Criminal Law

Key Role of Law Student - Faculty Interaction
"Engaging Legal Education: Moving Beyond the Status Quo," the 2006 report on the Law School Survey of Student Engagement is available on the LSSSE website. Among the report's findings: student-faculty interaction (including discussing ideas outside of class and getting prompt...

A slip
Sensibly Progressive takes on a grad student, publishing in the Yale campus newspaper. The grad student begins by demonstrating that crime rates rose after Connecticut went to "shall issue" CCW in 1969...

Man gets out of jail with one-word blog
Interesting story from CNN: "With a one-word cell phone message, James Karl Buck, a University of California-Berkeley grad student, told friends of his arrest. Within seconds, colleagues in the U...

Grad student's tubas stolen days before final recital
Awfully sad story from KSHB about a UMKC grad student who's lost two expensive tubas from his car. Which is a huge problem because he's (A) pursuing a master's in tuba performance and (B) days away from his final recital...

JoAnne A. Epps named dean of Temples Beasley School of Law
Read the official announcement here. Below is an excerpt: … As associate dean of academic affairs at Temple Law since 1989, Epps has served as the primary liaison between the dean and the law faculty; overseen student administrative operations, from admissions to career planning; and assisted the dean in faculty personnel decisions, fundraising and alumni relations...

LIS School Visits
I love doing visits to LIS schools and talking to students and profs. I've had the good luck to do three student groups in the past few weeks. McGill School of Information Studies in Montreal: Reality 2...

Cell Phone Early Termination Fees
How to recover billing errors

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

DC Madame Phone List
Telephone Records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Escort Service (Pamela Martin and Associates)

F-1 Visas
Visas for Foreign Students

New Study Links Cell Phone Radiation to Increased Health Risks
Cell Phone Radiation Is Your Phone Toxic?

Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students
Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students

Verizon Settles Cell Phone Billing Class Action for $90 Million
Verizon Settles Cell Phone Class Action for $90 Million

Princeton Review
Sarasota Student Data Breach Prompts Class Action

Cell Phone Use
Can Increase Risk of Brain Cancer 5 Times

AT&T Mobility, Nokia
accused of selling a used cell phone as new