第一篇：山西大學法學院迎新活動簡報

山西大學法學院學生會迎新晚會及迎新裝扮活動

簡報

第1期

山西大學法學院學生會宣傳部2012年10月11日

為了歡迎大一新生。我院學生會在院團委的統一領導下，開展了一系列迎新活動，并于10月11日在文瀛餐廳五樓舉辦迎新晚會，讓新生充分感受到了學院的溫暖。

我院學生會在新生到來之前將宿舍樓裝飾一新。制條幅，貼對聯，來表達法學院人一家親的主題。制作展板，介紹法學院的各項工作，讓新生和家長們更好地了解法學院。

在學生會組織的迎新晚會上，同學們展示了各種才藝。歌曲，朗誦贏得了陣陣掌聲，相聲小品和京劇更是讓同學們大開眼界。法信與法愛等社團也在晚會上表演了節目。

這次迎新晚會為同學們提供了一個展示才藝的平臺，增進了同學們的友誼，讓同學們感受到了新集體的溫馨。

本次迎新活動增強了新生的相互了解和團結意識，展示了學院對新生的關懷，讓新生感受到了法學院這個大家庭的和諧與溫暖。我們的努力也得到了同學們和老師們的廣泛認可。

【稿件來源】山西大學法學院學生會宣傳部劉鵬飛

第二篇：法學院社會實踐簡報

緬懷先烈為祖國祈福送法下鄉促和諧發展

——法學院暑期社會實踐活動紀實

為促進社會和諧，引導法學院學生學習貫徹科學發展觀，全面提高法學院學生的綜合素質，2009年7月7日，法學院暑期社會實踐活動服務隊一行14人在院團委王虎林老師的帶領下，來到駐馬店市確山縣竹溝鎮開展了為期一周的社會實踐活動。法學院暑期社會實踐小分隊是校團委按照項目化運作組建的暑期文化科技衛生“三下鄉”社會實踐活動重點隊之一。經過充分的準備之后，隊員們開始了期待已久的竹溝之行。

烈日當空舞斗志征程路上展英姿

7月7日下午，雖然天氣炎熱，但隊員們的熱情絲毫沒有被熱浪擊退，大家精神飽滿地向確山縣出發了。經過近四個小時的顛簸，終于來到了目的地——駐馬店確山縣竹溝鎮。竹溝鎮位于確山縣西30公里處，全鎮轄15個行政村，2.8萬人口，總面積185平方公里，是一座新興的小城鎮，也是革命老區，素有革命圣地——“小延安”之美譽。稍事休整之后，王老師就立刻給隊員們召開了一個簡短的會議，再一次強調了此行的目的、任務和意義，動員大家一定要認真學習、細心服務、熱情幫助、深入調查、了解社會、提高認識。隊員們也紛紛表示要珍惜機會、認真實踐、努力學習，在艱苦的環境中鍛煉意志、磨礪品格，在社會實踐活動中陶冶思想情操，提升道德境界，增長知識才干，培養愛國情懷，激勵報國之志，為將來更好地服務祖國和人民打下堅實的基礎。會后，隊員們討論了活動的設置及安排，進行了小組分工，各小組就自身的課題展開了熱烈的討論。在討論過程中，隊員們明確了團隊意識，堅定了圓滿完成此次社會實踐的信心。在此后的一周時間里，隊員們圍繞“緬懷先烈，祝福祖國，送法下鄉，服務老區”這一活動主題，開展了一系列豐富多彩的活動。

重溫歷史祈福祖國

7月8日上午，按照計劃王老師首先帶領大家來到小延安街，參觀了確山竹溝革命紀念館，通過參觀來初步了解將要開展實踐活動的這個鎮的大致情況。該紀念館始建于1956年，由周恩來總理題寫館名，是全國建立較早的革命紀念館

之一。館內有革命舊址31處，文物、文獻、圖片等近千件，是全國重點文物保護單位。竹溝是中原地區革命的搖籃，劉少奇、李先念、彭雪楓、張震、方毅、朱理治、陳少敏等老一輩無產階級革命家都曾在這里工作和戰斗過。隊員們仔細的觀看了記錄革命歷史的圖片和銹跡斑斑的刀槍，在重溫歷史的的過程中感受著老一輩革命家們為了革命勝利殫精竭慮、義無反顧、不怕犧牲的革命精神。隨后，隊員們參觀了中共中央中原局、中共河南省委、新四軍各支隊的機關以及劉少奇、李先念、彭雪楓等革命領導人的辦公室舊址，看到先烈們那簡陋的工作生活條件，回想革命時期戰火紛飛的情景，隊員們無不覺得震撼和感動。參觀過后，隊員們都表達了對老一輩革命家的尊敬以及對一代代中國人共同建設的偉大祖國的珍惜和祈福。

