Harvard Student(s) Answering Your Questions Forum

[thelawschoolproject]

On that note, which professors are more willing to see you in office hours/write LORs/would be good for mentoring/making relationships, etc?

[ph14]

On that note, which professors are more willing to see you in office hours/write LORs/would be good for mentoring/making relationships, etc?

PM me you you are deciding between and I can tell you what I know, if I know anything. There are too many professors to just answer this abstractly.

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[Blessedassurance]

Where can I find the latest course evaluations?

[thelawschoolproject]

Where can I find the latest course evaluations?

https://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/c ... index.html

[ph14]

On that note, which professors are more willing to see you in office hours/write LORs/would be good for mentoring/making relationships, etc?

PM me you you are deciding between and I can tell you what I know, if I know anything. There are too many professors to just answer this abstractly.

Plus, some are some of those things and not others. I have a mentor who is great, but said prof is also not that great at responding to e-mails and has jam-packed office hours.

Credited.

[JedBartlett]

What is Harvard's social scene like? What would you say the atmosphere of the school is like?

Thanks .

[ph14]

What is Harvard's social scene like? What would you say the atmosphere of the school is like?

Thanks .

Because of it's size, there isn't one "social scene." It's whatever you want it to be.

[thederangedwang]

could someone tell me how to use the mail merge function on NALP? Like, what does it actually do? Im just so confused

do i have to pay money for it, it says its like 60 cents for each firm?

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[JedBartlett]

What is Harvard's social scene like? What would you say the atmosphere of the school is like?

Thanks .

Because of it's size, there isn't one "social scene." It's whatever you want it to be.

This. I've spent time with and around several different types of "social scenes" at HLS: the type that likes to play board games & watch movies & play video game, the type that likes to party hard several nights a week, the type that tends to like to just chill in someone's living room with a beer while watching football, etc. You'll find what you're looking for.

Great, thanks guys. I have my JS1 coming up, so I thought it'd be good to have some sense.

[bigbang]

Do you guys have recommendations on studying for exams without practice tests? I have one visiting professor and she has never taught this exact class before, so she doesn't even have past exams to give us. She did give us a practice exam that she made up, but said the real exam would be longer and more complex. Any tips?

[ph14]

Do you guys have recommendations on studying for exams without practice tests? I have one visiting professor and she has never taught this exact class before, so she doesn't even have past exams to give us. She did give us a practice exam that she made up, but said the real exam would be longer and more complex. Any tips?

Get practice exams from other professors who have taught the same course. Although professor-specific exams are the best, exams from the same class are the next best option. And for the most part, a civ pro exam will be focusing on the same or similar issues: personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, venue, preclusion, etc.

[JedBartlett]

JS1 done. Thanks for the help guys. Whatever happens, Harvard is definitely an awesome place.

FYI: JS confirmed what all of you said about the social scene--apparently you guys even have a new pub on campus. Pretty cool.

[unc0mm0n1]

JS1 done. Thanks for the help guys. Whatever happens, Harvard is definitely an awesome place.

FYI: JS confirmed what all of you said about the social scene--apparently you guys even have a new pub on campus. Pretty cool.

Not on campus actually in the law school, with a pool table and TVs.

[tomwatts]

I am a pretty big fan of the Wasserstein building. It may have cost $15 trillion dollars or whatever, but it was worth it.

Um, and not just because of the pub.

[JedBartlett]

JS1 done. Thanks for the help guys. Whatever happens, Harvard is definitely an awesome place.

FYI: JS confirmed what all of you said about the social scene--apparently you guys even have a new pub on campus. Pretty cool.

Not on campus actually in the law school, with a pool table and TVs.

Even cooler.

[SamSpade]

Can I take a One-Day-Take-Home exam in another country?

I have a MacBook (like 90% of HLS) and will have an OK internet connection. Exam4 is already installed.

[chickenalfredo]

Anyone heard anything about Nesson's American Jury class?

[Mista Bojangles]

Anyone heard anything about Nesson's American Jury class?

I heard he once gave a final exam that included going to the big portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Hauser and doing a seance with him

[delusional]

Anyone heard anything about Nesson's American Jury class?

I heard he once gave a final exam that included going to the big portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Hauser and doing a seance with him

I think a significant portion of his last exam was on the movie "Twelve Angry Men". People think he's awesome, but don't want to take evidence, a doctrinal course, with him because he's so eccentric. So it seems like American Jury is a good compromise. I have a friend who took it, and I didn't get specifics from him, but he seemed to love Nesson and like the course.

[Mista Bojangles]

Anyone know a bit about the LLM joint degree program with Cambridge? There's some good info for it online, but the site doesn't give any real info on how selective the program is. Sounds like you apply at the end of your fall 2L semester, so you'd have a year's worth of grades - any insight into how competitive it is to get in?

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[efresh88]

Just got my JS2 yesterday! From reading Harvard's financial aid website, they state that they do not give any merit-based scholarships, only need-based. Does anyone have numbers on the average amount of need-based grants given out per student whose demonstrated need exceeds the base loan? (forgive my ignorance if this is something easily found)

[englawyer]

http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/sfs/ ... aging.html

$42k mandatory loans per year

up to the rest can be grants (75-42=33)

so your best case scenario is: 42k loans, 33k grant. worst case is 75k loan.