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Life of a Law Student

Features a growing body of recorded courses meant to be shared among law students and those considering the study of law.
By Neil Wehneman

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Last Entry: February 22, 2010 at 09:28:28

Hearsay Exception Song

Posted on February 22, 2010
Funny! Brought to my attention through Andrew V, thanks!

The Art of the Law School Transfer

Posted on September 19, 2009
As many of you know, I transferred law schools after my 1L year. Many law students consider transferring after their 1L year, generally to move to a higher ranked school. I transferred because I was marrying someone out of state (and dropping a little in the law school rankings), so I didn’t have the same [...

A Plea to New Law Students

Posted on September 16, 2009
Among other things, I am Firearms Instructor. When I tell people this, it’s usually a 50/50 split as to whether their eyes are filled with fear or interest. Minds have been conditioned by the media and social biases that “Guns are bad.” When I counsel students at the college where I work who are starting their [...

LoaLS #1 on Online Schools Blog Choice

Posted on August 03, 2009
I found out this morning that Life of a Law Student is the top choice over at OnlineSchools.Org on their list of 100 Best Blogs for Law School Students. “Law school is an arduous ordeal few are prepared to undertake. In recent years, the proliferation of technology has made it easier for students to get study [...

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Fixing Podcasts

Posted on April 30, 2009
Greetings, folks! So, in the course of migration from Podango, several of our podcasts had become corrupted. I have begun restoring the process from DVD backup, though it will take a while. Criminal Law has been fixed as well as Property Law — the others will need to be manually edited since our automated process for [...

Feed Woes Update

Posted on January 07, 2009
It pays to be a programmer sometimes. I just finished writing a script to migrate our database so the podcasts, which previously pointed to the Podango feed, now point to a valid source location. You can now listen to our podcasts through the website or you can subscribe to the various classes at our feedpage — [...

Of Feeds and Technical Difficulties

Posted on January 03, 2009
Greetings, folks… As of December 31st, 2008, our primary feed provider, Podango, decided to reorganize and switch from a free-based service to a fee-based service. In true internet fashion, they gave everyone about a weeks notice to switch everything over and forward their RSS feeds...

It?s Time For Finals!

Posted on December 11, 2008
It’s time for finals and, in the spirit of reviewing, Fitz found this great video on YouTube. Enjoy!

The Constution, Bill of Rights and Bankrupcy Procedures

Posted on October 11, 2008
Fitz, over at The Law Pod, has updated his iPod Touch and iPhone resource with the Constitution and the Amendments along with the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure. Interestingly, you can browse to the pages directly on your PC or Macintosh, but only with Safari (Apple’s browser) or Google’s “Chrome”, but only because it used [...

Federal Rules

Posted on October 06, 2008
Fitz, over at The Law Pod, has a great resource for your iPhone or your iPod Touch. Law Pod?s web applications can be quickly and easily installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch by following the directions on the law pod home page. The Law Pod currently features the following web applications: - Federal Rules of Civil [...

News and Views #23: New Feeds And Nominations

Posted on September 15, 2008
In this episode, we let you know that our two new feeds are both finally up — Introduction to Criminal Justice is a 100-level Criminal Justice course for Delaware Tech and Criminal Judiciary is a 200-level Criminal Justice course at Delaware Tech...

Criminal Judiciary #2: Law and Crime

Posted on September 12, 2008
In this episode of Criminal Judiciary, we get a brief overview of the history of our law and its English roots. Common law, civil law and criminal law and basic legal concepts are explained and we learn the different between “beyond a reasonable doubt” and “beyond a preponderance of the evidence...

In Our Thoughts?

Posted on September 11, 2008
I just wanted to take a brief moment to recognize the 7th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center towers on September 11th, 2001. The injured and those who were lost and their survivors are in my thoughts today.

Intro to Criminal Justice #1: Justice and Public Safety

Posted on September 09, 2008
Benjamin Franklin was once quoted as saying, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” There’s a balance that must be struck between maintaing individual rights while balancing them against the interest of public safety...

News and Views #22: New Feeds and Podcast Awards!

Posted on August 30, 2008
This is a quick podcast to tell you about a couple of new feeds we have no for the Fall and to request your help! To begin with, Episode 1 of our Criminal Judiciary podcast is up and available! By tomorrow, I’m hoping to have up the first episode of the Introduction to Criminal Justice podcast [...