深入群眾走訪調研農村新貌

7月8日下午，服務隊按照事先分好的三個小組，深入竹溝鎮農村進行走訪調研。隊員們根據各自的課題：農業稅取消對竹溝鎮農民生活的影響、當地弱勢群體的權益保護和建國六十周年以來當地農民的實得實惠，兵分三路，帶上事先準備好的資料進行走訪。走訪過程中，隊員們耐心地向田間農民詢問農業稅取消后他們所獲得的實際利益，細心地與農家婦女交流婦聯的存在對她們權益的切實保護，仔細地同路邊老漢談論建國六十周年以來他們生活的巨大變化。回去的路上，大家迫不及待地交流自己的想法以及調研走訪的成果，大家為政府資金不足而不能切實解決農民生產生活困難覺得無奈，為因貧困而上不了學的適齡兒童感到可惜，為基礎設施的破舊給農民帶來的不便而深感痛心。在積極調研的過程中，農民法制意識的淡薄和農村法治建設的落后讓大家感覺到了加強農村基礎法律宣傳的緊迫性與重要性。同時，在此過程中，大家也收獲了很多新的知識，開闊了看問題的視角。通過社會實踐活動，隊員們深刻體會到社會實踐活動的重要性，感到只有親身深入到基層生活中，才能充分全面地了解最真實的情況，才能有助于生活在大學校園中的大學生們更加深刻地了解整個社會。

開設法律咨詢服務農民群眾

7月9日，服務隊在竹溝鎮進行了法律宣傳并為當地農民提供法律咨詢。隊員們來到竹溝鎮中心，在人流最多的集市擺好桌椅和事先準備好的印有法律知識的通訊錄、筆記本、紙牌和臺歷等物品，重點向農民們介紹《土地法》方面的知

識，希望農民們能更好地知道和了解并學會和運用法律知識，以更好地維護自身權益?；顒舆^程中，農民群眾時時駐足，或認真研究宣傳冊上的法律知識，或仔細詢問日常生活中涉及到法律的一些問題，或細心聆聽隊員們的專業講解；隊員們則是運用自己的所學并結合相關法律條文對農民提出的問題一一進行了解答，而對于自己不能很好地解決的問題，隊員們都做了詳細的記錄待回校向老師詢問后再給農民答復。通過本次法律咨詢活動，隊員們切身體會到了農村法治建設方面存在的問題，深刻感受到了農民淡薄的法律意識在生活中的種種不便。同時，活動過程中大家知識儲備量的不足也讓隊員們感覺到了學好專業知識的重要性，以更好地幫助農民解決法律問題，為農村的法治建設做出自己的貢獻。隊員們的親切、真摯和耐心贏得了當地農民的一致好評。

義務支教重責任播撒希望暖人心

周總理曾說過“再窮不能窮教育，再苦不能苦孩子”，孩子是竹溝的未來和希望。為開拓老區學生的視野，使他們樹立崇高的理想，7月10日，服務隊來到來到竹溝鎮完全中學開展義務支教活動。隊員們與同學們展開了親切的交談，就學習生活以及人生理想方面的問題進行了深入的交流，激發了同學們對美好未來的憧憬，促使他們早日立志成才。

完全中學是竹溝鎮唯一一所中學，教學條件較為艱苦。從孩子們的眼睛中隊員讀懂了這些孩子對知識的渴望和對外面世界的向往，也正是從他們的眼睛中隊員們更加深刻地意識到此行的責任。為提高活動效果，支教隊分為三個小組進行授課和交流，隊員們用親切的態度，幽默的語言打破了與同學們之間的隔閡，每個小隊都很快的融為一個整體。在交流的過程中，隊員們還將帶來的文具發放到同學們手中，希望他們珍惜時光，好好學習。交流之余，大家還開展了游戲活動，以進一步拉近同學們與隊員們的距離，樹立了他們展示自我的信心。在支教隊離開的時候，完中的老師和同學都流露出依依不舍之情，他們希望服務隊能經常到完中組織這樣的活動，與同學們進行溝通和交流。

為了使熱愛學習的孩子不因貧困而失學，法學院團委一直以來都盡自己最大的努力幫助老區的貧困學生順利完成學業。其中，正在讀高三的王瑩瑩已連續受資助5年了。因為學業繁重，我們沒能見到她，但我們了解到她在校學習成績非常優異，參加課外活動也十分積極；去年剛接受資助的葛紅云今年初三畢業，當

獲知她被駐馬店市重點高中確山縣一高提前錄取時，王老師和隊員們都非常興奮。下午，在王老師的帶領下，隊員們對即將受資助的一名品學兼優、家庭貧困的學生程格進行了家訪，為另一個有夢想的女孩插上飛翔的翅膀。

