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AFancyShingle	22 Jan 2013 - 18:08	IanSullivan
This thread has been really interesting and helpful to me. Thanks to everyone who contributed. I thought I would sum up some of our major points for other people who ...

AFewArticlesThatMightBeOfInterest	01 Apr 2015 - 01:30	AbdallahSalam
I recently read the below articles that have reminded me of our class discussions, and I thought I would share them in case someone else finds them interesting as ...

AFormerStudentsRetrospective	21 Nov 2020 - 03:02	JoeBruner
A Retrospective On A Time in Law School, Now That There Is a Pandemic By JoeBruner 20 Nov 2020 Me, Four Years Ago Four years ago, I was a 1L at Columbia Law ...

AListOfInterestingLinks	13 Jan 2012 - 21:58	IanSullivan
Readings That Remind Us of Class This topic seems to have taken off a little, which is nice. I'm thinking that in the interest of usability, it might be worthwhile ...

AModernCaptainJohnBrown	22 Jan 2013 - 18:08	IanSullivan
A Modern Captain John Brown I recently read a BBC News article titled, "Argentina's people traffickers." It describes the efforts of one brave woman trying to find ...

ANoteOnCohenAndHobbes	11 Jan 2010 - 16:54	IanSullivan
In the spirit of some concerns posted on the discussion under the rubric of free speech, I would like to turn some ears over to Cohen's conception of the 'state,' ...

APPLvsApple	13 Jan 2012 - 21:58	IanSullivan
This is not meant to incite another tech debate, or to attack mac users (I don't think anybody has time for that nowadays). A friend of mine (who used to ridicule ...

AaronShepardFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:34	IanSullivan
I have put the new paper here, with the original masterpiece below. The original draft and my comments on it are preserved as the prior version, so they don't ...

AaronShepardIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:13	IanSullivan
AaronShepard 14 Jan 2009 I suppose I am here because law school presents the traditional path to the careers I have considered. I can relate to this. The Oliver Wendell ...

AaronShepardSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
This a revision of Anja Havedal First Paper . Hopefully I didn't mess up the formatting. Ambition for Ambition's Sake AaronShepard 17 Apr 2009 Building ...

AaronShepardSecondPaperAttempt	14 Jan 2015 - 22:03	IanSullivan
UchennaIbekwe 20 Apr 2009 On the Grade Reform Debate By AaronShepard 04 Mar 2009 Would changing the grade curve reduce stress, and increase communal willingness ...

AaronShepardThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Diverse Concepts of Diversity By AaronShepard 15 May 2009 Inspiration Racism is one response for why diversity policies exist. I must remind you again ...

AbbePetuchowskiFirstEssay	22 May 2021 - 17:03	EbenMoglen
Community led Educational Reform By AbbePetuchowski 18 May 2021 New programs, same issues The educational arena is saturated with organizations and think tanks ...

AbbePetuchowskiSecondEssay	22 May 2021 - 17:38	EbenMoglen
Reforming Maryland #8217;s Infancy Doctrine By AbbePetuchowski 18 May 2021 It doesn #8217;t take a psychologist to recognize that children think and behave differently ...

AbbyCosterFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Scale versus Ruler: Achieving Greater Justice through Malleable Legal Standards By AbbyCoster 15 Feb 2012 "Nature versus nurture" was coined by Francis Galton ...

AbbyCosterIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction By AbbyCoster 18 Jan 2012 I'm Abby, a Dutch Irish Polish English kid from Virginia. I really like tennis, live music, crossword puzzles ...

AbbyCosterSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Courage By AbbyCoster 09 May 2012 There #8217;s nothing he loves more than motors. Any kind, really. Cars, planes, my Dad #8217;s rusty John Deere. When he was ...

AbdallahSalamIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:01	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction Men with guns, men with money, and men with ideology are the ones who wield power in Lebanon. Disillusioned with my country, I chose to pursue ...

AbielGarciaFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Hey! Get Off My Copyright! By AbielGarcia 25 Feb 2010 All That Hard Work, Need To Get Paid. I remember the first day I downloaded a song from Napster. It was ...

AbielGarciaIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
Law school to me was just another way to put off the inevitable of becoming an adult. My senior year coming to a close, I realized I was going to have to face the ...

AbielGarciaSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Abiel, I edited your paper and added my comments in blue. Let me know if you have any questions. Two Party Playlets and Risk Profiles By AbielGarcia 14 Apr 2010 ...

AbiolaFasehunFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Unearthing Myths about Urban Education, Unveiling The Power of the Family By AbiolaFasehun 13 June 2012 Introduction There is a myth surrounding urban education ...

AbiolaFasehunIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I began working with children when I was still a child. I've spent my life trying to improve the opportunities available to economically disadvantaged youth through ...

AbiolaFasehunSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Escaping the Noise Through Self Examination By AbiolaFasehun 28 May 2012 Introduction In college I created a community project to address an issue that I witnessed ...

AdamCarlis-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:40	IanSullivan
Combating Obama's Creed By AdamCarlis 4 April 2008 Introduction This season's Democratic primary showcased two gifted politicians, providing insight into how ...

AdamCarlis-SecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:53	IanSullivan
Teaching Lawyers Introduction Columbia is blessed with committed faculty, yet cursed by dreadful instruction. As a former teacher and trainer of teachers, I am confident ...

AdamCarlisIntro	21 Jan 2009 - 22:53	IanSullivan
I see the courtroom as a place where folks who usually lose can win. Whether it means banding together to create justice (class actions, mass torts, etc.) or standing ...

AdamGold-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:40	IanSullivan
Romney's Plan for 2012? By AdamGold 12 Feb 2008 I. Romney's Approach for dropping out in 2008 Mitt Romney, exemplifying Arnold #8217;s idea that politics uses ...

AdamGold-SecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:53	IanSullivan
AdamGold 03 Apr 2008 The Intangible Losses of the Move to Online Music Acquisition There is no doubt that online music purchasing or sharing sites, such as iTunes ...

AdamGoldIntro	21 Jan 2009 - 22:56	IanSullivan
AdamGold 18 Jan 2008 Law school seemed to make sense. I have always been interested in reading and writing, and to quote my Civ Pro TA from last semester, #8220 ...

AddisonCoxFirstEssay	20 Apr 2025 - 18:09	EbenMoglen
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

AdinaStohlIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is Adina Stohl and I am a daughter, sister, wife, and aunt. My community defines me and I, in turn, define it. My character does not exist in a vacuum; rather ...

AdmittedStudentSalesDay	07 Jan 2010 - 21:34	IanSullivan
Note: I have refactored this conversation and started a new topic on choosing CLS over a public state school here. KeithEdelman 30 Mar 2009 For a documentation ...

AdmittedStudentsOurDecisions	07 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Our Experiences at Admitted Students Day This topic is meant to be a documentation of what we experienced at our admitted students day, how we made our decisions to ...

AdrianHernandezFirstEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 12:46	JustineHong
Lost in Translation By AdrianHernandez 05 Jun 2022 I remember the first time I saw legalese was when I read the word #8220;lien #8221; on a letter my dad received ...

AdrianHernandezIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 23:54	AdrianHernandez
Personal Introduction By AdrianHernandez 17 Jan 2022 I came to law school because no one in my community has. Growing up with stories of workplace discrimination ...

AdrianHernandezSecondEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 04:39	AdrianHernandez
You Get Out What You Put In, According to the Court By AdrianHernandez 05 Jun 2022 The difference in what it means to be a citizen in Puerto Rico, Texas, Wyoming ...

AdrianNtwatwaFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
I have wanted to be a lawyer for a long time. The story of how I came to that realization is a cute one: Harry Potter features prominently, my mother is another main ...

AdrianNtwatwaIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda. I moved to the United States in 2006, and somewhere along the road I decided to become a lawyer. Part of it was just my mother ...

AdrianaHongIntro	15 Jan 2022 - 20:37	AdrianaHong
Personal Introduction By AdrianaHong 15 Jan 2022 I grew up in New Jersey, and studied accounting as my undergraduate major. I came to law school because I didn ...

AerinMillerFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Overlapping Local Law: Muslim Immigration and the European Legal System By AerinMiller 25 Feb 2010 I. Introduction There is a demographic revolution taking place ...

AerinMillerIntroduction	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I worked at a company in which the most savvy, levelheaded employees were the lawyers. I learned quickly that it was possible to do my job, as it was possible for ...

AerinMillerSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Below is an amended draft which has incorporated some of Brook #8217;s considerations (included in his own redraft, below). Just Desserts: Intimate Homicide and ...

AffordableCareAct	22 Jan 2013 - 18:08	IanSullivan
Discussion of statutes begins always with the statutory language. Much water has been flowed under the bridge below before Arlene even mentions the statutory ...

AfiaKwakwaFirstEssay	27 Apr 2018 - 01:25	AfiaKwakwa
Conflicting Justice By AfiaKwakwa 01 Mar 2018 I. The Incident I was in the middle of my first year of teaching when I heard that one of my students was found ...

AgnesPetrucioneIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I have an infatuation with New York City that has not abated after over 7 years of living here. I love it in a way I never loved my hometown in Japan, where for 18 ...

AhBartleby	07 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
first paragraph here seems pretty uncharitable to the narrator. If he'd exercised legal authority early on to expel Bartleby, he'd be accused of heartlessness. Trying ...

AhmedImamFirstEssay	29 Feb 2020 - 02:27	AhmedImam
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

AilsaChauFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Paper Title A better title could be found, perhaps.... By AilsaChau Introduction I am currently a law student. I am going to become a lawyer. But ...

AilsaChauIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction By AilsaChau 29 Jan 2013 I was a typical undergraduate student prior to coming to law school. At my alma mater, the University of Toronto ...

AimeePachecoFirstEssay	05 Jun 2022 - 01:52	AimeePacheco
Undocumented Students Still Barred From Higher Education By AimeePacheco 24 May 2022 Problem In 2022, undocumented students are still barred from higher education ...

AimeePachecoIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 03:35	AimeePacheco
Personal Introduction By AimeePacheco 18 Jan 2022 Pronouns: she/her. Born and raised in Georgia, I'm the proud daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala ...

AimeePachecoSecondEssay	05 Jun 2022 - 20:12	AimeePacheco
Planning My Practice By AimeePacheco 5 June 2022 The Founding #8220;Who? #8221;, #8220;What? #8221;, #8220;When? #8221;, #8220;Where? #8221; My Positionality ...

AimingAtAimfulness	21 Nov 2020 - 04:50	GregOrr
I agree with Prof. Moglen that defining aims would help narrow our focus to manageable problems. I'll tentatively propose that one should reconcile three kinds of ...

AjGarciaFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Gay Marriage: Self herding Towards Heteronormative Sociability By AjGarcia 15 Feb 2012 Introduction Gay marriage has become the defining issue for the queer community ...

AjGarciaIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I'm AJ I go by AJ because I dislike people calling me by the anglicized pronunciation of my first name, Aarón. Growing up in the southernmost city of Texas along ...

AjGarciaSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Wasting an Opportunity: The Distraction of Results Driven Cultures in Charter Schools By AjGarcia 02 May 2012 Introduction Charter schools are no tuition primary ...

AjKhandakerFirstPaper	13 Apr 2014 - 11:39	AjKhandaker

AjKhandakerSecondPaper	13 Apr 2014 - 11:39	AjKhandaker

AjaySainiFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Lawyer's Craft By AjaySaini 26 Feb 2010 Introduction While working in India, I came to the belief that the needs of every Indian could be met by legislation ...

AjaySainiIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
My name is Ajay Saini and I have an uncontrollable emotional predilection for stability. This is, of course, problematic in a world consistent only in its instability ...

AjaySainiSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Provocation by Shame By AjaySaini 17 Apr 2010 The availability of a provocation defense to lower the degree of homicide from murder to voluntary manslaughter ...

AjeeRobinsonFirstEssay	30 Mar 2024 - 13:51	EbenMoglen
My Success Has Never Been My Own By AjeeRobinson 23 Feb 2024 During my senior year of undergrad, the Sociology department hosted a farewell celebration for graduating ...

AjeeRobinsonSecondEssay	04 Jun 2024 - 12:40	AjeeRobinson
My Success Has Never Been My Own By AjeeRobinson 23 Apr 2024 At the end of my senior year, the Sociology department hosted a celebration for graduating seniors ...

AlejandraCastanedaFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 22:23	AlejandraCastaneda
I got a banner ad for Monster.com today. Limited time offer $125 per month Stater Value. By AlejandraCastaneda 28 Feb 2020 My mom grew up in a small pueblo ...

AlessiaSaracinoFendiJournal	20 Apr 2020 - 20:27	AlessiaSaracinoFendi
AlessiaSaracinoFendi's Journal I am currently in the office hours for today. Although i find it a very interactive and interesting platform, I have found it difficult ...

AlexAsenFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Government Levied Fines Should Be Earmarked to Foreign Aid By AlexAsen 23 Feb 2010 Intro "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor ...

AlexAsenIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I am in law school because I hope when a lot of smart people are put in the same place, interesting ideas will emerge. I hope one of those interesting ideas will ...

AlexAsenSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Thinking About Soccer and Ultimate Frisbee Like a Lawyer By Alex Asen 17 April 2010 Hi Alex. I apologize for not getting this done sooner, but my computer died ...

AlexBuonocoreFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
In class, we frequently discussed the idea of the modern lawyer #8217;s social responsibility. Relevantly, the New York Times reported on May 1st that, starting next ...

AlexBuonocoreSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
The Malleability of the Criminal Law Regina v. Dudley Stephens suggests the malleability of the criminal law because non legal considerations may have influenced ...

AlexHeyckeFirstEssay	02 Jun 2024 - 10:44	AlexHeycke
Should I return to Law School in the Fall? The Allure of a Predictable Path I decided to go to law school in my junior year of college, recognizing that it would ...

AlexHeyckeSecondEssay	02 Jun 2024 - 03:03	AlexHeycke
The Quarles Public Safety Exception, its Impact, and Prosecutorial Bias By AlexHeycke 23 Apr 2024 New York v. Quarles and the Public Safety Exception In York ...

AlexHuFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:34	IanSullivan
When Ignorance Is Blameworthy By AlexHu 14 Apr 2009 This paper was revised as part of the second paper assignment Why is the layman ignorant of the law? The layman ...

AlexHuIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:13	IanSullivan
AlexHu 15 Jan 2009 I came to law school for a few reasons. Firstly, I enjoy thinking about the origins of law. Laypeople typically respond to a "law" based on their ...

AlexHuSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
The Institution of Monogamous Marriage and Alternatives Original Work by YinanZhang 26 Feb 2009, Edited by AlexHu 15 Apr 2009 Introduction The institution of ...

AlexHuThirdPaper	07 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
A New Standard of Admissions for Law Schools By AlexHu 19 May 2009 Law school admissions are a joke Everyone knows the joke: two numbers measure one #8217;s law ...

AlexKonikFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Drug Prisoner #8217;s Dilemma By AlexKonik 02 Jun 2012 The Prisoner #8217;s Dilemma illustrates both the great potential and likely pitfall of some collective ...

AlexKonikIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I am interested in restricting governmental power, starting with the over criminalization of acceptable human behavior. law comes at the price ...

AlexKonikSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Defaulting Into Education By AlexKonik 03 Jun 2012 America is captured by a creed that education is your ticket up. Investment in education, no matter the school ...

AlexLawrence-SecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:53	IanSullivan
More than any other form of art, architecture requires cash. Especially at the level of large urban architecture, no architect has the means to build for themselves ...

AlexLawrenceIntro	21 Jan 2009 - 22:54	IanSullivan
AlexLawrence 21 Jan 2008 I came to law school this year because I was at loose ends, and I still don't know what I want to do after law school. I came here with ...

AlexNnabueFirstEssay	07 Jun 2023 - 19:19	AlexNnabue
As a law student, it can be daunting to navigate the legal profession when faced with the harsh realities of life at a big law firm that include long work weeks, feeling ...

AlexUballezIntro	15 Jan 2009 - 16:09	AlexanderUballez
AlexanderUballez 15 Jan 2009 I came to law school to secure power, influence and respect. I came for my family, for my friends, for my unborn children. I came because ...

AlexWangFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Legal Standards By AlexWang 15 Feb 2012 Justice has never been objective, but we have the pleasing image of it as an immutable Platonic form because we have a ...

AlexWangIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
"Jade cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials" is a Chinese proverb that I enjoy, but I'm not sure it says anything about me. Maybe ...

AlexWangSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Digital Expression and Exclusionary Rights By AlexWang 25 Apr 2012 In thinking about digital expression as intellectual #8220;property, #8221; I think there are ...

AlexWeissIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:02	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By AlexWeiss 30 Jan 2015 I want to live a life that's enjoyable. To that end, I want to have a career that I'm passionate about, in which ...

AlexaShyamaFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 12:16	EbenMoglen
Should We Be Calling Trump a Fascist? By AlexaShyama 20 Feb 2025 The Wikipedia definition of a fascist leader is of a far right, dictatorial and ultra nationalist ...

AlexanderBernsteinFirstEssay	26 May 2017 - 22:48	AlexanderBernstein
The Whim of a Judge By AlexanderBernstein 10 Mar 2017 One summer a hundred years ago, some boys went swimming in the Harlem River. They were diving off of a wooden ...

AlexanderBernsteinSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 07:18	AlexanderBernstein
Reflections By Alexander Bernstein 08 Jun 2017 C.S. Lewis said that everything is a subject on which there is not much to be said. This is essentially how I feel ...

AlexanderHohlFirstEssay	16 Apr 2021 - 05:16	AlexanderHohl
The Black white Wealth Gap: The Case For Reparations By AlexanderHohl 26 Feb 2021 The Origins of Reparations The idea of reparations is not new. In 1783, Sutton ...

AlexanderUballezFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:34	IanSullivan
There was no need to maintain the prior draft of your essay on this page, because it is stored in its original form as versions 1 and 2 of this document. I removed ...

AlexanderUballezIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:13	IanSullivan

AlexanderUballezSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
"Slaves ourselves, it would be a mere pretension to think of freeing others." Gandhi Originally by Sehgal 27 Feb 2009 Rishi Valley School While in India, I had ...

AlexanderUballezThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Final Thoughts By AlexanderUballez 23 May 2009 End of the line? While we can write about anything, I have the urge to respond to the larger themes of our discussions ...

AlexandraRexFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
What is Catholic? By AlexandraRex 16 Feb 2012 When I was seven I was dismissed from my weekly Catechism class for questioning the teacher's description of purgatory ...

AlexandraRexIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I came to law school because I find the economics of medical inventions and patents intriguing, especially because medical inventions are presumably ...

AlexandraRexSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Individualized Dualism By AlexandraRex 12 May 2012 Levels of Inherent Discord Bruce Ackerman #8217;s #8220;democracy #8221; theory attempts to define and cohere ...

AlexandreaChimaIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 02:45	AlexandreaChima
Personal Introduction By AlexandreaChima 18 Jan 2022 Hi Everyone! My name is Alexandrea Uche Chima and I am a 1L from Los Angeles, California. I graduated from ...

AlexandriaSchumacherSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Introduction "Skin color remains a vital part of private, perhaps subconscious, classification by citizens and public officials alike . . . it is deeply implicated ...

AlfianKuchitIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:13	IanSullivan
AlfianKuchit 18 Jan 2009 My grandparents migrated from Dutch Batavia in the early 20th century to Singapore which was then under the control of the British Colonial ...

AlfianKuchitSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
China #8217;s Hand in Africa By UchennaIbekwe 27 Feb 2009 (Edited by Alfian Kuchit) Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities ...

AlfianKuchitThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Introduction Eben Moglen is the only law professor I #8217;ve met who assigned reading an obituary for his class. The obituary was that of Stallings, a mathematician ...

AliAbidFirstEssay	09 Jun 2024 - 10:18	AliAbid
From Cricket to Politics By AliAbid 23 Feb 2024 (revised 08 Jun 2024) Thousands of people from South Asia are currently flooding into the streets of New York for ...

AliAbidSecondEssay	15 Jun 2024 - 08:25	EbenMoglen
Reducing the High Stakes of Online Sports Gambling The 2018 Supreme Court decision in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association facilitated the rapid rise ...

AliJimenezFirstEssay	19 May 2021 - 04:29	AliJimenez
The Path to Disabilities Rights Advocacy By AliJimenez 18 May 2021 Foreword Before law school, I spent four years teaching 6th grade math. Over the years teaching ...

AliceHendersonFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach: What the Law Did to Japanese Americans During WWII By AliceHenderson 16 Feb 2012 A Personal History On February ...

AliceHendersonIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction By AliceHenderson 19 Jan 2012 I #8217;m here because I grew up picturing my future self working in politics, fighting for social justice ...

AliceHendersonSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Harnessing the Power of Sleepwalking By AliceHenderson 14 May 2012 The Sociality of Bees Early in the semester, we touched on a biological similarity that humans ...

AlisonMoeFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
re write below original Offerors Have no Pure Incentives for Making Unilateral Offers By AlisonMoe 25 Feb 2010 Offerors Have no Pure Incentives for Making Unilateral ...

AlisonMoeIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I am fascinated by language and ideas in a way that is completely divorced from anything concrete and practical. I came to law school because, as an English and Philosophy ...

AlisonMoeSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Circuit Split: Why Federal Courts Should Allow Sentencing Entrapment Defenses, and Exclude Sentencing Manipulation Defenses . Circuits are currently split as to whether ...

AllGreatProblemsComeFromTheStreetsOrTheLaw	22 Jan 2013 - 18:08	IanSullivan
Judge Day tells us that justice on the streets is getting what you deserve: #8220; #8230;all great problems come from the streets. Do you know what the definition ...

AllInThisTogether	17 Apr 2010 - 19:05	NonaFarahnik
of Housing Crisis on an Arizona Street , New York Times, March 23, 2010 I saw this in the paper today and thought it was pertinent to bring up, especially since Eben ...

AllieSFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
#8220;To Be a Lawyer in My Own Estimation is the Key to Happiness #8221; I Want to be a Happy Lawyer Aristotle said, #8220;Happiness is the meaning and the purpose ...

AllisonHoustonFirstEssay	29 Jun 2018 - 05:05	AllisonHouston
My Fear of An Unlived Life By AllisonHouston 29 June 2018 Sometimes I feel strange and out of place being enrolled as a law student because I have no intention ...

AllisonHoustonSecondEssay	29 Jun 2018 - 05:03	AllisonHouston
A Settled Conflict: Why Law School Is the Choice for Me By AllisonHouston 29 June 2018 Oftentimes doubts concerning my law school enrollment lead me to speculate ...

AllisonMcCartyFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
By AllisonMcCarty 16 Feb 2012 A few Sundays ago, I went to Mass, willingly, for the first time in about fifteen years. The circumstances that gave rise to this ...

AllisonMcCartyIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is Allison. I'm from the Pacific Northwest, a place I love a lot and plan to move back to someday. I studied literature and theater in college; now I read ...

AllisonMcCartySecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
An Albino, a Deaf Guy, and a White Girl Walk Into a Chinese Job Fair #8230; By AllisonMcCarty 20 Jun 2012 The other day I followed two of my colleagues, at a careful ...

AmandaBellFirstPaper	31 May 2017 - 01:54	TyCarleton
Who Wants to Chase an Eighteen Wheeler for a Year? By AmandaBell 23 Mar 2010 All labor strikes are difficult in some way. However, American unions sometimes do ...

AmandaBellIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
Before law school, I worked for nine years as a union organizer in Connecticut, Oregon, New York City, Washington DC, the Central Valley of California, North Carolina ...

AmandaBellSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Practice Pickets: solving the problem of no strike clauses before contract expiration The Problem of Fear In 2005, I was an organizer helping union members at a ...

AmandaCabalFirstEssay	25 Feb 2020 - 01:02	AmandaCabal
Being Creative In Law School: Disengaging From Self Deception By AmandaCabal 25 Feb 2020 The Law Student's Creed Every student who comes to Columbia Law School ...

AmandaHungerford-FirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Ready for grading From the Classroom to the Firm By AmandaHungerford 11 Feb 2008 Introduction Nine months after graduating from CLS, of students are employed ...

AmandaHungerford-SecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:54	IanSullivan
Ready for grading Conspicuous Consumption and the Environmental Movement Premise: if we accept, for argument #8217;s sake, that Veblen #8217;s thesis in The Theory ...

AmandaHungerfordIntro	21 Jan 2009 - 22:54	IanSullivan
I was a sociology major in college, which made me want to be a revolutionary. But as I approached graduation, I looked around and realized that not very many jobs ...

AmandaRichardson-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:40	IanSullivan
The Constitution as a Symbol By AmandaRichardson 12 Feb 2008 Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire The Constitution in Suburbia ...

AmandaRichardsonIntro	21 Jan 2009 - 22:54	IanSullivan
I #8217;m interested in public policy in education and human rights, and law school, for me, was a way of exploring the underlying legal framework of those policies ...

AmandaRichardsonSecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:55	IanSullivan
The End of 1L Year By AmandaRichardson 04 Apr 2008 #8220;Whether he be original or plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself. #8230; To be free means to be ...

AmericanSocialism	13 Jan 2012 - 21:59	IanSullivan
American capitalism is a charade. If a years worth of bail outs has not convinced you of that fact, I do not know what will. But, perhaps programs like Social Security ...

AminaStoneTaylorIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 23:41	AminaStoneTaylor
Personal Introduction By AminaStoneTaylor 17 Jan 2022 I graduated from CUNY Brooklyn College where I majored in philosophy. My favorite philosophy classes focused ...

AmithavReddyFirstEssay	20 Apr 2025 - 21:31	EbenMoglen
Challenging Conformity By AmithavReddy 19 Feb 2025 Ever since I was a child, I have experienced a tug of war between assimilating to the society around me and ...

AmmarMonawarFirstEssay	12 Apr 2018 - 16:39	AmmarMonawar
Users all over the world currently consume music through intermediaries; whether you stream or purchase the music, you #8217;re interfacing with a third party such ...

AmmarMonawarSecondEssay	22 Jun 2018 - 18:21	AmmarMonawar
During our first year of law school, all we received was exposure; the planting of these vague notions of what an area of law COULD be should we choose to pursue it ...

AnaCorrea-FirstPaper	31 May 2017 - 01:54	TyCarleton
The Impact of New Media on Presidential Campaigns By AnaCorrea 12 Feb 2008 "Ha Ha! Your medium is dying!" Nelson, mocking a print journalist on The Simpsons ...

AnaCorrea-SecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:55	IanSullivan
Is Beauty in the Eye of the Fee Holder? By AnaCorrea 28 Mar 2008 Introduction I want to examine the tension between owner's rights and artist's rights where ...

AnaCorreaIntro	21 Jan 2009 - 22:55	IanSullivan
When I was younger, I changed my career objectives monthly or so. In the tenth grade, the law finally won out. At that age, I had the idealistic impression that obtaining ...

AnaVarelaFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
The Future? By AnaVarela 25 Feb 2013 What does it look like? The problems of the current system are myriad, and we have heard them enough in class and seen ...

AnaVarelaIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
My name is Ana Carolina Varela, but you can call me Caro. I was born and raised in Miami, FL. The likelihood that I would become a lawyer was apparent to virtually ...

AnatoleFrance	17 Apr 2010 - 19:05	NonaFarahnik
NonaFarahnik 05 Feb 2010 A few years ago, I read an Anatole France quote that challenged me: "La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre ...

AncientEstate	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
XinpingZhu 23 Feb 2009 read from http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009 02/04/content 7445706.htm Man, 99 years old, on trial for swindling (Agencies) Updated: 2009 ...

AndreaMetzFirstEssay	02 Jun 2017 - 02:20	AndreaMetz
Essay #1 By AndreaMetz 1 June 2017 Lisa In the mornings, my mother #8217;s room smelled like Calvin Klein perfume, lotion, and hairspray. The scents swirled ...

AndreaRuedasFirstEssay	15 Jul 2024 - 15:30	EbenMoglen
A Brief History and Impact of the Feminist Sex Wars (Revised) By AndreaRuedas 12 July 2024 Introduction In the 1960s, sex and violence emerged as popular subjects ...

AndreaRuedasSecondEssay	15 Jun 2024 - 06:12	AndreaRuedas
The Irony of Crip Theory and the Academy #8217;s Inaccessibility By AndreaRuedas 14 June 2024 In #8220;Coming Out Crip: Malibu is Burning #8221;, John !McRuer ...

AndresAguilarFirstEssay	21 Feb 2023 - 18:35	AndresAguilar
Law and the Education System It seems that in today #8217;s modern society, education, specifically public education, has become more controversial than ever. The ...

AndresAguilarPaper1SecondDraft	20 May 2023 - 01:01	AndresAguilar
AndresAguilar 20 May 2023 Law and the Education System It seems that in today #8217;s modern society, education, specifically public education, has become more controversial ...

AndresAguilarSecondEssay	22 Apr 2023 - 12:14	EbenMoglen
Finding My Own Path Growing up, I have always felt like the path to my future was laid out before me. It seemed like I was always destined to continue to go to school ...

AndresAguilarSecondPaperDraft2	20 May 2023 - 23:10	MichaelPari
AndresAguilar 20 May 2023 Finding My Own Path Growing up, I have always felt like the path to my future was laid out before me. It seemed like I was always destined ...

AndresOFarrellFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

AndresOFarrellSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
Communication and Technology By MichaelPanfil 27 Feb 2009 Edited by Andres O'Farrell Individuals are, at least in part, a product of their environment. This ...

AndresOFarrellThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
The eternal dilemma of the graduating LL.M. 1. Commencement is finally here. Caps and gowns have been picked up; most of my grades are already in; friends and relatives ...

AndrewCasciniFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
A Distinction Without a Substance: The Market Participation Exception By AndrewCascini 24 Feb 2010 A Distinction is Made... The Commerce Power and the Dormant ...

AndrewCasciniIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
My name is Andrew. I enjoy football. I study paleontology as a hobby my favorite ancient animal is the labyrinthodont. It's a big amphibian. I wanted to work in ...

AndrewCasciniSPersonalStatement	15 Apr 2010 - 21:53	AndrewCascini
Here it is. Just like I handed it in. As a history major, I read narratives differently than most students. Unlike other disciplines emphasizing narrative analysis ...

AndrewCasciniSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Andrew, nice essay. The thought process that you describe is one that most law students can relate to, though probably only subconsciously. Incorporate whatever ...

AndrewCaseFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
The Justice Con By AndrewCase 26 Feb 2009 I. The Question Is money at the heart of every con, or can the machinery of the con be used elsewhere? Can the mark ...

AndrewCaseINtro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:13	IanSullivan
In the fifteen years since I graduated from college, I have been a teacher, a government spokesman, and a police misconduct investigator, but mostly I have written ...

AndrewCaseSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:03	IanSullivan
(as I wrote in my comments to the comments on my first pass at this, I think the error of writing a response rather than revising was more grievous than whatever faults ...

AndrewCaseThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Collaboration in Theatre and the Law In law school, we may be told that lawyers succeed when they collaborate, but we are not taught to work together. At the risk ...

AndrewGradman-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:39	IanSullivan
revision 3 was the last submitted before the deadline; I edit for clarity / pride in my work / classmates' benefit "How a functionalist farce became a modern morality ...

AndrewGradman-HelpAnonymizeMyThirdPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
Whoops. Does anyone know how to delete a thread? AndrewGradman 28 Mar 2008 As currently set up, page deletion requires membership in the Admin group. Which page ...

AndrewGradman-SecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
READY FOR GRADINGopen for commenting Media Res I'm picturing three scenes we have in common, in which my use of the English language was an antagonist: the senate ...

AndrewGradmanIntro	11 Jan 2010 - 16:52	IanSullivan
Like my brother (an engineer) and my dad (a surgeon), I have fun solving problems. I chose law school because I take as my premise that solving WORD problems ...

AndrewHerink-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:38	IanSullivan
Demsetz and Bias By AndrewHerink 10 Feb 2008 In 1967, Harold Demsetz published an article in the American Economic Review , arguing that #8220;new property rights ...

AndrewHerink-SecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:55	IanSullivan
Plunkitt and the Art of Dual Display By AndrewHerink 10 Feb 2008 George Washington Plunkitt, whose musings are documented in William Riordon #8217;s Plunkitt ...

AndrewHerinkIntro	21 Jan 2009 - 22:56	IanSullivan
Principally, I am at law school because I want to gain the power to affect significant social change. I feel that a J.D. will give me opportunities to do so in a wide ...

AndrewMcCormickFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Toby : More college kids think they'll see UFOs than Social Security checks. Bartlet : But they don't tell you how many believe in UFOs; that's the number we ought ...

AndrewMcCormickIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:13	IanSullivan
Folks, this was initially posted in the wrong place; here is a second try. What I hope to get from law school: Mostly, two and a half years from now, I hope I can ...

AndrewMcCormickSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
This is a revision of AlexHuFirstPaper, although the template being copied onto is his revision. Please diff back to find the original paper. Thanks Andrew McCormick ...

AndrewMcCormickThirdPaper	07 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
AndrewMcCormick 23 May 2009 A story: I had a Monday, Wednesday, Friday Econ class my freshman year. It took me a week to realize my professor was a hack, and while ...

AndrewMcWhorterFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 07:23	AndrewMcWhorter
What does justice mean? By AndrewMcWhorter 13 Mar 2017 What do we mean when we talk about justice? Merriam Webster, somewhat unhelpfully, says that justice is ...

AndrewNelsonIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction First year law student at Columbia. Graduated March 2012 from UC Davis with a degree in Economics. I grew up mostly in the Capitol of California ...

AndrewSavageFirstEssay	04 Mar 2020 - 00:42	AndrewSavage
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

AndrewSavagePaper1	29 Feb 2020 - 01:21	AndrewSavage
AndrewSavage 29 Feb 2020 The intersection of liability and privacy in higher education In Brief: 1.The doctrine governing duty of care universities owe to students ...

AndrewWolstan-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:38	IanSullivan
Vengeance, Evolution and the Criminal Justice System By AndrewWolstan 14 Feb 2008 Evolutionary Need for Vengeance The immediate reaction to being harmed is to ...

AndrewWolstanIntro	21 Jan 2009 - 22:56	IanSullivan
AndrewWolstan 19 Jan 2008 I have always enjoyed approaching problems with a process, and I like the logical process involved in the process of the law. As a result ...

AndrewWolstanSecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:56	IanSullivan
Bill Clinton as Richard Nixon (I'm going to likely be revising this for a long time as a paper and as an idea, so I'm willing to listen to any and all commentary ...

AndyGutierrezFirstEssay	23 Jun 2018 - 13:15	EbenMoglen
We Need to Know What Sex Is The mission of the Department of Education ( #8220;the Department #8221;), as stated on their website, is to promote student achievement ...

AndyGutierrezSecondEssay	28 May 2018 - 14:25	EbenMoglen
Building Bridges By AndyGutierrez 25 Apr 2018 Although I am an only child, I #8217;ve grown up believing that I would be a fantastic middle child. As a result ...

AndyZhengFirstEssay	25 Apr 2024 - 06:24	AndyZheng
The Linguistic Push for Gender Inclusion By AndyZheng 23 Feb 2024 Problem Lia Thomas decided to quit swimming because of the pressure she faced from the public ...

AngelAneneFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 13:47	EbenMoglen
The Law of Memes: Can Internet Culture Redefine Legal Norms? By AngelAnene 20 Feb 2025 Section I : Examining the Effect of Social Media in the Legal System ...

AngelNwachukwuFirstEssay	22 Jun 2017 - 03:03	AngelNwachukwu

AngelNwachukwuSecondEssay	22 Jun 2017 - 03:02	AngelNwachukwu

AngelaMaaloufFirstEssay	13 May 2024 - 18:36	AngelaMaalouf
France finds comfort in its creed, Liberté. Égalité. Fraternité . It is admired as its apparent simplicity earns the public #8217;s confidence. This is even more ...

AngelaMaaloufSecondEssay	19 May 2024 - 14:00	EbenMoglen
I grew up spending my summer holidays with family in a small Lebanese town. As a child, I could see the bullet holes from the 1975 #8211;1990 civil war in the side ...

AngelineAndersenFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
By AngelineAndersen 16 Feb 2012 No One Knows, Does Anyone Care? Conclusions from an Attempt to Study Parental Consent and Notification Laws from a Functionalist ...

AngelineAndersenIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I was born in Minneapolis, and I lived there until August. I am good at waiting tables and playing boggle. I love music, and a lot of my life ...

AngelineAndersenSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Don #8217;t Call Me Crazy How the Reasonable Person Standard as Applied in Self Defense Cases with Victims of Domestic Violence is Based on Faulty Assumptions Criminal ...

AngeloAngelinoFirstEssay	02 Apr 2018 - 16:26	EbenMoglen
Join Them, Or be Buried by Them By AngeloAngelino 01 Mar 2018 Asking for Advice Earlier in the semester, I reached out on Twitter to a lawyer from D.C. named ...

AngeloAngelinoSecondEssay	30 May 2018 - 12:14	AngeloAngelino
Don #8217;t Force the Square Peg in the Round Hole By AngeloAngelino 25 Apr 2018 Where Do I Fit as a Lawyer? Sports? For the past 5 years, I have tailored my ...

AngeloTannuzzoIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:03	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By AngeloTannuzzo 29 Jan 2015 I decided to go to law school because I would like to play a direct and personal role in the criminal justice ...

AngusGaffneyFirstEssay	30 May 2024 - 02:36	AngusGaffney
The Emboldening of Autocracies: A Threat to the Democratic World Order By AngusGaffney 29 May 2024 Introduction As a young boy growing up in rural England, I ...

AnjaHavedalFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Greed, Justice, Law Progress for the Sake of Progress On a tropical island beach, a fisherman relaxes in the sun, leaning against his overturned boat. Next to him ...

AnjaHavedalIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:13	IanSullivan
I am in law school because I believe law to be the best means of counterbalancing the negative forces affecting democracy, globalization and the environment. In my ...

AnjaHavedalSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
Abandoning the Ultimate Goal This essay is a revision of JasonLissyFirstPaper. Narratives as Stimulants For some students, an intricate personal narrative is crucial ...

AnjaHavedalThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
What appears below is a complete overhaul of my third paper, elaborating on the one interesting idea in my first draft and getting rid of the rest. As of mid July ...

AnjaliBhatFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
The original paper is saved as the first version below the "diffs" link. You don't need it to be part of the new version. That's how wikis work. Note: The original ...

AnjaliBhatIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:13	IanSullivan
AnjaliBhat 19 Jan 2009 I came to law school because I wanted access to the ability to make changes that a law degree provides. I took this class because I thought ...

AnjaliBhatSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
AnjaliBhat 20 Apr 2009 This is a revision of TanyaSehgalFirstPaper. Is law school Socratic? Should it be? This is a question worth asking not only because law schools ...

AnjaliBhatThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
AnjaliBhat 15 May 2009 Lily Bart and the Nuances of Selling Out In this class this semester many of us worried about 'selling out,' by which we meant working at ...

AnneFoxFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Legal Concepts in Our Very Own Wonderland By AnneFox 14 Feb 2012 Eben, I would like to continue editing this paper over the summer. Thank you. Introduction Much ...

AnneFoxIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Chanel once said: #8220;In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. #8221; I don #8217;t deliberately try to distinguish myself from others, but I ...

AnneFoxSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Are We Losing Our Minds? : Studying Memory By AnneFox 28 Apr 2012 The first emotion I remember feeling in life was fear. The aching sound of the piano strings ...

AnnePowerFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 21:03	AnnePower
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

AnneSteinbergFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Law As Social Control in South Africa By AnneSteinberg 16 Feb 2012 Introduction As a future lawyer, I first struggled with the assertion that law is a weak form ...

AnneSteinbergIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Hi, I'm Annie. I grew up outside of San Francisco. I went to the University of Washington where I studied Human Geography and Geographic Information ...

AnneSteinbergSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Motivation By AnneSteinberg 22 May 2012 I am having a crisis of motivation. As in, I #8217;m not sure that I have any motivation left and I #8217;m not sure where ...

AnnieIsabelFirstEssay	22 Apr 2025 - 14:41	EbenMoglen
Political Psychology Authoritarianism in America By AnnieIsabel 20 Feb 2025 Section I: Introduction The threat to American democracy is often framed as a problem ...

Anonymous-HelpAnonymizeMyThirdPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:56	IanSullivan
Dear class, I need your help. If I write my third paper in my usual style (disorganized, meandering, nonsensical ...), my identity will show through. That's either ...

AnthonyPhanFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 11:56	EbenMoglen
Meaning in Meaningless Art By AnthonyPhan 17 Feb 2025 Dissecting figurative language and analyzing diction is the name of the game for every introductory literature ...

AnthonyTiberioFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Putting Grades in Their Place By AnthonyTiberio 16 Feb 2012 Grades Are Stupid Eben is correct: grades are stupid. Perhaps not everyone has yet realized this, ...

AnthonyTiberioIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Hi. I am Anthony and, like Cameron, I read everyone else's personal intro before writing mine. I stay up too late. I over analyze things. Perhaps ...

AnthonyTiberioSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Another Lesson from John Brown By AnthonyTiberio 15 May 2012 John Brown exemplifies courage. John Brown also exemplifies unbridled courage. Fortunately, unbridled ...

AntiRacismDrugs	22 Jan 2013 - 18:08	IanSullivan
I imagine many of us are familiar with Implicit Association Tests, and have probably taken the Skin tone IAT on list. Somewhat less familiar is the advent of a blood ...

ApparentlyGradesMatter	13 Jan 2012 - 21:59	IanSullivan
I guess this post will be syndicated among various !LawContempSoc veterans of the Class of 2012? Hello, Class of 2012. I took this class three years ago. I am a ...

ArchivedMaterial	21 Jan 2009 - 23:09	IanSullivan

AreWeThereYet	05 May 2015 - 18:50	LaurenPackard
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/pub/Main/LaurenPackard/AreWeThereYet.JPG are we there yet 12" x 15" magazines, rubber cement, gesso, pen LaurenPackard 05 ...

ArgiriosNickasFirstEssay	05 Jun 2016 - 18:57	EbenMoglen
The (Second) Restatement §90(2): A Holmesian Disaster? By ArgiriosNickas 18 Feb 2016 Charity's Unique Role in America The role of charity in American society ...

ArgiriosNickasSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 16:12	ArgiriosNickas
First Days on the Job By ArgiriosNickas 30 Mar 2016 Happy Birthday I #8217;m sitting here on a Thursday night. This Thursday night happens to be my birthday. ...

ArleneOrtizLeytteFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Distraction, Indifference, and Remedies First year students learn that the end game of any case is the remedy. A whole defense is enumerated under the Federal Rules ...

ArleneOrtizLeytteIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction "Who were we? Who were our people? We knew so little. The American experience, the focus on individual achievement, the acquisition of goods ...

ArleneOrtizLeytteSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Quasi Religious Nonprofits and Healthcare on Trial? Skeptical of desperate assurances, my eyebrows raised when I received an e mail from my alma mater last week, Notre ...

ArnoldFolkloreThoughts	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
PetefromOz 10 Feb 2009 This post is prompted by reading Chapter XIV of Thurman Arnold's Folklore of Capitalism (1937). In this chapter Arnold argues that to make sense ...

ArnoldPart2	17 Apr 2010 - 14:45	NonaFarahnik
NonaFarahnik 02 Mar 2010 When I was introduced to Realism in Legal Methods, I felt that I had been there before. I guess that I inadvertently incorporated bits and ...

ArtCavazosJrFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Underneath the Mythology The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor Our Institutions The Yes Men are jammers who, posing as World Trade Organization ...

ArtCavazosJrIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I'm not sure what I expected from law school. I suppose I could have thought it would be wonderful, horrible, difficult, inane, enlightening, etc. but none of those ...

ArtCavazosJrSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

AsherKalmanFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 13:30	AsherKalman
Law School, Detachment, and Creativity By AsherKalman 26 Feb 2020 Detachment makes space for creativity Organizations have creeds, and creeds exert pressure on ...

AshleyMarceusIntro	15 Jan 2022 - 16:24	AshleyMarceus
Personal Introduction By AshleyMarceus 15 Jan 2022 My name is Ashley Marceus and I am from West Palm Beach, FL and graduated from the University of Florida. I ...

AshleySimpsonFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Merits of Increasing Minority Presence in the Criminal Justice System By AshleySimpson 23 Feb 2010 It is important that minorities take positions in the criminal ...

AshleySimpsonIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I expect law school to help me discover the specific legal field that most interests me and the field in which I will practice upon graduation. Right now, I #8217 ...

AshleySimpsonSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Sticks Stones By AshleySimpson 17 Apr 2010 Eight months ago, Phoebe Prince emigrated from Ireland to the United States. Five months later, committed suicide. Initially ...

AshleyWilsonFirstEssay	11 Apr 2022 - 22:21	AshleyWilson
Attorney Client Courage By AshleyWilson 10 April 2022 On Risk Attorneys can be people who risk everything for a cause. One need only look to the war in Ukraine ...

AshleyWilsonIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 15:36	AshleyWilson
Personal Introduction By AshleyWilson 17 Jan 2022 I'm Ashley Wilson and before starting law school I worked at a social and education policy research organization ...

AshleyWilsonSecondEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 16:40	AshleyWilson
A Teenager's Death and an Attorney's Legacy By AshleyWilson 26 Apr 2022 The Morning of November 3, 2013 In the freezing early morning hours of November 3, ...

AtLeastWeDoNotEatThem	22 Jan 2009 - 00:34	IanSullivan
We may be a torturing nation, but at least we aren't eating them ... How long before Bush links this to the war on terror? Taylor and Cannibalism AdamCarlis 13 ...

AttentivenessOrDistraction	07 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
I had trouble with Eben's discussion of Tharaud's attentiveness in Cerriere's Answer . My impression of Tharaud for the first half of the piece was that she seemed ...

AttorneyClientPrivilegeDilemma	22 Jan 2009 - 00:37	IanSullivan
A Problem in Privilege What would you do if you could save an innocent man from a murder conviction, but had to break attorney client privilege rules to do so? my ...

AubreyKelleySecondEssay	01 May 2021 - 18:01	EbenMoglen
Lawyering is Poetry; vice versa. By AubreyKelley 15 Apr 2021 I took my Power in my Hand #8212; And went against the World #8212; 'Twas not so much as David #8212 ...

AustenBrandfordFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Draft 3 Dignity Through Defiance Seattle #8217;s Madison Park neighborhood is where some of the world #8217;s wealthiest people own homes. In the middle of the neighborhood ...

AustenBrandfordIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I grew up in a liberal and diverse family in a liberal and diverse city. I understood the world to be relatively free of judgment or an immense ...

AustenBrandfordSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
The Truth About Role Models On the same day that I finished my first semester of law school, my sister was accepted into the medical school of her dreams. After congratulating ...

AustinPlaneCrash	17 Apr 2010 - 19:06	NonaFarahnik
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/18/texas.plane.crash/index.html?hpt T1 A plane crashed into an IRS building in Austin, piloted by a man named Joseph Stack. It appears ...

AvanequePennantFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 13:30	EbenMoglen
Artificial Lawyering? By AvanequePennant 20 Feb 2025 The increased prominence and capabilities of artificial intelligence in society have caused anxiety in many ...

BaitSwitch	07 Jan 2010 - 21:36	IanSullivan
Bait and Switch Topic based on comment on Professor Moglen #8217;s discussion of Theo #8217;s health care post. We were told on day one that 95% of Professor Moglen ...

BalancingWork	22 Jan 2009 - 00:35	IanSullivan
CarinaWallance 25 Jan 2008 I just saw this article in the New York Times yesterday and thought it might be of interest (I figured not everyone is as devoted a NY Times ...

BarackObama	30 Jun 2010 - 23:21	WenweiLai
I am pretty psyched about Eben's "Statement on Interim Grades" because (1) I haven't finished any of my rewrites and (2) I am the only extern in my office and I will ...

BarbPitmanIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:36	IanSullivan
I decided to go to law school for several reasons, some practical and some more philosophical. From a practical standpoint, my children have cleared the nest, my ...

BarbPitmanSecondPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:45	IanSullivan
Conspicuous Insecurity Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class makes some bold claims about what people do and why they do it. In the most precise ...

BartlebyAnalysis	22 Jan 2013 - 18:07	IanSullivan
Bartleby A Law Student's Analysis This short piece addresses the reflection narrator sees of himself in Bartleby in Herman Melville's short story, "Bartleby, the Scrivener ...

BasketballAnalytics	30 Mar 2021 - 21:10	JackSherrick
JackSherrick 13 Mar 2021 I'm considering writing my second paper on how analytics has changed the style of play in the NBA and how it has broadened the sport's appeal ...

BearRaids	22 Jan 2009 - 00:38	IanSullivan
Ben Stein on Bear Raids and "Trader Realism" A friend happened to send this article to me, and it seemed to go well with what we've been discussing so I'm passing ...

BeatingRush	22 Jan 2013 - 18:07	IanSullivan
I know it's not much, but here's a link to a reddit thread with a list of all the companies (along with contact information) that had ads on his show yesterday: http ...

BeneelBabaeiFirstEssay	19 May 2017 - 23:08	BeneelBabaei
I hope your moment of realization comes earlier in your life than did mine. Perhaps you too will learn of Emma Lazarus #8217; words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty ...

BeneelBabaeiSecondEssay	07 Jun 2017 - 20:07	BeneelBabaei
Swinging Back By BeneelBabaei 06 Jun 2017 Hanging On It only took her a few weeks to say I had changed. After a decade, she knew me better than anyone. I was ...

BenjaminHowardIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I grew up in Los Angeles, but most people I meet seem to think of me as from the East Coast. Perhaps because I like cold and never learned to surf. As an English ...

BenjaminSanchezSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 20:38	BenjaminSanchez
Family Business By BenjaminSanchez 18 Apr 2016 #8220;He make the team this year? Aw, they said he wasn #8217;t tall enough? I was always small growing up. But ...

BetreGizaw-FirstPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:38	IanSullivan
Introduction #8220;Banker for the Poor #8221; and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus, believes that credit should be a human right. Although his success ...

BetreGizaw-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:38	IanSullivan
KING WAS WRIGHT April 4, 1967 and September 16, 2001 This paper will explore the startling similarities between Martin Luther King Jr. and Jeremiah Wright in their ...

BetreGizawIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:38	IanSullivan
My desire to study law is rooted in the belief that understanding the law, the skills obtained in this pursuit and the certification of the process provide an individual ...

BetterLawSchoolTalk	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
What I wonder is if having more methods of evaluation throughout the semester would increase or decrease that level of competition. AndrewWolstan 18 Feb 2008 A ...

BeulahAgbabiakaFirstEssay	26 May 2016 - 16:34	EbenMoglen
Moving Forward: Reflections on the Obama Administration and Myself By BeulahAgbabiaka 22 Apr 2016 I. Why I Cared So Much Several facts converged to ...

BeulahAgbabiakaSecondEssay	07 Jun 2016 - 01:40	BeulahAgbabiaka
Coogi Down to My Socks Second Draft By BeulahAgbabiaka 07 Jun 2016 #8220;Hey Mr. Knickerbocker, boppity bop. I like a the way that ya boppity bop #8221; The ...

BeyondTranscendence	22 Jan 2013 - 18:07	IanSullivan
Beyond Transcendence Reading Arnold #8217;s description of the more active, non rational, emotional basis of human behavior was great fun. It was difficult though ...

BigLaw	09 Feb 2021 - 22:14	AlexanderHohl
I noticed Dawit's "BigLaw" in the "MoneyConcerns" page turned into a blue word with a question mark, meaning it hasn't been discussed before on the Twiki. Maybe this ...

BigLawCriticism	22 Jan 2013 - 18:07	IanSullivan
I found article that discusses a lot of the issues with big law private practice that Eben has been discussing. I know that Eben doesn't like people posting links ...

BiglawClassAndVeblen	05 May 2010 - 03:35	AdamGold?
I got into an argument last night with a friend of mine. I desperately wanted to argue that biglaw associates were part of the capitalist/ruling/upper class. He ...

BishaNurseIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:24	IanSullivan
I worked for a mid size firm for three years prior to law school, in order to gain work experience. I hated the hours and feeling like a tool. My experiences, and ...

BiyeremOkengwuFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
The Jekyll and Hyde Components of the Legal Profession Our justice system depends on the functional training of future lawyers in law schools across the country. ...

BiyeremOkengwuIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I was a political prisoner while in my home country, Nigeria. If that sob story doesn #8217;t make one want to be a lawyer and gather the skills necessary to attack ...

BiyeremOkengwuSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
The Ranking Sham The human condition, in my opinion, is the desire to differentiate ourselves from our peers; the desire to be just a tad bit better than the Jones ...

BiyeremOkengwuThirdPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

BlindGradingOrEqualGrading	07 Jan 2010 - 21:37	IanSullivan
The Options Since Molissa has so clearly and precisely articulated the actual information and process, I have deleted everything preceding it, since it will only serve ...

BondRatingAgencies	22 Jan 2009 - 00:38	IanSullivan
Roger Lowenstein on the Bond Rating Agencies Here is article that Eben was talking about the other day in class regarding the rating agencies' conflict of interest ...

BookRecommendations	22 Jan 2013 - 18:07	IanSullivan
I was going to email Eben to ask if he had any recommendations for books to read over the summer and I realized other people might be interested as well. Hopefully ...

BottomUpIdea	07 Jan 2010 - 21:36	IanSullivan
What if the federal government were to award some amount of money (say $10 or $25 million) annually to the best social programs proposed through a public wiki website ...

BrandonDelijaniFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 20:59	BrandonDelijani
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

BrandonGeFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Social Norms and Increasing Compliance With HOV Restrictions While Decreasing Police Enforcement By BrandonGe 26 Feb 2010, Revised 13 May 2010 The Destination ...

BrandonGeIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I can't say that there was a main reason I decided to come to law school. I came partially because of the intellectual challenge; partially because of the opportunities ...

BrandonGeSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Judges and Umpires By BrandonGe 16 Apr 2010 History of the Judge Umpire Analogy While umpires in other sports made their way into opinions as early as 1886 in ...

BrandonHoltFirstEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 15:52	BrandonHolt
Incentivizing Corporate Diversity through Debt Finance By BrandonHolt 13 Mar 2022 Introduction When the video of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd commanded ...

BrandonHoltIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 16:24	BrandonHolt
Personal Introduction By BrandonHolt 17 Jan 2022 In my personal statement I wrote, "Law school is an opportunity to be a student of our past and our present while ...

BrandonHoltSecondEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 21:10	BrandonHolt
Dishonesty in Judicial Conformation Hearings By BrandonHolt 27 Apr 2022 Introduction In an April 2021 joint confirmation hearing for seats on the United States ...

BrandonJosephFirstEssay	26 Apr 2018 - 19:02	BrandonJoseph
Plugging Enrollment Gaps with Students of Color A New Reality In light of the #8220;Great Recession #8221;, the 2007 2013 economic downtown impacting the United ...

BrandonJosephSecondEssay	12 Jun 2018 - 18:49	BrandonJoseph
A Lawyer #8217;s Lawyer By BrandonJoseph 12 Jun 2018 The Path to School After graduating from college in 2012, I first worked at Manhattan Criminal Court as an ...

BrandonNesfieldFirstEssay	05 Jun 2016 - 17:47	EbenMoglen
By BrandonNesfield 19 Feb 2016 FINAL DRAFT: The clinic was a plain building, a patchwork of cinderblock and cement. It stood out amongst its neighbors, crude assortments ...

BrandonNesfieldSecondEssay	08 Jun 2016 - 15:06	BrandonNesfield
BrandonNesfield 20 Apr 2016 The Will to Power Nietzsche believed that in every human being existed a will to power, an inexhaustible, unshakeable instinct ...

BrandonReidFirstEssay	26 May 2023 - 16:44	MichaelPari
Legal Education A Personal Reflection By BrandonReid 17 Feb 2023 Earlier this semester, I wrote a piece that demonstrated frustration towards my legal education ...

BrandonVinesFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 18:02	BrandonVines
A Descort for Law School By BrandonVines 28 Feb 2020 What remains in my mind A while ago, I joined the Rebel Alliance. I felt the weight of my stolen stormtrooper ...

BrayanAFirstEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 02:37	BrayanA
What Does It Means to be Human? By BrayanA 12 Mar 2022 Intro We must try to understand in some sense what it means to be human. One such way comes from insight ...

BrayanAIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 23:30	BrayanA
Personal Introduction Initially, I chose to attend law school partly because the laws' structural hold on society fascinates me and partly to prove to people that ...

BrayanASecondEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 22:23	BrayanA
Conspiracy Doctrine: A Prosecutors Tool By BrayanA 7 June 2022 The Crime of Conspiracy A common law conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to ...

BrennaDugelFirstEssay	29 Apr 2024 - 02:24	BrennaDugel
Law Schools and the Empathy Crisis Introduction: Why Do Lawyers Need Empathy? #8220;Lawyers think of cases as legal problems, not as people with problems. #8221 ...

BrennaDugelSecondEssay	17 May 2024 - 16:12	BrennaDugel
Divine Yet Deprived: An Analysis of the Nepali Supreme Court #8217;s Failure to Protect the Kumari #8217;s Child Rights In Nepal, girls as young as two become ...

BrianHoovenFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
The Price of Justice By BrianHooven 25 Feb 2013 The problem with justice is that it costs money. When people can #8217;t afford to pay, society tries to do it ...

BrianHoovenIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
My name is Brian, and I was born in Cincinnati. I was originally drawn to law school by an interest in criminal law, an interest prompted by my study of philosophy ...

BrianHoovenSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Skill, Power, Fulfillment Introduction #8220;Power, skill, and fulfillment. #8221; Ever since my last minute transition from medicine into law, I have known that ...

BrianMaidaFirstEssay	05 Jun 2016 - 14:39	EbenMoglen
Dementions By BrianMaida 18 Feb 2016 Ageless #8220;When, at a fairly early hour of the morning, I put the key into the door of my darkened chambers, switch on ...

BrianMaidaSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 02:17	BrianMaida
My Wily Mission By BrianMaida 01 Apr 2016 On the first day of Law in Contemporary Society, the course was described as #8220;theatre. #8221; Of all the characters ...

BrianTratnerSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 16:48	EbenMoglen
This Again By BrianTratner 30 Apr 2018 After a year of law school, I #8217;ve learned that I want to be the sort of lawyer that is a friend to Taiwan. I admit ...

BriannaCummingsFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:04	MarkDrake
Can compulsive behavior be stopped with words? (Re Write) By BriannaCummings 15 May 2015 Lawyering As future lawyers we are supposed to be learning how to make ...

BriannaCummingsIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:06	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By BriannaCummings 29 Jan 2015 I was around 7 when I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. I was inquisitive and loved to argue, especially when ...

BriannaCummingsSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:42	MarkDrake
The Price of Torment: Rising from the ashes By BriannaCummings 16 May 2015 $85,755: Hell is expensive If someone asked you, would pay $85,755 to be tortured ...

BriannaGordonIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 04:04	BriannaGordon
Personal Introduction I am originally from Kingston, Jamaica and reside in LI,NY. I attended Temple University in Philadelphia, PA where I majored in Political Science ...

BriannaGordonSecondEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 04:58	BriannaGordon
The Death Penalty Debate By BriannaGordon 26 Apr 2022 The Discriminatory and Detestable History of the Death Penalty Capital punishment is no stranger to opposition ...

BriberyAndLaw	07 Jan 2010 - 21:42	IanSullivan
I #8217;m working at an anti human trafficking organization this summer, and keep reading reports on officials and bribery. Although the fact that bribery occurs ...

BrookSutton-Intro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I hope law school presents significant opportunities to engage with the world and leave a mark. Wrested from mere formalisms, law is a fundamentally self determinative ...

BrookSuttonFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
I moved this here because revisions belong under the topic heading they revise. My tools for understanding changes made work on the page "History," so saving the ...

BrookSuttonSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

BrookeHolderIntro	20 Jan 2022 - 14:28	BrookeHolder
Personal Introduction Hello all. My name is Brooke, I use she/her pronouns and I was born raised in Washington, DC. I #8217;ve lived in DC my whole life apart from ...

BulletPointsForEben	11 Mar 2010 - 13:34	KrystalCommons
Bullet Points for Eben I #8217;m a little confused by the parent thread. Am I supposed to add my name to the list if I am interested in improving law school? Of ...

BullshitAndEgomania	17 Apr 2010 - 19:05	NonaFarahnik
In class, I asked what #8220;freedom #8221; looks like. I am still concerned about the implications of the freedom advertised in this course. Particularly, I am worried ...

CLSEducationReform	17 Apr 2010 - 14:41	NonaFarahnik
Some data points: A graduate recently told me that Columbia switched from an Excellent/Very Good/Good grading system to a letter system sometime in the 90's, in ...

CLSTwiki	22 Jan 2009 - 00:39	IanSullivan
Dear veterans of Law and Contemporary Society: This fall, the tools for law student collaboration are coming one step closer. According to Frantz Merine, Director ...

CMcKinneyFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:06	MarkDrake
Unequal Funding of Public Education and the Conventional Criticism of Affirmative Action By CMcKinney 13 Mar 2015 Arguing against Affirmative Action The Assignments ...

CMcKinneyIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:07	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By CMcKinney 29 Jan 2015 I hope to leave law school with a sharper mind and a broader understanding of diverse viewpoints. Studying the ...

CMcKinneySecondEssay	23 Aug 2015 - 21:44	CMcKinney
Rational Actors, Where Art Thou? Ray Rice, Floyd Mayweather, and $180 million. By CMcKinney 23 May 2015 Mid May: Unconsciously Seeking Repose{{ http://moglen ...

CalebGreigFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Felony Disenfranchisement: Just, Unjust, or Just Plain Racist? By CalebGreig 16 Feb 2012 Introduction Nationwide, more than 5 million Americans who have been ...

CalebGreigIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is Caleb and I'm a New Zealander, however 6 months from now I will likely be an American. I play water polo, love watching rugby, and have recently become ...

CalebGreigSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Privileges and Immunities By CalebGreig 16 May 2012 Alright, Cause It's All White" Chris Rock Introduction Each year on April 20, when the clock strikes 4:20 ...

CamHumphreyFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 12:00	EbenMoglen
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats #8220;Then he will say to those on his left, #8216;Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for ...

CameronLewisFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
What about the really bad man? By CameronLewis 16 Feb 2012 Revised 1 August 2012 The Really Bad Man "Will I be executed for what I have done?" asked Anders ...

CameronLewisIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I am Cameron and I read everyone else's personal intros before writing mine. I began life in Indonesia, but don't have the stories to back it ...

CameronOliverFirstEssay	31 May 2023 - 03:51	CameronOliver
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

CamilaTapernouxFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Property Rights and Transcendental Nonsense By CamilaTapernoux 16 Feb 2012 Introduction Rousseau famously said that #8220;the first man who, having enclosed ...

CamilaTapernouxIntro	31 May 2017 - 01:54	TyCarleton
I used to watch YouTube videos for a living and spent a lot of my free time reading. Now I do the converse. I just looked up converse and inverse to see which was ...

CamilaTapernouxSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
More Questions Than Answers By CamilaTapernoux 23 Apr 2012 A paraphrase from a discussion with Eben: "Fifty years from now, every new mother will be approached ...

CamilleRanadiveFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Legal Thoughts on Operation Streamline In 2005 the Department of Justice enacted Operation Streamline, and began treating undocumented entrants as felons. Operation ...

CannabalismAndTheCommonLaw-ChoiceAndUtiliarianism	22 Jan 2013 - 18:07	IanSullivan
What is intriguing about the public's admiration of Dudley and condonation of his act is the heroic role they cast him in. He is a decisive and fearless Captain who ...

CannibalismToday	10 Apr 2015 - 21:33	NicoGurian
NicoGurian 10 Apr 2015 So it turns out that the state of Idaho's criminal code (§18 5003) includes a prohibition against cannibalism, which you are guilty of if you ...

CapitalismCorporationsAndYou	03 Mar 2009 - 02:47	LeslieHannay
Some questions that might be worth pursuing that emerged from the IsBeingACorporateLawyerImmoral thread: Does society need corporate lawyers? Are the ...

CareerSurvey	17 Apr 2010 - 18:07	NonaFarahnik
Where do you expect to be working... Now...same question, but what if debt was not (or is not) a factor? Small sample set, but it looks like ten years after graduation ...

CarinaWallance-FirstPaper	22 Feb 2015 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Paper Title Topic: The Forces that Drive Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform By CarinaWallance 09 Feb 2008 Who gets punished and how severely is not the product ...

CarinaWallance-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:39	IanSullivan
CarinaWallance 04 Apr 2008 Introduction Shielded by an expansive interpretation of wartime power, the Bush administration has ignored the law prohibiting torture ...

CarinaWallanceIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:39	IanSullivan
CarinaWallance 17 Jan 2008 I came to law school because I find that a career in law offers the best opportunity to combine intellectual pursuits and active engagement ...

CarlForbes-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:45	IanSullivan
ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND UTILITARIANISM By CarlForbes 14 Feb 2008 Utilitarianism focuses on the aggregate happiness or pleasure of a population. The theory considers ...

CarlForbes-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:39	IanSullivan
CarlForbes 04 Apr 2008 The Burdens and Benefits of a Broken Home Introduction Living in a broken home is a situation that definitely impacts young people in the United ...

CarlForbesIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:39	IanSullivan
CarlForbes 17 Jan 2008 I decided to go to law school in order to help people. My direct exposure with the law was a result of my parents #8217; divorce and custody ...

CarlJohnsonFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Pollywog A law student is a pollywog, through and through. We are not children, despite our sometimes foolish ways, yet we are certainly not attorneys, in mind nor ...

CarlJohnsonIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I come from a family of artists, but I don #8217;t claim to be one. However, while I haven't produced my own art since sculpting a miniature lion in sixth grade (randomly ...

CarlJohnsonSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
What's Money Got To Do With It? By CarlJohnson 16 May 2012 Of Means and Ends From KippMuellerSecondPaperSpring2012, "Worker Bees": "I, like all of us, am a slave ...

CarlaChowFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Skeptical 1L By CarlaChow 16 Feb 2012 Awareness What has struck me most about this course so far is the message to be more aware; more aware of our selves ...

CarlaChowIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Hello! My name is Carla. I #8217;m from San Juan, Puerto Rico and currently wish it were about forty degrees warmer. Ever since I was a little ...

CarlaChowSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
All Great Problems come from the Streets #8220;I saw the car drive off the road and told mami someone had just shot the driver. I thought it was just another drug ...

CarlySadicarioFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 15:33	CarlySadicario
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

CarolineCimaIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:07	MarkDrake
I went to CLS because I value the sanctity of intellectual property. I believed there was a need to better compromise between ownership of ideas and dissemination ...

CarolineElkinFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Fannie Mae and Our Social Psychology By CarolineElkin 19 Apr 2009 I. Introduction #8220;No end yet for the housing downturn, #8221; declared the York Times ...

CarolineElkinIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:14	IanSullivan
CarolineElkin 15 Jan 2009 I care about gender motivated violence, poverty, and educational disparity in society. In law school, I hope to arm myself with the knowledge ...

CarolineElkinSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
The Importance of Rationalization By CarolineElkin 19 Apr 2009 An edit of MichaelDignanFirstPaper. I. Introduction Often things happen in life which at first ...

CarolineElkinThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Breaking the Rules: Etiquette #8217;s Place in Law School By CarolineElkin 18 May 2009 The Indoctrination When I was young, certainly no more than 10 years old ...

CarolineFerrisWhiteFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Split Selves: Morality and the Law The Law Binds Us Together; the Law Splits Us in Two Justice Douglas writes that "the rule of law..., evenly applied to minorities ...

CarolineFerrisWhiteIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
My path to law school has been circuitous at best. Two years ago, if you had told me I'd be here right now, I would have laughed in your face. I always thought I ...

CarolineFerrisWhiteSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Questioning Cerriere's Answer By CarolineFerrisWhite 15 Apr 2010 Truth, Beauty, and the Law Martha Tharaud believes that "the truth will be revealed." Though ...

CartoonInterpretation	07 Jan 2010 - 21:42	IanSullivan
What's the joke here? Do you have any feelings about it? GregOrr 09 Apr 2009 In a vacuum, I think this is kinda funny. It's got this "Gee, it was that simple ...

CaseyBoyle-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:45	IanSullivan
The Criminal Trial as Emotional Reparation for the Victim By CaseyBoyle 11 Feb 2008 The criminal trial serves many purposes in American society. Its most well ...

CaseyBoyle-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:42	IanSullivan
The Risk Averse Lawyer CaseyBoyle 14 May 2008 (ready for grading) Sometimes I think it was really my risk averse nature that led me to law school. Not to belittle ...

CaseyBoyleIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:42	IanSullivan
I'm not going to lie: a part of me came to law school because I was attracted to the status and respect that a legal degree affords you. But another part of me came ...

CashmereSweatersOutAtTheElbows	17 Apr 2010 - 14:47	NonaFarahnik
NonaFarahnik 13 Apr 2010 high fashion shirt costs $1,625. Please read the editorial commentary to the right.

CasidheMcCloneFirstEssay	05 Jun 2016 - 15:44	EbenMoglen
On Approaches By CasidheMcClone 19 Feb 2016 A very small number of people will vehemently disagree with this statement: the traditional methods of playing the ...

CasidheMcCloneSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 06:57	CasidheMcClone
The Angry Guy By CasidheMcClone 29 Mar 2016 Remember the DA from #8220;Robinson #8217;s Metamorphosis? #8221; The one who beat up the kid? I #8217;m afraid of ...

CeciliaPlazaFirstEssay	25 Apr 2018 - 18:08	CeciliaPlaza
The Justice Myth: How Our Criminal Justice System and Media Representation of Gendered Violence Fosters a False Sense of Progress By CeciliaPlaza 25 Apr 2018 Individuals ...

CeciliaPlazaSecondEssay	31 May 2018 - 20:11	EbenMoglen
For Present Day Me By CeciliaPlaza 14 Apr 2018 I have never been a quiet person. I don #8217;t like to be pigeon holed or told what to do. I #8217;m hot headed ...

CeciliaWangFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

CeciliaWangIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I came to law school following vague notions of lawyers being the more important members of the NGOs I interned at, not really wanting to leave the academic environment ...

CerriereAndSensitivity	13 Jan 2012 - 22:01	IanSullivan
As part of this class, we #8217;ve looked at the subjects of our readings and asked: #8220;what does it mean to be this kind of lawyer? #8221; On this note, I #8217 ...

CerriereOnSocialClasses	13 Jan 2012 - 22:01	IanSullivan
According to Tharaud, referring to the girl who took their order in Ying #8217;s: #8220;I #8217;d say this girl is of a higher class if, by class, we mean the amount ...

CerrieresAnswer	17 Apr 2010 - 14:52	NonaFarahnik
Martha Tharaud, the labor lawyer in Cerriere's Answer, wonders about the working lives of people she sees, such as the Ying's server and the Dean DeLuca cleaner ...

ChangingSocietyUsingWordsTalk	07 Jan 2010 - 21:42	IanSullivan
Prompt: (1) In terms of effecting social change with words, what can lawyers accomplish that novelists or journalists cannot? (2) If lawyers possess a unique ability ...

ChanyoungJeongFirstEssay	20 Apr 2025 - 13:28	EbenMoglen
Elder Care Reformation (ChanyoungJeongFirstEssay) By ChanyoungJeong 19 Feb 2025 The elder care policies in the United States are fundamentally flawed due to Western ...

CharacterizingBlacksObservations	07 Jan 2010 - 21:42	IanSullivan
What this is : A claim that Black #8217;s observations (which as Moglen said today aren #8217;t explanations) are the tip of an iceberg rather than principles themselves ...

CharlesRoperFirstEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 17:37	CharlesRoper
Higher Education Debt: Why I Decided to Incur it By CharlesRoper 17 Feb 2016 The Problem The usual notion regarding higher education debt is that is ...

CharlesRoperSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 17:18	CharlesRoper
How is Universal Interconnection, Implemented Through the Current Architecture, Affecting Human Society? By CharlesRoper 30 Mar 2016 There is no denying that ...

ChartYourIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 22:01	IanSullivan
I made a chart so we can think about our intros in a different way. It can give each of us insight into what topics we chose to emphasize or ignore in our intros. ...

ChaseLaxFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:07	MarkDrake
A Law Student Phenotype By ChaseLax 13 Mar 2015 A Familiar Feeling #8220;Risk averse control freaks. #8221; Though I laughed when we were introduced to this ...

ChaseLaxIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:08	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction I #8217;d like to say that I came to law school because I was inspired by my college advisor, Berry, but I never internalized the idea that I ...

ChaseLaxSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:43	MarkDrake
Business as Usual By ChaseLax 19 May 2015 The readings I most enjoyed this semester were the excerpts from Lawyerland and The Behavior of Law , and, as a result ...

ChihIFangFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Human Condition of Absurdity By ChihIFang 26 Feb 2010 Introduction: A Narrative of Absurdity (a true story) Three young children gathered around a lobster tank ...

ChihIFangIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I initially decided to take the LSAT not for coming to law school, but for a $60/hour job of teaching the LSAT. Two years later, I am here in a law school, but I don ...

ChihIFangSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Rodell's Pursuance of Happiness By ChihIFang 17 Apr 2010 Introduction Felix Cohen, Jerome Frank, and Thurman Arnold #8211; all representatives of American legal ...

ChloeJoFirstEssay	08 Jun 2024 - 22:59	ChloeJo
What a Shame! "Yes, Korea is a shame culture," Eben explained when I told him I felt ashamed of my grades. Feeling shame about not knowing what the shame culture is ...

ChloeJoSecondEssay	10 Jun 2024 - 00:43	ChloeJo
End of War (?) By ChloeJo 16 Apr 2024 Preface Reflecting now, I find myself unsure of what exactly I want to express in this second essay. We discussed war in ...

ChrisBuerger-SecondPaperReady	22 Jan 2009 - 00:42	IanSullivan
A Burden on Defendants: Racial Discrimination and Equal Protection in Criminal Cases In 1866, the United States added the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution ...

ChrisCrismanCoxIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
ChristopherCrismanCox 14 Jan 2010 The future promises both great change and great opportunity proportional to that change. New historical developments and new inventions ...

ChrisCrismanCoxSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Expressive Manipulation of Copyrighted Media: End Product Analysis vs. Component Analysis Background and Purpose of the Paper Increasingly, artists chose to manipulate ...

ChrisMendezFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:07	MarkDrake
Reducing Violence in Chicago By ChrisMendez 13 Mar 2015 I. Rethinking Approaches to Social Control Donald Black argues that law is one form of social control ...

ChrisMendezIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:09	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By ChrisMendez 28 Jan 2015 Why Law School? We live in a very unjust world. I wanted to put myself in a position to play a role in bringing ...

ChrisSantanaFirstEssay	26 Apr 2018 - 20:41	ChrisSantana
OLD DRAFT, PLEASE SCROLL BELOW PROFESSOR MOGLEN'S RED COMMENTS FOR FINAL DRAFT By ChrisSantana 01 Mar 2018 Gang Banging Fear overwhelmed my 18 year old body ...

ChrisSantanaSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 14:21	EbenMoglen
Feasible Goals By ChrisSantana 26 Apr 2018 Contributing to the Reformation of Our Criminal Justice System After a year of law school, I have learned that I ...

ChristinaObiajuluFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I removed the other drafts of this and other essays. We are concentrating here on one text. He stood there in his navy blue, and well tailored suit. A carefully ...

ChristinaObiajuluIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I went to law school because I wanted power, i.e., the ability to make a difference, and law school seemed to be a traditional path one would go down to do that. In ...

ChristinaObiajuluSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I added some paragraphing. The text is still not clearly organized, but paragraphing helps. #8220;A na ekwu ekwu a ga ahu, #8221; said my teacher, as I ...

ChristinaYoun-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:46	IanSullivan
The Law, Our Religion: A Durkheimian Perspective By ChristinaYoun 10 Feb 2008 What is Law? Our course of study has focused on two prongs, the first of which ...

ChristinaYoun-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:42	IanSullivan
ChristinaYoun 01 Apr 2008 Fashion, Copyrighting, and Society Introduction The of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has been pushing Congress to pass H.R. 5055 ...

ChristinaYounIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:42	IanSullivan
ChristinaYoun 17 Jan 2008 When I was in 4th grade, I wanted to pursue law as a career because I wanted to become a wise and great person who fought for justice ...

ChristineFrancisFirstEssay	24 Apr 2020 - 14:58	ChristineFrancis
What is the relationship between civil law and the law of nature? When is one justified in disobeying the sovereign? According to Hobbes, the natural condition of ...

ChristineFrancisSecondEssay	24 Apr 2020 - 15:05	ChristineFrancis
Does it matter whether property arises prior to and independent of political society? What is the relevance of the origin of property for thinking about political ...

ChristopherBackus-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:42	IanSullivan
Veblen in Lawyerland Introduction Veblen #8217;s The Theory of the Leisure Class formalized a somewhat intuitive observation that patterns of consumption reflect ...

ChristopherBuerger-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Two Ideas, One Mind: The Challenge of Legal Thinking By ChristopherBuerger 09 Feb 2008 Introduction Most of us grew up during a time when intelligence was ...

ChristopherCrismanCoxFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Eben, here is my response to your comments: I agree with you that a #8220;bitstream is a bitstream. #8221; I agree that Grooveshark could be forced to take down ...

ChristopherCrismanCoxSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Expressive Manipulation of Copyrighted Media: End Product Analysis vs. Component Analysis UPDATE 5/26: Sorry for the enormous delay. Hoping to get my rewrite up ...

ChristopherWildsFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
DRIVER'S SEAT (Second Draft of First Paper) By ChristopherWilds 8 Apr 2013 WHAT KIND OF LAWYER I WANT TO BE I want to have a positive impact on my community, ...

ChristopherWildsIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. I completed undergrad at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. I am a fan of NBA basketball, especially the ...

ChristopherWildsSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
NEGATIVE INCENTIVES INVOLVED IN GOVERNMENT SPONSORED "SNITCHING" INTRO Informants offer substantial information as #8220;credible sources #8221; to aid authorities ...

ChristopherWlach-SecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
REVISED/REWRITTEN. My original second paper with Eben's comments is here. Filesharing and Artist Incentives for Creating New Music By ChristopherWlach 22 May ...

ChristopherWlachIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:43	IanSullivan
I decided to go to law school because I wanted to quit my job as a paralegal. Going to law school seemed like an appropriate thing for a paralegal to quit for. If ...

CitizensUnitedCaseNotes	05 Feb 2010 - 04:48	AndrewCascini
So I make no claims this is totally on point, but these are the notes that I took while I actually, you know, READ the damn case for once. I tried to partition this ...

CitizensUnitedVFederalElectionCommission	22 Dec 2012 - 08:29	TWikiGuest
I've rearranged this page so that our 100 word responses to the opinion are at the beginning. The conversation we had before reading the opinion is below. Art and ...

ClaireOSullivan-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:46	IanSullivan
The Myth of Criminal Justice By Claire O #8217;Sullivan Effective criminal justice is a myth. Confessions are coerced; individuals are poorly represented; time spent ...

ClaireOSullivan-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:43	IanSullivan
Rape and the Criminal Justice System: The problem of underreporting Introduction Most rapes go unreported. There are no reliable statistics to back this up, because ...

ClaireOSullivanIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:43	IanSullivan
I came to law school for a variety of reasons. I want to have a career that will give me some flexibility in terms of jobs and areas of work, and a law degree seems ...

ClassAudio	13 Apr 2021 - 16:49	EbenMoglen
Class Audio Jan 14 Jan 25 My thanks to Victor Young, Edward Heyman, Ben Webster, Toots Thielemans, and Marilyn Monroe Feb 1 My thanks to the late John ...

ClassEmailList	26 Feb 2010 - 23:04	NonaFarahnik
NonaFarahnik 26 Feb 2010 In the course of writing paper #1, I thought of a way I could contribute to continuing the dialogue and collegiality that will continue to ...

ClassMusic	24 Apr 2012 - 21:10	JamesCrowley
Can we compile all of the music that Eben plays in class? DanielChung 26 Jan 2012 Also: Gilberto Gil "Stir It Up" AjGarcia 26 Jan 2012 Just for reference ...

ClassMusicList	13 Jan 2012 - 22:01	IanSullivan
Tuesday, January 13 i)The Beatles Revolution ii)Chaka Khan (?) Have a little faith in me Thursday, January 15 i) Hymn: "Jerusalem" Music by: C. Hubert Parry ...

ClassMusicList2017	16 Feb 2017 - 16:40	KaiKar
Thursday, January 19, 2017 i. The Beatles Revolution 1 (Listen Note the album version was played in class, not this live version) (Lyrics) ii. Silvio Rodriguez ...

ClassNotes	26 Jan 2010 - 18:54	DevinMcDougall
Class Notes Spring 2010 ClassNotesSpring2010 Spring 2008 I put a proposed note taking procedure at NoteTakerSignup. Take a look and comment on whether you think ...

ClassNotes02Apr08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
Post multiple sets we'll refactor later.

ClassNotes12Mar08	21 Jan 2009 - 22:41	IanSullivan
Please insert your notes.

ClassNotes13Mar08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
You know the routine.

ClassNotes14FEB08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
MakalikaNaholowaa 14 Feb 2008 Moment of Silence for Absent Classmates: paper deadlines are not excuses for class absences. #8221;The Folklore of Capitalism, #8221 ...

ClassNotes16April08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
ChristinaYoun 17 Apr 2008 Most urgent: news about grading Hopefully done by the end of the week Continue to work on the papers even if Eben already graded ...

ClassNotes16Jan08	28 Feb 2008 - 03:06	EbenMoglen
Class Notes for Wednesday, 16 January 2008 I decided to take a transcript since I couldn't predict what other people would find important. andrew LESSON ONE: LISTEN ...

ClassNotes17Jan08	05 Feb 2008 - 02:44	DanielHarris
1 17 08 Thursday The biological layer of a theory of social action for lawyers Lawyer #8217;s MIND should have rich associative memory regarding the matters for ...

ClassNotes19Mar08	02 Apr 2008 - 18:10	AndrewGradman
If several people post their notes, we can refactor later ...

ClassNotes2008	13 Jan 2012 - 22:01	IanSullivan
Class Notes Spring 2010 ClassNotesSpring2010 Here, I've posted some notes from class. I am sure that I have missed things, so please feel free to make corrections ...

ClassNotes2008Apr10	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
DanielButrymowicz 23 Apr 2008 Music Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man You can think of a lot of reasons why you might want to understand a Judge. Going back to ...

ClassNotes2008Apr16	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
ChristinaYoun 17 Apr 2008 Most urgent: news about grading Hopefully done by the end of the week Continue to work on the papers even if Eben already graded ...

ClassNotes2008Apr2	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Post multiple sets we'll refactor later.

ClassNotes2008Apr23	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Bob Dylan: Maggie's Farm, one interpretation of the song here. Sadly, no music at the start. Class discussion of Something Split, from Lawyerland Who is Carl Wiley ...

ClassNotes2008Apr3	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
AndrewWolstan 07 Apr 2008 (Please edit as you feel necessary) Song: Blackbird by the Beatles Started communicating by email in 1974, most important self maintained ...

ClassNotes2008Apr9	31 May 2017 - 01:54	TyCarleton
LINK TO DISCUSSION THREAD: PhaseIIQandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan OUTLINE OF LECTURE: Summing up before the final stage of this course By now, at more than ...

ClassNotes2008Feb14	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
MakalikaNaholowaa 14 Feb 2008 Moment of Silence for Absent Classmates: paper deadlines are not excuses for class absences. #8221;The Folklore of Capitalism, #8221 ...

ClassNotes2008Feb21	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
A. Leff, Swindling and Selling (continued) So what are the functional parts of the Spanish Prisoner? Spanish prisoner con is simple and has only a few ...

ClassNotes2008Feb27	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
SONG : Bob Dylan, Hard Rain #8217;s A Gonna Fall Statistics TODAY: Incarcerated: 2.3 million % of US pop: 0.997 Cost/year $49.7 billion ...

ClassNotes2008Feb6	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 Upcoming Assignments Students who have conflicts with class next week may opt to structure the Wiki in lieu of the first essay assignment ...

ClassNotes2008Feb7	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Introduction Class began with a brief connection between the music and the fate of our soldiers wounded in Iraq. 1st Assignment If you are not going to be away on ...

ClassNotes2008Jan16	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Class Notes for Wednesday, 16 January 2008 I decided to take a transcript since I couldn't predict what other people would find important. andrew LESSON ONE: LISTEN ...

ClassNotes2008Jan17	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
1 17 08 Thursday The biological layer of a theory of social action for lawyers Lawyer #8217;s MIND should have rich associative memory regarding the matters for ...

ClassNotes2008Jan23	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
CarinaWallance 23 Jan 2008 Introductory Remarks Three words not contained in any introduction that was written: duty, responsibility, and risk (Note: write shortly ...

ClassNotes2008Jan24	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
1/24 Class Notes: Eben believes that some students tend to misconstrue his statements #8211; some take his normative statements and turn them into descriptive statements ...

ClassNotes2008Jan31	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Our first papers will be assigned soon. We need to learn how to edit and to be more concise. Disagreeing with someone #8217;s point is easy. Actually understanding ...

ClassNotes2008Mar12	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Please insert your notes.

ClassNotes2008Mar13	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
You know the routine.

ClassNotes2008Mar19	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
If several people post their notes, we can refactor later ...

ClassNotes2008Mar20	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Post multiple sets we'll refactor later

ClassNotes2008Mar26	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Post multiple sets we'll refactor later.

ClassNotes2008Mar27	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Post multiple sets we'll refactor later.

ClassNotes2008Mar28	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Welcome Back and Upcoming Schedule Try to avoid the tension and unnecessary fear that characterizes second semester law school ...

ClassNotes2008Mar5	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Starting with Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas. Appropriate to period tone and style. Almost all of them have cannibal jokes in them. Announcements: no class tomorrow ...

ClassNotes2008Mar6	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
Please insert your notes.

ClassNotes20Mar08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
Post multiple sets we'll refactor later

ClassNotes21Feb08	26 Feb 2008 - 20:44	ElaineTan
A. Leff, Swindling and Selling (continued) So what are the functional parts of the Spanish Prisoner? Spanish prisoner con is simple and has only a few ...

ClassNotes26Mar08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
Post multiple sets we'll refactor later.

ClassNotes27Feb08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
SONG : Bob Dylan, Hard Rain #8217;s A Gonna Fall Statistics TODAY: Incarcerated: 2.3 million % of US pop: 0.997 Cost/year $49.7 billion ...

ClassNotes27Mar08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
Post multiple sets we'll refactor later.

ClassNotes28Mar08	10 Apr 2008 - 01:43	WendyHuang
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Welcome Back and Upcoming Schedule Try to avoid the tension and unnecessary fear that characterizes second semester law school ...

ClassNotes31Jan08	06 Feb 2008 - 22:55	IanSullivan
Our first papers will be assigned soon. We need to learn how to edit and to be more concise. Disagreeing with someone #8217;s point is easy. Actually understanding ...

ClassNotes5Mar08	12 Mar 2008 - 13:13	SandorMarton
Starting with Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas. Appropriate to period tone and style. Almost all of them have cannibal jokes in them. Announcements: no class tomorrow ...

ClassNotes6Feb08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:44	IanSullivan
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 Upcoming Assignments Students who have conflicts with class next week may opt to structure the Wiki in lieu of the first essay assignment ...

ClassNotes6Mar08	22 Jan 2009 - 00:45	IanSullivan
Please insert your notes.

ClassNotes7Feb08	07 Feb 2008 - 21:24	AdamCarlis
Introduction Class began with a brief connection between the music and the fate of our soldiers wounded in Iraq. 1st Assignment If you are not going to be away on ...

ClassNotesApr10	22 Jan 2009 - 00:45	IanSullivan
DanielButrymowicz 23 Apr 2008 Music Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man You can think of a lot of reasons why you might want to understand a Judge. Going back to ...

ClassNotesApr9	31 May 2017 - 01:54	TyCarleton
LINK TO DISCUSSION THREAD: PhaseIIQandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan OUTLINE OF LECTURE: Summing up before the final stage of this course By now, at more than ...

ClassNotesApril23	12 Jan 2009 - 22:50	IanSullivan
Bob Dylan: Maggie's Farm, one interpretation of the song here. Sadly, no music at the start. Class discussion of Something Split, from Lawyerland Who is Carl Wiley ...

ClassNotesApril3	22 Jan 2009 - 00:45	IanSullivan
AndrewWolstan 07 Apr 2008 (Please edit as you feel necessary) Song: Blackbird by the Beatles Started communicating by email in 1974, most important self maintained ...

ClassNotesJan23	05 Feb 2008 - 02:43	DanielHarris
CarinaWallance 23 Jan 2008 Introductory Remarks Three words not contained in any introduction that was written: duty, responsibility, and risk (Note: write shortly ...

ClassNotesJan24	05 Feb 2008 - 02:44	DanielHarris
1/24 Class Notes: Eben believes that some students tend to misconstrue his statements #8211; some take his normative statements and turn them into descriptive statements ...

ClassNotesSpring2010	13 Jan 2012 - 22:03	IanSullivan
#### 01.26 Tuesday Generally, redistributing income to your client helps your client. If you want to maximize your utility according to what you think utility is ...

ClassPads	14 Apr 2021 - 14:58	EbenMoglen
Class Pads Jan 14 Jan 20 Jan 25 Jan 27 Feb 1 Feb 3 Feb 8 Feb 10 Feb 15 Feb 17 Feb 22 Feb 24 Mar 8 Mar 10 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar 22 Mar 24 Mar 29 Mar 31 Apr 5 Apr 7 Apr ...

ClassTakeaways	22 Jan 2013 - 18:06	IanSullivan
Class Takeaways Since we're trying to learn how to write with brevity, how to edit, and how to actively listen, I thought it might be helpful to collaboratively come ...

ClassandClothes	07 Jan 2010 - 22:13	IanSullivan
In this topic, I have refactored the ClothesMaketheLawyer talk. 2L interviews are looming near and I believe the points and issues raised in this talk will prove helpful ...

ClothesMaketheLawyer	07 Jan 2010 - 22:13	IanSullivan
I am having trouble understanding what is at the crux of the discussion, in class and in the comments on paper, about clothes and class. I see that we categorize each ...

CoasesNobelSpeech	03 Feb 2010 - 14:04	AlexAsen
As mentioned by Prof. Moglen today, we should take a look at Coase's Nobel Prize speech, so I have found it and taken the liberty of posting it up here for easy access ...

CodyHuyanFirstEssay	04 Jun 2024 - 16:02	EbenMoglen
When Life Isn't a Race By CodyHuyan 20 Feb 2024 Introduction It didn #8217;t occur to me, until Eben pointed it out in my first draft, that I have been constructing ...

CodyHuyanSecondEssay	27 May 2024 - 20:45	CodyHuyan
Revised Justifications for Nationality Based Rights and Obligations By CodyHuyan 22 Apr 2024 Introduction I am a citizen of California and smoke marijuana regularly ...

CohenDiscussionSummary	07 Jan 2010 - 22:14	IanSullivan
All entries have been edited for brevity and clarity. Please feel free questions or comments under the appropriate sections. I. The Heaven of Legal Concepts 1 ...

CohenTopics	17 Apr 2010 - 16:08	NonaFarahnik
An index for all the various Cohen discussion topics that have come up. if you make new ones, just make sure to put this page as the parent topic and they will automatically ...

ColeRileyFirstEssay	07 Feb 2025 - 20:28	ColeRiley

ColeRileySecondEssay	07 Feb 2025 - 20:28	ColeRiley

ColinHendersonFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 22:25	ColinHenderson
Some of the greatest evil lies in the least romantic systems of human governance. Take, for instance, the pile of papers sitting on a judge #8217;s desk and awaiting ...

ColinHendersonJournal	16 Apr 2020 - 01:48	LilianKlatskin
ColinHenderson's Journal 3/30/2020 I was really struck by the connection between "Cannibalism and the Common Law" and "Pancho and Lefty" (one of my favorite songs ...

ColinONealFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 23:35	ColinONeal
The Right to Education By ColinONeal 1 June 2017 A Federal Constitutional Right to an Education and the Preservation of Freedom of Thought As networked digital ...

ColumbiaLawLOANSSSS	07 Jan 2010 - 22:14	IanSullivan
I was going to respond to a post by Barb Pitman which raised several issues regarding financial realities of a law school education, but I figured I would start a ...

CompetitionInPreparationForCareersTalk	20 Feb 2008 - 15:38	SandorMarton
The question is, should law school be teaching us competition in preparation for our careers? I think this question harks back in many ways to whether we think law ...

ConnorHudsonFirstEssay	04 Jun 2022 - 23:44	ConnorHudson
Daring to Build Better Lawyers By ConnorHudson 06 Mar 2022 Introduction The Adaptable Mind: Neuroscience, Psychology, Law School When I dropped out of law ...

ConnorHudsonSecondEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 18:05	ConnorHudson
ConnorHudson 27 Apr 2022 The Perception of Violence in Skinner's World Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars and Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine together ...

ConradCoutinhoIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
ConradCoutinho 14 Jan 2010 Frankly, I only have a vague notion of what I hope to get from law school. Depending on how I feel when I #8217;m asked, I might respond ...

ConradCoutinhoSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

ContextForCannibalism	07 Jan 2010 - 22:14	IanSullivan
On page 140, Simpson shares the purpose of the preceding chapters: "But our concern is that of establishing the historical context for the case of the Mignonette, ...

ContinuingDiscourse	18 Jan 2016 - 08:24	JiMinShin
I don't know if anyone else has suggested this, but I hope that people will continue to use the Wiki over the summer, and I assume Eben would continue to allow this ...

CoreyWhittFirstEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 18:47	CoreyWhitt
By the Goodness of Gun By CoreyWhitt 10 Mar 2022 November 14, 2019 On Thursday, November 14, 2019, at 7:38AM, Saugus High School #8212; its students, parents ...

CoreyWhittIntro	16 Jan 2022 - 17:51	CoreyWhitt
Personal Introduction Hi everyone! My name is Corey Whitt, and I come to law school after six years of working as a high school band director. I am interested in reimagining ...

CoreyWhittSecondEssay	08 Jun 2022 - 00:36	CoreyWhitt
JCPenney, the Saxophone, and Advocating for Music Education By CoreyWhitt 25 Apr 2022 Wishbooks and What They Offer I was unacquainted with the saxophone before ...

CoronavirusTracker	13 Mar 2020 - 14:52	AsherKalman
Some Links About Covid 9 Epidemiology I did some refactoring and added a title, which is useful for any topic. Here's a created by CDC showing the distribution ...

CostsOFTheLSATPoll	21 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
LsatExperience dnXopRi8YuqambL1KWRwCg 1 Total Cost of Preparation $140 $300,Number of Hours spend preparing 120 200 hours,The Effects of Studying greater than 12 point ...

CostsOfTheLSATPoll	22 Jan 2009 - 00:51	IanSullivan
My second paper is dealing with the LSAT and it would be very helpful for me if folks answered this brief poll regarding their experience with the test. Thanks so ...

CourageAndMasks	07 Jan 2010 - 22:15	IanSullivan
I was struck today by Eben's call for courage. I signed up for this class because I was impressed by Eben's speech at the assembly where we were introduced to the ...

CourseIntroduction	01 Nov 2023 - 10:47	EbenMoglen
General Introduction This course explores two questions it's important to begin asking in the second semester of law school: 1. How can I be creative in law school ...

CourtneyDoakFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Then and Now: Two Perspectives on our Legal System By CourtneyDoak 18 Jul 2012 A Revelation While Reading Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach ...

CourtneyDoakIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I worked in finance after college. My job was lucrative; I loved my managers and my mentors. Material comfort and meaningful relationships were ...

CourtneyDoakSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Reflections on Splitting By CourtneyDoak 18 Jul 2012 Fissures The first seeds of cognitive dissonance that resulted in my split were planted, I think, on the ...

CourtneySmithFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
A Plea for Dr. Tom Butler By CourtneySmith 25 Feb 2010 Dr. Plague Tom Butler did not hang, nor was he a martyr for a noble cause. He is, however, a good man ...

CourtneySmithIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
CourtneySmith 14 Jan 2010 I came to Columbia Law School in a roundabout way from the other side of Amsterdam Avenue. After getting an interdisciplinary master #8217 ...

CourtneySmithSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
From #8220;Ghetto #8221; to Gated Community By CourtneySmith 16 Apr 2010 Courtney, I have inserted my comments with regard to the substance of your paper in the ...

CourtsOnTrial	22 Jan 2013 - 18:06	IanSullivan
Creating this topic hopefully no one has gotten to it first. Was it a race? I should think that there would be plenty to do by way of revision, requiring effort ...

CreativeStudentWritings	13 Jan 2012 - 22:04	IanSullivan
Someone said I ought to try this, so here we go. Lawyering is changing the world with words, eh? Well there's a broad definition if I've ever seen one. Changing ...

CriminalDefense	13 Jan 2012 - 22:04	IanSullivan
Eben has spoken very highly of criminal defense several times in class. I am one of those people who still doesn #8217;t know what kind of law he wants to practice ...

CrystalVenningFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
There are some footnotes and a 135 word note at the end. Please don #8217;t include the note in the total word count. Video, Evidence the Practice of Law (1) ...

CrystalVenningIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I have this notion that I can do something meaningful with a law degree. By studying rules, procedures, and ideas I can better solve problems ...

CurrentEventsIndex	13 Jan 2012 - 22:04	IanSullivan
This page is intended organize all the interesting articles people are posting. Please edit the page to add articles (and discussion pages) to the list. We can play ...

CurveSurvey	22 Jan 2009 - 00:52	IanSullivan
POLL OPEN Hey guys, If you are looking to distract yourself from finals for two minutes, I'd appreciate you taking my poll. All answers are anonymous. Thanks! AmandaHungerford ...

CurveSurveyPollResults	21 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
testing IanSullivan 21 Apr 2008 Gradingtest SlwQajUXv0aMDSvEi fSlQ 1 What grades would I be satisfied with? Mostly A's with Some B's,What are the lowest grades ...

DISCUSSIONS_Lawyering_And_Social_Change	22 Jan 2009 - 00:52	IanSullivan
The Index is getting crowded. I suggest we gather topics into "header" topics. We could distribute Topics among sub headings, like Justin did. But this idea ...

DRussellKraftFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Just Punishment? By DRussellKraft Some Starting Assumptions This essay is written for my classmates at Columbia Law School. In my argument I assume the following ...

DRussellKraftIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I came to Columbia because I want to be trained. What Eben says about immersion is just about right as to what I wanted and expected; I'd like to not only be fluent ...

DRussellKraftSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
DtRK, I've edited in order to cut down on words so that maybe we can add another skill that I think is crucial to becoming a good lawyer: that is the skill of being ...

DaimirisGarciaJournal	12 Apr 2020 - 18:28	DaimirisGarcia
DaimirisGarcia's Journal April 5, 2020 Journal Entry #2: Before law school, the only lawyers I had ever seen in my life were those stereotypically portrayed in movies ...

DanBryan-SecondPaperTALK	14 Jan 2015 - 22:52	IanSullivan
Talk Page: Swindling The Seller? YMMV (Dan Bryan Second Paper) Linking #8220;If you tell me I will find information about "search engines," you shouldn't just send ...

DanBryanIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:52	IanSullivan
I came to law school for a variety of reasons, many of them practical. The flexibility that being a lawyer offers was important to me. Immediately after college ...

DanBryanSecondPaperTALK	03 Feb 2010 - 14:09	AlexAsen
Talk Page: Swindling The Seller? YMMV (Dan Bryan Second Paper) Linking #8220;If you tell me I will find information about "search engines," you shouldn't just send ...

DanKarmelFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Moral Culpability and Punishment By DanKarmel 26 Feb 2010 Moral Assumptions in the Law Our justice system is more than carelessly replete with moral phraseology ...

DanKarmelSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Outline for new version of this paper: Thesis: Borrowers should think about their mortgages as contracts allocating risk, and realize that they expressly pay higher ...

DanLEeFirstEssay	20 May 2021 - 01:29	DanLEe
Chairman By DanLEe May 19 After my 1L finals, I met up with Dom, old friend of mine who had taken on a position at Sullivan Cromwell during the pandemic ...

DanLEeSecondEssay	20 May 2021 - 01:33	DanLEe
Becoming Unhinged By DanLEe May 19, 2021 Introduction Ludwig Wittgenstein #8217;s On Certainty was his last work, and although decidedly less famous ...

DanielAdewunmiFirstEssay	17 May 2023 - 15:01	MichaelPari
Combatting DIPG By DanielAdewunmi 16 Feb 2023 What is DIPG Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, DIPG, is a tumor of the brainstem. It affects the most vital functions ...

DanielAdewunmiSecondEssay	30 May 2023 - 05:05	DanielAdewunmi
Alternate Paths for Recent Graduates By DanielAdewunmi 06 Apr 2023 In my previous draft of this essay, I wrote about conversations with George Kendall. The central ...

DanielButrymowicz-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Ready for grading. Maintaining the Constitution Creed By DanielButrymowicz 12 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold argues that constitutions are #8220;fundamental ...

DanielButrymowicz-SecondPaper	23 May 2008 - 22:47	DanielButrymowicz
Ready for grading. My Leisure is More Conspicuous Than Yours! (Facebook as a Vehicle for Pecuniary Emulation) DanielButrymowicz 04 Apr 2008 Introduction The ...

DanielButrymowiczFirstPaper	22 Feb 2015 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Ready for grading. Maintaining the Constitution Creed By DanielButrymowicz 12 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold argues that constitutions are #8220;fundamental ...

DanielButrymowiczIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:53	IanSullivan
I came to law school for many of the usual cliched reasons. I wanted an intellectual career and I wanted to help people. I have never had any intention of working ...

DanielChungFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Career Lessons from Jeremy Lin By DanielChung 3 May 2012 One of the most important lessons Eben has taught me this semester is that I should build a #8220;practice ...

DanielChungIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Before I attended law school, I taught English to high school and middle school students in the San Francisco Bay Area. As I've told my students ...

DanielChungSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
The Love Song of Bartleby the Scrivener By DanielChung 04 May 2012 Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a love story a story ...

DanielHarris-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Enhancing free speech with universal broadband Internet access If you're interested in ideas like this, check out NYCInfoLaw. By DanielHarris 14 Feb 2008 "Positive ...

DanielHarris-SecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Domain Names, Trademarks and Taxonomies Disclaimer This problem, independently conceived, was addressed in ftp://ftp.rfc editor.org/in notes/rfc2352.txt 2352. ...

DanielHarrisIntro	12 Jan 2009 - 22:54	IanSullivan
I applied to law school because I #8217;m interested in law and want a degree that would open diverse opportunities to me. I want to do interesting work, preferably ...

DanielImahiyeroboFirstEssay	15 Jun 2018 - 11:25	DanielImahiyerobo
I #8217;ve been the only black man in the room many times before. Yet, there are few times I can remember feeling so uncomfortable in that position as on this day ...

DanielImahiyeroboSecondEssay	15 Jun 2018 - 11:23	DanielImahiyerobo
After a year of law school, what have I learned about the sort of lawyer I want to be Coming into law school I had two ideas about the type of lawyer I #8217;d like ...

DanielKenkelFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Emotional Justice By DanielKenkel 16 Feb 2012 An increasing number of experiments in the fields of social psychology and economics are giving us greater and greater ...

DanielKenkelIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Hello I am Daniel or Dan or whatever you like, it doesn't much matter to me. There is no one reason I came to law school, and many of my reasons are what are generally ...

DanielKenkelSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
The Music Industry, Indie Comics, and the Legal Profession By DanielKenkel 02 Jul 2012 The State of Creative Industries The Music Industry For the better part ...

DanielKetaniFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Symbolism, Politics, and the Future By DanielKetani 16 Feb 2012 Politics and polytheism Thurman Arnold in #8220;The Folklore of Capitalism #8221; asserts that ...

DanielKetaniIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I came to law school because I thought the law was interesting and that it would be a good career. I think that thinking one can change the world is a form of narcissism ...

DanielKetaniSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Anxiety and the Law By DanielKetani 21 May 2012 The desire for formalism Felix Cohen described the American Law Institute and its #8220;Restatement of the Law ...

DanielMargolskeeFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Economic Theory and the Rational Study of Law Writing about the study of law, Justice Holmes predicted that, while #8220;the blackletter man may be the man of the ...

DanielMargolskeeIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:18	IanSullivan
I worked for an equity research firm for a few years after college, spending my days modeling the earnings of a few Internet companies. I hated it. Daily, I directed ...

DanielMargolskeeSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
Edited version of MichaelDignanFirstPaper Narrative in Legal Institutions People have a deep psychological need for convincing narratives that justify and explain ...

DanielMargolskeeThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Alienation, Violence, and the Law By DanielMargolskee 28 May 2009 A lawyer is a person who does things using words. But what the lawyers we #8217;ve encountered ...

DanielYoonFirstEssay	26 Apr 2018 - 03:26	DanielYoon
Society and Debt By DanielYoon 01 Mar 2018 Premise A society is defined by the success and contributions of its members. Each dollar earned and spent in some ...

DanielYoonSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 17:30	EbenMoglen
My Terms By DanielYoon 26 Apr 2018 Introduction When I committed to a career in law by accepting my offer at Columbia Law School, I knew only that I planned ...

DavidAlpertSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 07:04	DavidAlpert
It is awfully nice to walk in New York   What time is it inside you?   It was over. I walked up Central Park West on the last night of finals. It was 4am, and it ...

DavidCaslerIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
There are always strands of law in American society. Nobody goes through their childhood or adolescence without knowing at least a few lawyers. I looked up to the ...

DavidFrydmanFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Morality and the Law: Duty to Rescue Statutes in American Jurisprudence By DavidFrydman 14 Feb 2012 The Bystander Effect Duty to Rescue Statutes The Effect ...

DavidFrydmanIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is David Frydman, I hail from Dayton, Ohio, and made my way to NYC via Chicago. I am definitely a product of the Midwest in my tastes, morals, and general ...

DavidFrydmanSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Cannibalism and the Institutionalized Ritual By DavidFrydman 14 May 2012 Capital Punishment is the Modern, "Civilized" Form of Ritualized Killing Mankind has ...

DavidGarfinkelFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Juvenile Justice By DavidGarfinkel 25 Feb 2010 During one of my summers in college, I served as a volunteer law clerk for one of the District Attorney #8217;s ...

DavidGarfinkelIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
DavidGarfinkel 13 Jan 2010 My name is David Garfinkel. I was at political science major at UC Berkeley. My desire to go to law school was to develop certain knowledge ...

DavidGarfinkelSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Conspicuous Consumption and the Law Student By DavidGarfinkel 16 Apr 2010 Conspicuous Consumption as a Useful Metaphor In The Theory of the Leisure Class , ...

DavidGoldinFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
I took a different approach to this paper while trying to explore the same overall theme. My attempts at generalization were failing for obvious reasons, so instead ...

DavidGoldinIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
DavidGoldin 14 Jan 2010 I came to law school hoping it would help me find a job that is both intellectually satisfying and that will enable me to care for my family ...

DavidGoldinSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
All so I've stuck with the original idea since it means a lot to me but tried to address some of the issues Paul brought up in his comments by making my aims clearer ...

DavidHirschFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Legal Magic and Jury Instructions Democracy I agree that I owe some engagement with the idea that in a democracy, ordinary people from all walks of life should have ...

DavidHirschIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction David Hirsch I grew up in in Oak Park, Illinois, a Western suburb of Chicago. I went to college in Minnesota and stuck around for two years ...

DavidKellamFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 03:05	DavidKellam
Return to the West By DavidKellam 31 May 2017 Our modern acceptance of online surveillance may irreversibly displace any feeling of entitlement that humankind ...

DavidKellamSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 00:33	DavidKellam
By DavidKellam 07 Jun 2017 An hour ago, I was walking on the beach, thinking about this essay and hoping to use the last few minutes of sunlight to find another ...

DavidManadomSecondEssay	15 Jun 2017 - 20:02	DavidManadom
I have relearned that I am more than capable of using the law to fight on behalf of impoverished/ oppressed persons in the U.S. I use the word #8220;relearn #8221 ...

DavidMehl-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:53	IanSullivan
A Letter To My Fellow 1L'S Like it or not, the vast majority of us will end up working for a BIG LAW firm directly out of school. As much as we have heard about the ...

DavidMehlIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:53	IanSullivan
My goal in life, first and foremost is to be a good dad and husband. Law is a field that interests me greatly, and practicing law will provide me with the means to ...

DawitAkliluFirstEssay	24 May 2021 - 03:50	DawitAklilu
Forming identity through relating experience to craft By DawitAklilu 22 Feb 2021 Section I: Introduction Identity. The formative themes of our life that make ...

DayoAdeoyeFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 20:29	EbenMoglen
BLACK EROTIC LAWYERING By DayoAdeoye 21 Feb 2025 INTRODUCTION: The Inseverable Part of the Unimaginable On his 90th birthday, a journalist asked Oliver Wendell ...

DayoOshilajaFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
What do Commercials, the Idiot Box and Law School have in Common? Law a Weak Form of Social Control Insecurity Television: The Idiot Box Television Commercials Law ...

DayoOshilajaIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Nigerian. American. Black. Woman. New Jerseyan. Dukie. Columbia Law School. At the intersection of all these identities is me, Dayo Mariam Oshilaja. My goal is to ...

DeWolfe	10 Jun 2016 - 13:48	SamParnell
SamParnell 10 Jun 2016 This aspect trying to prompt a hyperlink just because the man's name includes two capital letters of twiki annoys me.

DearProfessorMoglenAnOpenLetter	17 Apr 2010 - 14:38	NonaFarahnik
Dear Professor Moglen, I am writing this letter because I think you provide a vital voice to the Columbia Law School community, and because the time you devote to ...

DeathOfAPartner	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
WalkerNewell 23 Apr 2009 The New Yorker published an article about the murder of the Cravath partner that is referenced in "Transactional". You can't access it without ...

DeathOfUSPrisonSystem	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
I thought we quickly moved through an incredibly complex topic yesterday. Maybe we'll talk more about it this afternoon. But challenging the Prison Industrial Complex ...

DeathofGiantFirms	11 Jan 2010 - 16:52	IanSullivan
The marginal return to transactional work of an investment in legal education will certainly diminish. Ivy educated lawyers will be only slightly more valuable, and ...

DeathofGiantFirms2	28 Jan 2008 - 16:15	EdwardNewton
I started this new topic to reply to EdwardNewton, since I sensed we both wanted to move away from the topic of BalancingWork. EdwardNewton never consented to this ...

DecidingInThePresent	22 Jan 2013 - 18:09	IanSullivan
It is very easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to admire a man like John Brown who was willing to put his life in real danger to free slaves, even when this involved ...

DeepThoughts	13 Apr 2014 - 11:39	AjKhandaker

DeficiencyJudgments	17 Apr 2010 - 19:03	NonaFarahnik
Returning to the question from the first few classes: Why don't more people strategically default? http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/03/real estate/foreclosure deficiency ...

DesireeMoshayediFirstEssay	17 May 2021 - 07:18	DesireeMoshayedi
The Weaknesses and Corruption of Macro Cost Benefit Analyses in Redistributive Policy By DesireeMoshayedi 16 May 2021 I) The Structural Issues of Cost Benefit ...

DesireeMoshayediSecondEssay	17 May 2021 - 07:05	DesireeMoshayedi
Would you rather be the rat or the scientist? By DesireeMoshayedi 16 May 2021 I. Rat and Scientist A rat lives in a maze with several other rats. She watches ...

DevinMcDougallFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Climate Change, Creeds, and Expertise I. A problem: Climate change is a priority justice issue There is international scientific consensus that climate change is ...

DevinMcDougallSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
There's room to expand, subtract, etc. as you think appropriate. Basically, I tried to spell out all the assumptions and reasons I thought were floating around in ...

DianaAvilaFirstEssay	06 May 2024 - 17:31	DianaAvila
Future Conflict By DianaAvila 22 Feb 2024 Introduction One of the first questions you #8217;re asked when you #8217;re young is #8220;what do you want to be ...

DianaAvilaSecondEssay	07 May 2024 - 02:05	DianaAvila
By DianaAvila 16 Apr 2024 Welcome to CA Intro Something I have always been open to speaking about is the criminal justice system and how it has affected my community ...

DianaSidakisFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Holmes and the Universal Holmes #8217;s defense of jurisprudence in the final paragraph of #8220;The Path of the Law #8221; echoes Shelley #8217;s #8220;Defence ...

DianaSidakisIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:18	IanSullivan
DianaSidakis 20 Jan 2009 I want to be a lawyer for two reasons, although I suppose the two are parallel. First, I want to better understand the world; I want to understand ...

DianaSidakisSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
Law School and Contemporary Society By KristineVanHamersveld 26 Feb 2009, edited by Diana Sidakis 20 April 2009 If it is true that law school doesn #8217;t teach ...

DianaSidakisThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Presence The first night I slept in Istanbul I woke up at 4:30AM to the call to prayer. For the last ten months I woke up to the electronic melody of my cell phone ...

DimiaFogam-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Barack: The Great Black Hope? By DimiaFogam 14 Feb 2008 Intro Over the last several months, many magazine and newspaper editors have seen fit to dub Barack Obama ...

DimiaFogam-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:54	IanSullivan
Economic Inequality and Poverty. Two Sides of the Same Coin? America as a country is wealthier than it has ever been, and as a population we continue to become more ...

DimiaFogamIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:54	IanSullivan
DimiaFogam 17 Jan 2008 I am less interested in interpreting the law, than I am in eventually shaping and changing the law. From my perspective, the law is the single ...

DiminishedIndividualCulpability	17 Apr 2010 - 19:03	NonaFarahnik
I just noticed this case that I thought presented an interesting take on individual culpability. If I understand the case properly, Butler sold people high risk subprime ...

DiscountedLaborOfBIPOCStudentsAndFaculty	08 Mar 2022 - 21:10	AimeePacheco
I just wanted to start off by saying that I appreciated the comments that were made at the end of class regarding the privilege that comes with making comments like ...

DiscussionContinued	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
I became uncomfortable at the same moment as Julia but for a different reason. Rather than thinking Eben's proposition was unfairly tough on politicians I felt it ...

DiscussionsInTheFuture	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
Over the past semester we've all used this wiki to discuss class readings, the legal field, and law school in general. I've enjoyed reading what everyone on here ...

DoNotesMatter	13 Jan 2012 - 22:04	IanSullivan
We're encouraged to write notes, but do they really do anything worthwhile? Granted, they will have an effect on the note writer herself, if at all taken seriously ...

DoWeBelieve	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
WalkerNewell 26 Feb 2009 We are all coming to class twice a week, listening to Eben's version of what is going on in the world around us, nodding our heads, challenging ...

DoYouDoAnythingDifferently	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
Inspired by the love discussion and trying to come up with an idea for a second paper, I started thinking about what effect this class has on people. Unlike classes ...

DoingGoodWork	22 Jan 2009 - 00:55	IanSullivan
I have a pretty good idea of the kind of public interest work I want to do, and certainly I'm not looking to get rich. But as my first wave of summer job rejections ...

DoingWrongByNotDoing	27 Apr 2010 - 20:47	NovikaIshar
I keep thinking back to something Eben brought up in class last week (Tuesday) namely, the idea that if you see a problem, or something that you don #8217;t think ...

DrinkingFromAFirehose	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
Concerning today's discussion on reading/listening to internalize the material rather than forget it: is it possible that under some circumstances, there's simply ...

DudleyAndMorality	07 Jan 2010 - 22:20	IanSullivan
Dudley and Morality When reading the excerpt for today's class, and when I finished reading Regina v. Dudley and Stephens in Criminal Law for that matter, I kept thinking ...

DudleyAndStephens	17 Apr 2010 - 14:53	NonaFarahnik
I thought I would get some discussion of Dudley and Stephens going, because I feel a little conflicted about certain issues that the case and Simpson piece bring up ...

DudleyAndTheWhales	13 Apr 2015 - 20:33	MattBurke
Dudley and the Whales When a different storm rose over a different sea, the frightened sailors cast lots to determine whose god had called it. The lots fell on a groggy ...

DutyandResponsibility	22 Jan 2009 - 01:02	IanSullivan
I'm actually really glad no one used the words "duty" or "responsibility" in their introductory statements. I don't believe in the concept of altruism. No one does ...

DylanRowlingFirstEssay	21 Apr 2025 - 18:49	EbenMoglen
Operation Open Up: Reinstituting Freedom of Movement on Morningside Campus By DylanRowling 20 Feb 2025 What is closed? What is #8220;closed #8221;? Since April ...

EarlyInterviewProgram	25 Jun 2010 - 03:08	NonaFarahnik
My question at the EIP meeting: Will we also be given information about which firms deferred CLS students? Nona Are you referring to Petal Modeste's response to ...

EbenMoglenIntro	25 Jan 2015 - 14:41	EbenMoglen
What I Wanted I went to law school because I wanted to write legal history. became a lawyer, at first, by accident. Later I realized that an effect making justice ...

EbenSalon	13 Jan 2012 - 22:05	IanSullivan
This Topic Exists to be a parent to other exploratory topics based (at least initially) on the questions about order raised by Nona and others on February 2nd. DRussellKraft ...

EconomistArticle-UnderlyingFitness	30 Jul 2010 - 14:37	MikeAbend
MikeAbend 30 Jul 2010 Another potential explanation... http://www.economist.com/node/9581656 Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption Charity is just as ...

EconomyPinchesTheBillableHour	07 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
This is a little off topic, but in some ways it relates to Thursday #8217;s conversation regarding time management and stress. I just read an article in the Times ...

EdiRumanoFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Law, Morality, Trust, and their Limits By EdiRumano 16 Feb 2012 This paper is an exploration of the benefits and challenges of reductionist economic thinking, ...

EdiRumanoIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I'm Edi. I was born in Albania, grew up in Colorado, and went to college in Pennsylvania. I like natural and social science, literature, math ...

EdiRumanoSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Inequality and the Law Student By EdiRumano 23 May 2012 One of the questions asked at the outset of this course was how to be a lawyer that who is responsive ...

EditingPaper2	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Should I approach editing as if I were an editor for someone who was asking me to make revisions before they submitted something as his/her own? I am unsure how much ...

EdsonSandovalFirstEssay	05 Jun 2024 - 19:45	EbenMoglen
Authenticity in an Age of Lies and Deception By EdsonSandoval 18 May 2024 Introduction What does it mean to be authentic? Why not be yourself rather than pretending ...

EdsonSandovalSecondEssay	29 May 2024 - 00:04	EdsonSandoval
The Dehumanization of Immigration Politics: An Immigrant #8217;s Perspective By EdsonSandoval 23 May 2024 The dehumanization of immigration is a prevalent issue ...

EducationReform	13 Jan 2012 - 22:05	IanSullivan
A friend and I recently got into a discussion / argument recently over education reform. It all started when I scoffed at the fact that prospective grade school teachers ...

EducationversusGuidance	22 Jan 2013 - 18:09	IanSullivan
I found series of interviews by Alain de Botton directly relevant to our recent discussions regarding our law school experience and the challenges faced during our ...

EdwardNewton-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Is gambling a crime? By EdwardNewton 14 Feb 2008 My !PartyPoker account Considering the numerous controversial federal actions that have occurred during the Bush ...

EdwardNewtonIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:59	IanSullivan
My interest in studying law is directly related to my interest in economic development. I #8217;m concerned with the ethical and philosophical implications of living ...

EdwardNewtonSecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:59	IanSullivan
Do You Want To Dance? In Midler v. Ford Motor Company , the 9th Circuit created a new right of publicity proscribing the imitation of professional singers #8217 ...

EdwardNewtonSecondPaperRevised	02 Jun 2008 - 13:30	EdwardNewton
Do You Want to Dance? In Midler v. Ford Motor Company, the Ninth Circuit created a right of publicity proscribing the imitation of professional singers #8217; voices ...

EfficientBreachTheory	22 Jan 2013 - 18:09	IanSullivan
The following is an edited transcript of a Facebook conversation between Joseph Itkis (JI), Jonathan Brice (JB), Shaked Sivan (SS) and myself, Rohan Grey (RG) that ...

ElaineTanIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:59	IanSullivan
After college, I couldn #8217;t decide on a career. I worked freelance in fashion as a patternmaker for a few years. Fashion was exciting at first simply because ...

ElbaGonzalezFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 21:56	EbenMoglen
From Nicaraguan Folk to Salsa: Music as a Tool for Resistance and Political Expression By ElbaGonzalez 20 Feb 2025 Kendrick Lamar #8217;s 2025 Super Bowl halftime ...

EldonWrightFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Trust Yourself By EldonWright 18 April 2009 Look Inward Students should not become so concerned with the first steps of their legal career trajectory that they ...

EldonWrightIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:18	IanSullivan
EldonWright 20 Jan 2009 I came to law school because it was the next logical step. Not because I didn #8217;t know what else to do, or because I had been told I might ...

EldonWrightSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
The Curve doesn #8217;t Kill People; People Confusing Grades with Personal Worth Kills People. EldonWright 19 Apr 2009 originally By ScottThurman 26 Feb 2009 ...

EldonWrightThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
45 rpm EldonWright 21 May 2009 You Have My Attention We walked into class and the man at the front of the room began to play a song most, if not all of us, had ...

ElenaKagan	13 Jan 2012 - 22:05	IanSullivan
Is anyone else disappointed with this nomination (from a non liberal/conservative point of view)? I think it is terribly disappointing that we keep getting these Ivy ...

EliKeeneFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:42	MarkDrake
Weighing the Benefits of Regulation By EliKeene 4 May 2015 Cost benefit analysis (CBA) has been the cornerstone of environmental regulatory decision making since ...

EliKeeneIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:10	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By EliKeene 29 Jan 2015 I came to law school to learn to solve complex problems. During my time working in international policy, I met two ...

EliKeeneSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:44	MarkDrake
Democracy and the Press By EliKeene 25 May 2015 #8220;Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. #8221; #8211; Justice ...

ElieShnersonFirstEssay	05 Jun 2023 - 18:52	ElieShnerson
Thank you. Will rewrite.

ElieShnersonSecondEssay	05 Jun 2023 - 18:52	ElieShnerson
Thank you. Will rewrite.

ElieTFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
The Lawyer I Want to Be: Adding a Commitment to Social Justice to My Practice The opportunities and successes that brought me to Columbia were largely a ...

ElieTIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Hello. I grew up in Los Angeles thinking I wanted to become a sports agent, and spent some time exploring that goal in college. I am not sure if that is what I want ...

ElieTSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
The Injustice of the Felony Murder Rule The felony murder rule allows prosecutors to charge felons with any death that occurs during the commission of a ...

ElijahPittFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 15:13	EbenMoglen
On "Beyond DEI: Rescuing the Human Person from Inhuman Law" by Jonathan Berry By ElijahPitt 20 Feb 2025 On November 18th, Columbia Law School #8217;s Federalist ...

ElijahTurnerFirstEssay	24 Feb 2020 - 13:56	ElijahTurner
How to Be Creative in Law School The Simple Answer: Don't Forget Yourself. This means retaining/maintaining a consistent understanding of who I am, where I come ...

ElizabethBrandtFirstEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 20:53	ElizabethBrandt
Using Law School Intelligently By ElizabethBrandt 13 June 2016 I have no doubt that I am meant to be in law school. For some of my classmates this seems like an ...

ElizabethBrandtSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 21:02	ElizabethBrandt
Three Lessons from my Summer Sales Internship So Far By ElizabethBrandt 13 June 2016 So far, my summer internship is not at all what I expected. I chose a tiny ...

ElizabethEncinasFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
It #8217;s never sat well with me being categorized as one of #8220;The privileged #8221; simply because I #8217;ve had access to tertiary education. I #8217;ve always ...

ElizabethEncinasIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Elizabeth Encinas , 27 years old, from Trinidad and Tobago. I graduated from Columbia College in 2008 with a B.A in Political Science. In the years between undergrad ...

ElizabethEncinasSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
The #8220;M #8221; word: Morality and the Law In Lawrence v. Texas (2002) Why isn't this a link? Surely you can help your reader find the case you're talking ...

ElizabethHaydenFirstEssay	24 Apr 2018 - 20:23	ElizabethHayden
Creative Approaches to Providing Legal Services By ElizabethHayden 01 Mar 2018 Incorporating the needs of everyone Law school attempts to teach us to view legal ...

ElizabethHaydenSecondEssay	05 Jun 2018 - 00:59	ElizabethHayden
Reflections after a year in law school By ElizabethHayden 4 June 2018 The kind of lawyer I want to be I want to be the kind of lawyer who cares about their work ...

ElizabethHuhFirstEssay	20 May 2022 - 19:28	ElizabethHuh
Time in Legal Practice By ElizabethHuh 20 May 2022 A Reflection from the First Draft When you told me to cut the draft before you can accept it, my first instinct ...

ElizabethHuhIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 02:44	ElizabethHuh
Personal Introduction By ElizabethHuh 17 Jan 2022 My name is Elizabeth Huh and I am from Seoul, Korea, although I was born in Boulder, Colorado, and went to an ...

ElizabethOseiFirstEssay	11 May 2021 - 02:53	ElizabethOsei
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

ElizabethSullivanFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Pedagogy of the Oppressed "Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present ...

ElizabethSullivanIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Hi, I'm Lizzie. I fight vehemently for what I believe in. A lot of the time, I'm not sure I believe in anything, so I find myself fighting seemingly ...

ElizabethSullivanSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
The Importance of Words Neither of my parents went to college. I can say with some degree of confidence that their embarrassment and regret over that fact blazed the ...

EllaAikenFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
The Benefits of Empathy in a Legal Education The current divorce from reality in legal education The 1L curriculum and much of the law school curriculum in general ...

EllaAikenIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:18	IanSullivan
EllaAiken 20 Jan 2009 I came to law school because I like to think. I majored in classics and philosophy as an undergrad because I love reading about how people think ...

EllaAikenSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:31	IanSullivan
This is a rewrite of Yinan Zhang's paper. Introduction: Marriage as a social norm The institution of monogamous marriage has an undeniably significant impact on our ...

EllaAikenThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Actions Speak Louder Than Words Prayers of Healing While CNN has become more of a gossip rag than a news source, I must admit that I read it often. At the bottom ...

EllenBrodyAccident	05 Feb 2015 - 18:44	RobertoRivera2
Here are some of the details on the Ellen Brody Accident. It includes more names of the victims. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/transit/2015/02/04/metro north driver ...

ElliottGrundFirstEssay	02 Jun 2017 - 04:12	ElliottGrund
The Funnel By ElliottGrund 1 June 2017 Commencement It was Monday. After a long weekend of awkward social gatherings and not really optional panels of esteemed ...

EllisaKimFirstEssay	04 Jun 2024 - 16:59	EbenMoglen
Stumbling Upon Law School (Revised on May 29, 2024) Music, my past lover Thoughts race. Fingers scuttle across the keyboard. I am sitting at a Steinway Sons piano ...

ElviraKrasFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I was a freshman when I first became involved with the Chaudhry case. Olu Orange, my mock trial coach and an attorney in Los Angeles, knew I spoke Russian. When he ...

ElviraKrasIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Elvira, pronounced Elveera. I came to law school because that is the prerequisite for a JD. I am interested in learning ...

ElviraKrasSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
On the eve of the last night of my internship, looking at this paper, I realized that the distraction technique of the tangential story wasn #8217;t necessary and ...

ElyseSchneiderFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
Repression and its Effect on the American Legal System Army officer Al Lorentz #8217;s first of four main reasons for #8220;why we can #8217;t win #8221; in Iraq ...

ElyseSchneiderIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
ElyseSchneider 14 Jan 2009 I came to law school because I think it will give me more power to have a positive influence on international issues that I otherwise would ...

ElyseSchneiderSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:33	IanSullivan
ElyseSchneider 10 Apr 2009 RACE AND THE ROLE OF THE SUPREME COURT Originally by Erandi Zamora After generations of activism and legislative action we finally made ...

ElyseSchneiderThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
LAW SCHOOL AND ITS EFFECT ON THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM By ElyseSchneider 25 Apr 2009 THE PROBLEM WE NEVER SPOKE OF I began my Criminal Law course thinking we ...

EmailEncryptionWorkshop	13 Jan 2012 - 22:05	IanSullivan
Hello wiki! I wanted to let all interested know that my friend Yin Huang has kindly offered to teach people how email encryption works and how to set it up, since ...

EmilySedewitzFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 20:11	EbenMoglen
The Ungovernable Undisputedly, the unfolding climate crisis presents a profound challenge, not merely of technological innovation or policy implementation, but of ...

EmmaShumwayFirstEssay	06 May 2021 - 15:18	EmmaShumway
Developing My Personal Lawyer #8217;s Theory of Social Action By EmmaShumway 19 Feb 2021 Why I #8217;m Here Choosing Law I learned about climate change as an ...

EmmaShumwaySecondEssay	07 May 2021 - 15:14	EmmaShumway
A Brief Exploration of Courageous Lawyering By EmmaShumway 06 Apr 2021 An Introduction Despite the enduring societal value placed in courage, it is difficult ...

EmmanuelOsayandeFirstEssay	19 Apr 2024 - 18:36	EmmanuelOsayande
Navigating a Legal Crossroads of Activists and Rulers: Lessons from Lagos By EmmanuelOsayande 18 Apr 2024 In March 1996, a group of human rights activists took ...

EmpathyAndTheLaw	13 Jan 2012 - 22:05	IanSullivan
I am lucky, in that my name begins with a C and Eben edited my paper a long time ago. Still, it took me some time to inure myself to the scary red ink and actually ...

EmpathyTheLaw	09 Feb 2017 - 22:03	TimCuffman
I came across this old article that seems to suggest that if we're concerned about just outcomes that are not divorced from social reality, empathy is important. Cultivating ...

EmptyPolitics	22 Jan 2013 - 18:09	IanSullivan
I just had to post this Daily Show clip, which covers precisely what Eben was talking about when he said politicians have to be empty vessels, waiting to be filled ...

EmptyVesselPoliticiansandPoliticalCowardice	22 Jan 2013 - 18:09	IanSullivan
During today #8217;s class discussion I thought of an article (linked below) that I read yesterday. The piece effectively captures the idea that politicians are empty ...

ErandiZamoraFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
By ErandiZamora 27 Feb 2009 After generations of struggle, activism, and legislative action we finally made it. The U.S.A. elected its 44th President #8212;an African ...

ErandiZamoraIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
I came to law school because I thought this would be the best way to address the pervasive problems that plague our society. The law has played a major role in the ...

ErandiZamoraNewFirstPaper	06 Aug 2009 - 20:28	EbenMoglen
ErandiZamora 21 Apr 2009 Can You Afford the Risk? Intro "You need to stop being afraid. You need to know what you want, know how to get it and do what you have ...

ErandiZamoraSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
ErandiZamora 21 Apr 2009 Leff, Lawyering and Law School o Intro o How Do Lawyers Think? o What Do Lawyers Do? o Leff ...

ErandiZamoraThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Paper Title Why doesn't this essay have a title? By ErandiZamora 28 May 2009 Introduction Justice comes with a price tag, and unfortunately it is not affordable ...

EricSoehnleinFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
You didn't need to leave the original draft here, because all prior versions are saved. Look under the "Diffs" button. Fixing the Inside from the Outside: the ...

EricSoehnleinSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
The Mythology and Ultimate Poverty of the Curve By ScottThurman 26 Feb 2009 Introduction What are grades? They are the one constant in law school and yet are ...

EricSoehnleinThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
"The Reconciliation of Justice and Self: Being a Lawyer and Not Being Hated by Your Former Self" Practicing lawyers often have to reconcile their place within the ...

EricSpeckhardFirstEssay	26 Apr 2018 - 15:36	EricSpeckhard
The Right Question By EricSpeckhard 26 April 2018 Right or Right Besides the usual requests for the #8220;facts #8221; or the holding below, one question ...

EricSpeckhardSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 16:09	EbenMoglen
Going Forward By EricSpeckhard 25 Apr 2018 Past is Prologue A few years ago, I decided to leave behind a childhood dream. Growing up, my family went on frequent ...

EricaSeligFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Untitled By EricaSelig 26 Feb 2010 INTRO: LANGUAGE OF THE COURTS OF CONQUEST In 1392, Antonio de Nebrija wrote Gramática , the first modern grammar book of its ...

EricaSeligIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
EricaSelig 12 Jan 2010 Three courses I took in college had a profound impact on my worldview: these were The Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Era , The ...

EricaSeligSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Is the death penalty inherently unfair?: An examination of the viability of race based claims in the McCleskey era By EricaSelig 15 Apr 2010 Roughly 50% of ...

EricaSenatIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
My name is Erica Senat. I am 22 and hail from Long Island, New York. I have known that I wanted to be a lawyer from a very young age and came to law school right after ...

EricaSmithFirstEssay	27 May 2023 - 13:39	EricaSmith
How Anti blackness Perpetuates itself in Hair Introduction I have thick, long, and very kinky curly hair. Most days, I wear my hair down, but if I want it out ...

EricaSmithSecondEssay	27 May 2023 - 13:41	EricaSmith
The Lucky Sperm Club My father has always told me that I am a part of the "lucky sperm club" as he jokingly refers to it. When I look at my life compared to the lives ...

ErikaKrystian-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:04	IanSullivan
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EstherKwakIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
I came to Law School because I vaguely thought that Law School would give me an ability to help other people, make an impact, and also give me a secure life. As of ...

EthanSingerFirstEssay	25 May 2021 - 21:59	EbenMoglen
The Interest in Dying By EthanSinger 26 Feb 2021 The Right to Die #8220;Is there a right to die? #8221; asks Chief Justice Rehnquist in v. Glucksberg. According ...

EthanSingerSecondEssay	19 May 2021 - 02:40	EthanSinger
An Examination of Imagining the Future By EthanSinger 13 Apr 2021 Introduction When I was younger, I often imagined my future self as a professional baseball ...

EtherPad	01 Feb 2021 - 18:09	OliviaMartinez
NnamdiNwaezeapu 14 Jan 2021 Hi Nnamdi, did you want us to talk about anything specific to the EtherPad or just about it? OliviaMartinez 01 Feb 2021

EverArgueWithAWoman	22 Jan 2009 - 01:05	IanSullivan
This might be old news by now but apparently one law firm has some creative advertising that's creating a bit of buzz. It reminded me of when we had a big ol' disagreement ...

EverythingIsACon	07 Jan 2010 - 22:20	IanSullivan
In examples such as the #8220;mountain fresh #8221; Dasani water, I don #8217;t feel so much that it #8217;s a con as an advertising strategy. Nearly every producer ...

ExamsAndImprovingLawSchool	07 Jan 2010 - 22:20	IanSullivan
I asked this question early on in the course, and I didn't receive much feedback. I'll try again. Do you think that if we had more methods of evaluation in a course ...

ExpandingBehaviorofLaw	22 Jan 2013 - 18:09	IanSullivan
Expanding on the Behavior of Law I wanted to examine the Behavior of the Law more closely to see what, if any, implications it has about law as a practice and lawyers ...

ExplainingOptimismThroughArnold	07 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
JasonLissy 06 Feb 2009 Explaining Moglen #8217;s Optimism Through Arnold Prof. Moglen commented during our discussion of the choice/non choice composition of human ...

ExplainingWhatISaidInClassToday	07 Jan 2010 - 22:22	IanSullivan
I could put this post under the OnWhyIAmReluctantToTalkInClass parent topic; I think it became obvious today that I usually keep quiet because my brain to mouth filter ...

FacebookIsDangerous	22 Jan 2013 - 18:10	IanSullivan
This post explores the risks of using Facebook, and the risks of your peers using Facebook even if you do not. Facebook transformed the way that the world interacts ...

FacebookPower	13 Apr 2015 - 20:14	NicoGurian
NicoGurian 13 Apr 2015 Potentially of interest: A recent piece in the Columbia Journalism Review about the troubling impact of Facebook on both journalism and free ...

FactFindingInBaseballDiscussion	17 May 2010 - 08:25	JoshuaHochman
I wanted to respond to some of Matt's points and for now thought it was best to keep this separate from my essay, but I'm open to suggestions on integrating this discussion ...

FaithInTheLegalSystem	16 Feb 2023 - 17:29	MichaelPari
HuazhouYe 14 Feb 2023 After reading Lawyerland, I am curious as to how everyone feels about the legal system. Did your faith for the system diminish or enlarge? What ...

FallacyOfDistributionCriminalLaw	11 Jan 2010 - 16:53	IanSullivan
Linked from ClassNotes2008Jan23: "Does the criminal law do more good than harm?" is a straw man question. To think that answering NO condemns our criminal law is a ...

FarayiMafotiFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

FarayiMafotiIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
FarayiMafoti 14 Jan 2010 What I initially hoped for out of law school was a chance to hone my creative and logical sensibilities. I was a philosophy major in college ...

FarayiMafotiSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Farayi, I found your paper very interesting. I have placed my re write above and your original below. I thought your essay could have benefited from more organization ...

FearAndAnxiety	17 Apr 2010 - 14:54	NonaFarahnik
When Eben talks about the fear and anxiety created by law school, grades, and dwindling firm jobs, does this resonate with you? How about fear that you won't find ...

February2Notes	03 Feb 2010 - 00:34	ChristopherCrismanCox
02.02 Tuesday Where does legal creativity come from and how does it operate? Need to clear more brush. Law and how to learn it. Realism. Realism itself is a creative ...

FeliciaGilbert-FirstPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:52	IanSullivan
Oral Advocacy, Success Self Gratification Intro This past weekend I participated in the 2007 2008 Northeastern Black Law Students Association Fredrick Douglass ...

FeliciaGilbert-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:06	IanSullivan
FeliciaGilbert 07 Apr 2008 The System Works as it Should: Spring Break and Louisiana Expungement Law Intro Every day there was freshly brewed coffee in the kitchen ...

FeliciaGilbertIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:06	IanSullivan
FeliciaGilbert 19 Jan 2008 Too much legal tradition has been formulated by people who look nothing like me and whose interests and perspectives are anything but representative ...

FeliciaReyesIntro	20 Jan 2022 - 00:34	FeliciaReyes
Personal Introduction By FeliciaReyes 19 Jan 2022 My name if Felicia Reyes and I graduated from USC in 2017 with a degree in American Studies and Ethnicity and ...

FeliciaReyesSecondEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 06:16	FeliciaReyes
Impact of Crimmigration on Immigrant Youth By FeliciaReyes 26 Apr 2022 Who is deserving of protection? In 2010, the Georgia Board of Regents adopted harsh anti ...

FernandoGarciaFirstEssay	06 Jun 2024 - 15:43	EbenMoglen
A (Revised) Reflection on Choosing a Practice By FernandoGarcia 24 Feb 2024 When I began this course, I mistakenly believed that ignoring Columbia #8217;s push ...

FernandoGarciaSecondEssay	30 May 2024 - 03:42	FernandoGarcia
Never Far from Evil By FernandoGarcia 23 Apr 2024 #8220;I am, after all, a lawyer. I am never far from evil. #8221; This characterization of lawyering may turn ...

FeyiFalanaFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 14:38	EbenMoglen
My Struggle with Eric Adams and New York's Promise By FeyiFalana 20 Feb 2025 Growing up as a first generation Nigerian American in New York, I #8217;ve always ...

FightingVisceralReactions	07 Jan 2010 - 22:22	IanSullivan
I noticed my comment is better placed in Caroline's new topic. KeithEdelman 14 Apr 2009

FightingtheDebtCollectors	17 Apr 2010 - 19:05	NonaFarahnik
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010 01 21/news/better off deadbeat craig cunningham has a simple solution for getting bill collectors off his back he sues them/3 This ...

FindingAPurpose	22 Jan 2013 - 18:10	IanSullivan
After discussing John Brown #8217;s life and the thoughts of Martha Thauraud, it has become increasingly clear that we need to be more introspective and perceptive ...

FindingLeff	13 Jan 2012 - 22:26	IanSullivan
Hi classmates! I've been searching through this website for Leff's Swindling and Selling without any success. I thought spending a lot of time trying to find it ...

FirmlyRefuse	22 Jan 2013 - 18:10	IanSullivan
I found this campaign (http://firmlyrefuse.tumblr.com) at Harvard to get students to think about why they are choosing to work for firms to be interesting, particularly ...

FirstEssay	19 Feb 2021 - 12:00	EbenMoglen
Essay Assignment Not more than 1,000 words. Under any circumstances. It's your idea. The essay tries to exposit, weigh, and prepare the reader to explore it. Because ...

FirstPaper2010	22 Feb 2015 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Other Since this is an assignment page general editing is restricted. Please leave any comments ...

FirstPaper2013	22 Feb 2015 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create First Paper will create a page named FirstPaper2013 ...

FirstPaperEditRequests	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
Since I'm sure nobody has anything better to do this week, I thought I'd create this page for people who'd like some feedback on their first paper rewrites. It was ...

FirstPaperRewrite	18 Apr 2010 - 20:43	MikeAbend
MikeAbend 18 Apr 2010 Innocent by Circumstance Introduction I don't think I'll ever be convicted of a serious crime. This determination is not the result of knowledge ...

FirstPaperRound2	09 Jul 2010 - 20:28	KalliopeKefallinos
MikeAbend 09 Jul 2010 Over the past decade, as retailers subtly transformed into e tailers, I noticed that the online shopping experience was merely a new form of ...

FirstPaperSpring2012	22 Feb 2015 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Archived will create a page named FirstPaperSpring2012 and ...

FolkloreofFraternity	22 Jan 2013 - 18:13	IanSullivan
Reflection on T. Arnold #8217;s Folklore of Capitalism Note to Professor Moglen: I had originally intended to offer you three main pieces for evaluation including ...

FramingQuestionsAboutBecomingLawyers	11 Jan 2010 - 16:55	IanSullivan
This thread separates today's lecture, where Eben asks a question, from our attempts at answering it, i.e. our collaborative attempts to frame questions about ...

FrancisWhiteFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
This is a revision corrected to link to publicly available sources. For Eben #8217;s comments, see the previous version. On Creative Lawyering Introduction As Eben ...

FrancisWhiteIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
My name is Francis White. I #8217;m from Indianapolis, Indiana, and went to college at Indiana University Bloomington. After undergrad I spent a year working in local ...

FrancisWhiteSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Originalism, Brown v. Board, and Constitutional Repeal and Re Enactment Introduction Originalism purports to be a method of interpretation dictating that the Constitution ...

FranciscoGuzmanFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Liarland (Disclaimer: All characters described are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons or situations is purely coincidental.) By FranciscoGuzman 19 Feb ...

FranciscoGuzmanIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
A professor told me that vocations do not exist and that you could study whatever you enjoyed the most. Although I was a good business student for more than two years ...

FranciscoGuzmanSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
I Know Something You Don #8217;t Know: Insider Trading By FranciscoGuzman 11 Apr 2010 The Origins of the Ban The United States was the first country to begin ...

Frank-LooseEndsAndContinuingDiscussion	07 Jan 2010 - 22:33	IanSullivan
II. What We Would Like to Understand Better a. Why is Magic defined in terms of #8220;necessary #8221; and #8220;sufficient #8221;? Adam #8217;s point that ...

FrankAndJohnUpdike	07 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
Perhaps this is irrelevant to the task at hand, but as I was reading the Frank essay today, I thought of the John Updike poem below. I wouldn't have shared it except ...

FrankDiscussionSummary	07 Jan 2010 - 22:33	IanSullivan
Summary of Discourse on #8220;Courts on Trial #8221; (Jerome Frank) This is a summary of the discussion inspired by Frank #8217;s essay, organized into what we understand ...

FrankWilliamsFirstEssay	27 Apr 2018 - 01:12	FrankWilliams
Utilitarianism: Whose Majority? By FrankWilliams 01 Mar 2018 I have always been skeptical of theoretical approaches to law. This could be due in large part to ...

FrankWilliamsSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 17:10	EbenMoglen
A Middle Ground Lawyer By FrankWilliams 27 Apr 2018 Don't be Disillusioned I want to be the kind of lawyer that doesn #8217;t believe in false dichotomies. Public ...

FrankiePereiraDeLeonFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 14:44	EbenMoglen
Mapping Identity, Memory, and Familial History Through Bad Bunny #8217;s Debi Tirar Mas Fotos Album Two vacant white plastic chairs sit side by side at the ...

FreeCultureFreeFinance	25 Jan 2015 - 14:47	EbenMoglen
I wrote piece in collaboration with some other students at CLS, attempting to synthesize the copyleft approach to cultural production with my own understanding of ...

FreeInternetAct	22 Jan 2013 - 18:13	IanSullivan
Hey everyone, I know you're all probably buried with preparing for Con Law right now, but in case you feel like participating in writing some legislation, there's ...

FreeSpeechHowwhywhether	11 Jan 2010 - 16:54	IanSullivan
1) The TWiki removes the externality of speaking on listening. (caveat: this is wrong.) 2) We're reenacting Dr. Zimbardo's prison experiment, and now we get to decide ...

FromTheStreets	07 Jan 2010 - 22:33	IanSullivan
Just a couple of thoughts about last weeks reading... So in response to the 9/11 attacks and the now (the VT killings), the government (at various levels) has acted ...

FuckThisStupidRule	07 Jan 2010 - 22:34	IanSullivan
Fuck This Stupid Rule Yesterday I spent what felt like an eternity probably around 6 hours trying to learn how to apply the Rule Against Perpetuities. Over and ...

FugitiveSlaveAct	22 Jan 2013 - 18:13	IanSullivan
I was reading Prigg v. Pennsylvania, the case in our Con Law class about the Fugitive Slave Act, and I couldn't help but think of this class. It seems to be almost ...

FunFacts	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
Education, Economic Status and Race/Ethnicity in the United States Legal Education Lawyers Law Students U.S. pop. 25 High School Diploma 100 ...

GabrielZacariasIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I hoped to go to Law School and essentially learn about all about the law. How to practice, how to think, and how to read were my three main learning objectives. I ...

GabrielleKloppersFirstEssay	26 Feb 2020 - 21:19	GabrielleKloppers
Writing the Law By GabrielleKloppers 26 Feb 2020 The Law is Language The interpretive powers of storytelling take on a special significance in a courtroom. After ...

GabrielleStanfieldFirstEssay	26 May 2022 - 01:55	GabrielleStanfield
Achievement vs. Acceptance By GabrielleStanfield 11 Mar 2022 SEEKING ACCEPTANCE My professional experiences have been profoundly impacted by my experience as ...

GabrielleStanfieldIntro	14 Jan 2022 - 20:57	GabrielleStanfield
Personal Introduction By GabrielleStanfield 14 Jan 2022 Hi! My name is Gabrielle (or Gabby) and my pronouns are she/her. I am originally from Boston and I graduated ...

GabrielleStanfieldSecondEssay	10 Jun 2022 - 19:03	GabrielleStanfield
Re claiming the presentation of Black Figures in Photography By GabrielleStanfield 23 Apr 2022 On Photography In her 1977 collection of essays, On Photography ...

GallipoliAndTheBandPlayedWaltzingMatilda	07 Jan 2010 - 22:34	IanSullivan
XinpingZhu 24 May 2009 There is a book review of "Gallipoli" written by Robin Prior on today's WSJ. I believe that is what the song "And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda ...

GavinSnyderFirstPaper	31 May 2017 - 01:54	TyCarleton
There was no need to retain prior versions of this topic on the page, because all prior versions are available if you use the "Diffs" button. So I removed the first ...

GavinSnyderIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
I'm in law school to achieve financial security. If legal work turns out to be interesting to me, I'll consider it a pleasant bonus.

GavinSnyderSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
Revised version of ScottThurmanFirstPaper. Teaching, coercion, examination By ScottThurman 15 Apr 2009 Revised by GavinSnyder 17 Apr 2009 Teaching and coercion ...

GavinSnyderThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Make Biglaw More Evil Dear Professor Moglen, When I was filling out my L CS course evaluation I realized that I had a lot to say #8211; more than would be appropriate ...

GeanetteFosterFirstEssay	02 Jun 2017 - 07:51	GeanetteFoster
How Do I Make Long Form Commitments in My Life Given My Upbringing Despite moving every three years on average, I know that I can make long form commitments in my ...

GeanetteFosterSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 04:30	GeanetteFoster
The Awakening By GeanetteFoster 08 Jun 2017 I considered framing this essay around balance, but I as I outlined this essay, I recognized that I would often have ...

GechiNzewiFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Activists and Attorneys NOTE: This is the first installation of an idea that I will finish in my second essay. "Installation" meant "installment." You can ...

GechiNzewiSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Attorneys and Activists, Part 2 Introduction Unlike Malcolm X, John Brown was never beholden to anyone. While Malcolm was able to anticipate manner of his death ...

GenesisSanchezFirstEssay	12 Apr 2018 - 18:42	GenesisSanchez
A Window to my Choices: The Evolution of a Law Student By Genesis Sanchez Tavarez 12 Apr 2018 The Search for Justice Our experiences dictate our actions and ...

GenesisSanchezSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 14:11	EbenMoglen
Not Following the Masses: Taking Charge of My Education By Genesis Sanchez Tavarez 26 Apr 2018 Breaking the Mold During this first year of law school, I have ...

GeorgeMenzFirstEssay	19 May 2024 - 16:53	EbenMoglen
My Shadow in the Sun By GeorgeMenz 22 Feb 2024 What I Am It is not essential to my self conception that I am a good person. I am well aware that if I stood before ...

GeorgeMenzSecondEssay	19 May 2024 - 17:05	EbenMoglen
My Father's Career By GeorgeMenz 09 Apr 2024 Biographical Sketch My father #8217;s family was less than bourgeois. His father was a factory worker, an employee ...

GershamJFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 17:58	GershamJ
Why I #8217;m Leaving In the Fall (Or Better Yet, As Soon as Possible) By GershamJ 28 Feb 2020 What I Seek Is a Personal Doctrine What I seek is a personal ...

GetYourOwnDamnJob	07 Jan 2010 - 22:34	IanSullivan
OK, everybody is worried about jobs, internships. It does not matter you are 1L, 2L, 3L or associates, or partners. Everybody is at risk. I, for one, don't have a ...

GettingToKnowUs	19 Jan 2022 - 01:26	JermelMcClure
Getting to Know Us First week small group meetings. All meetings will be held at Jitsi Meet server. Please also see NoteOnBrowsers. Tue 18 Jan 1:20pm Taryn Wilkins ...

GhaliaAamerFirstEssay	30 May 2024 - 03:29	GhaliaAamer
Breaking the Mold: How Learning Pods Can Reshape Education By GhaliaAamer 23 Feb 2024 Institutionalization in Schools Personal Experience I remember walking ...

GhaliaAamerSecondEssay	30 May 2024 - 03:37	GhaliaAamer
Why are 73% of people afraid of public speaking? By GhaliaAamer 22 Apr 2024 So what if you mess up. It seemed odd to me that the first week of law school orientation ...

GideonHart-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Abstract: Narratives are the most common form of modern historiography. Although other forms of history exist, and were used on a regular basis in earlier times, they ...

GideonHart-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:15	IanSullivan
GideonHart 2 Apr 2008 A Misunderstood Manifesto By Gideon Hart (#) refers to page numbers within the Evangelical Manifesto Confusion in the Media On May 7th a group ...

GideonHartIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:15	IanSullivan
GideonHart 17 Jan 2008 I had been thinking about going to law school for awhile. Initially, it was for practical reasons leaving school was scary, and law seemed ...

GillianHoFirstEssay	31 May 2023 - 03:53	GillianHo
Rethinking My Practice Foreword Although my original intended practice in Hong Kong is no longer viable due to the passage of the 2020 National Security Law, I ...

GillianHoSecondEssay	16 May 2023 - 18:43	MichaelPari
Returning to Law School in the Fall By GillianHo 05 Apr 2023 The Question Itself Over the course of the semester, Eben has consistently challenged us to think ...

GloverWrightFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
To Hold in a Single Thought Reality and Justice A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior ...

GloverWrightIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I studied anthropology and philosophy in college, where I developed an interest in critical theory, technology, and the ways they might each inform the other. I had ...

GloverWrightSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Glover these are my final edits. I #8217;ve rewritten the essay, but also left some of my thoughts in red. You may want to look back at the history and see my initial ...

GodardSolomonFirstEssay	29 May 2022 - 17:37	GodardSolomon
Envisioning Myself in the Courtroom By GodardSolomon 12 Mar 2022 (second draft 29 May 2022) Introduction Ever since high school, I was sure that I wanted to ...

GodardSolomonIntro	13 Jan 2022 - 22:45	GodardSolomon
Personal Introduction My name is Godard Solomon and I am from Miami, FL. I went to University of Miami for undergrad where I studied Political Science and Sociology ...

GodardSolomonSecondEssay	30 May 2022 - 18:44	GodardSolomon
Community Intervention to Curb Over Incarceration By GodardSolomon 27 Apr 2022 (second draft 30 May 2022) Foreword During my undergraduate years, I was ...

GoodLeads	07 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
Got any leads on how to be a good lawyer? Put them here. Boutique Firms I think boutique firms might be the way to go. I spoke with an associate at a boutique ...

GraceChanFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
OPEN ACCESS TO LEGAL INFORMATION still editing a bit By GraceChan 17 Feb 2010 The Problem With the System Today Unequal Access is Unequal Justice A report ...

GraceChanIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I've long been captivated by the notion of justice, which first manifested itself as a love for the superhero genre. This initially led me to try journalism, but I ...

GraceChanSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

GraceKrasnermanFirstEssay	04 Jun 2016 - 19:23	EbenMoglen
"Liberty and Justice For All?" By GraceKrasnerman 18 April 2016 Law as Secondary to Sociopolitical Influences Lawrence Joseph's Lawyerland provides a third ...

GraceKrasnermanSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 21:01	GraceKrasnerman
An Unfortunate Alienation By GraceKrasnerman 13 June 2016 The justice system is revered as the alleged bastion of ethics in any complex society such as ours ...

GradeChangeToPassFail	28 Mar 2020 - 21:38	MatthewGoldstein
Grade Change to Pass/Fail I'm curious to hear how you all have been affected by the grade change to credit/no credit. How has it altered your stress/anxiety levels ...

GradingCurveTalk	07 Jan 2010 - 22:34	IanSullivan
I am going to try and summarize what we know and create new talk pages for the areas we are still trying to figure out. Hopefully this will make an unwieldy topic ...

GradingProfessors	17 Apr 2010 - 14:55	NonaFarahnik
a.k.a. Grading Professors So WE Get Better Feedback From Eben: " I think it is time to stop expecting to acquire commitment points by writing extensively about how ...

GrammarTalk	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
Eben made many corrections on students' papers involving number agreement. For example, "Why does everyone ignore their passions?," as opposed to, say, "Why does ...

GregJohnsonFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:35	IanSullivan
A Hopeful View of Individual Action (As Effective Despite Sometimes Going on Autopilot) In which I try to flesh out what it might mean to harness social forces ...

GregJohnsonIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
I hope to be able to solve problems with words. I #8217;ve wanted to solve problems for quite some time, which is why for two years I majored in computer science. ...

GregJohnsonSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
If swindling is indistinguishable from selling, how can I rest assured that I #8217;m not a swindler? By GregJohnson, rewriting the original by JustinChung Leff ...

GregJohnsonThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Why Corporate Work Looks Bad, Actually Isn #8217;t Bad, But Also Isn #8217;t Best By GregJohnson 15 May 2009 Why Corporate Work Looks Bad Big firms support corporations ...

GregOrrFirstPaper	02 Nov 2019 - 19:52	GregOrr
Content and Sense By GregOrr 17 Apr 2009 In Musil's Man Without Qualities, a group assembled from Austrian society is given an opportunity to choose something ...

GregOrrIntro	11 Jul 2017 - 22:18	GregOrr
I left a job as a #8216;finance risk #8217; consultant to banks, before things went really sour. I thought law school would be intellectually rewarding, grounding ...

GregOrrSecondPaper	12 Feb 2023 - 03:02	GregOrr
(This is a very loose adaptation of Avery's first paper. I wanted to see if I could bring out some of his underlying concerns in a manner that prompts more engagement ...

GregOrrThirdPaper	12 Jan 2022 - 16:09	GregOrr
Pluralistic Meaning By GregOrr 12 Jun 2009 In first paper, I discussed content and sense in reality, communication, and making decisions. With reference to a chapter ...

GregorySuhrFirstEssay	31 May 2017 - 03:32	GregorySuhr
Some days I swear off criminal prosecution. Other days it comes back with a powerful nostalgia, connected to a time when I was paraded around by family as an up and ...

GregorySuhrSecondEssay	04 Jun 2017 - 19:16	GregorySuhr
First Semester My first year at law school taught me the power of inertia: the tendency to remain unchanged. From day one, I followed the mantra I heard at orientation ...

GroupDiscussion	22 Jan 2013 - 18:13	IanSullivan
Hey All, I was thinking that, because we don't have much of a chance to really engage with each other in the classroom in our other classes, that the wiki might be ...

GueinaBlaiseSecondEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 20:10	GueinahBlaise
Introduction In college I took a class called "Philosophy of Liberation." For hours a week, we pontificated about liberation, how it may manifest itself, and whether ...

GueinahBlaiseFirstPaper	07 Jun 2022 - 21:01	GueinahBlaise
GueinahBlaise 12 Mar 2022 Grades Shouldn't Matter, but for Marginalized Persons Trying to Achieve Career Advancement They Do Introduction: #8220;Grades don #8217 ...

GueinahBlaiseIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 21:46	GueinahBlaise
Personal Introduction By GueinahBlaise 17 Jan 2022 My initial interest in law happened for two reasons: (1) I enjoyed argumentation and logic, and (2) I was interested ...

GustinReichbach	22 Jan 2013 - 18:13	IanSullivan
As EIP season approaches, I found obit to be pretty inspiring. It seems like he managed to have a fascinating law career while being completely true to himself and ...

HagglingAtCircuityCity	22 Jan 2009 - 01:16	IanSullivan
Thought I'd share this link. Not only is it relevant to class, but it will save you money! Woot. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/business/23haggle.html?ei 5087 ...

HarperCollins	26 Oct 2016 - 06:06	WhitneyLee
SamParnell 10 Jun 2016 This aspect trying to prompt a hyperlink just because the name includes two capital letters of twiki annoys me.

HarryBajwaFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 13:12	EbenMoglen
I am not #8220;I #8221; By HarryBajwa 20 Feb 2025 The Office Hours Realization On Thursday, January 23, 2025, I walked out of Professor Moglen #8217;s office ...

HarryKhannaIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is Harry, and I am an engineer from San Francisco. I like to dance. By HarryKhanna 17 Jan 2012

HarryParmenterFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:42	MarkDrake
Excepting Expulsion of the SAE Students at the University of Oklahoma Background On March 10, 2015, two members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma ...

HarryParmenterIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:12	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By HarryParmenter 30 Jan 2015 I came to law school for several reasons. One is that I was an English student who had become dissatisfied ...

HarryParmenterSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:44	MarkDrake
The Problem with Law School Culture By HarryParmenter 25 May 2015 Introduction I was told by upperclassmen just before the start of my 1L year that law school ...

HateCrimes	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
JessicaCohen 20 Apr 2010 Earlier today, a jury on Long Island a 19 year old of manslaughter in the killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant. According to media reports ...

HaydenSmithFirstEssay	15 Apr 2025 - 15:42	EbenMoglen
BATTLE FOR THE RULE OF LAW: My Path to Public Interest and the Role of the Rising Lawyers By HaydenSmith 19 Feb 2025 I. The Path to Public Interest Over the past ...

HaydenSmithSecondEssay	18 Apr 2025 - 04:42	HaydenSmith
HaydenSmith 17 Apr 2025 Becoming The Lawyer I Want To Be: A Reflection on Purpose and Integrity By Hayden Smith I. Reconsidering My Career Path The plan was to ...

HeewonKimFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Sleep need 9 hrs law firms talking about wanting to find someone you want w/ you while closing a deal at 3am. the fuck? Fears fear of becoming a corporate minion ...

HeewonKimSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Outline I. How I learned to give a shit about things in life II. How law school has affected my thinking III. I like to read IV. My worries over how my background ...

HelenMayerFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:12	IanSullivan
Dealing with the "Fix" By HelenMayer 27 Feb 2009 As a casual observer of politics, I am always fascinated by the idea of the #8220;fix. #8221; The cycle, call ...

HelenMayerIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
I came to law school to learn the language of the law so that I can return to Washington to write, suggest or execute tomorrow's laws. HelenMayer 18 Jan 2009

HelenMayerSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
The Retrospective Component of Risk Aversion By Jason Lissy Risk aversion is a primary source of occupational inertia which manifests itself in the tendency ...

HelenMayerThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Takeaways By HelenMayer 20 May 2009 The end of a school year is always a time for reflection. It is a time to decompress from the mad dash of finals, to make sense ...

HelenZhuFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Comfort of Homogeneity Reality is subject to human perception Justice Holmes said, #8220;certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man ...

HelenZhuIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction On good days, I believe three impossible things before breakfast. On better days, things that I don't know I don't know find me. I've lived in ...

Hello1Ls	22 Jan 2013 - 18:13	IanSullivan
My name is Devin McDougall, I'm a 3L, and I was in your shoes 2 years ago. I took LawContempSoc in the spring of 2010, and LawNetSoc this past fall. LCS is a great ...

HenryGeorge	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
"In the following pages, I will use these methods to discover what law connects poverty with progress. I believe this law will also explain the recurring cycles of ...

HenryRossFirstEssay	22 Aug 2016 - 15:17	HenryRoss

HenryRossIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:17	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction I came to law school because I want my life #8217;s work to generate at least three things: words, fairness, and #8212;to some extent #8212;money ...

HenryRossSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:45	MarkDrake
An unstated assumption By HenryRoss 22 May 2015 A two part question In my personal introduction at the beginning of this semester, I wrote that I had come to ...

HilaryRosenthalFirstEssay	25 May 2017 - 16:06	HilaryRosenthal
What is the role of empathy in law school, if there is one at all? By HilaryRosenthal 20 May 2017 Motives and being emotionally open in law school When I realized ...

HoDongChyungFirstEssay	23 Jul 2023 - 22:15	HoDongChyung
The Source of My Fear and My Path to Courage By HoDongChyung 19 May 2023 Prelude Before making big decisions, like going to law school, my instinct weighs my ...

HoDongChyungSecondEssay	26 May 2023 - 21:21	HoDongChyung
Should Lawyers Fear !ChatGPT? By HoDongChyung 07 Apr 2023 The #8220;How #8221; Matters There #8217;s buzz and anxiety about !ChatGPT #8217;s ability to replace ...

HoangTruong-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Fixing the Legal Profession By HoangTruong 14 Feb 2008 I.Intro The horrendous attrition rates of big law firms in recent years have been well chronicled ...

HoangTruong-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:17	IanSullivan
Legal Briefcase in One Hand, A Scotch in the Other Intro Hang around a liquor store long enough and you will notice that often times the most frequent customers ...

HoangTruongIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:17	IanSullivan
I wanted to be a lawyer because I see it as a venue for social change while keeping my pocktbook happy. A JD is a highly regarded degree and I didn't see myself ending ...

HollyStubbsFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Dear Eben, Please disregard my previous second draft as it did not say what I meant. I have been thinking about and struggling with the ideas expressed here and it ...

HowSentimentFuelsPretense	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
NonaFarahnik 02 Apr 2010

HowToBeARealist	07 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
This post is mostly about the interplay of social science and value judgments in Cohen's realistic judging. His description of the realistic judge can be found on ...

HowToBeAnEthicalLawyer	22 Jan 2013 - 18:13	IanSullivan
This Money Podcast raised some interesting questions about ethical lawyering. It tells the story of a businessman, Toby, who vowed to always be ethical who found himself ...

HowToFixHealthcare	07 Jan 2010 - 22:49	IanSullivan
How to Fix Healthcare This came up yesterday in class. This is my idea of how to set up a working system of healthcare. If we want to fix healthcare, these are the ...

HowToFixHealthcareTakeTwo	07 Jan 2010 - 23:01	IanSullivan
How to fix Healthcare, take two This is the drastically revised and edited version of the previous lousy post. Although it has been said that we are far from ready ...

HowToImproveReadingSkills	22 Jan 2013 - 18:14	IanSullivan
Throughout the semester we have emphasized the importance of reading. Reading is one of the most important abilities that we have to master during our law school ...

HowardZinn	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
This piece by Noam Chomsky on the legacy of his friend Howard Zinn, who passed away last month, echoes many of the themes of our recent discussions. Zinn had a different ...

HuazhouYeFirstEssay	18 May 2023 - 15:18	EbenMoglen
The Normative Value of Autonomy in Property Law and its Alternative By HuazhouYe 13 Feb 2023 Functional advantage of Social Dependence Autonomy as a normative ...

IAmALawyerIAmNeverFarFromEvil	22 Jan 2013 - 18:14	IanSullivan
Robinson #8217;s declaration reminded me of this scene from the television show The Wire . For those of you who have not seen the show, the witness, Omar Little ...

IPhoneBoycottJune	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
Update! Foxconn has promised to give substantial raises to all its workers in China. At the Longhua plant where the deaths occurred, by October 2010 pay will ...

IWonTFeelHelpless	22 Jan 2009 - 01:17	IanSullivan
I Won't Feel Helpless Maybe I #8217;m wrong. Maybe I #8217;ll feel helpless when it #8217;s all over anyways. Three years and 130K. I #8217;d pay more if they charged ...

IanFisherIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I'm Ian. My name's pronounced like eye in but I don't mind when people say it differently. I'm from the suburbs of Chicago and went to school ...

IanFisherSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Amendment One's Majority Approval Introduction On May 8th, 2012, North Carolina voters passed the state constitutional Amendment One, also referred to as The Marriage ...

IdeasAboutIdeas	02 Apr 2022 - 10:59	AnilYadav?
One Writer's Possible Essay Topics I've been considering several ideas that may be the subject of my 1000 page word essay. (Definitely a "Freudian" slip. Proofreading ...

IjahalaPottingerFirstEssay	20 May 2024 - 13:43	EbenMoglen
#8220;Law School for One, Please #8221;: Designing a Purpose Driven Legal Education By IjahalaPottinger 15 Apr 2024 Introduction For many law students, it is ...

IlanaDuttonFirstEssay	22 May 2023 - 12:06	IlanaDutton
Preparing my Practice for Working with Clients (Second Revision): By IlanaDutton 15 Feb 2023 Introduction Someone once told me that I was "empathic to a fault ...

IlanaDuttonSecondEssay	25 May 2023 - 20:19	IlanaDutton
Finding my Why By IlanaDutton 04 Apr 2023 #8220;So, what do you do for work? #8221; #8220;I #8217;m an immigration attorney. #8221; Then the follow up, ...

ImTheDudePlayingTheDude	17 Apr 2010 - 18:01	NonaFarahnik
I #8217;m the Dude Playing the Dude Disguised as Another Dude! No doubt many people will recognize this line from the movie Tropic Thunder. For those who don #8217 ...

ImageAndReality	07 Jan 2010 - 23:01	IanSullivan
Image And Reality In my notes for today, I have this comment by Eben: The image of who you might be becoming is more important than the reality. You will become ...

ImaniPhillipsFirstEssay	06 Jun 2017 - 10:11	ImaniPhillips
How will black liberationist movements evolve in Trump's America? In a society where the current President of the United States captured the support of millions of ...

ImaniPhillipsSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 02:06	ImaniPhillips
ImaniPhillips 08 Jun 2017 After a year of law school, I have learned two principal things about the type of lawyer that I want to be: 1) I want to be a multifaceted ...

ImitationAndCreation	22 Jan 2013 - 18:14	IanSullivan
The discussion of writing imitating what we read had me thinking about the video series is a Remix. In four videos, it covers how various forms of creation (music ...

ImmigrationLawyer	14 Apr 2015 - 21:09	AbdallahSalam
We discussed the state of immigration lawyers in one of our recent classes (on building a law practice), and so I thought I would share this article I just read in ...

ImplicitAssociations	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
NathanStopper 20 Feb 2010 Reading Jerome Frank made me think of the Implicit Associations Test that I took in a college social psychology class. I'm sure many of ...

InLawSchoolsGradesGoUpJustLikeThat	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
I'm sure many of you have read the recent NYT Article, Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That. I have enjoyed reading the comments of the article, which span from ...

InLovingMemory	22 Jan 2013 - 18:14	IanSullivan
In Loving Memory I walked into Print Services in the basement of Columbia #8217;s Journalism School to see my dad, as I usually do after classes and before going home ...

InequalityJustice	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
Is inequality inherently unjust? If so, what can be done to reconcile justice with a world defined by scarcity of resources and the continual creation of unequal relationships ...

InjusticeUSMilitaryVsJohnBrown	22 Jan 2013 - 18:15	IanSullivan
Due to the lack of understanding regarding John Brown's actions, I ask the question: If the government sanctioned it, would that make it right? Think of this question ...

InterestingRead	22 Jan 2013 - 18:15	IanSullivan
I'm sure that some of you have already heard about or read this article "Why Women Still Can't Have it All", written by Anne Marie Slaughter and published in the ...

InternetFacebookEtiquette	22 Jan 2013 - 18:15	IanSullivan
Hey guys, Eben uses etiquette a lot as an example of a form of strong social control, so I think I might write my second paper on Facebook etiquette or social media ...

InternetLunch	15 Aug 2010 - 19:22	NonaFarahnik
I know we will eventually be able to do the Net security lunch with Eben. Sometimes, his tech references go way over my head so I wanted to start a list about the ...

InternetSecurity	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
NonaFarahnik 22 Mar 2010 Eben, will you hold a lunch session for Net novices who want to learn more about how we can improve our online privacy? Of course, but ...

IrisAikateriniFrangouFirstEssay	22 May 2021 - 16:05	EbenMoglen
By IrisAikateriniFrangou 25 Feb 2021 Exploring Arnold's Social Psychology of Organizations Through the Lens of Intrapsychic Psychology the Multiplicity of Individual ...

IrisAikateriniFrangouSecondEssay	18 May 2021 - 23:52	IrisAikateriniFrangou
The Need for Confluence of Creation Styles in the Law By IrisAikateriniFrangou 14 Apr 2021 Introduction: Kafka #8217;s and Joseph #8217;s Subjective Depiction ...

IsBeingACorporateLawyerImmoral	22 May 2023 - 15:57	MichaelPari
I think Professor Moglen once said that the concept of giving money to the poor while earning money as a corporate lawyer is all good, but it assumes that the work ...

IsBeingACorporateLawyerImmoral2	03 Mar 2009 - 05:35	LeslieHannay
We seem to have come around pretty much full circle in this thread, so I thought it might be time to try to refactor it. In opening this discussion, Esther posed several ...

IsReadingObsolete	22 Jan 2013 - 18:15	IanSullivan
Is Reading Obsolete? During this Tuesday #8217;s class we discussed the possibility that the act of reading text may not be the most efficient way to absorb new material ...

IsTVReallyAddictive	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
I know we have touched on this in class, and that we have touched on much more that should perhaps be far more troubling, yet I keep coming back to TV. So, forgive ...

IsaacLaraIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:35	MarkDrake
What I want to get out of law school is a law license so I can become a prosecutor. Before school I had worked full time as a civilian police investigator for a few ...

IsaacLaraSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:45	MarkDrake
(Re)orienting to Law School After 1L By IsaacLara 25 May 2015 My Reasons for Applying to Law School My Job Created Certain Expectations It #8217;s no surprise ...

IsabellaMoralesFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 15:47	EbenMoglen
Why the Law?: The Tensions of Public Interest Lawyering By IsabellaMorales 20 Feb 2025 Introduction I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was in middle ...

ItReallyMakesMeThink	24 Feb 2009 - 05:21	MichaelDreibelbis
In conversations with all of you outside of class and the wiki, I've noticed an interesting common thread: we all like the class because it #8220;makes us think ...

JInduObiofumaSecondEssay	04 Apr 2016 - 06:07	JinduObiofuma
JinduObiofuma 04 Apr 2016 The performance of protest has become a proxy for actual social change. One could say this has come about largely without comment, but the ...

JInduObiofumathird	05 May 2016 - 18:43	JinduObiofuma
Black women are never supposed to be angry. Sassy? Absolutely. Funny? But of course. Shady? Maybe just a touch, but no more than that otherwise people start to get ...

JStHill-FirstTopicEdit	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
Thank you for your comments Professor Moglen. I think you touched on a key issue that I am struggling with: why am I willing to sacrifice aspects of my personal ...

JStHill-ThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:45	IanSullivan
I. Introduction: Homelessness. Living in New York City among 8 million people: 110,000 of them are homeless in 2008 (Source: New York Times). When I see a homeless ...

JStHillFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:08	IanSullivan
I. Introduction In class, we have discussed the idea(l) of practicing law that is meaningful for us. For many of the black (and minority) students, the definition ...

JStHill_SecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
Reading Uchenna and Alfain #8217;s essay and edits on the investment relationship between China and Africa, I wanted to offer my insight #8212;and maybe play the Devil ...

JabariMatthewFirstEssay	02 Jun 2021 - 03:45	JabariMatthew
Who Cares About The Law Anyway? By JabariMatthew 26 Feb 2021 The Power of Creativity and Law As a performance artist, I have come to appreciate the powerful tool ...

JabariMatthewSecondEssay	02 Jun 2021 - 07:12	JabariMatthew
My Practice of Fear By JabariMatthew 16 Apr 2021 My Fear of Being Worthless James Baldwin expressed in his essay, #8220;Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region ...

JackReadingNotes	26 May 2021 - 15:38	JackSherrick
JackSherrick 16 Jan 2021 Usually I take my notes on a Google Doc but I'll do it here for this course. It gives me a chance to experiment with the site mechanics and ...

JackSherrickFirstEssay	01 Jun 2021 - 13:48	JackSherrick
The Evolution of Dualism: From Jesus' First Delineation to Modern American Evangelical Conceptions By JackSherrick 21 Feb 2021 New Testament Origins of Dualism ...

JackSherrickFirstEssayNotes	19 May 2021 - 02:35	JackSherrick
JackSherrick 18 Feb 2021 I moved this topic to JackSherrickFirstEssayNotes so that when the standard essay template is created for you it doesn't conflict with ...

JackSherrickSecondEssay	01 Jun 2021 - 13:35	JackSherrick
Setting Down Roots By JackSherrick 15 Apr 2021 How The Land Got Here Tens of thousands of years ago, vast glaciers inched their way across the land that would ...

JackSherrickSecondEssayNotes	14 Apr 2021 - 16:50	JackSherrick
JackSherrick 11 Apr 2021 Law practice is point in 4 dimension with Whom, what, how much, where, (speculative) 5th axis why (fun part) should I view each interaction ...

JacksonAlbertsIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I already did this, but I didn't save it properly I suppose. Technology is what makes me most uncomfortable in this class. I know the world is changing, and worry ...

JacksonAlbertsSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Some Bad Men Just Are By JacksonAlberts 06 Apr 2013 An imaginative writer can contemplate scenarios as far removed from his own existence as human experiences ...

JacobGodshallFirstEssay	31 May 2017 - 17:47	JacobGodshall
Ke Garne? We walk among the ruined temples of Durbar Square, and Manoj falls into his tour guide shtick telling me Hindu epics of sex and murder, secrets of the Kumari ...

JacobGodshallSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 02:59	JacobGodshall
Four Summers By JacobGodshall 07 Jun 2017 Building Blocks My dad builds houses. I used to work for him during the summers when I was in high school. I carried ...

JacobLuceroFirstEssay	31 May 2024 - 03:04	JacobLucero
Navigating the Complexities of Gentrification: How Gentrification Shaped My Legal Aspirations By JacobLucero 24 Feb 2024 Living in a neighborhood undergoing demographic ...

JacobLuceroSecondEssay	30 May 2024 - 11:02	JacobLucero
Price of Security By JacobLucero 23 Apr 2024 Throughout the years, El Salvador has been synonymous with gang violence and political turmoil. After my family ...

JacquelineRiosFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Violence Against (Some) Women Act Creating Options Marianna was only 33, but years of abuse made her look much older. I sat and listened to her story, stopping ...

JacquelineRiosIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I am an idealist. I came to law school to advance social justice. I realize it's an imperfect mechanism, but it's the one I've chosen to address ...

JacquelynHehirFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Applying a Lesson Learned as a Teacher By JacquelynHehir 27 Feb 2010 Starting with what I know: the essential quality of a good teacher The best teachers start ...

JacquelynHehirIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I decided to attend law school because I #8217;d spent the last three years teaching in under resourced public schools and saw many of the difficulties faced by both ...

JacquelynHehirSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
A Solution That Misses the Mark By JacquelynHehir 17 Apr 2010 Just this week, School Chancellor Joel Klein and United Federation of Teachers union president Michael ...

JalilMuhammadFirstEssay	29 Feb 2020 - 02:28	JalilMuhammad
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JamesCrowleyFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Government, the Thinking Man, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act JamesCrowley 16 Feb 2012 Introduction In the introductory chapter of The Folklore ...

JamesCrowleyIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I'm James. I grew up and went to college in Rhode Island where I studied politics, philosophy and history. I came to law school partially because ...

JamesCrowleySecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
John Brown and Oliver Wendell Holmes on Justice through Force JamesCrowley 31 May 2012 The Path to Civil War In the run up to the Civil War, many Northerners ...

JamieGottliebFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:03	IanSullivan
Community, Class and the Estate Tax Economically Perverse Opposite to the Estate Tax: A Conventional Account I think you meant "Opposition," but it's hard ...

JamieGottliebIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
I worked at a law firm for two years after college. The main thing that I took away from that experience is an understanding of how important it is to be engaged emotionally ...

JamieGottliebSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:33	IanSullivan
Obama: The Embodiment of a Message By AnjaliBhat Edited by JamieGottlieb Barack Obama was widely perceived as a uniquely inspirational candidate, one who appealed ...

JamieGottliebThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
The e Book and Thoughtful Readership By JamieGottlieb 15 May 2009 The delivery of most mainstream media has been revolutionized by the internet. People listen ...

JamilaMcCoy-Intro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
When I leave law school, I want to be in a position to remedy the social and economic issues plaguing inner city communities, especially African American communities ...

JamilaMcCoyFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:08	IanSullivan
A Starting Point for a Social Activist Lawyer By JamilaMcCoy 19 April 2009 A Moving Experience in Bangalore As my friends and I shuffled through the crowds on ...

JamilaMcCoyPaper3	08 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
Big Law Needs You, You Don't Need It My main takeaway from class has been that I will benefit from approaching my legal career with an independent and entrepreneurial ...

JamilaMcCoySecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
Edit of Jenai St. Hill's first paper. I. The Double Consciousness of the Black Lawyer In class, we have discussed practicing law in a way that is personally meaningful ...

JanabaGakouIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 18:46	JanabaGakou
Personal Introduction By JanabaGakou 18 Jan 2022 Balzac said, "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." The foundation upon which our most illustrious ...

JanePetersenFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Navigating the Path of the Law According to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the task of the lawyer #8211; the good lawyer, at least #8211; is to predict. Accurate prediction ...

JanePetersenSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Courageuse By JanePetersen 03 May 2012 Courage, it seems, is a necessary component of being a good lawyer. In reading about and discussing Martha Tharaud, Sandra ...

January26Notes	03 Feb 2010 - 00:31	ChristopherCrismanCox
01.26 Generally, redistributing income to your client helps your client. If you want to maximize your utility according to what you think utility is in the world, ...

JaredBaumgart-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Transcendental Nonsense: The Creation and Disintegration of Abortion Rights By JaredBaumgart 11 Feb 2008 Introduction Transcendental nonsense in Roe v Wade suggests ...

JaredBaumgart-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:18	IanSullivan
Two weeks after a callback interview with a New York firm, the hiring partner called to tell me they could not extend me an offer for the summer. Everyone had liked ...

JaredBaumgartIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:18	IanSullivan
I came to law school because I need things to be logical. I hope that law school would hone my reasoning skills, because these are skills that are necessary far beyond ...

JaredMillerFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Power of Law: The Problems of the Freedom to Assemble By Main.JaredMiller 16 Feb 2012 At 1 a.m. on November 15, hundreds of New York Police Department ...

JaredMillerIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction In one respect, how people see me and how I see myself couldn #8217;t diverge more wildly. When people learn of the things I #8217;ve done since ...

JaredMillerSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Sending a Message: The Importance of the Admissions Interview to Reforming the Legal Profession When a Columbia Law School admissions officer looked over my resume ...

JasonLFirstEssay	24 Feb 2020 - 19:37	JasonL
Logic, Storytelling, and Ice Floes By JasonL 24 Feb 2020 The Binary Early in the semester, taking Eben #8217;s class in conjunction with the rest of the 1L spring ...

JasonLissyIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
My general objectives for this course are to enhance my understanding of law practice #8217;s possibilities and to use this knowledge to challenge the ways I conceptualize ...

JasonLissySecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
Individual Narrative Legal Narrative Originally by MichaelDignan Unwilling to accept irresolution about the how #8217;s and why #8217;s of life, humans instinctively ...

JasonLissyThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
Attorney Privilege Violation of the Law This paper investigates two prompts: is it ethically permissible for attorneys to violate the law without legally recognized ...

JasonPykeIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I grew up in Tobago. I moved to the US for college, intending to move back right after graduation, but I never did. I still can #8217;t pinpoint the moment I ...

JasonsQuestion1Unity	07 Jan 2010 - 22:49	IanSullivan
I'm breaking Jason's original Post into two this is on the issue of unity, the other will be on the use of fictive legal constructs in argument. I have left the ...

JasonsQuestion2LegalConsructs	07 Jan 2010 - 22:49	IanSullivan
This is the second part of Jason's earlier post, also edited. I have retained the original post. Both Cohen and Holmes believe lawyer should work not with fictive ...

JayunKoo-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JayunKooIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:18	IanSullivan
Many legal issues and their impacts were evident in many of the interdisciplinary courses that I took in college, and I found the philosophical, economic, political ...

JeffKaoFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Not on innovation alone: Politics and the Regulation of Television White Space On November 4, 2008, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioners voted ...

JeffKaoIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
In a former life, I was an engineering major. I came here because I viewed law school as a way to understand society, and as a way to obtain the knowledge and authority ...

JeffKaoSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Jeff I'm going to give you edits on the paper as you wrote it, and then write my own version at the end. Let me know if you have any questions! Nate Should we recognize ...

JeffreyPanFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
A First Amendment Dilemma: Keeping the Bible in Public Schools By JeffreyPan 26 Feb 2010 The First Amendment and the idea of the separation of church and state ...

JeffreyPanIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
There are many reasons why I am in law school, but here are two of the more important ones: 1. Atticus Finch inspired me in 10th grade American Literature class with ...

JeffreyPanSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
International Religious Freedom: A Cause Not Just for the Religious By JeffreyPan 12 Apr 2010 The International Religious Freedom Act In 1998, Congress passed ...

JeffreySchatzFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Invisible Fist

JeffreySchatzIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I have always had an unfortunate fascination with history. I still waste countless hours reading Wikipedia articles about various historical events which have no obvious ...

JeffreySchatzSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Is Familyism Any Different Than Racism? By JeffreySchatz 15 Apr 2010 A pair of conversations Imagined Interview with a white supremacist Interviewer (I): What ...

JenniferAndersonFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Time Waits for Nothing Entering a profession where time is both literally and figuratively of the essence, I have realized that how much success I achieve in my life ...

JenniferAndersonIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I decided to leave the warmth of my home and strive for more personal and intellectual independence in the northeast at Brown ...

JenniferBurke-FirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
But footnotes are the wrong way to link in the web anyway. Why not turn the footnotes into live links in the paper? All but two of your sources are cited by URL ...

JenniferBurke-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:18	IanSullivan
In Their Own Shadow: How Women Perpetuate Female Invisibility By JenniferBurke 04 April 2008 In #8220;Cerriere #8217;s Answer, #8221; Martha Tharaud says #8220 ...

JenniferBurkeIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:19	IanSullivan
JenniferBurke 19 Jan 2008 My interest in becoming a lawyer comes not from a desire to practice law but from a desire to know the framework of the law and the way that ...

JenniferClark-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
Magic in Our Society as the Difference between Interdependence and Self Reliance By JenniferClark 14 Feb 2008 The Nature of Magic In Modern Legal Magic, Jerome ...

JenniferClark-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:19	IanSullivan
Transforming Communities By JenniferClark 04 Apr 2008 In order to produce a society full of healthy people it is necessary to produce one full of healthy communities ...

JenniferClarkIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:19	IanSullivan
JenniferClark 17 Jan 2008 I decided to go to law school primarily because a law degree is one of the most flexible degrees one can attain. This aspect of a JD is very ...

JenniferCoffey-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:58	IanSullivan
By JenniferCoffey 14 Feb 2008 Criminal Trials: Regulating Anxiety about Crime One purpose of the criminal trial other than fact finding is to regulate levels of ...

JenniferCoffeyIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:22	IanSullivan
I came to law school because I enjoy writing and language and have observed both to be central to the work of a lawyer. With that in mind, I think that I could be ...

JenniferDoxeyFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Also On Bullshit By JenniferDoxey 14 Feb 2012 What It Is An expert on the subject (Frankfurt, following Cohen and Frank) said that the essential thing about bullshit ...

JenniferDoxeyIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I'm a California Mormon. Family of nine. Growing up with six siblings gives you a pretty good preference for justice and the rule of law. I came ...

JenniferDoxeySecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Learning About Learning The Law By JenniferDoxey 10 May 2012 1. Choice less ness. Taking seriously the premise that law school is an imagination test, what might ...

JenniferGreenFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
A Lesson in Morality By JenniferGreen 26 Feb 2010 An Antiquated System The intellectual transformation that marks the beginning of one #8217;s journey to ...

JenniferGreenIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
JenniferGreen 14 Jan 2010 I came to law school under the advisement and belief that a law degree is a passport to the unimaginable. With a law degree, it is often ...

JenniferGreenSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
The Foster Care System: A Charted Path By JenniferGreen 16 Apr 2010 Comments are on the original, the re write will be below. You took on a really tough topic ...

JenniferLiFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
First revision: I'm sorry to have taken so long to get to this, I just got back to the US from traveling abroad (where there was unexpectedly poor internet access ...

JenniferLiIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
JenniferLi 14 Jan 2010 I studied a great deal of political and social theory throughout college. Although I found the classes academically stimulating, they often ...

JenniferLiSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Sex Offenders: Let's Talk About It By JenniferLi 17 Apr 2010 At the risk of making this a VERY long post, I'm posting another draft of my paper here. I may move ...

JenniferMortonFirstEssay	19 May 2021 - 21:03	JenniferMorton
First Draft History of Abortion Law in the US By JenniferMorton 26 Feb 2021 A topic I am interested in is the history of abortion laws in the United States. One ...

JenniferMortonSecondEssay	19 May 2021 - 18:03	JenniferMorton
By JenniferMorton 16 Apr 2021 I do think a title and some sectioning would improve the draft. I think that I will take the approach that many of my peers ...

JeremyChangFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
First Paper By JeremyChang 26 Feb 2013 What is Legal Creativity? What is legal creativity? It can be thought of as the ability to come up with new ways of solving ...

JeremyChangIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Jeremy and I come from South Korea. I studied business as an undergrad, and served in the military for two years as a journalist for ...

JeremyChangSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
How the law school experience changed me By JeremyChang 08 Apr 2013 If someone asks me why I came to law school, I would not have a good answer. After a year in ...

JermelMcClureFirstEssay	04 May 2022 - 17:40	JermelMcClure
Secure The Bag #8211; The Importance of Wealth Generation in the Black Community Money Talks Wealth and access to graduate education provide families with resources ...

JermelMcClureIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 17:45	JermelMcClure
Personal Introduction By JermelMcClure 18 Jan 2022 Hello everyone! My name is Jermel McClure, I'm a 1L from Westchester, New York. I graduated from Binghamton ...

JesseCreed-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
A Tempest in a Teapot The Symbolic Function Marion True, the former Getty curator, was charged for conspiracy in violation of the cultural patrimony laws for allegedly ...

JesseCreedIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:22	IanSullivan
I came to law school to maximize creative expression #8211; broadly defined though, in particular, literary expression #8211; in the constitutional and intellectual ...

JesseRamosSecondEssay	01 Jun 2023 - 00:09	JesseRamos
Bleaching the Blue Collar: Making a Union Law Practice By JesseRamos 12 May 2023 Why? I was raised in a union family. My uncles were union contractors who have ...

JessicaCohenFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
What the Realists Are Missing By JessicaCohen 25 May 2010 Arnold #8217;s Deficit As American society underwent a radical shift in the time of the New Deal, American ...

JessicaCohenSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
The Hollow Concept of Judicial Empathy By JessicaCohen 06 Apr 2010 Obama's Litmus Test? I have to say, as a Conservative, i don't necessarily agree with how ...

JessicaCohenSecondPaperREWRITE	17 May 2010 - 20:47	MikeAbend
The Hollow Concept of Judicial Empathy By MikeAbend 16 May 2010 Obama's Litmus Test? About a month ago, our Constitutional Law class arrived at Roe v. Wade. After ...

JessicaEgbebikeFirstEssay	26 May 2021 - 02:17	JessicaEgbebike
My Journey Towards the Law By JessicaEgbebike 22 Feb 2021 The Prelude My First Generation Experience: Duty to Visit Growing up, my parents would constantly tell ...

JessicaGuzikFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
By JessicaGuzik 26 Feb 2010 Why I Don't Like the Criminal Law System How our criminal law system fits in with what I have learned thus far in law school Before ...

JessicaGuzikSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Jess: I saved this under a new revision. My comments are still in the original. I hope this is faithful to the points you wanted to make. Jeffrey A friend of ...

JessicaHallettFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Following All of the Rules By JessicaHallett 25 Feb 2010 Joseph Stack In a letter written before his death, Joe Stack wrote of the tax activities that led to ...

JessicaHallettIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I came to law school hoping to give myself the chance to have a career that was fulfilling and in which I could do something good and effect change. What that #8220 ...

JessicaHallettSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JessicaRoFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 06:33	JessicaRo
What can and should I do in order to sustain a drive in the pursuit of justice? By JessicaRo 31 May 2017 In my first draft, I asked what role faith would play ...

JessicaRoSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 04:28	JessicaRo
Same same but Different By JessicaRo 08 Jun 2017 1L Beyond I did not particularly enjoy my first year of law school. It was rough. The majority of the time ...

JessicaRogersFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Use the Law School Experience More Broadly The premise of this paper is that the disciplined and Socratic thought process, along with the advocacy skills learned ...

JessicaRogersIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I went to Columbia undergraduate because I loved the vitality of NYC. I wanted to stay for law school for the same reason. I was always attracted to the study of law ...

JessicaWirthFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
By JessicaWirth 16 Apr 2012 I've Seen the Other (White) Shoe Drop In December, 2008, my brother, then in his 3L year at another New York law school, got a terse ...

JessicaWirthIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I find it immensely difficult to describe myself without using the stand in social currency of where I went to school, grew up, and claim to want to do with my life ...

JessicaWirthSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
International Law as Social Control (or Not) By JessicaWirth 21 June 2012 A Misplaced Belief I came to law school because of an abiding interest, since my first ...

JiMinShinFirstEssay	09 Jun 2016 - 13:37	EbenMoglen
Lawyers #8217; Metamorphosis: A Tragedy? By JiMinShin 19 Feb 2016 In Metamorphosis by Kafka, the main character changes into a vermin, something like a cockroach ...

JiMinShinSecondEssay	09 Jun 2016 - 13:49	EbenMoglen
Defending the Theatre of Public Humiliation: Why I Would Still Go to the EIP By JiMinShin 30 Mar 2016 It is true that the EIP will probably not be the best moment ...

JiadaiLinFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Rethinking the Law School Approach By JiadaiLin 23 Feb 2010 Introduction and a Purpose In the early hours of April 20, 1989, a white Ivy League educated woman ...

JiadaiLinIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
Before this (law school), I didn #8217;t know much about the law. I knew that it controlled me in many ways. I knew that it could be my friend or it could make me ...

JiadaiLinSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
By JiadaiLin 16 Apr 2010 Parental Custody Cases: A Balance of Rights Introduction Justice Scalia begins the opinion of Michael H. v. Gerald with #8220;The facts ...

JieunPaikFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Limiting the Subjective By JieunPaik 16 Feb 2012 Law as a Science In Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice, Jerome Frank writes about the subjective ...

JieunPaikIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction By JieunPaik 19 Jan 2012 I like the idea of learning about the law from non legal practitioners #8217; perspectives, such as those of an ...

JinduObiofumaFirstEssay	05 Jun 2016 - 21:22	EbenMoglen
The performance of protest has become a proxy for actual social change. One could say this has come about largely without comment, but the irony of the situation is ...

JinduObiofumaSecondEssay	17 Jun 2016 - 05:21	JinduObiofuma
Black women are never supposed to be angry. Sassy? Absolutely. Funny? But of course. Shady? Maybe just a touch, but no more than that otherwise people start to get ...

JobResearch	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
I feel dumb asking this question (like I should have asked it before coming to law school) Can anyone recommend good resources to learn about what lawyers do in ...

JobsAsComplicity	17 Apr 2010 - 18:07	NonaFarahnik
One reason Eben gave for not working at a firm was that firms do morally undesirable work, and that in working for a firm, one's work would actively be contributing ...

JocelynCazaresFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:43	MarkDrake
What voices do you listen to when choosing your path? Voices. Your own. By JocelynCazares 13 Mar 2015 Choices As people we encounter an infinite array of ...

JocelynCazaresIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:17	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By JocelynCazares 29 Jan 2015 From law school I gain the tools, and knowledge I need to pursue my dream. Through the knowledge, practice ...

JocelynCazaresSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 22:00	MarkDrake
JocelynCazares 02 Jun 2015 Is Law School Failing? Law School The Pitch Want to be a lawyer? Go to law school! They will teach you all you need to know. It will ...

JocelynGreerFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Which Path of the Law? By JocelynGreer 8 April 2013 Introduction When I think about what kind of lawyer I want to be, the decision to dedicate my career to fighting ...

JocelynGreerIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
My decision at a young age to become a lawyer was chiefly a product of my viewership of endless hours of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Thus, my career choice ...

JocelynGreerPaper2	16 Jun 2013 - 13:43	EbenMoglen
What's on Your Mind? By JocelynGreer 8 April 2013 Introduction Since beginning to study law, I #8217;ve been confronted with how unfair our nation #8217;s policies ...

JocelynGreerSecondPaperDraft2	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
What's on Your Mind? By JocelynGreer Introduction Since beginning to study law, I #8217;ve been struck by how unfair our nation #8217;s policies are and, on top ...

JoeTeresiFirstEssay	31 May 2017 - 06:26	JoeTeresi
My Comfortable Vanity By JoeTeresi 10 Mar 2017 As a lawyer, I'll be unhappy in the future because I don't care about justice. I'm much more worried about this ...

JoeTeresiSecondEssay	07 Jun 2017 - 06:17	JoeTeresi
By JoeTeresi 07 Jun 2017 I did not learn much during my 1L curriculum about what kind of lawyer I want to be. The knowledge I #8217;ve gained about what kind ...

JohnAlbaneseFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Creed of the War on Drugs. By JohnAlbanese 25 Feb 2010 17 May 2010 Introduction The War on Drugs is a failure. Read the first edition of this essay for ...

JohnAlbaneseFirstPaperTalk	04 Apr 2010 - 15:35	ConradCoutinho
Why stop at drugs? DRussellKraft 28 Feb 2010 Derek, can you clarify what you mean by this question? Are you referring to other vice crimes? Regardless, I don ...

JohnAlbaneseIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I hope for clarity. I came to law school because most of the people who have careers that I can imagine myself succeeding at and enjoying have law degrees. My hope ...

JohnAlbaneseSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Why So Few People Care About Internet Privacy By JohnAlbanese 17 Apr 2010 The Puzzle In lecture on internet privacy, Eben expresses that he does not understand ...

JohnBarkerFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Challenging the scientific quality of the law By JohnBarker 16 Feb 2012 Introduction By looking at the law as a science in a way that attempts to remove one's ...

JohnBarkerIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I'm John and I'm from Boston. I like pretty much all sports, both playing and watching. I've always wanted to be a lawyer (after giving up my pitching dreams) but ...

JohnBrownDiscussion	22 Jan 2013 - 18:16	IanSullivan
In class today, I was reminded of Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (available here for those who have not read it before: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles ...

JohnBrownandCivilDisobedience	17 Apr 2010 - 14:56	NonaFarahnik
What form can resistance to government by private individuals properly take? Thoreau called John Brown, #8220;the most American of us all. #8221; This made me wonder ...

JohnBrownforPacifists	22 Jan 2013 - 18:16	IanSullivan
One of the class discussions that has given me most cause for thought concerns the legitimacy of John Brown's violence in opposing clearly unjust slavery. For many ...

JohnBrowning	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
In our discussion of Lawyerland, there was a general sentiment of sympathy or disgust for the kid, because his father left him in Rikers to await trial. The father ...

JohnBrownsBody	15 Feb 2010 - 18:46	StephenSevero
I thought that these might be of interest: Pete Seeger performing "John Brown's Body": And Orson Welles on John Brown, Julia Howe and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic ...

JohnDeBellisFirstEssay	29 May 2016 - 14:11	EbenMoglen
I came to law school to work with poor clients, help them navigate the legal system, and fight for their rights. I want to base my career on doing direct legal services ...

JohnDeBellisSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 17:41	JohnDeBellis
Presence/Absence and "Stand Your Ground" Laws Brief History of self defense justification The United States has a long history of allowing and even encouraging the ...

JohnJeffcottFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Concern About Tax Code Complexity Our government has become significantly larger and more complex over the past century to accommodate the growing needs of an industrial ...

JohnJeffcottIntroduction	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I came to law school for two reasons: I thought the LSAT was a cool test, and I wanted to get a job. Any job, really (I was an English major). I think I'd prefer public ...

JohnJeffcottSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Hi John, What an interesting topic! Your rich country poor country issue is the most compelling part of your essay. I therefore moved it up to the beginning of the ...

JohnOMearaFirstEssay	18 May 2016 - 12:14	JohnOMeara
Where Are Prisoners in the Parades? By JohnOMeara 19 Feb 2016 Is This Your Comfort Zone, Sir? If strangers pass the bier to see me in repose, I hope they'd know ...

JohnOMearaSecondEssay	05 Jun 2016 - 20:54	EbenMoglen
Deliberate Indifference By JohnOMeara 09 Apr 2016 Good Men The lawyer who I admire most built his practice on bloodshed and theater. He compels people off ...

JohnSchwabFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
THINKING ABOUT THE CRIMINAL LAW If Holmes was correct and the law is what it does, then the criminal law is a force that imprisons young, poor, male minorities in ...

JohnSchwabIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I spent ten years writing mediocre jokes for mediocre television shows starring (mostly) bad people. I hope that law school will provide me with the skills and opportunities ...

JohnSchwabSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
THIS TITLE HAS BEEN REMOVED DUE TO A COPYRIGHT CLAIM "It's pure theft, stolen from the artists" Joseph Biden, on internet piracy. Increased intellectual property ...

JohnsonDFirstEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 20:50	JohnsonD
Thurman Arnold and the Bernie Sanders Revolution By JohnsonD Getting the dragon out of his cave Bernie Sanders uses the word revolution to define a political ...

JohnsonDSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 20:07	JohnsonD
Fear and Big Law By JohnsonD 13 Jun 2016 1L Fear Every year Columbia 1Ls arrive to campus with dreams of becoming justice producing lawyers. By 1L summer, many ...

JoieLiewFirstEssay	25 May 2024 - 18:08	JoieLiew
What Might it Mean to be Successful in School and Work? (In a Lawyering Context, For Me) By JoieLiew Revised 25 May 2024 I see much of what we picture when describing ...

JoieLiewSecondEssay	25 May 2024 - 18:09	JoieLiew
Portrayal of Lawyers in Bee Movie , Cars : Law and Life By JoieLiew Revised 25 May 2024 PBS Kids, Pixar, Disney, Studio Ghibli, and many more #8211; I could ...

JonathanBoustani-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
Law School Numbers By JonathanBoustani 13 Feb 2008 Intro: Form over Substance In truth, there are only two items on a law school application that boards of admission ...

JonathanBoustani-FirstPaperRevised	24 May 2008 - 04:51	JonathanBoustani
JonathanBoustani 24 May 2008 Morality, Media, and Max Mosley (this is actually my 2nd paper revised. i accidentally switched Post titles and can't change it) On March ...

JonathanBoustani-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:23	IanSullivan
Morality, Media, and Max Mosley On March 30th, the British tabloid newspaper News of the World reported that Max Mosley, president of the FIA, the governing body ...

JonathanBoustani-SecondPaperRevised	22 Jan 2009 - 01:23	IanSullivan
JonathanBoustani 24 May 2008 Substance and Appearance in the Education System There are only two items on a law school application that boards of admission pay any ...

JonathanBoustaniIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:23	IanSullivan
JonathanBoustani 21 Jan 2008 I first became interested in coming to law school while taking a class on ancient law during undergrad. In the class we read and discussed ...

JonathanBriceFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Path Much Traveled By JonathanBrice 16 Feb 2012 The Firm as a Vehicle for Self Fulfillment To me, success can easily be defined by the phrase: #8220;I want ...

JonathanBriceIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Having lived in a lawless country (Haiti in the 90's), I grew to appreciate the importance of America #8217;s legal system. Choosing to pursue a legal career upon ...

JonathanBriceSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JonathanCoaxumFirstEssay	04 Jun 2024 - 19:53	JonathanCoaxum
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JonathanCoaxumSecondEssay	24 Jun 2024 - 18:01	JonathanCoaxum
Lessons on trust By JonathanCoaxum 24 June 2024 Lawyering is all about trust. Trust is the most important social currency a person has. Without trust society ...

JonathanFriedmanFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:08	IanSullivan
The Devalued Practice of Jury Nullification By JonathanFriedman 19 Apr 2009 Introduction One may argue that a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial is primarily ...

JonathanFriedmanIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
My impression is that the practice of law promotes individuality among its participants by encouraging them to engage their interests in critical ways that are unavailable ...

JonathanFriedmanSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
Holmes as a Framework for Making Change Through Words Originally "Creative Lawyering " By AndresOFarrell Lawyering is more than prophesizing. Holmes defines lawyering ...

JonathanFriedmanThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
The Case of Don Ayala: The First American Contractor Charged With Murder in The War on Terror By JonathanFriedman 18 May 2009 text The Facts Paula Loyd was an ...

JonathanGuerraFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:08	IanSullivan
Professor Moglen's Untenable Claim of Selective Determinism By JonathanGuerra 28 Feb 2009 Introduction It is a difficult endeavor to sustain a claim that some ...

JonathanGuerraIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
Plumbers apprentice so that they may become well trained and certified master plumbers. I am in law school so that I may gain the qualifications and certification ...

JonathanGuerraSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
The Justice Con Originally by AndrewCase 26 Feb 2009 I found the point to be elusive in the original piece and the style more fitting for a paper article rather ...

JonathanGuerraThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
The Lawyering Trade Introduction Lawyering is like being a plumber, sort of. At the beginning of the semester I made a controversial claim: lawyering is a trade ...

JonathanWaisnorFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Elevating Participation in American Presidential Elections Problems with the Voting System The often repeated goal of the American voting system is to provide each ...

JonathanWaisnorIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
JonathanWaisnor 12 Jan 2010 My name is Jonathan Waisnor, and I enrolled in law school, and Columbia in particular, looking for a group of teachers and fellow students ...

JonathanWaisnorSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Class Action Lawsuits to Enjoin Foreclosure: The Fremont Case (rewrite) Excessive Foreclosures and the Massachusetts Model The Problem The recent financial crisis ...

JooHeeKimFirstEssay	24 Apr 2020 - 13:22	JooHeeKim
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JorgeRosarioFirstEssay	20 Apr 2024 - 03:59	JorgeRosario
Crossroads of Destiny: Puerto Rico's Search for its Future By JorgeRosario 23 Feb 2024 #8220;We, the people of Puerto Rico in order to organize politically ...

JorgeRosarioSecondEssay	29 May 2024 - 16:31	JorgeRosario
Wings of Contention: Unraveling the CIA's Drone Program By JorgeRosario 21 Apr 2024 Over the last few decades, the United States #8217; approach to war has ...

JosephItkisFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Eben's Teaching Style Eben #8217;s teaching method and professor student interaction style differs drastically from anything most, if not all of us, have ever experienced ...

JosephItkisIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Hi! My name's Joe. I'm obsessed with sports and love all Boston area teams. I never really "wanted to be a lawyer" #8211; I didn't really know ...

JosephLuFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:08	IanSullivan
Speculating about the North Korean Criminal Law System By JosephLu 27 Feb 2009 I have revised this paper as part of the second paper assignment. Introduction ...

JosephLuIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
What I Hope for out of Law School By taking the #8220;right #8221; classes in law school and approaching them in an academic and also self critical manner, I hope ...

JosephLuSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
Institutional Creeds, Cons, and Making Choices for Life By KevinChang 27 Feb 2009 This paper was revised by Joseph Lu. People #8217;s choices are limited People ...

JosephLuThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
One Problem Afflicting the Heterogeneous Jury By JosephLu 23 Apr 2009 The problem today Tracking jury composition from then to now would reveal a trend toward ...

JosephMacias-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:46	IanSullivan
We Build Borders Here: The Court Imposed Chasm Between Life and Law I. Congress Should Move to Amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Congress should move ...

JosephMaciasIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:46	IanSullivan
JosephMacias 16 Jan 2008 I came to law school to gain a meaningful career. I wanted to work on things that really matter, and did not want to get stuck working in ...

JosephWilliams-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:46	IanSullivan
Society needs to be skeptical of the growth of prison industrial complex because it is a threat to public values and individual rights. Between 1987 and 2001, the ...

JosephWilliamsSecondPaperRevised	13 Apr 2015 - 02:12	EbenMoglen
Introduction According to the Federal Bureau of Prison #8217;s population report, more than 200,000 inmates are incarcerated in federal correction facilities, which ...

JosephWilliamsintro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:46	IanSullivan
JosephWilliams 18 Jan 2008 I chose to go to law school because I believed that it would open doors in the business world. I plan to advise small businesses on legal ...

JoshLernerFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Fact Finding in Baseball By JoshLerner 26 Feb 2010 Baseball's Judicial System Introduction to the System Baseball has a judicial system that operates as a two ...

JoshLernerIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I #8217;ve had four jobs in my life. I worked as a sportswriter, at two different real estate companies and most recently as a paralegal at a plaintiff #8217;s class ...

JoshLernerSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Peter, thank you for your comments. They've been very helpful. As you'll see I decided to take this paper in a related although different direction. I decided to ...

JoshuaDivineFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Forgetting Realism I spent some time studying Holmes and Frank in college and entered this first year with realist thought in the back of my mind. I was anxious to ...

JoshuaDivineIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I #8217;m Josh Divine, an overly devoted St. Louisan and Snyder #8217;s pretzel devotee. I lived near downtown St. Louis until college, which brought me to Tulsa ...

JoshuaDivineSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
External Validation and the the Success Trap By JoshuaDivine 22 May 2012 I would like to continue revising this essay throughout the summer. Our class #8217 ...

JoshuaHochmanFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Paper Title By JoshuaHochman 26 Feb 2010 I don't have an exact quote to start with, but Eben said something early in the semester that I felt provided a good ...

JoshuaHochmanIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I am in law school because I was told that the experience would promote a different kind of thinking. I have this enduring fear that, from around high school until ...

JoshuaHochmanSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Law talk v. Lawyer speak By JoshuaHochman 16 Apr 2010 A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. 50 Cent You shouldn ...

JoshuaKoenigFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 04:15	JoshuaKoenig
On Canadian Romanticism Global Constitutionalism By JoshuaKoenig 12 Mar 2017 "As Canadian As...?" If you want to see the fear in the eyes of a Canadian, wait ...

JournalTalk	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
I imagine that many of us will be considering joining a journal in the coming days. I wanted to open up some space to discuss the various journals and the pros and ...

Jsthill-Intro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:17	IanSullivan
I have a hard time believing that I am capable (and sometimes even worthy) of really getting what I want out of life. I am hoping that law school will give me a certain ...

JuanCoeymansFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:08	IanSullivan
This is the revised version of the JuanCoeymansFirstPaper The end of the world as we know it? The huge impact of the economic crisis throughout the world has raised ...

JuanCoeymansSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
Revision of YejinJennyHanFirstPaper Introduction Knowledge of the law is essential to modern life: it enables people to use the legal system, to change their behavior ...

JuanCoeymansThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
Pandemic Irrationality By JuanCoeymans 15 May 2009 I clearly remember when Professor Moglen, during one of our first classes, talked about the ridiculous amount ...

JudgeDayAndRetributiveJustice	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
I was surprised that Eben characterized Judge Day as someone with absolute power and control. I can see how her awareness that she's going to be a cripple one day ...

JudicialDecisionsandSocialConsequences	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
While on the whole I enjoyed Cohen's piece on Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach, I can't help but take issue with his conception of judicial decisions ...

JudicialResistanceandLegalChange	07 Jan 2010 - 22:14	IanSullivan
Reparented this to the original discussion page so that people looking in the index can easily follow the discussion Main.IanSullivan 3 Feb 2009 Two questions were ...

JudithWarnerOnObamaFamilyTalk	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
See original item. I hope I am doing this correctly, although somehow I doubt it. You did fine. I retitled the topic, because !ObamaArticle was very general ...

JuliaCataniaFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Rebirth of an Ideal Law school the reality I came to law school to be become a knowledgeable and efficient instrument of change. Not necessarily grand social ...

JuliaCataniaIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The most influential class I took in college was called U.S. and Mexican borders. This class taught me to think critically about institutional power and the masses ...

JuliaCataniaSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:09	IanSullivan
Eben, I would like to continue to edit this paper. Journey to Justice By JuliaCatania 28 Apr 2012 What is Justice? I spent my undergraduate experience analyzing ...

JuliaS-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
A Speculative Inquest By JuliaS 09 Feb 2008 Prediction markets are aggregations of betting exchanges for contingent future events. On sites like !InTrade ...

JuliaS-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:48	IanSullivan
The Pride Placebo One year ago today, I sat barefoot in the north end zone of Virginia Tech's football field, holding my head in my hands, while President Bush us ...

JuliaSzybalaIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:48	IanSullivan
I am interested in the way we organize our society, and to me, that's what the law is all about. I see the law as a conduit of justice, and I think that learning the ...

JulianAzranFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
A Renaissance: Enabling the Meta Culture By JulianAzran 21 June 2013 Prior to the invention of the printing press, the Catholic Church exerted de facto control ...

JulianAzranIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction By JulianAzran 26 Jan 2013

JulianAzranSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Changing the Dialogue on Social Welfare By JulianAzran 21 June 2013 My grandfather is undoubtedly my single most important role model, but there is one topic we ...

JulianBaez-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
How Laws Made by Private Groups Affect Us All: The Presidential Primaries For Starters By JulianBaez 12 Feb 2008 Private Law Laws are not simply statutes ...

JulianBaezIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:49	IanSullivan
JulianBaez 16 Jan 2008 I want to be a lawyer because it has always seemed the most interesting way to speak for a living. It allows one to use their voice and their ...

JulieIreneNkodoFirstEssay	18 May 2016 - 18:39	JulieIreneNkodo
The Pursuit of Happiness: Decolonizing My Mind By JulieIreneNkodo 19 Feb 2016 #8220;The revolution will not be televised. #8221; Gil Scott Heron I listen to ...

JulieIreneNkodoSecondEssay	11 Jun 2016 - 21:54	JulieIreneNkodo
Fight or Flight By JulieIreneNkodo 04 Apr 2016 I can acutely remember my conversation with my linesister Esther (see: historically black greek life) when I told ...

JulieParetFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
The Death Penalty: A Connecticut Case Study By JulieParet 25 Feb 2013 Home Invasion My hometown of Cheshire, CT, where I return every Thanksgiving and ...

JulieParetIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I grew up in a family of doctors and aspiring medical professionals, and was consequently surrounded by never ending chatter involving the ins and outs of the health ...

JulieParetSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
The Kind of Lawyer I Want To Be By JulieParet 19 Apr 2013 Phase I: Good Fortune I never had dreams of working at a top law firm, or even of attending a top law ...

JusticeForThePoor	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
Hearing about the Trayvon Martin case, I can't help but think about a past Moglen discussion. His observation that the criminal justice system is just to the poor ...

JusticeForWhom	25 Apr 2018 - 02:24	VanessaAjagu
Justice for whom? The idea that those in law school are in law school for one of two reasons: the love they have for justice or the hate they have for injustice, made ...

JustinChungFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 21:08	IanSullivan
note I couldn't figure out what I wanted to say with my previous topic, so this is something completely different. Conspicuous Consumption in the Classroom Intro ...

JustinChungIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:24	IanSullivan
The reason why I came to law school was to give myself more opprotunities to learn, to be able to take part in interesting activities, to have a fairly wide option ...

JustinChungSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:32	IanSullivan
The Case For Change From Without Originally By WalkerNewell 27 Feb 2009 Revised by Justin Chung 14 April 2009 Assume Things Are Really Changing In The Folklore ...

JustinChungThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:48	IanSullivan
The Lazy Genius By JustinChung 17 May 2009 If you watch enough anime, you #8217;ll start to notice that every series uses the same character archetypes. There ...

JustinColannino-FirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Forced pooling as a solution to the tragedy of the anticommmons in patent law The anticommons and its tragedy An anticommons occurs when multiple owners each have ...

JustinColannino-SecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
To see the paper as submitted, including all of Eben's comments, here. To see my responses to Eben's comments, including my goals in revision, here. Just Desert: ...

JustinColanninoIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:49	IanSullivan
During my time in business I knew and worked with a large number of lawyers and their job descriptions varied widely. I liked the idea that with a law degree I would ...

JustinFlaumenhaftFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 22:31	JustinFlaumenhaft
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JustinKimIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:49	IanSullivan
I wanted to become a lawyer to learn a profession dealing with a legal system which affects much of what I do every day, while at the same time, gaining the means ...

JustinMaffettSecondEssay	10 Apr 2018 - 17:22	JoeBruner
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JustinPerezFirstEssay	25 Feb 2020 - 04:17	JustinPerez
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JustinPerezJournal	29 Apr 2020 - 16:22	JustinPerez
JustinPerez's Journal The past three weeks have been extremely trying for me. One of my family members has become very sick and two others have exhibited mild symptoms ...

JustinPurtleFirstPaper	22 Feb 2015 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Fears of a law student Reasonable Doubt Although I have committed myself to be trained to participate in a profession that has traditionally allowed many to live ...

JustinPurtleSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:26	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

JustinPurtleThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
Cannibalism and the Common Law Why Punish? Based on all and any of the basic principles of justification that we are taught in our Criminal Law course, the decision ...

JustineHongFirstEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 13:15	JustineHong
Moral and Philosophical Bearings for a Law Student's Future Direction By JustineHong 11 Mar 2022 Introduction Holmes underscores that the law does not reflect ...

JustineHongIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 23:04	JustineHong
Personal Introduction By JustineHong 17 Jan 2022 My name is Justine Hong. Although I grew up in the Palo Alto, CA, I went to an international high school in South ...

KahlilWilliamsFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
Eben's Going to Kill Me By KahlilWilliams 27 Feb 2009 Statement of Facts #8220;Eben #8217;s going to kill me. #8221; That was one of my first thoughts ...

KahlilWilliamsFirstThirdPaper	18 Aug 2009 - 01:07	EbenMoglen
Choosing Souter's Replacement The Candidates Qualifications The Confirmation Process The Nominee is Confirmed Choosing Souter's Replacement With Justice Souter ...

KahlilWilliamsIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
KahlilWilliams 27 Jan 2009 I came to law school to supplement my graduate education with a set of skills that I could use to affect policy change, particularly on ...

KahlilWilliamsSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:26	IanSullivan
This is a revision of Jenai St. Hill's first paper. Aside from minor grammatical changes and added links, I put forth some options for Black lawyers should they choose ...

KahlilWilliamsThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
A Pathetic Reading of Empathy What I Said At the end of the semester, I wrote a conceived essay about whether Lord Coleridge would be confirmed as a Supreme ...

KaiKarFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 01:56	KaiKar
Class less By KaiKar 31 May 2017 Joke My time so far at Columbia has often evoked senses of irony, an awareness of incongruences in my own experiences and understandings ...

KailaAlstonFirstEssay	25 May 2022 - 12:26	KailaAlston
The Life Stages of the 21st Century Black Advocate as Told Through the Lens of a Tired Black Woman By KailaAlston 12 Mar 2022 There are four life stages that ...

