con-
nology that has swept the U.S. School, saw the engagement of pi- tion if we showed up and all our demned the world’s failure to care for children, but
military over the last decade has lots with the enemy move progres- robots got off the back of the C- offered praise for Harvard and UNICEF’s work,
generated massive amounts of re- sively farther from the location of 17?” Oelstrom believes that as the which includes research the archbishop believes might
connaissance data and increased the target. The greatest challenge cost of warfare in lives and money improve the fate of children in post-conflict societies.
the cost efficiency and safety of created by recent change, says falls due to innovation, strategies “We have turned the world into a hostile place for
precision aerial combat missions, Oelstrom, is that doctrine has not Drones, cont’d on pg. 3 UNICEF, cont’d on pg. 5
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Sunstein, cont’d on pg. 5 Mormonism, cont’d on pg. 6
Dinner for
our transition process, and my role is principally to conflicting. Of course, we recognize that changes in Newton ’11.
and Haiti
Nearly a year and a half since Barack vard’s drain”.
Obama ’91’s election as President of the The most notable departures were
United States, at least one Harvard Law those of Dean Elena Kagan ’86, who left
School faculty member he recruited to to become Solicitor General, and Cass
serve on his administration is returning Sunstein ’78, who became head of the
to Cambridge, while another is departing Office of Information and Regulatory Af-
to serve in Washington. fairs (OIRA). Faculty members at HLS
Wed., April 21, 2010 Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95 may take up to two years’ leave before
Two Seatings worked in the White House as Counselor facing a loss of tenure.
for Energy and Climate Change, but will Freeman had always only planned to
5:30 - 7:30 now take up a formal appointment to an serve in the White House for about a
7:30 - 9:00 HLS chair named for former Solicitor year. She left an impressive record, hav-
General and Watergate prosecutor ing led the push for greater motor vehicle
Archibald Cox ’37. She will also return emissions standards. Georgetown Law
100% of Proceeds For: to her post as Director of the Environ- Prof. Richard Lazarus ’79 told the Har-
American Refugee Committee, Darfur Project mental Law Program. She is scheduled vard Crimson he thought it was likely
to begin teaching again in Fall 2010. At she would serve in a higher position –
Meds & Food for Kids, Haiti the same time, famed constitutional law perhaps as administrator of the EPA – if
professor Laurence Tribe ’66 has joined Obama won a second term in office. As
Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door a program that facilitates legal represen- an academic, he said, Freeman faced
Enjoy an all-you-can-eat buffet featuring tation for the poor run out of the Depart- fewer potential conflicts of interest than
ment of Justice. a private sector recruit.
food from local restaurants, plus beer! A considerable number of Harvard fac- Tribe, who employed Obama as a re-
ulty members – many of whom were search assistant when the latter was at
More information: from HLS – left Cambridge in 2008 and HLS, and who called the President the
2009 to work for President Obama’s best student he’d ever had, is serving as
ddixon@jd11.law.harvard.edu or transition team or administrative posi- counselor to the access to justice initia-
sdorenbosch@jd11.law.harvard.edu tions. At the time, this newspaper edito- tive while in Washington, a position he
rialized the loss with headlines including took up on March 1.
“HL Exodus” and “Obama’s gain is Har-
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tional courts, truth commis- help us heal the Tutu demurred, saying both
how the range of interna- priority in such contexts, cult of American Empire in the government's condemnations of Iran for
refusing to follow the demands of the international community, because
sions and traditional wounds in our soul, were important. But the dif- the definition of “international community” used in such rhetoric
both to improve accountabil- but they become... dren into communities rife
processes can be applied, ficulty of reintegrating chil- amounts to little more than the opinion in Washington, D.C. and among
its allies. He cited to the hypocrisy of the U.S. position in its historical
ity for crimes perpetrated abusers. We should with distrust soon emerged relationships with the three nations that did not ratify the Nuclear Non-
against children and to pro-
tect the rights of children in-
be hanging our as a significant problem, as
was the complexity of post-
proliferation Treaty: Israel, India, and Pakistan. These three nations,
said Chomsky, have all received nuclear technology from the United
volved. The book also makes heads in shame.” conflict situations, in which States in violation of security council resolutions, but most Americans
clear that for a truth commis- children may have been vic- would not realize this, given the pro-government bias of the media.
sion to have a lasting impact, - Archbishop Tutu tims of war crimes, their per- Essentially, Chomsky believes that President Obama's foreign policy
people need to see the tangi- petrators – or both. has embodied a continuation of the policies of George W. Bush's sec-
ble difference in their lives after its work has Several experts said the new research ond term in office. But he believes we are fortunate to be living in a
finished. Education, vocational training and demonstrated the need for greater empirical time when the anti-war movement is much stronger than it was during
school reconstruction were all noted by chil- evidence for some of the claims being made. the 1960's. He recalled a demonstration he was involved in during
dren as ways to make up for lost years.” Jens Meierhenrich, a Harvard Government 1965, when state police violently dispersed a crowd from Boston Com-
Harvard Law School provided key re- professor, said that the book emphasized de- mon. The next day, the Boston Globe, one of the most liberal newspa-
search and case studies to the volume, which scription over data, and that some of the pers in the country, denounced the protesters. Just three years later,
explores situations from Liberia and Sierra methods it advocated could lead to unin- following the Tet Offensive, public sentiment had moved enough that
Leone to South Africa and El Salvador. Edi- tended consequences, such as child partici- protests became common, but he ascribed this to a growing sentiment
tors included former HLS lecturer Sharanjeet pants in transitional justice processes being on Wall Street that the country had paid too high a price in Vietnam.
