Law Students

Trapped in Amber

Posted on June 26, 2008
Important Note: Recent decisions, like Heller discussed below, are NOT tested on the bar exam.Trevor, stop reading the news.

Individual Gun Rights

Posted on June 26, 2008
It amazes me how far to the right I've moved on gun control in the last few years, but the recent decision in Heller strikes me as entirely reasonable. Scalia is way less entertaining than usual when he's being reasonable, but one takes what one can get.

NDA

Posted on June 26, 2008
For real this time, guys.

Honors and Signaling

Posted on June 24, 2008
What's that? The DOJ under Bush systematically excluded left-of-center applicants from the DOJ honors program? The Federalist Society is a vehicle for affirmative action for conservatives? This is me not surprised.

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Most Original Blawg Post Ever

Posted on June 20, 2008
Studying for the bar? Sucks.Totally sucks.

Without A Net

Posted on June 10, 2008
1. I graduated! See shiny new title above.2. I just quit the firm. 3 months before I even started. I still think it's a great place and would still be there in a minute, but I was seduced away from my legal career before it even began by some crafty financial services wizards, who used the cunning technique of getting my best friends from college to recruit me...

Astronauts and Marriage

Posted on June 05, 2008
All oxygen tanks and massive bespoke shoes.

Literacy

Posted on May 29, 2008
Dang. I have read, like, no books ever.

Arrogance

Posted on May 22, 2008
I don't bring my laptop to Bar/Bri class, because this is my first an only opportunity to learn many important points of legal doctrine. Like, say, what exactly is a "tort." Not everyone takes things so seriously. Today, a student a few rows in front of me was confident enough in his mastery of the Duty of Care that he spent the lecture playing Doom on his laptop.

Cloud Pedant

Posted on May 19, 2008
Real graffiti from SFist:

The Giant Pool Of Money

Posted on May 12, 2008
This American Life, of all places, has a great story about the housing crisis and credit crunch that breaks it down more clearly and thoroughly than I've seen anywhere else.

Ganstagrass

Posted on May 11, 2008
Their severs are crawling under the load from Boing Boing, but I can't really complain since that's how I found them too. Head over to Ganstagrass.com, where the self-titled hip-hop-slash-bluegrass album is available for free download. A few seconds into the first track and you'll know ? these guys are doing something right.

Batman and Iron Man

Posted on May 06, 2008
It's Movie Tuesday!

Elizabeth Warron on the Collapse of the Middle Class

Posted on May 06, 2008
I'm a little disappointed I went through my time here wihthout having the opportunity to take a class form Warren. I can only take some solace from knowing that I have been able to meet her dog Otis, and he's awesome.

Michael Pollan at Google

Posted on May 06, 2008
The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food at the Mountain View campus:

One Sentence Movie Review: Iron Man

Posted on May 05, 2008
Iron Man is the best superhero movie ever made, except for The Incredibles.

The End

Posted on May 04, 2008
And just like that, it's over. I'm done with law school!

And Then There Was One

Posted on May 04, 2008
In eight hours and four minutes, I will be done with law school. Bring it on, Terry.

Photo Outrage: Ur Doin It Rong

Posted on May 01, 2008
The Daily Show tells me that everyone's all upset that the popular star of a Disney kids' show posed for sexy pictures in a magazine, and she's only 14. I agree that the pictures are gross. But not because of her bare shoulder. They're gross because she looks like The Joker:

I Have A Problem

Posted on April 22, 2008
Everyone else has more serious things to worry about, but with my semester all but over (five pages to write for Thursday, and then only one exam) I have been apartment hunting on Craigslist somewhat ... obsessively. I made bookmarks of the two neighborhood searches I run so that I can do one-click refreshes, which has me checking for new listsings, judging from my browser history, literally every five minutes...

Cheeseburger Symphony

Posted on April 07, 2008
I'm writing papers tonight, and to help me focus I've got Pandora going in the background, playing a station keyed around Mozart. I just tabbed through the window a minute ago, and the entire screen is taken over by a large, full-color ad that has become the dashboard for my internet radio station...

Unrestricted Interrogation of Minors Not Yet Shown to Have Engaged in Culpable Behaviors

Posted on April 01, 2008
Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule have posted Unrestricted Interrogation of Minors Not Yet Shown to Have Engaged in Culpapble Behaviors on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Relatively unsophisticated analysis of the problem of unrestricted interrogation of minors who have not been demonstrated to have engaged in culpable behaviors often begins with the assumption that such potentially harsh interrogation would violate a deontic obligaton...

Spring?

Posted on April 01, 2008
My weather report says today's high in Boston is a balmy 64 degrees.Naturally, I suspect a trap.

From His Bracket to God's Ears

Posted on March 21, 2008
Obama picks Stanford to beat Pitt and make the Final Four

Cross-Registration Thought of the Day

Posted on March 18, 2008
Writing a business plan is WAY less fun than writing an motion for summary judgment.

John McCain Has An Extra Gallon of Windshield Washer Fluid If You Need It

Posted on March 15, 2008
johnmccainisyourjalopy.com

Kenneth Mack Facts

Posted on February 21, 2008
This will only be funny to Section 6, or at least someone who's taken Property from Mack. But if that's you, it will be really funny.

Sunstein to HLS

Posted on February 21, 2008
Cass Sunstein, who taught me administrative law when he was visiting last year, has accepted a permanent position at Harvard.I've already written how despite my early skepticism, everyone should take administrative law. Still, a fair warning: I know at least two classmates who went straight to the "recommended prerequisites" box on the course evaluations forms for Sunstein's class and wrote in "Admin...

Football Textualism

Posted on February 05, 2008
BUCK: There?s a call that won?t make Giants fans very happy.AIKMAN: No, but the rule clearly states that the player must be completely off the field before the ball was snapped, and it?s also pretty clear that Blackburn was just short. It?s a tough break for the Giants, but still, it was the right call...

Giants 17, Patriots 14

Posted on February 03, 2008
This look won't leave my face:

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