為期一天的支教活動，時間雖短，但意義深遠，為老區的孩子們了解外面世界打開了一扇窗，不僅使他們開闊了視野，而且還使他們對未來充滿了希望與向往。不論是支教還是資助，不論是交流還是游戲，都是一種思想的傳播，愛心的傳遞。希望革命老區的孩子不再因生活貧困而失學，不再因知識貧乏而落后。

緬懷革命先烈銘記厚重歷史

7月11日下午，服務隊一行在王虎林老師的帶領下徒步前往竹溝鎮烈士陵園。1958年，中共河南省委、省人民政府批準興建竹溝革命烈士陵園，陵園共收集文物、資料和圖片上千件，辦有兩個主題陳列廳。是全國第一批重點烈士紀念建筑物保護單位，被省政府確定為全省中小學德育教育基地和首批愛國主義教育基地。首先映入隊員們眼簾的是一座仿古牌樓式建筑，“竹溝革命烈士陵園”六個大字在周圍蒼翠的松柏的烘托下顯得莊嚴肅穆。隨后，在導游的引導下，大家先后參觀了“竹溝慘案”和“中原烽火”兩個展示當年革命前輩斗爭場面和豐功偉績的陳列廳，并配合河南電視臺錄制了《中國歷史文化名鎮》的宣傳片。出展覽廳，大家便看到高大莊嚴的陵臺上，聳立著宏偉挺拔的“竹溝革命紀念碑”，周圍4座紀念亭呈翼型環峙，原國家主席李先念題寫的碑名蒼勁有力，整座建筑氣勢迫人，大家在碑前深深的三鞠躬，表達了對革命烈士的敬仰之情。碑后是高大的革命烈士公墓和悼念英烈的碑林，蒼翠松柏環繞四周。置身于這寧靜而肅穆的陵園中，隊員們深深感受到自己肩上的責任和使命，更加堅定了熱愛祖國和人民的信念。

確山之行成果多實踐歸來收獲豐

7月12日，法學院2009年暑期社會實踐服務團在院辦會議室召開“實踐歸來話收獲”座談會，大家一致認為：暑期社會實踐時間雖短，卻給隊員們帶來許多思考與感悟。小延安街上革命舊址的參觀，烈日下熱鬧集市的法律咨詢；走入農戶與農民的親切交談，坐進教室與孩子們的親密交流……所有的一切都化成一幅幅剪影深深烙印在每一位隊員的腦海中?！凹埳系脕斫K覺淺，絕知此事要躬行”，大家以實踐活動來親身接觸社會、了解社會，在實踐活動中汲取營養、豐富知識。此次暑期“三下鄉”社會實踐活動，對于隊員們來說不僅是一次實踐，還是一次人生經歷，是一生寶貴的財富，它不僅讓隊員們了解了很多有關當年民族英雄們的光輝事跡，更使大家體會到農民生活的辛酸，也認識到“三下鄉”社會實踐活動在提高全民法律意識，推動全面實現小康社會過程中的重要性。相信回到學校之后，隊員們會因明白了大學生的歷史使命和責任而更加努力學習，為社會的明天獻出自己一份力，為祖國的美好未來奉獻自己的青春。

第三篇：山西大學 法學院研究生入學試題07-10真題

山西大學法學院研究生入學試題 2007年 初試題 綜合一

一、簡述題

1．法的特征

公法與私法的劃分

憲法解釋與憲法修改的關系 4 民訴中訴的要素

民訴的基本原則 刑訴中審判的基本原則 7 依法行政的內涵

行政許可的功能與性質我國刑訴的模式

二、論述題（四選三）論構建和諧社會的法律保障 2004年憲法修改中對私有財產保護的變動 3 證明責任與提供證據責任的關系 4 論程序公正對刑訴的意義 綜合二

一、簡述題 事實行為與法律行為債權的權能物權的效力 4 數罪并罰原則的內容正當防衛與緊急避險的關系 侵犯商業秘密罪的定義及構成要件 7 經濟法的概念及調整對象 8 典型的不正當競爭行為 9 財政轉移支付的類型

