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I feel dumb asking this question (like I should have asked it before coming to law school) Can anyone recommend good resources to learn about what lawyers do in ...
Dear veterans of Law and Contemporary Society: This fall, the tools for law student collaboration are coming one step closer. According to Frantz Merine, Director ...
I'm curious about how others are feeling about their internships and clerkships so far this summer. I know there was substantial concern among students this past ...
I imagine that many of us will be considering joining a journal in the coming days. I wanted to open up some space to discuss the various journals and the pros and ...
Hey everyone! I just wanted to share some of my summer with all of you. As some of you know, I am currently working at the City Attorney in Los Angeles. I don't actually ...
Professional Agnosticism: Why law students trade in goals to help people for golden handcuffs? SylvieRampal 24 Jun 2008 Reasons No one starts out wanting to be ...
Overview I have done my best to organize the questions so that we can begin answering them. They are organized by content area and condensed whenever possible. I ...
Topic: Atheism and Acceptance SandorMarton 03 Apr 2008 I. A despised Group Over the past fifty years, minority groups that have traditionally been distrusted ...
Student Jurors and Liberal Education: A Case Study By SamanthaWilliams 12 April 2008 Introduction #8220;The university does not try to persuade the student ...
More than any other form of art, architecture requires cash. Especially at the level of large urban architecture, no architect has the means to build for themselves ...
KING WAS WRIGHT April 4, 1967 and September 16, 2001 This paper will explore the startling similarities between Martin Luther King Jr. and Jeremiah Wright in their ...
Veblen in Lawyerland Introduction Veblen #8217;s The Theory of the Leisure Class formalized a somewhat intuitive observation that patterns of consumption reflect ...
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Holmes Condensation (edited by Davis Ratner and Lawrence) Disclaimer: Here are ideas from Holmes with links to the most related #8220;blog #8221; topics. As this ...
The End of 1L Year By AmandaRichardson 04 Apr 2008 #8220;Whether he be original or plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. #8230; To be free means to be ...
Professional Sport as a Tool of White Supremacy By RobertCorp 11 June 2008 Introduction Professional sport is often offered as an example of racial equality in ...
I asked this question early on in the course, and I didn't receive much feedback. I'll try again. Do you think that if we had more methods of evaluation in a course ...
Combating Obama's Creed By AdamCarlis 4 April 2008 Introduction This season's Democratic primary showcased two gifted politicians, providing insight into how ...
Introduction According to the Federal Bureau of Prison #8217;s population report, more than 200,000 inmates are incarcerated in federal correction facilities, which ...
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Maybe Med School Is Less Suffocating? I finally get it. I wish someone would have told me that when I accepted a seat at Columbia Law School, I would be assigned my ...
This might be old news by now but apparently one law firm has some creative advertising that's creating a bit of buzz. It reminded me of when we had a big ol' disagreement ...
A Balancing Act: Discovery Costs, Public Access, and Privacy Introduction Secrecy in litigation drives up discovery costs for plaintiffs who are generally already ...
I am having trouble understanding what is at the crux of the discussion, in class and in the comments on paper, about clothes and class. I see that we categorize each ...
The Risk Averse Lawyer CaseyBoyle 14 May 2008 (ready for grading) Sometimes I think it was really my risk averse nature that led me to law school. Not to belittle ...
NicoleMedham 04 Apr 2008 Prenuptial Agreements: #8216;Til Death Do Us Part...Yea Right! #8220;If you ain #8217;t no punk holla we want prenup. WE WANT PRENUP! ...
The Injustice of Alimony in America In recent years a number of states have started to reconsider alimony; imposing caps on the number of years a spouse can receive ...
Allowing Laws to be Broken: A Restriction on Freedom At its core, each law represents at least a slight infringement of our rights. We give power to our government ...
Do You Want to Dance? In Midler v. Ford Motor Company, the Ninth Circuit created a right of publicity proscribing the imitation of professional singers #8217; voices ...
The Constitution as a Symbol By AmandaRichardson 12 Feb 2008 Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire The Constitution in Suburbia ...
Barack: The Great Black Hope? By DimiaFogam 14 Feb 2008 Intro Over the last several months, many magazine and newspaper editors have seen fit to dub Barack Obama ...
Eben made many corrections on students' papers involving number agreement. For example, "Why does everyone ignore their passions?," as opposed to, say, "Why does ...
In this topic, I have refactored the ClothesMaketheLawyer talk. 2L interviews are looming near and I believe the points and issues raised in this talk will prove helpful ...
Naked, But For My Intellect REVISION: My original paper was centered on a personal experience wherein a co worker had commented on the clothes I was wearing. My goal ...
Changing One's Behavior Together, Yet Alone A recent study documenting the phenomenon of smokers quitting in concert, bound by their social networks, has been received ...
CarlForbes 04 Apr 2008 The Burdens and Benefits of a Broken Home Introduction Living in a broken home is a situation that definitely impacts young people in the United ...
JonathanBoustani 24 May 2008 Morality, Media, and Max Mosley (this is actually my 2nd paper revised. i accidentally switched Post titles and can't change it) On March ...
The Role of Grades in Law Firm Hiring By TheodoreSmith 23 May 2008 Table of Contents Introduction Law school grades are generally understood to be one of the ...
JonathanBoustani 24 May 2008 Substance and Appearance in the Education System There are only two items on a law school application that boards of admission pay any ...
ChristinaYoun 01 Apr 2008 Fashion, Copyrighting, and Society Introduction The of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has been pushing Congress to pass H.R. 5055 ...
The Pursuit of Wealth and the Justice System Introduction #8220;Most lawyers are like most everyone else #8211; they don #8217;t take the trouble to learn anything ...
Rape and the Criminal Justice System: The problem of underreporting Introduction Most rapes go unreported. There are no reliable statistics to back this up, because ...
Ready for grading. Maintaining the Constitution Creed By DanielButrymowicz 12 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold argues that constitutions are #8220;fundamental ...
DimiaFogam 23 May 2008 Hope everyone is enjoying thier summer. I ran across this Student Note from the Harvard Law Review and thought it was really intersting. It ...
Ready for grading. My Leisure is More Conspicuous Than Yours! (Facebook as a Vehicle for Pecuniary Emulation) DanielButrymowicz 04 Apr 2008 Introduction The ...
Ready for grading From the Classroom to the Firm By AmandaHungerford 11 Feb 2008 Introduction Nine months after graduating from CLS, of students are employed ...
We Build Borders Here: The Court Imposed Chasm Between Life and Law I. Congress Should Move to Amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Congress should move ...
Ready for grading Conspicuous Consumption and the Environmental Movement Premise: if we accept, for argument #8217;s sake, that Veblen #8217;s thesis in The Theory ...