Briefs
A Paperless Society
Unbound, HLS's first online journal, opened up shop in cyberspace in
the fall and plans to take advantage of what the neighborhood has to
offer, like streaming video, discussion boards and links to related
sites for legal activism. Since their 1L year, Lena Salaymeh '04 and
Aaron Lamb '04 have been working to make the journal a cyber-reality.
They're taking "an interdisciplinary, theoretical and activist approach
to legal scholarship," said Salaymeh. Early postings include Professor
Duncan Kennedy on "The Social Justice Element in Legal Education in the
United States."
At a time when square feet and staff support for new student publications are hard to find--14 are currently operating--Unbound is published and produced only on the Web (at www.law.harvard.edu/students/ orgs/unbound). But student participants also plan to reach beyond the virtual law school, to organize more events like the one that brought over 200 people to the Ames Courtroom to hear faculty discuss "The Future of Progressive Legal Scholarship." It's a future that Unbound editors hope to contribute to.
--E.N.
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