Parmar, now of the NGO Global Rights, and marked off as targets. But Theo Sowa, who Looking back at the lessons of that war, Chomsky said that the United
Mindy Roseman, director of HLS’ Human collaborated on the publication, said that States had essentially achieved its goal of “innoculating” the region
Rights Program. while such targeting was inevitable regard- from the domino-theory chain reaction by 1970 by installing dictators
Tutu offered hope that the study could pro- less of children’s involvement in transitional in neighboring countries and helping Suharto come to power in In-
duce tangible benefits. “HLS and UNICEF justice, ignoring them would make the prob- donesia.
should be commended highly for their semi- lem worse. Prize-winning journalist Amy Goodman noted in her introduction of
nal work,” he said. “I pray that [their] splen- All the participants agreed that more fund- Chomsky that he had played a crucial role in bringing the attention of
did cooperation will blaze a new trail in ing for and political will was necessary for the world to the oppression of the people of East Timor by Indonesia.
dealing with post-conflict situations.” the international community to tackle chil- She recounted the beatings and massacres she witnessed while travel-
Ann Veneman, Executive Director of dren’s problems. “Transitional justice tools ing there as a journalist, as well as the elation when the nation achieved
UNICEF and former U.S. Secretary of Agri- have paid very little attention to children’s independence. “This nation of survivors had prevailed. They had re-
culture, appeared via videoconference along- experiences,” Minow said, but it seemed sisted, and they had won.” Chomsky, when speaking about activism
side Tutu, and took the opportunity to clear that the new report might help to and civil disobedience, stressed the need for determined persistence.
highlight her organization’s initiatives. “The change that. “You're not going to win tomorrow. You are going to have a lot of de-
report being launched today depicts the feats, but you have to keep at it.”
Sunstein, cont’d from pg. 1 vided examples of OIRA’s successes in collaborating The traditional notice and comment style of rule-
never heard of.” Sunstein spoke broadly about his with various agencies, including simplifying the Fed- making can expand through the use of Internet tools,
goals for OIRA and President Barack Obama ’91’s vi- eral Application for Student Aid, working to harmo- and OIRA is coordinating multiple agencies’ efforts
sion for changes within the agency. nize international occupational safety and health to put more and more of their activities online. Each
Cost-benefit analysis has a reputation as a cold and warning systems, and focusing on distracted driving. agency is in the process of creating a new website
mechanical test, but Sunstein believes it is an impor- Sunstein mentioned the role of cognitive biases in with the suffix “/open” attached to its web address.
tant tool for dividing resources while extending and human behavior, and the importance of considering These sites are intended to provide information about
improving people’s lives through regulation. “Hu- these idiosyncrasies when conducting cost-benefit current agency initiatives in a clear public format.
manizing” cost benefit analysis, he said, takes place analysis. Rather than conducting cost-benefit analy- OIRA also has a “dashboard” website,
along three directions: examining actual human be- sis based on “Homo economicus,” Sunstein argued www.reginfo.gov, with aggregate data about agency
havior and not the decisions of a theoretical “rational that research should include phenomena such as “in- activities.
actor;” gathering accurate data that reach beyond formation cascades,” such as music downloads with Sunstein also expressed a deep personal excitement
monetary measures; and democratizing data by tap- popularity ratings, in which statistics about others’ de- about his position with OIRA, mentioning that he
ping “the dispersed knowledge of the American peo- cisions become criteria for an individual’s decision- named his current position as his dream job during
ple.” making process. one of his first dates with his now-wife, Samantha
OIRA’s authority comes from the Paperwork Re- With a nod to social networking, Sunstein described Power ’99.
duction Act of 1980, and its main function is to re- the vast knowledge of the American public, the value Sunstein’s humanized cost benefit analysis still in-
view the actions of all other federal regulatory of transparent government, and the importance of cludes the cost element, but tries to find accuracy
agencies. Sunstein described the agency’s functions public participation. In the spirit of civic engagement through a new emphasis on increasing public partici-
as a mixture of facilitating collaboration between and and democracy, the Obama administration has prior- pation. Involving more human commenters, sources,
across agencies, ensuring an open process, and ana- itized a policy of encouraging openness and public and fact checkers in the process, he argues, will cre-
lyzing the impact of potential regulations. He pro- participation, called the Open Government Initiative. ate a more humane result in regulation.
Harvard
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INTRODUCTION the Record managed to find not one, but three rela- tion writer, and a novelist will share their experiences,
Though people are rarely the reasonable men of tively unsung names among Harvard Law School’s and, we hope, lift the confidence of our readers that
classical legal thought, the law – and law school, en- artistic alumni. With their help, we aim to demonstrate artistic lives and careers can be forged out of law
meshed as it is in high and abstract theory – is over- that there is hope for a right brain perspective in, or school. Because even the most hardened doctrinalist
run by the cold rigidity of logic. Viewed from this upon exiting, the world of interminable text and code, ought to appreciate the need for an occasional inter-
perspective, the rules of life might appear to take over of cases and statutes. vention in the legal market to ensure the free flow of
its content, and existence becomes a bleak equation We asked each of our creative spirits to provide healthy self-expression. Call it a right brain stimulus
burdened by the seesaw of incentives and mazes of both samples of their work and insights on their jour- package.
opportunity and transaction costs. neys through and away from law. Over the next three - The Editors
It can seem astounding that individuals survive law pages, a visual
school with any of their creative faculties intact, but artist, a nonfic-
THE ARTIST
A l f r e d “ D av e ” S t e i n e r
Alfred “Dave” Steiner ’98 didn’t put aside his interest in art while he was
a law student, participating in studios elsewhere at Harvard. Another outlet
was the Record, for which Steiner drew Reasonableman, a comic about a
law student who was anything but what his title implied. The generosity of
his firm allowed him the time to develop his art, some tamer samples of which
can be seen here. Connections in the art world were hard to come by among
fellow JDs, so Steiner relied on assistance from alumni of the Design School,
M
eventually landing shows in New York and elsewhere – and a favorable re-
view in The New Yorker. Below, Steiner explains how he found success in art.