二、論試題（四選三）民法的性質侵權責任的歸責原則

論罪刑法定原則 4 濫用市場支配地位的行為 綜合一

一、概念比較

1、行政征收 行政征用

2、法律原則 法律規則

3、實體公正 客觀公正

4、法定證據制度 自由心證證據制度/

5、普通共同訴訟 必要共同訴訟

二、簡答

1、民訴救濟途徑及特征

2、刑訴內在價值 3、04年修憲的主要內容

4、司法獨立原則

5、犯罪嫌疑人的權利

6、行政法誠實信用原則的要求

三、論述

1、法律的價值

2、行政自由裁量權的控制途徑

四、案例

憲法

訴訟法 綜合二

物權效力、濫用市場壟斷地位的行為、表見代理的概念特征、正當防衛和緊急避險、非法吸收公眾存款罪和詐騙公眾存款罪、罪刑法定原則、地役權和相鄰關系 09 綜合一

簡答：

1、比較法系和法律體系

2、論公民參與政治生活方面的權利和自由

3、行政間接強制措施中代執行的概念和特征

4、簡述當事人主義訴訟模式

5、簡述刑事訴訟中的簡易程序

6、簡述法院審判權和當事人訴權的關系

7、有獨立請求權的第三人和必要共同訴訟人的區別 論述：

1、中西方傳統法治理念的差異及原因

2、從對現行憲法的四次修改說明我國如何體現憲法產生和發展的原則

3、結合我國實際，論述行政合同的概念和特征 案例：刑訴 民訴

綜合二

簡答：

1、什么是異議登記？說明我國設立異議登記的必要性

2、代位權的概念及構成要件

3、洗錢罪的概念和特征

4、商業賄賂罪和賄賂罪的區別

5、不作為犯罪的構成要件及義務的來源

6、行政壟斷的概念和要件

7、我國貨幣政策的目標及含義

論述：

1、物權請求權和侵權損害賠償請求權的區別

2、論兩大法系犯罪構成理論的內容及異同

3、論述產品質量法中的損害賠償責任制度 案例：刑法 民法 法學綜合一 一，簡答題

1.法律權利的含義及其分類2.憲法規定的公民的基本義務 3.行政權的內容4.行政訴訟的受案范圍

5，民事訴訟的中訴的種類6.刑事訴訟的證據規則7.辯護律師的訴訟權利 二，論述題

1.憲法監督的必要性及其體制 2.法律解釋的必要性及其解釋方法 3.民事訴訟的處分原則 三。兩個案例 法學綜合二 一，簡答題

1，比較市場規制法與宏觀調控法的調控對象2，我國財政轉移支付的方式 3，簡述侵犯商業秘密的構成要件4，舉例表見代理，及其構成要件 5，比較用益物權與擔保物權6,比較綁架罪與非法拘禁罪 7.簡述防衛過當及其刑事責任 二，論述題

1，論述濫用市場支配地位的認定 2，論述物權公示原則

3，依據共同犯罪的構成要件說明不構成共同犯罪的情形 三。三個案例分析

記住了這么多，二卷中簡答題有九個，三門各三個，步出考場感覺今年我已經沒戲了，祝福后來人，希望這些對大家會有幫助，可能有些題目不是記得特別準確，但具體涉及知識點應該差不多

第四篇：耶魯大學法學院院長2008年迎新發言

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在法博上看到耶魯大學法學院院長2008年迎新發言，英語聽力不大好，于是找到英文原文對著聽 Dean?s Welcoming Speech Harold Hongju Koh Yale Law School August 27, 2008 http://cs.law.yale.edu/blogs/files/7/214/StudentWelcomeKoh082708.mp3

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Welcome to Yale Law School!

I am Harold Koh, and I am the Dean here.Please call me Harold.I really mean that.I have taught Procedure and International Law here for more than two decades, and I have called New Haven home for nearly five.If that is who I am, who are you? You, collectively, are the 197th group of law students to receive your legal education here at Yale.Formal legal education began here in New Haven around 1814, at least three years before Chief Justice Isaac Parker of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts founded a law school up at Harvard, and 32 years before a law school was founded down at Princeton, which closed its doors only six years later.As you will hear this afternoon, when Professor John Langbein tells you about the early history of Yale Law School, legal education first came here more than 200 years ago, when a Yale college graduate named Seth Staples and two of his students—Samuel Hitchcock and David Daggett, all of whose portraits now hang in Room 127—started to teach budding lawyers in the New Haven building that became Yale Law School.(Parenthetically, that explains the seal of the Yale Law School that is now your shield: which honors these founders with a field of Staples on the left, in honor of Seth Staples;a greyhound on the right in honor of David Daggett(whose original family name was Doget);and an alligator on top— which Samuel Hitchcock and his family took as their symbol after the family moved to the Bahamas.)You, nearly the 200th class ever to study here, include 189 entering JD students from 77 undergraduate institutions, 28 LLMs, 7 new JSD students, 14 transfer students, and several visiting students.You are, quite simply, the finest group of entering law students assembled anywhere on this planet this year.Each year, one school in this world gets to say that, and this year, happily, it is us.You are the best, not just because you are so able, but because you are so interesting.Collectively, you have lived or worked in 77 countries;you read and speak at least 30 languages.(Take a look at this map).Your classmates include: A Chinese yo-yo artist, a hip-hop dancer;a certified judge for the Kansas City Barbeque Society;a scholar of Korean soap opera;a firefighter;a member of the College Football Hall of Fame;winner of 2007 The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest;a former Brazilian professional soccer player;a sailor who twice crossed the Atlantic;the youngest university graduate in the history of Germany;and the leader of the cymbal section of a marching band that once played at the Vatican.By the numbers, your group includes: 1 Flamenco dancer 2 Military officers 2 Debate champions 2 Competitive skydivers 3 Radio talk show hosts 4 Black belts in martial arts 4 Eagle Scouts 5 Mountain climbers, including 2 who climbed Mt.Kilimanjaro A television producer who won 5 Emmy awards 7 Marathon runners And a partridge in a pear tree.:-)

