Legal Commentary

Friday Poem: "Thoughts After Snyder's Poem"
Thoughts After Snyder's Poem What you should know The poet said To be a poet To which I add a word: Know who you are are not Where your darkness starts Words' weight in drams and scruples What other poets...

I am meth. Poem by unknown author.
The following poem is rumored to have been authored by a teenage meth addict who died with the needle still in her arm. While I don’t believe that, the message is all too true...

And Then I Carried You… Into Court.
Fun article in the Washington Post about a copyright dispute over the banal “Footprints in the Sand” poem that’s a favorite of poster stores and greeting cards everywhere...

The Poetry of Presidential Abuse: The D.C. Circuit Rules Against the President With Snarky Poem
For years, many have cited international and domestic law to show that President Bush has committed grave crimes in office. Now, the Court of Appeals has enlisted Lewis Carroll and his poem “The Hunting of the Snark” to bring home the point in it ruling against the Administration in the case of a [...

Its a Dog
Movie ReviewBeowulf- Why did they do the stupid half animation. I love the poem with its archaic old english, but the animation makes it look cartoony. The dragon is overdone and straight out of fiction, in the poem it sounds like it might be some lizard looking beast...

In my Law, Literature and Medicine class, the poem "Gaudeamus Igitur" by John Stone -- eminent cardiologist and medical educator and poet-essayist par excellence -- is always a hit (you can listen to an NPR story that includes a snippet of the poem)...