Reasonableman, originally published in the Harvard Law Record, Oct. 4, 1996
y path from the law to artist started well vited me to show with him at a gallery in Brooklyn run
before law school. I began college as a by a fellow Harvard alum, in which a group of artists
fine art major, but my first studio course invited by the dealer each invited another artist to par-
took more time than all of my other classes combined. ticipate. I spoke with the dealer over the phone and
Although I enjoyed it, I didn't take another studio scheduled a studio visit. During the call, I had to admit
course the following semester. I ended up majoring that I practiced law and did not have a Master of Fine
in math and philosophy, and filled what was left of my Arts. The studio visit never happened, and I missed
schedule with art history and studio courses. During out on the show.
the summer before my senior year, a friend and I took Under the pressure of mounting artistic frustration,
a canoe trip from Cincinnati to New Orleans. Though in March 2005, I approached my law firm, still Mor-
it had never even occurred to me, he suggested that I rison & Foerster, to request a part-time arrangement
apply to law school. At the suggestion of another so that I could focus more on my artwork. They were
friend, I went to the library and picked up a Nutshell surprisingly receptive, so I reduced my law practice to
book on intellectual property law. It sounded inter- two or three days a week. This extra time allowed me
esting enough, so I applied to law school. Harvard to develop a modest body of work.
was the only school that accepted me. In 2006, I visited Louise Bourgeois at her Sunday
While at Harvard, I drew a cartoon for the Harvard salon and met an artist there (Angelo Filomeno) who
Law Record called Reasonableman, whose title char- helped me get my drawings into my first proper group
acter was perhaps not entirely rational. I also cross- show, at BravinLee Programs in Chelsea. Since then,
registered for an art class at the College with Ellen I've shown my work in a few group shows each year,
Phelan, where I had my first sustained exposure to oil most recently at The Brucennial 2010 (350 West
painting. Broadway, New York, NY; ongoing through April 12),
After graduating from law school in 1998, I moved an unofficial sister show to this year's Whitney Bien-
to Dallas and worked for two years as a trademark at- nial, organized by one of the Biennial artists, the col-
torney at Baker Botts. I continued to paint and draw lective known as The Bruce High Quality Foundation. Quetico Safari, 2008
in what little spare time full-time legal practice af- Working part time as a lawyer to support a develop-
forded me. In May 2000, I moved to New York with ing art career has its challenges, primarily the unpre-
my fiancee (Elizabeth Roff, ’99), where I started work- dictable hours. But most artists I know have to work
ing in Morrison & Foerster's Technology Transaction some day job, and they usually spend a lot more time
Group. than I do at it. My path may not follow the traditional
In New York, I got an art studio with another Har- legal or artistic route, but it may make sense for
vard alumnus (Simon Aldridge, GSD ’99; Simon lawyers who would prefer not to bill 2,000 or more
signed the lease because the landlord's form asked if hours a year or artists who need money to underwrite
the lessee was an attorney). Simon had more success high production costs or just want more financial se-
showing his work than I did mine. So in 2004, he in- curity.
And the Magicians Brought up Frogs upon the Land of Egypt, 2000 Jonah Prayed Out of the Fish's Belly, 2001 Alfred, 1998
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where he first became interested in the heist that’s at the center of his book, Flaw-
less: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History, co-written with journalist Greg
Campbell. The prologue is excerpted below.
Holder, cont’d from pg. 6 concern about the nation’s ability to control classified African embassy bombings and a Somali citizen ac-
However, much of the vitriol hurled Holder’s way information. In the Wall Street Journal, former Jus- cused of recruiting American citizens to fight for al-
was fear-mongering about the nation’s ability to ade- tice Department lawyer John Yoo wrote that trying Shabaab.
quately defend itself, the courts’ capacity to protect KSM in civilian court would provide an “intelligence As pitiful and uninformed as King and Yoo are,
classified information, and, most spinelessly of all, bonanza” for Al-Qaeda. While we shouldn’t be sur- Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s (R-Mich) pathetic fear monger-
concern about the fact that terrorists would have a prised by now of Yoo’s unparalleled ability to look ing is unparalleled. Hoekstra told CBS’ Face the Na-
platform for their own cowardly ideology. the other way when the law repudiates his personal tion that terrorists should not be tried in civilian court
Indeed, it did not take long for politicians to whine beliefs, it is worth noting that military commissions because it would “allow them to use it as a platform
about the alleged risks the trial brought to New York use the same law to protect sensitive national security to push their ideology.”
City. Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican, said evidence as the federal courts, the Classified Infor- If Al-Qaeda wants to pit their murderous ideology
that hosting the trial in Lower Manhattan would move mation Procedures Act (“CIPA”). against the values of liberty, equality, democracy, and
New York City “to the top of Al Qaeda’s target list.” CIPA was successfully implemented during the rule of law, I say bring it on. We may not win over
King must be the only New Yorker who doesn’t al- Zacharias Moussaui’s trial in 2006, a trial that then- “Jihad Jane,” but we will show billions of peace-lov-
ready know that New York is Al-Qaeda’s #1 target. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) hailed as ing people that our nation’s strength is not in its arms,
Holding KSM’s trial in Lower Manhattan would not “a small but important piece of justice” that provided but in its fundamental principles.
make the city a more attractive target for terrorists. “proof that our society is grounded in the liberating If President Obama intervenes to send KSM’s trial
The New York City Police Department has the most power of justice and the rule of law, which are our back to a military commission at Guantanamo Bay,
capable intelligence and counterterrorism units of any most valuable weapons in the war on terror.” The Eric Holder has a clear choice: join the cadre of cow-
police department in the world. Moreover, were the Moussaoui court even took the extraordinary step of ardly politicians and professors who view the rule of
trial to be held in New York, KSM and his co-con- creating a special website where the public could view law and the values of our nation as insufficient bul-
spirators would likely be housed in Unit 10 South of nearly 1200 trial documents. warks against a murderous, radical ideology, or resign
the Special Housing Unit in the Metropolitan Correc- Independent of the concern about classified infor- his office in protest. The Attorney General was right
tional Center in Lower Manhattan, a maximum-secu- mation, abandoning the civilian courts would prevent to call out America on its cowardly approach to race
rity unit specifically designed to house terrorism the U.S. from bringing some of its most wanted ter- relations. Now, it is time for Holder’s Last Stand.
suspects and other offenders who pose a proven dan- rorists to justice. As the New York Times reported this
ger to other inmates or prison guards. week, a commissions-only policy would prevent Andrew L. Kalloch ’09 was Editor-in-Chief of the
Others who criticized Holder’s decision expressed some nations from extraditing terrorism suspects, in- Harvard Law Record from 2008 to 2009. He now lives
cluding two men suspected of plotting the 1998 East in New York.