Now hearing this litany, I know what you are saying: “So what on earth am I doing here?”

If it makes you feel better, let me assure you that you are not alone.I know just how you feel.The only difference between you and me is that we started law school 30 years apart.Like you, until now, I have been lucky in my career.Like you, I have been to places I?ve never dreamed I could go.And like you, I have sometimes wondered whether I got to where I am at Yale Law School because somebody well meaning made the wrong decision.But what I have learned over time is that there is no such thing as a wrong decision.There is the decision that you make, then what you do to make it the right decision.On the day I was invited to clerk for the Supreme Court, I asked my late father: “Do I deserve this?” He paused, and answered, “Of course not.No one deserves to clerk for the Supreme Court.But if you give it your best, by the time you are done, you will have deserved it.”

So that is what I say to you about Yale Law School: To be at Yale Law School is a very great privilege.None of us really deserves to be here.But if we all do what we have to do, if we make this place our own, if we do our best and force our school to live up to its own highest aspirations, then all of us will belong here.So that is my first message: today marks the start of our journey together.To prove that I really do intend to journey with you, please mark your calendars for a week from this Saturday—Sept.6—when you can tell the Dean to take a hike, then actually go with him.We will gather at a state park in Hamden and hike to the top of Sleeping Giant mountain(it is actually a foothill, but for us in Connecticut, it?s as close as we get to a mountain).At the top, we will take pictures, survey the landscape, then hike back down for lunch to celebrate our new beginning.As you look around this room, consider this fact: for each of you sitting here, 20 others applied for your place.We have far more qualified applicants than we can accept, but you were selected for a reason.You were chosen to be a part of this dynamic community because of the unique talents, ideas, and energy that you possess.So look to your left;look to your right.You see what Yale Law School is, and must always be: a community of remarkable individuals, committed to excellence and humanity in everything you do.From century to century, from class to class, this School has remained a community of commitment to the values we share.In your time here, you will hear that phrase from me often:

A community of commitment.A community of commitment.There are many committed individuals who belong to no communities.There are many communities that share no commitments.But what makes the Yale Law School a special law school is that it is a community of commitment: commitment to the highest excellence in our work as lawyers and scholars, commitment to the greatest humanity in our dealings with others, and commitment to lives genuinely devoted not to selfishness, but service.As you look to your left and right, please remember one more thing: this is a place where we are committed to each other.At this school, you will learn best through dialogue with one another.The people who will get you through here;the people who will teach you most about how to be a good lawyer and how to be a good person are the classmates you meet for the first time today.Your classmates will stay with you throughout your lives.They will attend your wedding, join your vacations, serve as godparents of your children, watch over you in illness, send you emails and clients, vouch for you at your Senate confirmations, and speak at your funeral.So if you are wondering: how am I going to make my way here? The answer is simple: Trust your classmates.Right now they are your classmates;but in time, they will be your soulmates.Think of them as your brothers-and sisters-in-law.You are all in this together, and the time to start supporting one another is right now.Now all of this sounds fine, except for one thing: when it comes to Law School, your classmates are novices, too.None of them can answer the questions that cloud your mind: like, how do I get off to a good start in law school?

Well, those are relatively easy questions.Getting oriented is what orientations are for, and this week is designed to help you figure out where things are, and who can help you solve your transition problems.Each of you is assigned to a Dean?s Advisor;let me ask them all to stand up: Yaw Anim BJ Ard Sipoura Barzideh Jennifer Bennett Lauren Chamblee Caroline Edsall Elliot Morrison Christina Parajon Sergio Perez Sujeet Rao In our Office of Student Affairs, we have a wonderful Dean of Students in Sharon Brooks;a marvelous Student Life Coordinator, Maura Sichol-Sprague;Sachi Rodgers, Special Project Coordinator in charge of Student Organizations;Marie Battista, Senior Administrative Assistant;and Joe Lynch, Student Journals Assistant.As you will learn, in addition to having the best students and faculty in the world, we have the most humane and dedicated administrative staff in the world.The real Deans of Yale Law School, the Administrative Deans who make this place run, are pictured at the front of your facebook, but let me introduce some of them now.First, our two deputy deans:

