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...figured that there were some 25 women’s schools within radius of Cambridge,” he says, “and I was thrilled to be here.” Some of the thrill wore off when Nesson applied for early admittance to Harvard Law prior to his senior year at the College. He was rejected—a disappointment punctuated when he went to confront longtime Dean of Admissions Louis Toepfer over the result...
...presence at the Law School didn’t long go unnoticed. Nesson rose quickly to the top of his class and stayed there, graduating with the prestigious Fay Diploma, awarded each year to the third-year law student with the highest cumulative grade point average. In the notorious pressure cooker that is Harvard Law, word traveled quickly about his academic achievements, but Nesson hardly seemed to be straining. “He seemed to be a very nice guy, very amiable, not the catatonic types that you often find at Harvard law school,” recalls classmate Thomas...
...casual—tend to dominate his on-campus wardrobe. At his first meeting with his new lawyer, Joel recalls, he found Nesson sitting in his office clad in a T-shirt that read “Gay?...Fine By Me”—part of a Law School campaign to encourage openness...
Exams, traditionally the primary pressure point of a Law student’s term, are more of the same. Nesson’s final for his winter-term “Evidence” class consisted of two digital audio files, and a single question: “Of what is this evidence?” The first of the two recordings is particularly bizarre—an eery mash-up; distorted snatches of speech echoing over hollow instrumentals below. Of what is this evidence? Nesson posts the answers to his blog. Many are highly cryptic, even incomprehensible. Some include...
...stable that includes posting internal legal documents and e-mails online for comment and revision, continually seeking to record his interactions with opposing counsel, and seeking to publicly depose the opposing side’s lawyer (a rarity in its own right) in the Ames Courtroom on the Harvard Law campus, so that an audience could attend. It’s not easy, perhaps, for the uninitiated to sort out the strangeness of these measures, but in the legal world, a profession where day-to-day business is typically conducted out of the spotlight, in closed meetings held high...