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f time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana then my writing career by whatever measure, will always co-opt the dissent, bevel the humour. Like the
has flown somewhat like that NASA rocket, the Mars Climate Orbiter, where policeman who would pour concrete on a flower in order to preserve it forever,
half the equipment thought in metric and the other half in imperial. The thing they’ll take Duchamp’s urinal, Warhol’s Slovak humour, and catalogue them,
flew, but not in the direction I expected. It’s out determning the planet rights of smear them with a faux-seriousness that is the essence of humourless kitsch, until
Pluto now instead of studying Martian carbon dioxide. you look at [Jeff] Koons’ giant lobsters and really can’t tell whether he’s serious
At McGill, my undergrad, I avoided the softer subjects, though they suited me or ironic of funny, except that you see a hundred assistants scrubbing a giant bal-
better. Largely because I wanted to get into Harvard. I was an awkward mix of loon poodle for a six months with 2000-grit sandpaper, crawling over the thing like
hyper-competitive nerd and rebellious freak. I wanted to win—whatever the ants, functional little nano-scrubbing machines, and you think the war is lost.
game—but also wanted fairness and honor in the contest while deconstructing all There’s a reason prisoners become writers but prison guards never do. Both are
the rules and distrusting all judges. I chose economics as an undergrad major for constrained by rules and regulations on a daily basis. For the prisoners the rules
the simple reason that it was one of the few relatively math-free subjects that still come from the outside, their daily lives are absurd and they know it. The East Eu-
had objectively right and wrong an- ropean humour I grew up with is es-
swers (if you accept the givens, like sentially prisoner humour. But for the
assuming that the world is flat, all THE NOVELIST guards, the constraints become part of
trees are elephants, etc.), and I didn’t who they are – they are the grim, they
trust my professors the way I would are the ones enforcing the absurdity,
have had to if I’d majored in, say,
Alexander Boldizar and so they die inside.
English. I read on my own time. Alexander Boldizar ’99 became recog- The danger in our post 9/11 world
It was all very goal oriented and nized by Slovakia’s president as the “first (and long before) is not that we are all
simultaneously blind. I had never Slovak citizen to graduate from Harvard becoming prisoners, though we are. It’s
met a single person who’d been to Law School” when, as he puts it, “small that we’ve been taught to also become
Harvard, knew nothing about it be- country nepotism” got him back the citi- the prison guards. Watch, ride, and re-
yond the name, and had this utopian zenship he’d abandoned in 1989 (he port. If you see something, say some-
idea that once there I’d be in an thought it would be unsafe to keep it during thing. Harvard has always been the
eclectic community of intellectual a visit to the crumbling Berlin Wall). Since vanguard, a place where the smallest
weirdoes, all different, all smart. then, he has managed an art gallery in deviance became gossip worthy, a mi-
That was probably the last utopian Bali, established a flourishing career in ed- crocosm pointing to our shrinking fu-
idea I ever bought into. Not that it iting and freelance writing, and has con- ture.
was all wrong. There was a subset of tinued to seek publication of his magnum For someone in law school, this is a
the HLS population that were there opus, The Ugly, a satirical novel about a pivotal moment. But a very strange
largely for the thinking of it rather dispossessed Siberian tribe that sends one one. On the whole, during my time,
than the trade-school aspects, of its members, Muzhduk, to learn the ways anyway, I found that most of the pro-
mostly among S.J.D.s and LL.M.s, of lawyers from HLS, a plotline which helps fessors at HLS were far more rebel-
but also some of the JDs. Not many, express Boldizar’s frustrations with law lious, more free-thinking and radical,
unfortunately, but enough. and legal reasoning.
Still, the degree of calculation Boldizar, cont’d on pg. 10
among my cohort—optimizing at three comments
every five classes, that sort of thing—the carefulness An excerpt from Alexander Boldizar’s in your mountain analogy, it took you downwards? I
and artificiality of much of our social interaction, the The Ugly: could expel you for talking about your penis in class.
neuroticism, swan-like pretence (beautiful on the sur- Or for not being Muzhduk the Ugli. The real Muzh-
face, paddling furiously underneath, biting anything duk the Ugli, the female painter from Tennessee. As
Sclera straightened his back to make himself taller
that came too close), and the lack of primal fire started far as I can tell, the other Ugli, the chief wannabe
while still sitting on Muzhduk’s bed. “In your opin-
to turn me off law school, and with it abstracted ana- from Siberia, never sent in his transcript.”
ion, then, is Harvard a trade school? Or an ivory
lytic thinking in general. I started missing flesh and Muzhduk frowned and pulled on his beard with a
tower of intellect? Hmm?” He skirled the end of his
rock and the gaps between logical steps. There was al- fisted hand. Sclera was right. The two eyes ― the
question, like misplayed bagpipes. In the tiny room
together too much Gropius and not enough Dionysus objective and subjective components ― are blurred
it was awful.
for me—not just the dorms, but we as students were here...“My comment didn’t take me downwards,”
“Trade school, mostly.” He could have refused to
going “form follows function.” Like specialized ants. Muzhduk said, wary. “It was just a different path. Or
answer; this was his room.
I was good at logic, respected logic, but frustrated that are you challenging me?”
“Hmm. ‘Mostly.’ Except the undergrad, which is
too many of my fellow students equated logic with Suddenly Sclera smiled. It was a very odd thing on
about coming from the right prep school, which, in
thinking. his face, a lipless cracking and crinkling all over that
turn, is about wealth. But then…how far did you
Writing for the Harvard Law Record became a sort showed him to be far older than he looked. “No chal-
walk, Mr. Ugli, to get here?”
of defense. I could write in a nonlinear way, and I could lenge, though it has been an unexpected pleasure.