Reva Siegel, Deputy Dean for Intellectual Life and the Nicholas Katzenbach Professor of Law;

Jon Macey, Deputy Dean for Curriculum and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law;

Our Librarian, Professor Blair Kaufmann, and:

Megan A.Barnett

Dean for Academic Affairs

Toni Hahn Davis

Dean for Alumni and Public Affairs

and the Graduate Program

Mark LaFontaine

Dean for Development

Asha Rangappa

Dean of Admissions

Mark Templeton

Dean for Finance & Human Resources

Mike Thompson

Dean for Facilities

Jan Conroy

Director of Communications

Judith Calvert

Registrar

Pat Barnes

Director of Financial Aid

Behind them stand many, many others whom I encourage you to meet personally.You will spend much of the days ahead learning from these new friends how the school really operates.They will tell each of you that you have the opportunity to craft an extraordinary law school experience, because you have joined a supportive community that will offer you the resources you need.Let me spend my time this morning discussing a somewhat different question: not how do I study law? But how do I think about studying law? That is what we like to call here: the meta question.As the late Professor Leon Lipson once said, “At Yale, we believe that anything you can do, I can do meta.”

How exactly do you think about this brave new world that you are entering? This world of Law and Law Talk?

Well, first, the good news.As my predecessor, Dean Guido Calabresi, famously told the entering class each year, “My friends, you are off the treadmill now.” After years of carefully triangulating your course to get to this place, you?ve made it!You don?t have to do anything here just to get ahead.Here at Yale Law School, we have no class rank.All of you can succeed here.All of you should succeed here.But sadly, there are too many lawyers in this world who remember the day they started law school as the day they began the rat race.But in the words of Yale?s chaplain, William Sloane Coffin: “Remember that even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat.”

I ask you to think about your law school career differently.I ask you to think about it, not as a competition, but as an adventure.Yale Law School is an adventure, which should have at least three elements:

First, trying new things.Second, combining theory with practice.Third, deciding what you stand for.Let me say a word about each.First, trying new things.Experimentation.Explore the rare intellectual freedom that this school offers.We have very few rules.We have minimal required curriculum.Make the most of that freedom.Don?t spend your time repeating things you already know you can do.Instead, try things you?ve never tried.So if you are a good writer, try public speaking.If you are an accomplished debater, join a law journal.If you are a poet, study law and economics.And if you are a mathematician or number cruncher by training, take law and literature.By entering law school, you are not ending your education in the liberal arts;you are extending it.The same goes for your summers.If you have lived your whole life in the States, work for a human rights group in Africa.If you always wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer, try working in a prosecutor?s office.If you are convinced you want to be a corporate lawyer, spend a summer doing legal aid, and vice versa.Exercise all your intellectual muscles, not just one.At Yale, we intend our approach to legal education to be interdisciplinary, interprofessional, and international.What does that mean?

By an interdisciplinary approach, we mean to show you how the intellectual discipline of law connects with other academic disciplines, some of which you studied before you got here.Law is not the only discipline in this great university.We have a great law faculty, whose members hold advanced degrees in law, of course;but many also hold advanced degrees in philosophy, history, political science, sociology, economics, and medicine.Two of these professors will deliver introductory lectures on their subjects of specialty.Tomorrow afternoon, Professor Jules Coleman will give an introductory lecture on “law and philosophy for physicists.” On September 2, Professor Carol Rose will give an introductory lecture on “law and economics for poets.”

They will ask you to start viewing the law through many lenses, not just one.That will begin this afternoon, when you hear the first two lectures in our Introductions series, from Professor Bill Eskridge, who will give you a tour of the American legal system, and Professor John Langbein who will introduce you to the history of legal education and the Yale Law School.Those will be followed later this week by lectures tomorrow on professional responsibility by Professor Jean Koh Peters;and on Friday, Sept.5, on public interest law by Professor Brett Dignam.And in the weeks ahead, you will also hear from two accomplished graduates of our school who made their mark in different fields: one, Ben Heineman, who became corporate counsel of one of the largest economies in the world, the General Electric Co., speaking on values and vision in legal practice, and another, Margaret Marshall, who was born in South Africa, but after her JD here became Chief Justice of her home state of Massachusetts.Please attend these introductions.They are designed to cast new light on your coursework.You will find them fascinating and useful in seeing how law relates to other concepts in the world of ideas.In addition to being interdisciplinary, I mentioned that our approach is interprofessional.By interprofessional, we mean that we are not the only professional school in this university.You should think hard about how the profession of law relates to these other professions, some of them professions in which you have already engaged: law and business, law and public health, law and media, and law and the environment.Law shapes these fields, and these fields generate new law.To lead these fields, we need lawyers who are genuinely bilingual, who are versatile enough to lead these coordinate fields, so in each of these areas, we are developing joint programs with the other professional schools here at Yale.It is not an accident that in each of these other professional fields, graduates of Yale Law School are leaders as well.That is because if there is one common feature of Yale Law graduates, it is their entrepreneurial spirit, their willingness to take chances.The Dean?s Program on the Profession is a speaker series that features Yale Law School graduates who have made a special mark within the law or who have moved outside the law to become leaders of the entertainment field, the health care industry, professional sports, venture capital, you name it.What their careers tell you is that just because you are studying law, it does not mean that a lawyer is all you will ever be.To explore your full potential, they will tell you, you must take risks.And if you, the most privileged law students in the world, don?t have the courage to take risks, who else will?