Criminal Judiciary #1: House v. Bell

Posted on August 30, 2008
With a new semester comes new courses; with new courses comes new content! Criminal Judiciary is a 200-level undergraduate course offered at Delaware Tech as part of their Criminal Justice program — the course will cover the history, traditions and philosophies of our system of justice in addition to covering many landmark cases and court [...

I Don?t Know What I?ll Do This Summer

Posted on August 11, 2008
Steve Luther is a law student who’s trying to find the right summer job — the pressures of deciding whether to follow his conscious or his wallet ultimately throw his life into turmoil, so he does what any of us would do… he turns it into a four minute work of fiction he made to [...

News and Views #21: D.C. v. Heller

Posted on August 07, 2008
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. No other sentence has been the root of so much contention, confusion and controversy when it comes to the Bill of Rights...

News and Views #20: Introducing Rob Wiltbank

Posted on August 04, 2008
Rob Wiltbank will be taking up the mantle as Project Lead for Life of a Law Student. As an established IT industry professional and a Criminal Justice as Pre-Law student, Rob will be adding undergrad content as he continues to push forward to expand the project.

Website Software Updated

Posted on August 04, 2008
I’ve updated the site to the latest version of the software available by WordPress — if you come across any oddities or issues, please let me know! Additionally, I’ve gotten my introduction recorded and will be publishing that podcast very soon, so keep an eye out on the News and Views feed.

Getting Back on Track? An Update.

Posted on July 31, 2008
Greetings, folks. I’m looking to get things back on track, albeit in baby steps. My name is Rob Wiltbank and I’ll be lending a hand to Neil for the foreseeable future with Life of a Law Student. Between law school, some personal commitments and, of course, being a good husband, it’s going to be [...

Plan for this Semester

Posted on January 30, 2008
I know many of you are getting tired of seeing new blog posts but no new content. I understand. It’s killing me that I haven’t had the opportunity to add much to the site in some time. Unfortunately, I see now that my 18 credit hour schedule is not going to be as friendly as I [...

Vote for Law Student Run JURIST in Webbys

Posted on January 29, 2008
Hi LoaLS Readers, I am a 1L at the University of Pittsburgh, and avid LoaLS reader. As I told Neil in my e-mail, the resources he has have been extremely helpful to me in my first year. Neil is letting me post here about the 2008 Webby Awards and JURIST, the site I write for...

Why the Site (Still) Isn?t Fully Working

Posted on January 19, 2008
The company that runs the back-end CMS I use (Podango) is still experiencing problems. They transitioned servers last night, and now I’m unable to log in to my control panel to manage audio and troubleshoot the problems with the recently uploaded audio...

Update: Technical Glitches and Episode Backlog

Posted on January 09, 2008
Hey all, So last semester is over, and a new semester is about to begin. You may have noticed a few episodes up, but they are taking time to get up (and often don’t work if you go to listen to them). Here’s what’s going on. The back-end Content Management System I use was taken [...

Copyright Law #4: Fixation

Posted on December 28, 2007
Copyright applies upon tangible fixation. In this episode, we will examine what is meant by “fixation,” including the question of whether a copy of a work in RAM is tangibly fixed. Note: Due to temporary technical issues, this episode lacks an intro and outro (they will be provided shortly)...

Copyright Law #3: Introduction to Copyright III

Posted on December 28, 2007
Copyright in the United States is affected by both the Federal Constitution, and international law such as the Berne Convention. Additionally, international law is often used to justify increases in rights for the sake of “harmonization.” We conclude this last introductory episode by briefly comparing and contrasting several areas of the law that [...

Copyright Law #2: Introduction to Copyright II

Posted on December 28, 2007
Copyright applies to a wide variety of works, even types of expression that are newly created (and not explicitly referenced in the copyright act). However, some items of “intellectual creation” are outside of copyright, such as ideas or works of the federal government...

Copyright Law #1: Introduction to Copyright I

Posted on December 28, 2007
In this, the first episode of Copyright Law, we begin a high-level overview of what copyright is. Almost everyone is a copyright holder, with specific exclusive rights over their original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium. We close this episode with a look at three views of the justification [...

Fundamentals of Copyright #11: Non-Copyright Concerns

Posted on December 28, 2007
Copyright is not the only law you have to be aware of when considering whether or not to use a work. Patents, trademarks, trade secrets, contracts, and other issues may provide an additional “layer of protection” beyond just copyright. Download Standard Podcast

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