Sclera waited a few beats to let his question sink in,
dissent. People are driven to write by all sorts of private No, this is just a proposition. For you and your 22-
then answered it himself: “It’s all in the name, Mr.
reasons, noble, selfish, naïve, reasons that are often pole penis that recognises no truths, not even your
Ugli. Absurdly obvious, trite even, but important. A
very different from the ones that we articulate to oth- own goals. Think of me as your old-man guide, here
name like Harvard is not a label for the truth. No-
ers. In my case, the original impulse was extraordinar- to tell you where your path is.” He paused, because
body comes here for the buildings or the professors
ily abstract. I wanted to understand “What is he knew he had Muzhduk’s attention. “I want you to
or the books or the other students or any other reason
thinking?” That was my meaning-of-life question, one destroy the library. The first student we chose to burn
except the name that sits on top of all this.” He ges-
that played out for me over three years of columns. it down did it for his grades, and so he failed. We
tured around at the concrete-slab walls, the hanging
The answers that I was coming up with clashed with need you to destroy it. Particularly the old books.”
bicycle, the mini-fridge. “Truths are the illusions that
what I was seeing at HLS. I have a lot of flaws that Sclera had set Cloaco to burn the library. “Why?”
we have forgotten are illusions. Harvard, the word, is
have interfered with my becoming a great writer,and “Confucius. Confucius had a prescription for re-
a Truth. Isn’t that why you came? So much energy
one of the joys of being a writer is that you get paid to pairing a corrupt empire. The first and most impor-
devoted to getting here. For one word.”
manifest, become painfully aware of, and work to tant step was the Rectification of Names. As empires
“So what?” Muzhduk said, then yawned, irritated.
shrink your flaws. But I also have one gift: the upside- rot, the names stay the same while the ground shifts
He covered his mouth with a vague feeling that
down eye. until it is the opposite of the name, and periodically
Sclera was contagious. “I don’t know what you
Good writing is anarchic. It feeds off tension, con- these need to be re-aligned. The Ministry of Educa-
know, or how you know it. Maybe everybody walks
flict, and it cuts through the crusty bullshit that we are tion slowly shifts from educating children - as you
here. My father and grandfather climbed mountains
all continuously building around us, the masks that we said, pulling out what’s special within each - to en-
instead. Nobody cared how steep or how many
all create and put on because if we don’t, someone else suring that they don’t have a single creative thought;
ridges the mountain had. The only thing that mat-
will create them for us, put them on our heads, give us hospitals save the man with the heart attack and give
tered was how many meters. We all agree on one
a chair, and tell us to sit there. Our world depends on a deadly virus to two who came in with sprained an-
goal and we all compete for it and only one wins.
lies in order to function, they are absolutely indispen- kles, in the end killing more people than they save;
The rest doesn’t matter.”
sable, and so to look at anyone, any thing, in our soci- the police destroy more lives than they protect; that
“Is that how you see it, Mr. Ugli? But didn’t you
ety and see it as it is and call it such is already an act sort of thing. But Confucius assumed that the Sub-
say your penis was longer than 22-hooked poles?
of dissent, of rebellion. stance was real and the Name an illusion, a simple
That it could master even Law?”
At HLS I once received a note in my pigeon hole label. So he would have renamed the Ministry of Ed-
“Like I said, that was a reaction. I was fighting on
stating that my admission devalued the Harvard name ucation as the Ministry of Stupidity, and he believed
your terms.”
for everyone else. It was signed, “Your Section 4 that sort of ‘truth in advertising’ would create the
“Yes, it was pure reaction. Pure opposition. Like an
Friends.” pressure for a new Ministry of Education, and so on.
immune system response, without thought, but cor-
There’s a continual war on here. The establishment,
rect in every way. Though you realize, don’t you, that The Ugly, cont’d on pg. 11
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Boldizar, cont’d from pg. 9 Now I’m an art critic and an editor of C-Arts, a Singapore-based art magazine.
than the students. If they’re teaching Corporations, you might not see it, but get Three fringe benefits of being a writer: you have to continue to grow as a human
them in a seminar and you start to see their own frustrations. Yet, despite this fact, being in order for your writing to improve, you can live anywhere, and you can
there’s a prisoner element to the three years we spend there as students. Yet the incorporate anything into your career. One fringe negative: poverty. After gradu-
whole socialization of the place is guard training. When I was a student, anyway, ating from law school, I practiced international trade law for Baker & McKenzie,
it was we who were doing it to ourselves. Perhaps because individually we each San Francisco office. Eleven months of 512-page addenda on ball-bearing classi-
felt that we were smaller than the word “Harvard.” fications (millions of dollars riding on whether a ball bearing was classified as a
If you can get a bit of distance, live off campus, look at the place with upside- cylindrical roller bearing or a spherical pin bearing or one of a dozen other ball-
down eyes, HLS is the most fascinating human ecosystem I’ve ever experienced. bearing types that cost me a lot of money in alcohol to forget), working as one of
I’ve lived in a dozen countries, and nothing comes close. Perhaps a few of the 120 lawyers on the Palm spin-off from 3Com. Etc. I found myself going home and
crazier art schools. melting candles, spending 20 minutes each day after work watching shifting col-
Back to the path. My intention at HLS was to become a law professor. I pub- ors and shapes, which I later discovered was actually a very effective method for
lished two law review articles while still a student, but I started to question this as nourishing the right side of my brain. Which was starving.
