When Brazil gave the legal community a cuteness overload with Dr. Leon Advogato, Harvard Law School predictably decided it couldn’t allow anyone else to have nice things that it doesn’t so it dialed up its own “wild animal seeking refuge before the law” narrative with a bird loose in the Harvard Law Library.
So far the bird, which they should absolutely name Harvey Birdman, hasn’t gotten an Instagram account yet, but give it time.
A message from the Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Library alerted the community to the issue and asked students to stop feeding the bird. If that sounds harsh, remember that bird law in this country is not governed by reason:
Colleagues,
If you study in the Library Reading Room, you may have noticed a small bird flying around. We are working with humane animal capture people to retrieve the bird and return it to the great outdoors. Capturing a bird is harder than you’d think. We are waiting for the bird to tire itself out so that it can be captured. Many of our kind hearted students have been leaving food and water for the bird, which totally feels like the humane thing to do – but it keeps the bird’s energy up, which means it continues to evade capture.
I could never have imagined writing this request, but here we go: please don’t feed the bird in the library. We’ve been assured that a day or two without food or water will not harm the bird. Once the bird tires itself out, we will be able to safely help the bird move outside.
Cutting off food and water sounds exactly like how you kill a mockingbird.
Listen Harvard, you’re not getting that bird off the pallid bust of Pallas above that library door.
Not unless you put Dr. Leon on the job.
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