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Administration Announces Haas To Take Over New Addition

Posted on April 01, 2011
Add this to the list of Dean Edley's failures. Because of the financial predicament that the law school is in, they've decided to lease the new addition to Haas in exchange for roughly $10M a year. Apparently this will be enough to keep tuition from rising above $50k/year in the near term...

King of April Fool's

Posted on April 01, 2011
Google has done it again.  The whole thing had me cracking up, right down to the generic background music that's so typical of these corporate motivational videos.  The best line for me, "Our fingers are not designed to move independently.  We're graspers...

From The Hall*um Negotiation Competition

Posted on March 19, 2011
Happy Spring Break everyone. In honor of it, I'd like to show you what happened during the first round of the Hall*um Negotiation Competition. Thanks to Am*r and W*att for providing the link.

Japan: What You Can Do To Help

Posted on March 16, 2011
As the crisis in Japan continues to worsen, there are several ways you can help:American Red Cross (Can specify money goes to Japan):http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_mainJapanese Red Cross, Unicef, Save the Children:http://www...

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Love Potion Number ___

Posted on March 15, 2011
The WE RANK STUFF! magazine US News and World Report rankings are out. Talk amongst yourselves.

Congress needs to act, IMMEDIATELY

Posted on March 12, 2011
I hate few things more than Big-10 basketball. Hitler comes to mind, but even that may change after the embarrassment that was the Wisconsin/Penn St. game yesterday. Penn St. ended up winning by an incredible 36-33. Very seldom do collegiate athletes display such hatred for the sport they play...

Message From The Administration About Your Smoking Problem

Posted on March 10, 2011
Howdy folks,It's your friendly, happy administration here letting you know that you need to stop smoking. Obviously, you cannot smoke inside. But, what we want to remind you is that you cannot smoke anywhere near the law school. Outside on the patio? Nope...

The Ugly Truth about Employment Statistics

Posted on March 07, 2011
First, a confession: I graduated from Boalt in May 2010, and I am unemployed. I got good grades. I have a solid resume. I was Editor-in-Chief of a Journal. I was on the AAJ Trial Team. I externed in federal court, interned in several public offices, and spent a summer at a big firm...

On the MPRE, Yet Again

Posted on March 04, 2011
This is one of those tests that going in, you have no idea what you need to do to obtain a passing score.  Things don't improve much during the test.  Nearly every question will feel like you're guessing within 2 or 3 plausible answers.  But then you get your results and see that you passed by an obscene margin...

I am Medicine and I am Poison

Posted on March 03, 2011
Rule number one of not getting yourself torn into little bitty shreds on N&B is probably to avoid making things too personal. I?m breaking that rule as I write this post tonight, which involves a topic that?s intensely personal to me?both as a budding young member of the legal profession, and as someone who just yesterday lost another family member to a needless disease...

Live Blogging the 3L "How do I be a grown-up?" Meeting

Posted on March 03, 2011
5:38. Decided to liveblog the private sector meeting5.39: Jason De Lo*enzo, who is apparently the "3L Adviser" Nix that, GL Adviser is talking5:39. JDL, the GL adviser, is kinda hot, right?5:40: We're talking about Law Career Economics, IBR, Targeted Repayment, and Strategic debt reduction and other goals -- I assume by this he means not being miserable5:41...

Fun With Real Numbers

Posted on February 25, 2011
Professor Caron has a compilation of the salaries of public law school deans.  Where does DE stand?  Well Moran and Chemerinsky command a higher salary within the UCs.  And that probably doesn't include the gold doubloons that Chemerinsky gets from Bar/Bri for reciting Con Law from memory without any effort...

A Logical Appeal from the Shattuck Down Low Owner

Posted on February 22, 2011
Below is a letter from the owner of the Shattuck Down Low, responding to recent efforts to boycott the venue. It seems to me that the boycott has harmed a local business, local employees, local performers, and Boalt social justice organizations that frequently hosted fundraising events at SDL...

Et Tu Harris?

Posted on February 18, 2011
Leiter is reporting that Professor Harris has accepted an offer from UC Davis.  Not too long ago, Boalt was reviled in legal academia for poaching the finest talents from other schools at an aggressive rate.  The trend of late seems to be in the other direction though...

How to Make Boalt Suck

Posted on February 16, 2011
Howdy folks,Today in our installment of "How to Make Boalt Suck" we're going to discuss how to leave passive aggressive notes in the study shacks in the library (or whatever they're called).First, the text of our example note:These carrels are meant to be available to all students...