I gradually become alienated from the type of analytic thinking at which I ex- Unlike a responsible person, I quit with no job waiting, with only about $30,000
celled. Would it be ethical for me to teach law if I was fundamentally against the in savings and no other assets . I moved to a trailer in the backwoods of Ten-
whole idea of law? I postponed my third year to go to Africa with a National Ge- nessee—because of a girl, why else?—thirty minutes from the town of Big Sandy,
ographic expedition to dig for dinosaur bones in the Sahara, to use my hands and population 500, on the map mostly because they lynched a black man in the 1960s.
feel a bit of reality. I dug with a toothbrush in hot sand for three months. I still oc- I had a canoe and everything.
casionally see my face on the Discovery Channel. From Tennessee I intended to move to Ladakh (Kashmir) India, write and eat
Like many things that seem romantic from a distance, most of the Africa I saw apricots. But a detour to Nepal turned into a six-month stay as the king was killed,
was brutal and desperate close up. I came back to the U.S. to finish my law degree, the Maoists got excited, and I found myself selling articles as quickly as I could
but still with an agenda. I would write an opus that would tear apart law, logic, and string words in a row and stick “Nepal” into the email subject line. From Nepal I
analytic thinking itself. To do so, I’d have to write it from outside the “nomolog- moved to Bali, where I spent three years, ran out of money completely, and started
ical circle.” The method was the message, and if I were doing things that would have seemed unusual to a
Harvard lawyer, like trading text for seafood linguine
going to attack the analytic foundations of law, I could-
n’t very well do that in a legal thesis. I’d write a novel,
“If you can get a bit of distance, live off (The gallery, Gaya Art Space, happened to have a
set half at HLS, half in Africa, juxtaposing two differ- campus, look at the place with upside- gourmet Italian restaurant attached to it.) Text turned
ent ways of thinking, showing how neither was com- down eyes, HLS is the most fascinating to managing the place. And just when everything
seemed back on track, I took a four-year detour to
plete.
And I did. I had to go all the way to MIT to get into
human ecosystem I’ve ever experi- New York City, again because of a girl.
a writing class, an advanced writing workshop full of enced. I’ve lived in a dozen countries, I applied for a green card, but didn’t get it. The girl,
budding sci-fi authors, but I eventually put the pieces and nothing comes close. Perhaps a few my wife by this point, was from Paris, Tenn., and
together and out came a dramatized, ontologically when the immigration agent saw “Paris” she assumed
complex attack on nonsituational, abstract thinking, of the crazier art schools.” “France” which meant, to her, that it was a non-
written on at least thirty-two different interpretive lev- American sponsoring me, which meant I didn’t qual-
els that bounced off each other to form a hermeneutic circle. As a thesis it did ify. It took four years to figure out the bureaucratic error caused by the simple
well. But it wasn’t exactly a novel. word Paris—not to fix it, that was impossible, but simply to figure it out. Did I
My opus became my monkey. It took me nine years and I can’t count how many mention Kafka was my favorite writer?
rewrites to turn that phenomenological monster into The Ugly, “the story of Muzh- Instead of continuing to try and get into the castle, we went back to Bali. I started
duk the Ugli the Fourth, a member of a lost tribe of boulder-throwing Slovaks liv- managing the gallery again, which turned into writing marketing text turned into
ing in the mountains of Siberia whose land is stolen by American lawyers. He is writing catalogues turned into writing art criticism turned into editing C-Arts. By
sent on a quest to Harvard Law School to learn how to defeat the lawyers.” last year I was interviewing artists like Damien Hirst and Ashley Bickerton, pass-
There were a few people who loved the book in its early version. Students of ing up publication in the New Yorker because Damien had enough North Ameri-
Heidegger and such. But it was a book that would never have found an agent if I can exposure and wanted the interview in C-Arts. And in what is perhaps the
hadn’t revised and revised and revised. Slowly it improved. The first chapter was greatest marker of nonfiction success, of the distance I’ve covered since law
nominated by Bread Loaf for the Best New American Writers anthology, three school, if you Google “suck my cock vomit” (in quotes) the first seven hits are all
different chapters were published as individual short stories. me. And, no, I don’t write porn.
The sad thing, the happy thing, the thing I had to learn, was that every one of So here I am, my nonfiction doing great, my fiction stuck, without despair. Be-
those revisions was slowed down by my own personality. I couldn’t fix the book cause if I’ve learned about writing, all art really, it’s that it never travels a straight
until I fixed myself. To some extent, I suspect this is the ugly truth in every first line. This is neither good nor bad—though a decade now spent with artists has
novel. But correcting that is not a fast process. Neither is publishing. I had a cou- made me miss the rationality and logic of lawyers—it’s just a fact of life.
ple of deals for The Ugly fall through when the financial markets collapsed and A law career has a fairly tight correlation between how much you put into it and
nearly took several publishing houses with them. As of this writing, it’s still being how much you get out in terms of money, career advancement, etc. In art it’s all
considered by four houses. subjective, nearly irrational. And the further out you are—culturally, aesthetically,
And so I scratch my head and publish short stories, which I don’t actually write, funnybonely—the more this is an issue. As with everything else in our society,
which are all simply excerpts of my novels. Short stories and nonfiction. Oh, and there are people trying to rationalize it. MFA programs pumping out professors of
art criticism. If I had to choose one field that I know absolutely nothing about, it purple prose, and such. But I don’t think an MFA approach to writing will ever
would be baseball. Just after baseball would be art. Or, that was the case some lead to great literature. The clarity and critical eye of law school—the anarchist
years ago, when I found myself running a large international art gallery in Bali. lawyer—just might. That’s my dream, anyway.
Immigration, cont’d from pg. 12 another serious problem the ABA their exploding immigration docket. lowship ends this year, I’m taking an at-
points out, as unlike the criminal courts, Judge Richard Posner ’62, who has torney advisor (law clerk) position with
her complicated asylum claim. The this is a system where the “cops” (ICE been the sharpest and loudest critic, the New York Immigration Court.
