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Sandra Frantzen, ’99, didn’t set out to become a lawyer. Her college degrees were in chemistry and environmental science; she had her eyes set on medical school.
William Baude, Harry Kalven Jr. Professor of Law, made international headlines earlier this year when a law review article he coauthored provided a basis for Colorado to argue in Trump v. Anderson that former President Donald Trump be removed from the 2024 presidential ballot.
Hal Scott, ’72, went to Princeton with the intention of becoming a poet, but he soon discovered that it wasn’t the right path for him. After Princeton, he went to Stanford and got a graduate degree in political science.
It wasn’t until he came to the Law School that he found his calling—one that has not only shaped his life but that has made an impact around the world.
A couple of years ago, Jamie Van Horne Robinson posted on social media about her husband, Jaison Robinson, ’09. “Married a guy who can’t wait to get as far away from me as possible,” the post said.
It was a joking reference to the fact that Jaison would soon be traveling far above the earth, as an astronaut on a Blue Origin spaceflight.
Speaking at a program for students at the Law School last year, Angela Steele, ’02, urged them to strongly consider taking business classes, even if they didn’t think those classes were fully aligned with what they might want to do in their careers.
“You never really know where your career might take you,” she told the students. That is something she knows from her own experience.
Faculty in the News
Americans love inexpensive meat. Many think it would be a terrible fate to be deprived of cheap diner bacon and drive-through burgers. For over a century the meat industry has catered to and cultivated this taste, mass-producing beef, pork, and chicken in ways that permit efficiencies of scale—but necessitate inhumane treatment of the animals. These creatures are warehoused like objects and herded along fear-ridden assembly lines to certain death.
President Biden has made several promises on clemency. He broke one of those promises by pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, who he claimed had been unjustly charged.
Yoon Suk-yeol’s latest political gambit undoubtedly did not unfold as he expected. After abruptly declaring martial law on December 3, South Korea’s scandal-plagued president was forced to lift the order within hours in the face of public protests and legislative opposition. He now faces an impeachment motion filed by the opposition Democratic Party, which has condemned his “insurrectionary behavior.”