Call Bill Murray

Posted on February 15, 2011
Apparently there's a woman haunting the construction site and maybe a library stack near you.From the Archivist:Work on the building continues round the clock, and several members of the graveyard shift have reported seeing the silent figure of a woman in a long black dress...

First Annual Boalt Ball Tournament

Posted on February 10, 2011
Want to be a hipster and get in on the newest, awesome thing at Boalt?Well, come to the Boalt Ball Tournament sign up as featured above. Boalt Ball requires a love for graphic design, a steady hand and the wisdom of Justice Cardozo. It's also a great way to meet chicks.

New Academic Calendar Announced

Posted on February 08, 2011
Well, folks, it seems that Boalt got a little change we can believe in with the new OCI schedule combined with a new class schedule.Somehow, we kept the 14 weeks of classes, but lost the week of Fall Break. Classes will start August 24th, which is later than normal and the semester ends December 16th, which is about the same...

Blake's and Beckett's Close in the Same Week, Please Don't Let Kip's Be Next

Posted on February 08, 2011
That's right. Both Beckett's and Blake's closed this week. They likely both went out of business because Boalt students boycotted both establishments due to their bad service and poor atmosphere. That and both were way too big to barely sell any food and be half full on the weekends...

Should We Boycott the Downlow?

Posted on February 03, 2011
If you're a student, I'm sure you've received the following email:Hi everyone,As many of you have heard, tonight's Bar Review will be taking place at the Down Low on Shattuck. However, many people are unaware that Lakireddy Bali Reddy, the landlord of the Down Low, is a convicted sex trafficker...

Congratulations are in order.

Posted on February 03, 2011
I just wanted to create a space for people to leave comments congratulating Thomas Frampton and Ed Piper on their rock-star performances last night. The composure they demonstrated in front of a nearly-full Zellerbach hall, and such an esteemed panel of judges (including, of course, a Supreme Court Justice), was nothing short of awe-inspiring...

For Your Viewing Pleasure

Posted on February 03, 2011
The first video is a State of the Union remix created by a semi-professional Vegas gambler (Boalt '05).  The second is for Simpsons fans.

Boalt Hall News Update: White Folk Somewhat Racist

Posted on January 31, 2011
Or at least, that's what I think is suggested by the headline, "Whites Often Resist Effort to Create Multicultural Work Environments."There's no link to the forthcoming research, but I bet it's more nuanced than the article describing it. For one thing, the research appears to focus less on obstructionism than on the ineffectiveness of diversity programs that exclude important stakeholders...

Egypt Erupts

Posted on January 28, 2011
Watching Al Jazeera's English language coverage of the protests in Egypt.  Any one have good sources for more substantive commentary? 

SOTU Drinking Game

Posted on January 25, 2011
Most SOTU drinking games involve the contents of the speech itself.  I personally like to drown the inanity of cable news coverage with alcohol.  So, for this year's SOTU, here are my proposals, and please feel free to add to this:TAKE ONE SHOT AT...

Boalt Admins/Faculty Propose a New 13 Week Semester

Posted on January 19, 2011
If you're reading M*ndi's emails, then you know that the law school is considering substantially altering the class and semester schedules beginning next fall. Seeing as these changes affect law students, there's bound to be a bunch of complaining about these changes...

Rally to Support Dean Edley to be held Wednesday

Posted on January 17, 2011
The following popped up in the inbox this weekend:CALL TO ACTION: ASSEMBLY TO DEFEND DEAN EDLEY?S PENSIONWednesday, January 19, 201112:45pm ? 1:45pmSteinhart Courtyard, Boalt Hallwww.saveourdean.comWe write as members of the Boalt Hall community concerned over recent criticism of Dean Edley...

July 2010 Bar Pass Rate

Posted on January 13, 2011
Specific statistics here.  Things that stand out:  out of California schools, only Stanford beat us in passage rate (I'm excluding out-of-state schools because they tend to submit a handful of graduates to the Calbar).  The racial disparity is striking...

Fall 2011 OCIP

Posted on January 11, 2011
The wizards that decide these things announced today that Fall 2011 OCIP is going down the week of Aug. 8. For those of you keeping track, that's the week before school starts, continuing the progressive calendar creep that we've seen the last few years...

E*ley Responds to Pension Concerns

Posted on January 10, 2011
From: Christopher Edley, Orrick Professor of Law, and DeanThe UC Pension Controversy and MeI cosigned a letter to the UC President Mark Yudof and the Regents concerning pension benefits which has generated a great deal of concern, anger and confusion...

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