judge, sympathetic to my pleas, still had or Border Patrol officers) file the said as long ago as 2005 that the adju- I am doing so because the system will
to call the regional assistant chief im- charges and the “prosecutors” (DHS dications of cases by the immigration chug on whether or not people work for
migration judge just to get permission trial attorneys) rarely, if ever terminate courts and the BIA had “fallen below it that have defended immigrants or
to deviate from his case completion cases for purely discretionary reasons, the minimum standards of justice.” The read ABA commission reports. No one
deadlines, because the clients with even if the respondents are children, the immigration judges themselves are not is going to take a political wrecking ball
ankle bracelets were being heavily ex- elderly, or the mentally ill. This leads to burying their heads in the sand: Dana to the immigration court system and
pedited, regardless of the merits of their another problem: none of these groups, Leigh Marks, president of the National tear it all down; the ABA’s most radical
cases. even if they are indigent asylum seek- Association of Immigration Judges, has suggestions are converting it to an Arti-
Immigration judges experience ers, are entitled to free counsel. Much agreed that for many clients, they are cle I court and hiring a lot more judges
burnout, high stresses, and “compas- has been written on this issue: the lack trying “the equivalent of death penalty and clerks. Having been both a public
sion fatigue,” causing one crying asy- of access to counsel in addition to doc- cases…in a traffic court setting.” school teacher and a nonprofit attorney,
lum seeker to sound just like another. In umented disparities in immigration We cannot fund cops but not courts. I know good people can do good work
their offices, they are given little staff judge asylum grant rates has produced If local law enforcement partnerships even in a stressed organization. I’ve
support, often having to share one law what some scholars call “refugee with immigration authorities are here to seen that from some of the judges and
clerk among four or five judges. (New roulette” – an unpredictable system that stay, and it looks like they may be, we even DHS attorneys I’ve encountered
job opportunities for unemployed law is not in line with our desires to meet must also re-discover prosecutorial dis- in the last two years. So I will try to do
grads, anyone?) The understaffing at international human rights obligations. cretion and build an immigration court good work. But it’s slow going.
EOIR is not news: former Attorney As a result, more and more cases are system that can keep pace with our de-
General Alberto Gonzales ’82 seemed appealed through the Board of Immi- sires to process more and more immi- Andrea Saenz ’08 is an Equal Justice
concerned about the issue, recommend- gration Appeals, which does not, for grants through it – a system that is at Works Fellow at Boston’s Political Asy-
ing DOJ hire 40 new judges. DOJ isn’t various reasons, always review immi- once bigger, fairer, and more flexible. lum /Immigration Representation
even close to that goal, barely keeping gration judge decisions very robustly, And yet, despite the cracks in the (PAIR) Project. She was Editor-in-Chief
up with attrition. and land in the laps of federal circuit walls of the immigration court system, of the Record from 2007-08.
The lack of prosecutorial discretion is court judges, who are not happy about I’ve decided to join up. When my fel-
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The Ugly, cont’d from pg. 9 Procedure, leading only to an F. You didn’t think of Muzhduk pulled on his beard again. “And if I re-
The old one would die out, and the cycle would con- this, nor of my name and reputation. You trusted ab- fuse?”
tinue. Perhaps that worked in China 2500 years ago. solutely in your foolishness, and so it worked. “Have you heard of the old German Whitsuntide
But not here. Harvard as a network of books and “I realised long ago,” Sclera continued, “that one rite, the ‘Expulsion of the Wild Man?’ You have until
buildings doesn’t matter. The Name matters. We can’t day someone might be able to wiggle off my Logic then. But this, of course, is neither a threat nor a com-
change the Name, but we are out of alignment. So the so I developed a more powerful weapon: listening. Or, mand. It is merely an offer for an exchange. One
Substance must be Rectified, to conform to the rather, hearkening. When you interrupted, I controlled could call it Friendship. I have waited for someone
Name.” you through your own words. You didn’t hear my lis- like you for many years. Goodnight.” Sclera walked
“So re-align it. Hire better professors, admit differ- tening, you thought I was speaking and that you alone out the door, leaving Muzhduk wondering when
ent students, write better books and dissertations, tear could resist it. Your attention was focused, and I lost Whitsuntide was. It had been an exhausting day; it
down Gropius and put up a dormitory where humans all interest in maintaining the class as mine. I faded was tomorrow now, after midnight.
can live.” and held on to that moment of egocentric rapture He couldn’t sleep, so he walked out of Gropius. The
“The professors have tenure, the shelves in the li- beaming from your face. In that moment, I was al- grass in Holmes Field was covered in autumn leaves,
brary are full and new acquisitions controlled by com- most destroyed, I lost all desire, all possibility of but the asphalt walking paths were clear even in the
plex exclusivity contracts, all the dissertation topics order, but all that happened was that you escaped, and windy moonless night. One or two stray leaves. He
have been used up except for ridiculous minutiae, and only really for that one class, temporarily. So you re- stopped in the middle of the field, at the Statue of Pro-
Gropius is protected as a heritage landmark. And all ally did not escape at all, you see. Unless, of course, trusion and Contraption, the jagged pipes at odd an-
the students admitted here are in such awe of actually you understood that I was listening, and put up your gles sculpted to go with the Gropius dormitory. It
being here that they offer no resistance at all. There is foolishness as a mask and a shield. But that seems un- made him think of a machine, the Motor Vehicle
no tension, nothing to keep us honest. Only someone likely. As refreshing as it is to have a student who which had run down Tickle in Sclera’s first class. Or
immune to the Truth can re-align it.” fights back, you clearly stand no chance of making it had it been Barton? He didn’t remember anymore. He
Muzhduk nodded, finally understanding what through HLS. You are a throwback, with an admis- climbed the statue, wrapped the crook of his knees
Sclera was talking about. But he was wrong. “I wear sions file that is, shall we say, ‘name-rectified.’ And over a pipe and hung upside-down. There were no
a towel when I walk to the bathroom now.” yet, you are the embodiment of precisely the sort of mountains in Boston, and tall buildings were the op-
“I have been teaching here since before you were disorder that can bring back a new order, a Rectifica- posite of mountains. But hanging upside down made
born, and not a single student has ever been so irrev- tion of Substance such that it conforms to the Name. him feel better.
erent on the first day of class. They all knew that such Movement away from order is the only way to create
tricks are ignis fatuus against my Logic, Authority and greater order. In exchange, you’ll get your degree.”