In entering law and its related fields, you will need to learn how to write again, and you will need to learn how to read again.The most important suggestion I can make is to read closely.Read more closely than you have read before.Read like your client?s life depends on it, because believe me, it will.And as you read, think of the judges who wrote those opinions as real people, trying to make real decisions.Imagine how you would have made those decisions had they been yours to make.And at some point, I assure you, the magic moment will come, described this way by Hector in The History Boys:

The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—which you had thought special and particular to you.Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead.And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.1

But reading alone is not enough.Which leads me to my second suggestion, in all you do here: Combine Theory with Practice

When you come to my office, as all of you should, you will see on my wall, in Chinese characters, one of my favorite sayings: “Theory without practice is as lifeless as practice without theory is thoughtless.” Alan Bennett, The History Boys 56.Yale Law School is and must always remain the world?s premier center of legal theory.We believe that no single intellectual discipline has a monopoly on wisdom: that is what it means to be an interdisciplinary law school.How do we get nations to obey the law? The answer to that question lies not just in the law itself, but in such related disciplines as psychology, economics, philosophy, sociology, political science, anthropology.But if you want to understand the relationship between law and justice, you must look not just to the Uniform Commercial Code and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure but to the humanities: great plays like Shakespeare?s Henry V or The Merchant of Venice, novels like Melville?s Billy Budd, or works of art like Picasso?s Guernica.If you don?t know those disciplines, use your time here to introduce yourselves to them.Spend your time not just in our phenomenal Law Library, but at Yale Repertory Theater, the newly renovated Art Gallery, the Center for British Art, the Globalization Center, and the Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies.Most of all, the study of law is the search for ideas.A professor of mine once said, “Ideas are not butterflies.They are butterfly nets.” Ideas help you to capture insights, organize experience, impose intellectual order on natural disorder.Which is why you chose to attend a great law school in a great university.Once you begin practicing law, you soon find yourself with precious little time to read, reflect, or get new ideas.Law firms have no English departments.Legal aid clinics don?t teach you economics.If you want to understand more deeply what is right, not just what is right for your client, what is the truth, not just what argument works, you need to study ideas.You need to study theory.But for every yin there is a yang.Theory without practice is as lifeless, as practice without theory is thoughtless.Theory alone cannot change the world;lawyers must actually be skilled in the practice of law to change the world.When the judge asks you why your client should win, your answer cannot be, “Because John Rawls said so.”

Great lawyers are made, not born.Which is why each and every one of you should take a course or more in our superb clinical program.Use internships, externships, and summer practice to understand better how you can use your legal skills to change the world.Which brings me to the subtle virtues of New Haven, your new home away from home.A poll in the Anchorage Daily Times reported that New Haven has two of the top ten pizza restaurants in America.It is the home of two Tony-award winning theaters.Some of the best music and the best arts and ideas festival in the country.And it has a remarkable legal history.But most relevant for our purposes, New Haven is a model laboratory for the practice of law.Over the years, Yale law students have helped to build day care centers for unwed mothers, to create nonprofit corporations to shelter the homeless, to found a leading Charter School and community bank, to do the legal work for the Shaw?s Grocery Store on Whalley Ave.Three decades ago, two contemporaries both worked in the clinical program here;each said it was the best experience they had at Yale Law School.Their names are Bill Clinton and Clarence Thomas.If each of them can do it, and get something out of it, then so can you.In our clinic, we think locally, but we act globally.We do not limit our clinical work to the confines of New Haven.Over the years, our human rights clinic has promoted human rights around the world.It has represented Haitian and Cuban refugees at the Supreme Court, exposed abuses in East Timor, sent students to Bosnia and Kosovo and Sierra Leone and Cambodia, supported international prosecutors in The Hague, and helped think about the structure of constitutional democracy in Iraq.Yale graduates, professors and students in our 9/11 Clinic participated on all sides of Supreme Court?s military commissions decision last year, and filed several of the briefs in Boumediene, the Guantanamo case that will be argued this fall.Our Supreme Court Clinic has several cases pending on the Supreme Court?s September docket list.And when Homeland Security arrested two dozen workers this summer, first-year students dropped everything to represent each and every one of them at expedited bond hearings, and our Workers and Immigrants Rights Clinic continues that work today.That brings me, of course, to the issue of our day: globalization.As I said, your legal education should be not just interdisciplinary and interprofessional, but international.In the last four terms of the U.S.Supreme Court, no fewer than 25 cases involved globalization.On Friday morning, I will give you an introduction to transnational law that I hope will start you thinking about the relationship between law and globalization.And later this September, 20 of the world?s leading constitutional court judges, including Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer of our Supreme Court, will come to this building to talk about how the world?s leading courts now deal with such diverse, yet common, global issues as torture, reproductive rights, affirmative action, terrorism, and same-sex marriage.These issues occupy our headlines.And what presidential candidate recently wrote this? “We Americans recall the words of our founders in the declaration of

