Jeremy Haber’s star rose and and fell before we had a chance to draft a post. Haber is a first year student at Harvard Law School and recently made the finals in the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” contest. From the Harvard Crimson via ABA Journal:

Jeremy L. Haber, a first year student at the Law School, is one of four finalists remaining in the Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” contest, the winner of which will write 13 weekly op-ed columns on a topic of his choice.
Haber, who said he entered the contest on an impulse, has emerged from over 4,800 entrants to outlast six other finalists — including a Nobel laureate in physics, an assistant secretary of commerce in the Bush administration, and a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.

These are the columns that got him into the final rounds. Unfortunately, some other finals got in the way of his punditry. He is a 1L and it is mid-November…

We asked Haber how he was balancing the contest with his 1L fall semester:

Short answer to your question above is “poorly.”

Haber was slightly relieved then to be eliminated from the contest last night. The judges said:

Jeremy impressed us with his energetic reporting. The round two judges suggested he could be America’s Next Great Reporter. And round three judge Gene Weingarten declared that Jeremy had the best answer of the Q&A: “There is a leadership vacuum on both sides.” (Responding to a question on the Middle East.) Jeremy, we look forward to reading and hearing more from you.

Jeremy told us:

Been very challenging to do competition and school work, but thankfully just enough time to catch up before exams.

Unfortunately, punditry skills don’t tend to come in handy for 1L exams. (Or so Elie tells us.) Someone give this guy an outline.
HLS Student Is Pundit Finalist [Harvard Crimson via ABA Journal]
HLS student Jeremy Haber selected as finalist in Washington Post pundit contest [Harvard Law School]