Red Light, cont’d from pg. 6 novo consideration of evidence should the political power and the hostility to actually a great victory for ICANN as
the position of the United States Gov- not have taken place. Also, he disagreed freedom of expression required to do an institution”. To the Record, he ex-
ernment”. This development was with the role of international law in the that are the ones that systematically plained that “ICANN is a new global
caused, according to the Panel, by “a case. Though not decisive in this case, block online porn anyway (China, the governance institution. Up to now, peo-
cascade of protests by American do- the majority ruled that ICANN was Arab states, Iran, etc). If it meant that ple have been deeply worried about its
mestic organizations such as the Fam- “charged with acting consistently with the sites were merely segregated in .xxx lack of a foundation in law, a problem
ily Research Council and Focus on the relevant principles of international law, rather than blocked altogether, it would caused by its global nature and its uni-
Family.” including the general principles of law be a step forward for adult sites. There lateral creation by the US. The feeling
While DOC officials seemed to first recognized as a source of international might be some countries that try to use that ICANN has inadequate external ac-
approve the new TLD, they were gal- law”, and specifically the principle of .xxx as a compulsory red light district, countability mechanisms prevails al-
vanized into opposition by critique by good faith. ICANN had denied the im- but if that just means that they are most everywhere outside of those on
the Religious Right, including figures port of international legal principles for blocked the obvious response is for the the payroll of ICANN.” The new re-
such as Jim Dobson, who had, as the its work. online adult sites to locate in the U.S. view process, however, will provide
Panel writes, “influential access to high The majority also found that ICM and other more liberal countries”. ICANN's stakeholders with a greater
level officials of the U.S. Administra- Registry had met all the necessary con- Similarly, on the “Online Adult In- sense of security and ICANN itself with
tion.” ditions, including “sponsorship criteria” dustry News” blog, Stuart Lawley, some guidance. Overruling ICANN
ICANN thus faced a dilemma: If it (which relate to the proposal being rep- Chairman of ICM Registry, was quoted was important. “The panel proved be-
accepted the .xxx domain it would resentative of the industry it purports to as saying that he is “eager to work with yond a doubt”, Mueller said, “that the
show that it was immune to interference represent) and that the decision by the ICANN to make dot-xxx a reality, and independent review really is ‘indepen-
by the US government. This was an im- ICANN Board to reconsider their ap- the time for stalling is long past.” (I dent’, and this in turn builds confidence
portant issue at that time, as the so- plication was a violation of “neutral, would have wanted to read on, but ac- that ICANN's own institutional solu-
called World Summit on the objective and fair documented policy.” cessing the site produced a stream of tions can develop into the robust ac-
Information Society process was ongo- strange pop-ups of scantily-clad women countability mechanisms it needs.”
ing at the time. The process explicitly Forced migration? and my neighbors in the library had This backbone against future govern-
aimed at creating a more international started to frown.) ment interference might come in rather
(read: less US-influenced) Internet This decision which ends a year-long Is there anything to Judge Tevrizian’s handy, as only on February 24,
Governance. But if ICANN did not re- battle that had pitted Internet scholars warning in his dissent that “any dis- Lawrence E. Strickling ’76, Assistant
consider the introduction of .xxx, there against each other does not even satisfy gruntled person” will now be able to Secretary of Commerce for Communi-
might have been a serious backlash all representatives of the adult enter- “second guess” ICANN. “This is sheer cations and Information, announced
from the Bush Administration, which tainment industry. A Top Level Domain nonsense”, Professor Mueller told the that the US would end its decades-old
was under pressure from Christian Con- dedicated exclusively to adult content Record. “One has to be a lot more than “hands-off” policy towards the Internet:
servatives. “We’re damned if we do”, could be used by some states as a ‘disgruntled’ to take on the risks, costs Without “government involvement”, he
ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf is quoted means to force all unwanted or suppos- and time burdens required by the said in a speech at the The Media Insti-
as saying in 2005, “and damned if we edly immoral content to migrate to this [process] as it now stands.” First, this is tute, “we will lose the one thing that the
don’t.” In the end, ICANN refused to TLD which could then be easily moni- a question of money. According to Internet must have—not just to thrive,
allow .xxx. Now, five years later, they tored or blocked. Professor Goldsmith Mueller ICM Registry spent $ 4-5 mil- but to survive—the trust of all actors on
were again “damned” for this decision. confirmed this in his expert report: A lion on legal representation. More fun- the Internet.”
“website on the .XXX domain is easier damentally, Mueller believes Judge The panel confirmed ICANN’s view
No deference necessary for nations to regulate and exclude from Tevrizian’s warning to be plain wrong: on one essential point: The decision is
computers in their countries because “Couldn't you say the same thing about not binding on the ICANN Board. But
The three judge panel consisted of a they can block all sites on the .XXX do- judicial review of Congress or the Ex- ICANN is likely to allow .xxx anyhow.
former President of the International main with relative ease but have to look ecutive Orders of the President? Or After all, the last years saw an interna-
Court of Justice, Stephen M. Schwebel, at the content, or make guesses based lawsuits against corporations by their tionalization and a liberalization of the
as Chair, the former president of both on domain names, to block unwanted shareholders? Does Tevrizian think that Top Level Domain market. These days,
the London Court of International Ar- pornography on .COM and other top no corporate board can ever do ICANN is accepting new propositions
bitration and the World Bank Adminis- level domains.“ wrong?” As the financial crisis has for Top Level Domains from cities
trative Tribunal, Jan Paulsson, and Will states use the .xxx domain to demonstrated beyond doubt, corporate (think .berlin), regions, and private ac-
Dickran M. Tevrizian, a U.S. federal create a red light district on the Inter- boards can do wrong and courts are tors. Apart from meeting certain policy
judge for the Central District of Cali- net? Milton Mueller, Professor at Syra- often right to second-guess them. conditions, it’s just the small matter of
fornia. The majority first underlined cuse University School of Information paying around US$100,000 to become
that “the judgments of the ICANN Studies and Director of its Telecommu- A defeat that is a victory? the owner of your very own Top Level
Board are to be reviewed and appraised nications Network Management Pro- Domain.
by the Panel objectively, not deferen- gram and another expert witness for In the end, ICANN’s defeat might ac-
tially by application of the ‘business ICM Registry alongside Professor tually be a win. Professor Mueller Matthias C. Kettemann, a Fulbright
judgement’ rule”. Judge Tevrizian, who Goldsmith, does not think so. In a state- wrote in his blog that “the "defeat" for and Boas scholar, is an LL.M. student
had been nominated by ICANN, dis- ment to the Harvard Law Record, he ICANN's past President and Board from Austria.
sented on this point saying that a de writes that “countries that possess both Chair (and the Bush Administration) is
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