independence, that we must pay ?decent respect to the opinions of

mankind.? Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we

want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the

wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed…We all have to live up

to our own high standards of morality and international responsibility.We cannot torture or treat inhumanely the suspected terrorists that we

have captured.We will fight the terrorists and at the same time defend

the rights that are the foundations of our society.”2

The speaker, of course, was John McCain, speaking in Europe.And we hope you will all join together in helping us address what is perhaps the greatest globalization challenge of our day: sustainability.As global citizens, one of the challenges that we all face As Tom Friedman of The New York Times recently noted, last year was by far the worst year for freedom in the world since the end of the Cold War.Almost four times as many states — 38 — declined in their freedom scores as improved.3 Strikingly, the least democratic countries in the world are those who derive most of their revenues from oil.So as the price of fuel rises, and with it the price of food and housing, every community must cut its reliance on fossil fuels, not just to save money, not just to protect the environment from global warming, not just to promote our national security, but to promote the rule of law that is this law school?s mission.Sustainability begins at home.So we will start that conversation with Professor Dan Esty in his introductory lecture on environmental law on Sept.19.The Law School is joining with Yale University?s sustainability efforts4 on a number of green initiatives designed to reduce the Law School?s carbon footprint and help us work together as a community of faculty, staff, and students toward a more sustainable future for our campus.Some of these ideas are small changes we can make right away, like turning off lights and computer monitors, carpooling or usingpublic transportation, or using mugs and silverware instead of disposable items.In addition, the Law School?s “Green Team,” headed by Associate Director of Student Affairs Maura Sichol-Sprague(maura.sichol-sprague@yale.edu)and Director of Alumni Affairs Abby Roth(abigail.roth@yale.edu), is working on larger Law John McCain, Op-ed, Financial Times(March 18, 2008);

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第五篇：迎新簡報

迎新生簡報

在丹桂飄香的金秋，河南質量工程職業學院迎來了2010級新生。在經管系領導的帶領下，我們系學生會工作人員與9月10日——9月11日早晨6：30在學院的文化廣場等待新生的到來。

9月10日，天陰沉沉的，但這并沒有打消大家的工作積極性，與此同時我系的迎新志愿者、教師、領導早早就來到了迎新現場。他們一遍一遍耐心而詳細地為接新生而交代所有細節，每一道程序，在迎新過程中按照“首接責任制”開展迎新工作。

此外，為了提高新生在報名的流動速度，我系組織部分學生會成員帶領新生前往宿舍安置行李，提高了我系的工作效率，為忙碌的家長減少了疑惑，減輕了負擔；還在寢室貼上溫馨小海報，用心感動著新生；學宣部的部分成員也充分展示出該系的特色，設置了最具特色的歡迎標志，展示了其獨有的創意；經管系志愿者崗位分工明確，有專門負責幫助新生的學生干部隊伍.在安頓完一批新生與家長之后，緊接著又有一批新生下了校車。這時下起了大雨，也許是老天在考驗我們系學生會工作人員的毅力吧。工作人員立刻將新生與家長安頓在帳篷里，工作人員都被大雨淋濕了，卻沒有一個人說抱怨的話。在場的新生和家長 1 都被我們這種精神感動了。其中一位父親對孩子說“明年的這個時候，在這個地方也應有你的身影”。

在我校文化廣場，校訓石前均有我們系學生會工作人員忙碌的身影。他們給新生們帶路、拎行李、找宿舍。大家把自己的微笑帶給每一位新生。

此次迎新實踐體現了我們系學生會成員和各部工作人員不怕苦、不怕累的精神。相信在它熏陶與帶動下，隨著2010級新生的加入，我們河南質量工程職業學院的明天會更美！

經濟與管理系學生會 2010年9月13日