KailaAlstonIntro	15 Jan 2022 - 19:26	KailaAlston
Personal Introduction By KailaAlston 15 Jan 2022 Hello! My name is Kaila. I am straight through from undergrad where I studied legal studies and minored in Korean ...

KailaAlstonSecondEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 05:27	AdrianHernandez
Collectivism and Individualism: How Societal Behaviors Shaped the Response to COVID 19 By KailaAlston 30 May 2022 Individualism vs Collectivism Individualism ...

KalliopeKefallinosFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Prologue: After thinking about how to edit my first paper, I finally conceded that the paper contained one fundamental flaw (as well as many more superficial flaws ...

KalliopeKefallinosIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
KalliopeKefallinos 13 Jan 2010 My name is Kalli Kefallinos. As an undergrad studying philosophy, I became fascinated with critical social theory. I found myself ...

KalliopeKefallinosRevisedPaper	04 Jul 2010 - 19:13	KalliopeKefallinos
Jessica, I used the rewrite you created on this page to make edits on the page of my original essay, KalliopeKefallinosSecondPaper . I originally was going to edit ...

KalliopeKefallinosSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
The Conspicuous Consumption of Food and Babies By KalliopeKefallinos 15 Apr 2010 I plan to use Veblen to locate what I take to be the problems central to two of ...

KamelBFirstNewPaper	07 Jan 2010 - 22:37	IanSullivan
WE ALL ARE CRIMINALS Prelude On February 2nd, I read Columbia Spectator for the first time. The cover headline was relating the death of a 19 year old student ...

KamelBFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

KamelBSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:26	IanSullivan
China in Africa, a New Colonialism or Opportunities for Development? A comparative involvement with the #8216;Old Europe #8217; Underlined text. From Miss Uchenna ...

KamelBThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
Constructing Black France: Thoughts about the US model of affirmative action. Constructing Black France. That was the title of the conference I went to a few days ...

KamelBekkaliIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I came to the U.S to grow up. I came to law school to be challenged. I came to Columbia Law for my mother. All my utopical wishes to make this world a better place ...

KarsynArchambeauFirstEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 12:56	JustineHong
It Keeps on Turning By KarsynArchambeau 11 Mar 2022 In recent days, I find myself wondering what the people in London, or Paris, or Berlin felt in the months preceding ...

KarsynArchambeauIntro	14 Jan 2022 - 18:18	KarsynArchambeau
Personal Introduction By KarsynArchambeau 14 Jan 2022 Hey! My name is Karsyn Archambeau and I am from just outside Atlanta, Georgia. I graduated in 2020 from the ...

KarsynArchambeauSecondEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 00:36	KarsynArchambeau
Hustle Culture and the Creator Economy Lay Your Hobbies to Rest By KarsynArchambeau 27 Apr 2022 My least favorite question is #8220;what are your hobbies ...

KateJLeeFirstEssay	02 Jun 2017 - 02:22	KateJLee
Dear you, I am not sure why I am writing to you yet. I wrote this essay on equality, but you were always in the background of my mind, tucked away on the corner shelf ...

KateVershov-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
Commoditization and the Law By KateVershov 14 Feb 2008 Introduction: Holmes and Legal Terminology One of Holmes #8217; most resonating remarks in #8220;The Path ...

KateVershov-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:50	IanSullivan
A Balancing Act: Discovery Costs, Public Access, and Privacy Introduction Secrecy in litigation drives up discovery costs for plaintiffs who are generally already ...

KateVershovIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:50	IanSullivan
I did not come to law school because I wanted to fondle legal philosophy and revel in logic games (blasphemy, I know). I am a cynic #8211; I see the law as a means ...

KatelynStarksFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 22:45	EbenMoglen
The Art of Performance By KatelynStarks 20 Feb 2025 (further edited March 13) In office hours with Professor Moglen, I explained that having no prompt made this ...

KatherineMackeyFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
A Lawyer's Competing Obligations By KatherineMackey 09 July 2012 The Problem A few weeks ago I had a slow day at my internship #8212;I #8217;m working at a U ...

KatherineMackeyIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I don't know myself very well, and I hope that this class will help me discover what I want and how to get it. I read a lot and I try to alternate between fiction ...

KatherineMackeySecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Intellectual Dishonesty of Constitutional Law and What to Do About It By KatherineMackey 31 July 2012 What is Constitutional Law? My Constitutional Law professor ...

KatherineOkFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 19:05	EbenMoglen
Confessions By KatherineOk 21 Feb 2025 MARIA DID NOT KNOW WHAT TIME SHE GOT IN BED. At one point, she turned the light on again and opened a book, one that was ...

KatySkaggsFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
As I can now see clearly, the first draft of this paper was an exercise in attempting to meet a conclusion I already held as truth. For obvious reasons, that failed ...

KatySkaggsIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I'm Katy, and I #8217;m three years out of college. For a year I lived in New Zealand, where my mum is from and I #8217;m a citizen, and where I plan to return for ...

KatySkaggsSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
How Much is Enough? By KatySkaggs 19 May 2012 How Will I Decide How To Use My License? As Eben suggested, the question #8220;How much is enough? #8221; is a ...

KayKimIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
Why I came to Columbia and What I expect from the school Pi Probability that I will retain the idealism that I obtained in college and eventually fulfill the objectives ...

KaylieChenFirstEssay	30 May 2024 - 00:48	KaylieChen
Homeownership and Wealth Disparities By KaylieChen 23 Feb 2024 Affordable housing has been a longstanding concern across the United States. However, these housing ...

KaylieChenSecondEssay	30 May 2024 - 01:23	KaylieChen
Japanese Americans in World War II: A Fight for their Country and their Rights By KaylieChen 19 Apr 2024 The history of Asian Americans in the United States is ...

KeepTheCurveTalk	20 Feb 2008 - 17:43	CarinaWallance
Regardless of how much we collaborate and help each other, only so many people can "succeed" in the way that law school measures success. Personally, I think that ...

KeithEdelmanFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
The Persistence of Prisons: An Exposition of Economic Foundations By KeithEdelman 19 Apr 2009 Introduction Our criminal justice system is failing to achieve ...

KeithEdelmanIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
KeithEdelman 17 Jan 2009 I came to law school for three primary reasons. First, I want to experience an intellectual environment that I feel college didn #8217;t ...

KeithEdelmanSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:26	IanSullivan
Repression of Cognitive Dissonance: Grand Effects on our Legal System Revision by KeithEdelman of Elyse Schneider's first paper A Personal Revelation Upon arriving ...

KeithEdelmanThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
Clawing Back for Justice Introduction After the Madoff scandal, much media attention has gone to those whose current accounts were erased. There is another group ...

KensingNgFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Legal Decision Making The Role of Legal Principles Many classes in law school (although not all) rest at least partially on the idea that judges decide law based ...

KensingNgIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction It appears that http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/KensingNg is not the right place to put my intro. I shall shift it to here ...

KensingNgSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Institutionalized Economic Discrimination By KensingNg 24 Aug 2012 My favorite line from this course is probably: "we are kind to the rich, and just to the poor ...

KentTolandFirstEssay	02 Jun 2017 - 03:02	KentToland
John Brown, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and a Theory of Social Action By KentToland 10 Mar 2017 In March, a classmate suggested it was absurd to condemn John Brown #8217 ...

KentTolandSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 01:25	KentToland
Lessons of Immersion By KentToland 07 Jun 2017 The first semester of law school is often thought of as learning by immersion, comparable to a foreign language ...

KevinChangFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
Choose As a Free Man By KevinChang 27 Feb 2009; revised on 18 April 2009 as part of the second assignment Most People Are Not Truly Making Choices Most people ...

KevinChangIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
KevinChang 19 Jan 2009 Hi! My name is Kevin Chang. I am from Taiwan. Before law school, I had never come to the United States. Therefore, the last five months ...

KevinChangSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:26	IanSullivan
Behind the North Korea Criminal Law By JosephLu 27 Feb 2009 I have revised this paper as part of the second paper assignment. The Penal Code of North Korea Reveals ...

KevinChangThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

KevinSFirstEssay	09 Jun 2016 - 14:05	EbenMoglen
This Is Why I Have Trust Issues By KevinS 19 Feb 2016 Why We Should Be Skeptical of Our Environment In my very first class, I was told, "Rhetoric seeks to answer ...

KevinSSecondEssay	14 Jun 2016 - 01:38	KevinS
The Argument Against DAPA? By KevinS 11 Apr 2016 On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced his Executive Actions on Immigration, which among other propositions ...

KhurramDaraFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Using Law and Social Control to Improve Islam's Image in America By KhurramDara 15 Feb 2012 When the Park51 project, commonly referred to as the "Ground Zero Mosque ...

KhurramDaraIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I'm Khurram. I came to Columbia because I want to work as a corporate lawyer in a New York law firm. I really enjoy discussing election politics. When I'm older, I ...

KhurramDaraSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Why it's hard for me to be creative By KhurramDara 24 Apr 2012 One of the overarching themes of our course is creativity. In some contexts, being creative helps ...

KianaTaghaviFirstEssay	24 Apr 2025 - 14:48	EbenMoglen
Seeing Patterns in the Sand By KianaTaghavi 19 Feb 2025 Moments of reinforcement are effective for me: a Tuesday afternoon, Spotify shuffling on, reluctantly doing ...

KieranCoeFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Who Controls Dissemination of Information? Introduction The past two decades have borne witness to an increase in public access to mobile digital video recording ...

KieranCoeIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction For two years after college, I worked for a large merchant energy company. I am now in law school because I want to be an environmental lawyer ...

KieranSingh2001FirstEssay	21 May 2024 - 12:02	EbenMoglen
Free Artistry and the Pitfalls of Music Copyright By KieranSingh2001 5 May 2024 History of Music Ownership Music, as a cultural and social phenomenon, was not ...

KieranSingh2001SecondEssay	06 Jun 2024 - 14:19	EbenMoglen
A Future for NYC Housing By KieranSingh2001 27 May 2024 Housing supply and prices are undeniably a problem in New York City. Despite its reputation as a dense ...

KimberHargroveFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
C Major By KimberHargrove 16 Feb 2012 What does creative legal thinking mean? Thinking creatively in a legal context can obviously mean a lot of things, but here ...

KimberHargroveIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is Kimberly, I go by Kimber, please not Kim. From NorCal, like running, swimming, reading fiction (both intelligent and trashy). And I'm in Torts right now ...

KimberHargroveSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

KippMuellerFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
John Brown 2012 By KippMueller 16 Feb 2012 The World We Live In I'm very insecure about my conscious indifference to the matrix we live in. To see it play out ...

KippMuellerIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I'm a political junkie, a basketball and football fanatic, and I love to learn and listen to people from different backgrounds with different stories. I love people ...

KippMuellerSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Worker Bees By KippMueller 12 May 2012 The "Life" of the Worker Bee The worker bee spends her life collecting nectar for the queen. When she is not collecting ...

KirillLevashovFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Google knows roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are. What else will it know? The Infrastructure We tell our search ...

KirillLevashovIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is Kirill, and I like to argue for the sake of hearing other people's viewpoints. Outside that context, I tend to be quiet. I'm a night owl and I miss taking ...

KirillLevashovSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
A Career Of Blissful Ignorance By KirillLevashov Lawyering Outside the Law A central idea of creative lawyering is the taking of the decision making process out ...

KokoZhangFirstEssay	25 Feb 2020 - 01:59	KokoZhang
Queering Law School By KokoZhang 25 Feb 2020 I majored in Gender and Sexuality Studies in college and I studied a lot, but really a little, about queer theory ...

KregKatoskiFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
Misplaced Values in our Institutions By KregKatoski 19 Apr 2009 Although the legal realism embodied in Holmes' idea that #8220;things are what they do #8221; ...

KregKatoskiIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
KregKatoski 15 Jan 2009 I don't know what I want to do after law school, but I am here to obtain the means to do whatever I eventually decide I want to do. I hope ...

KregKatoskiSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
Problems with Justifications for the Grading System By AaronShepard 04 Mar 2009 Two of the most cited reasons for maintaining the current grading system in the ...

KregKatoskiThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
Why It Might Make Sense to Tell People Not to Do Things They Will Do Anyway By KregKatoski 17 May 2009 Introduction In class, it was suggested that it does not ...

KrishnaSutariaFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Modern Fugitive Laws By KrishnaSutaria 23 March 2010 I. History Repeating Itself Take a look this. Such posters served as warnings to black populations in Massachusetts ...

KrishnaSutariaIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
"So, what brings you to law school?" I think I give a different answer to that question every time it is posed. A cynical view is that I don't really know, and that ...

KrishnaSutariaSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Insight and the Bramble Bush By KrishnaSutaria 14 Apr 2010 The Bramble Bush On the first day of class, we discussed the need to grapple different disciplines ...

KristenQuesadaFirstEssay	20 Apr 2025 - 15:29	EbenMoglen
God, Gays, and Gaga: Between Flesh and Faith By KristenQuesada 19 Feb 2025 Introduction Over the last four years, I #8217;ve learned to live with and love ...

KristineSaulFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
(De)Constructing Self Identity By KristineSaul 27 Feb 2009 (Amended 17 April 2009) Introduction: Sticks and Stones? #8220;It #8217;s not what you are called ...

KristineSaulSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
The Pen is Mightier than the Sword By Kristine Saul (Originally by Young Kim 27 Feb 2009) A colleague once told me that to acknowledge the preponderance of race ...

KristineSaulThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
Adventures of the Mundane By KristineSaul 23 May 2009 Living in the age of reality television, personal blogs, and Facebook, watching the lives of others unfold ...

KristineVanHamersveldFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
Professor Moglen, I changed my paper substantially this time around, hopefully taking into full account your comments on the first draft. I decided to eliminate the ...

KristineVanHamersveldIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I decided to come to law school because I studied anthropology in college and was fascinated with society and culture, but frustrated with the abstract nature of academic ...

KristineVanHamersveldSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
Self Narrative and Legal Narrative Originally By MichaelDignan I. Devices for Legal and Self Narratives Serve a Similar Purpose In general, human beings find it ...

KristineVanHamersveldThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
A Student's View on Effective Legal Education By KristineVanHamersveld 25 Apr 2009 Introduction This essay will explore the way in which law students learn under ...

KrystalCommonsFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
I moved this to the old place, and made a few other minor changes, like redating your signature, because the tools I use to analyze revisions are based on the "History ...

KrystalCommonsIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
As an undergrad at UVA, I was a history major. In my course work and thesis work, I tried to focus on and capture the untold stories of the #8220;victims #8221;/unsung ...

KrystalCommonsREVISEDFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
The Anxiety Over Freedom #8220;The way we #8217;re going to know whether you can free people is by whether you can free yourself. Freedom is a thing we make. If it ...

KrystalCommonsSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Health Care for All: A Victory. (revision) #8220;This is a big fucking deal #8221; Vice President Biden stated to President Obama as he passed the microphone at the ...

KurtLynFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
When Will the Luck Run Out? By KurtLyn 25 Feb 2013 Our Fears and Expectations In class, we spoke briefly about the expectations we set for ourselves as well as ...

KurtLynIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Hi. I am from Houston, Texas. Personal Introduction By KurtLyn 30 Jan 2013

KurtLynSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Privacy and Social Media By KurtLyn 21 June 2013 Definition of Privacy Privacy can be broken down into three subcomponents, secrecy, anonymity, and autonomy. ...

LGBTPrideDay2010	07 Jul 2010 - 05:53	EricaSelig
Today was the LGBT Pride Celebration in San Francisco, where I'm working this summer. Many other cities, including NY, also hold Pride celebrations on the last of ...

LaraHafezFirstEssay	21 Apr 2025 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Navigating How to be Muslim in the Legal Field By LaraHafez 20 Feb 2025 A Moment of Realization "We need more Muslims like you in the legal field." I was told ...

LarryTaylorIIIFirstEssay	19 May 2021 - 01:50	LarryTaylorIII
A Libra's Scale: Balance Between Law Creativity By LarryTaylorIII 26 Feb 2021 I thought coming to Columbia would allow me to actualize the full ...

LaurenManalangFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
By LaurenManalang 27 Feb 2009 Law Is As Law Does: Frustrations With Continuing Inequality In many ways, I am dissatisfied with what the law does. Even when it ...

LaurenManalangIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I appreciate the honesty of these responses and find it interesting that so many echo the same concerns. My first job out of college was as a social worker in a domestic ...

LaurenManalangThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
Symbolic Meaning in Publicized Trials By LaurenManalang 29 Jun 2009 Introduction In most any public trial, the parties to the case become Symbols, and the ...

LaurenPackardFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:44	MarkDrake
Appropriating Life: Biopiracy as Neocolonialism By LaurenPackard 10 Mar 2015 I. What is biopiracy? The United States Patent and Trademark Office ( #8220;PTO ...

LaurenPackardIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:18	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By LaurenPackard 28 Jan 2015 I came to law school in search of a more meaningful life. I want an intellectually rigorous and challenging ...

LaurenPackardSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:45	MarkDrake
CREATIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY By LaurenPackard 31 May 2015 Growing up, my neighbor was an art teacher who taught out of her home. Her house was teaming with colors and ...

LaurenRoemkeFirstEssay	16 Jul 2016 - 02:38	LaurenRoemke

LaurenRoemkeSecondEssay	16 Jul 2016 - 02:39	LaurenRoemke

LaurenRosenbergFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
Who's running this show, anyway? The subordination of intellectual development in law school policy By LaurenRosenberg Introduction On February 25, I attended ...

LaurenRosenbergIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I originally applied to law school for a very small niche interest neuroscience and the law. After pursuing neurological research in college, I became interested ...

LaurenRosenbergSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
A Fundamental Divide: Successful Lawyering and Current Legal Education By LaurenRosenberg 18 Apr 2009 (A revision of William King's Leff, Lawyering, and Law School ...

LaurenRosenbergThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:42	IanSullivan
Releasing the Ball and Chain Utilizing Modern Technology As An Advantage Modern technology allows efficient access to legal information from anywhere, at any time ...

LawContempSocSoc	13 Jan 2012 - 23:13	IanSullivan
Hi, all. I was taking some time this holiday weekend to reflect on the summer, and I realized that the summer's approaching half over. I don't know how many of you ...

LawPracticeWorkingGroup	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
Hi everyone. I am writing to invite you to join a group I have formed, the Law Practice Working Group. First, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am a 3L ...

LawProfessorsWhoNeverPracticed	01 Sep 2010 - 13:39	RobLaser
My friend Rory Skaggs mentioned how interesting he finds it that so few law professors ever were (as he put it) actual lawyers. I am still collecting my thoughts on ...

LawSchoolAdvice	17 Apr 2010 - 14:44	NonaFarahnik
Before coming to law school, I received two pieces of advice from coworkers about how to "succeed" at Columbia Law School. I found both of these to be really troubling ...

LawSchoolAsAnOrganizationAGroupDiscussion	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
Based on my question in class today regarding the applicability of Arnold's analysis of organizations to our experience in law school and Eben's subsequent answer ...

LawSchoolClincs	17 Apr 2010 - 14:43	NonaFarahnik
I grabbed this from the Law School Links thread I think it's a particularly pertinent topic given that 1Ls are applying for clinics right now and that it deserves ...

LawSchoolLinks	08 Apr 2010 - 04:12	DavidGoldin
Links About Law School 3Ls Can't Find Jobs Do people really believe that, even at the top law schools, they're entitled to a 160K job? No profession other than law ...

LawSchoolReform	13 Jan 2012 - 23:20	IanSullivan
Can Someone help me change the topic name to LawSchoolTalk? I looked up how to change a name and it claims to be so easy, but I do not see anything that says rename ...

LawSchoolandInternships	22 Jan 2009 - 01:54	IanSullivan
I'm curious about how others are feeling about their internships and clerkships so far this summer. I know there was substantial concern among students this past ...

LawSchoolasTrainingforHierarchy	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
I found account of the law school experience by Professor Duncan Kennedy of Harvard Law to be relevant to our discussions in class, thought I #8217;d share. RohanGrey ...

LawStudentProtests	21 Apr 2015 - 17:29	ChaseLax
In Professor Cleveland #8217;s Civ Pro class, we learned about the effort of the Immigration Clinic at Yale Law, led by Harold Koh, to free Haitian refugees that were ...

LawsAreNotMadeForUs	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
Why I want to do more than just cover my nut... Are laws really made for people like us? Donald Black explains the behavior of law, in part, by discussing the horizontal ...

LawyerLand	25 Jan 2015 - 14:43	EbenMoglen
Lawrence Joseph, Lawyerland (2000) Used by permission of the author. EbenMoglen 14 Feb 2008 Robinson's Metamorphosis Something Split Cerriere ...

LawyerLandThoughts	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
When I read Lawyerland, I get less and less excited about becoming a lawyer. I feel like most, if not all of the stories have a strong, melancholy feeling and I can ...

LawyeringLinks	24 Jul 2010 - 05:00	DevinMcDougall
Links About Lawyering This is an interesting essay by a lawyer who graduated in 2007 into the waiting arms of unemployment. He decided to begin helping people who ...

LawyeringandVariationsinSelfPsychology	27 Jan 2009 - 00:39	JasonLissy
Two questions were raised recently in a post regarding the non unitary self and Cohen. Eben distilled them and asked that they be posted separately so as not unnecessarily ...

LawyerlandDeepEnd	17 Apr 2010 - 14:50	NonaFarahnik
After class on Thursday, I decided I'd track down a copy of Lawyerland for the weekend (as it turns out, there's only one copy). It's a short read. In any event, I ...

LawyerlandThoughts	31 Jan 2023 - 23:44	HuazhouYe
MichaelPari 31 Jan 2023 I think it's largely reflected in my own experience, but I think I'd actually reframe the point as that the public hates its perception of ...

LayoffsAtLawFirms	22 Jan 2009 - 01:54	IanSullivan
Since potential layoffs at law firms during the current economic downturn is something we have discussed a fair amount in class, I thought I would post this link to ...

LearningInTragedy	23 Mar 2021 - 21:27	EbenMoglen
Learning From, and In, Tragedy The language of violence is at once stark and ambiguous. When we experience outbursts of violence in society, both in our individual ...

LegitimateIsAsLegitimateDoes	22 Jan 2009 - 01:55	IanSullivan
I found this article pretty interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/washington/06bar.html? r 2 oref slogin oref slogin Apparently a 1999 amendment to Title ...

LeoFarbmanFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:44	MarkDrake
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility By LeoFarbman 05 Mar 2015 Technological Impact on Social Psychology The Internet, paired alongside the smart phone ...

LeoFarbmanIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:19	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction I am that I am. Usually that is someone else's introduction. Why are you using it here? I have a slight disability involving the ...

LeoFarbmanSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:46	MarkDrake
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

LeslieHannayFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
A Wrench in the System By LeslieHannay 27 Feb 2009 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top ...

LeslieHannayIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I have spent the past several years working for environmental and social justice nonprofit organizations. I grew frustrated with my limitations in working to address ...

LeslieHannaySecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
This is a revision of JasonLissyFirstPaper. Finding Meaning in the Face of Change The evidence seems irrefutable: the big firms are, at best, mere profit making machines ...

LeslieRidingsFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 22:56	LeslieRidings
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

LeylaHadiFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Finding My Way Through the Rigidly Ridiculous System By Leyla Hadi 25 Feb 2013 What I Want My career isn't the most important thing to me. I don't want it to ...

LeylaHadiIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
I grew up in Pakistan, and moved to the States when I was 18 for college. I don #8217;t have a solid answer regarding why I chose to apply to law school: it was a ...

LeylaHadiSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
The Many By LeylaHadi 08 Apr 2013 Denial of the Many During my third year at Cornell, a string of sensationalized suicides occurred on campus; notably, the ...

LiasBorshanFirstEssay	12 May 2020 - 00:15	EbenMoglen
The Well Meaning Law School Student By LiasBorshan 28 Feb 2020 Section I: Who is she? This paper is about a fictional figure that I call the well meaning law ...

LilianKlatskinFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 03:18	LilianKlatskin
Things I Will Remind Myself as I Metamorphosize into a Lawyer By LilianKlatskin 28 Feb 2020 My statement on being creative in law school will (ironically, perhaps ...

LilyVoIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Lily Vo. I spent most of my life in Austin, TX and attended college at the University of Texas, where I studied economics. Between ...

LilyVoSecondPaperEdited	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan

LincolnOnSlavery	17 Apr 2010 - 19:58	NonaFarahnik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham Lincoln on slavery Wikipedia articles are a source of secondary bibliography. They cannot be used as an authoritative secondary ...

LindaMuzereFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Competing Legal Magic By LindaMuzere 17 Feb 2012 21 May 2012 Introduction Last year was an unusual year; my family celebrated Independence Day on July 9th ...

LindaMuzereIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I was never very inspired in college. My plan was to graduate with a degree in economics and live the exciting life that I had always imagined for my early 20s. ...

LindaMuzereSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Reflections By LindaMuzere 23 May 2012 Introduction As my final major contribution to the wiki I decided to write a retrospective on my first year of law school ...

LisaXiaFirstEssay	16 Jun 2016 - 08:05	EbenMoglen
Modern Loss: Sharing Grief and Finding Solace on Social Media by LisaXia 21 Apr 2016 Today, I received a text message from my dad: #8220;I know you knew Donna ...

LisaXiaSecondEssay	16 Jun 2016 - 08:11	EbenMoglen
Privacy in the Digital Age By LisaXia 05 Jun 2016 In my last essay, I began to explore the question of why I should care about privacy rights. I asked why the ...

LissetteDuranFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Contributing Member of Society By LissetteDuran 16 Feb 2012 I have lived in a one bedroom apartment with four other people. I have fallen asleep to the gentle ...

LissetteDuranIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Getting There I am a beneficiary of pipelines created long before me. Although the trip from my native Washington Heights to CLS seems short, I can assure you that ...

LissetteDuranSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Sun Setting on Affirmative Action By LissetteDuran 29 Apr 2012 Introduction If the Supreme Court finds affirmative action programs unconstitutional, schools ...

ListSitesOfferingDealInformation	10 Jan 2010 - 16:21	IanSullivan
List of Sites Offering Product and Deal Related Information DanBryan 23 May 2008 Introduction: The page is a list of websites and forums which offer advice and ...

LitigationandGrassrootsMobilizationTalkNotes	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan
Here's an interesting related law review article: Leaders, Followers, and Free Riders: The Community Lawyer's Dilemma When Representing Non Democratic Client Organizations ...

LivingInPovertyAtTheHandsOfTheIvyLeague	24 Aug 2016 - 15:23	MitchellSchwartz
For anyone interested, there's been a growing push for a of graduate student employees. Even NYU has done more than Columbia. one graduate student's story. To me ...

LizzieGomezFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
A Note on Self Deportation By LizzieGomez 15 Feb 2012 A few months ago, Romney presented his solution to our broken immigration policies at a debate in Tampa. ...

LizzieGomezIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
When people first meet me, I can come off as the shy or acquiescent type. To that, all I #8217;ll say is that once my long time career mentor gave me a t shirt with ...

LizzieGomezSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
By LizzieGomez 20 Apr 2012 Passion I: The beginning In December, I received a baby blue knitted hat from Yesenia. I know this because a Sanctuary for Families ...

LukeReillyFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:45	MarkDrake
Death of the Legislative Author By LukeReilly 13 Mar 2015 In his 1968 essay #8220;Death of the Author, #8221; Roland Barthes asked what meaning readers should ...

LukeReillyFirstEssayNotes	30 Jun 2015 - 14:19	MarkDrake
Here are some internal notes on my first paper. Some are transcribed from my handwritten notes, while some are just off the top of my head. Think of it as director ...

LukeReillyIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:20	MarkDrake
Luke Reilly Personal Introduction I want to learn the reasons that legal structures and rules and decisions exist. I want to understand why this or that result happened ...

LukeReillySecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:46	MarkDrake
There are Two Laws By LukeReilly 30 May 2015 In a year of law school I have simultaneously been taught two different visions of the law. And I can't take it. ...

LukeReillySecondPaperNotes	29 Jun 2015 - 21:49	MarkDrake
This one got away from me. I originally planned it on the question of why people (including, often, me) believe the rules are correctly simply by virtue of being ...

LydiaMurrayIntro	16 Jan 2022 - 16:46	LydiaMurray
Personal Introduction My name is Lydia Murray. I am primarily from Michigan, but spent several years living abroad in India and China, where I graduated high school ...

LydiaMurraySecondEssay	24 May 2022 - 16:31	LydiaMurray
Ending At Will Employment Through Judicial Authority By LydiaMurray 20 Apr 2022 Introduction TThe concept of at will employment represents an inequitable model ...

MaciasSummerUpdate	22 Jan 2009 - 01:55	IanSullivan
Hey everyone! I just wanted to share some of my summer with all of you. As some of you know, I am currently working at the City Attorney in Los Angeles. I don't actually ...

MaeghanMurphyFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 17:44	MaeghanMurphy
Addressing Societal Evils By Promoting Egocentrism The Problem We live in a nation with persistent inequality, discrimination, and abuse. The United States is ...

MaeghanMurphySecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 00:38	MaeghanMurphy
THE FOUR STAGES OF MY 1L YEAR My first year of law school is akin to the five stages of grief. In my case, there are four stages: obliviousness, projection, denial ...

MagCourt	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan
One of the great things about my summer job is that I've been able to get to court often. I work across the street from both the District Court and Magistrate Court ...

MagicAccordingToFrank	07 Feb 2008 - 18:01	JustinColannino
Eben alluded to us not quite getting the meaning of "magic" according to Frank. Let's use this space to work it out. AdamCarlis 02 Feb 2008 DanielButrymowicz ...

MakalikaNaholowaa-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
The Unreasonableness of the "Reasonable Person" Standard in Personal Torts The cost of personal tort actions in the US was $87.4B in 2006, with major categories of ...

MakalikaNaholowaa-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:55	IanSullivan
MakalikaNaholowaa 01 Apr 2008 The Discordance Between Hawaiian Traditions and the Modern Racial Rule for Community Recognition Background: Native Hawaiian Racial ...

MakalikaNaholowaaIntro	12 Jan 2009 - 22:52	IanSullivan
MakalikaNaholowaa 17 Jan 2008 Probably over thinking it, but I hated my first intro. It wasn't a lie, but it was generic and stupid. I should have said this to ...

MakingAChoice	07 Jan 2010 - 22:39	IanSullivan
In today #8217;s class we talked a bit about choosing to help the cops or the robbers. Yet, we also talked about Cons and the mortgaging of our law degrees. If both ...

MalaikaJabaliFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
How racism supports animosity towards "humanitarian ideals" of social welfare By MalaikaJabali 14 Feb 2012 Thurmond Arnold notes the success of Swedes in ...

MalaikaJabaliIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I grew up among activists and have been spending many years of my life determining how to effectively make the world better. Just before getting accepted to Columbia ...

MalaikaJabaliSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Law talk as a second language: Why law school should take cues from Spanish class By MalaikaJabali 14 May 2012 In a good foreign language class, the teacher uses ...

MalaikaJabaliSecondPaperMisplaced	14 Jan 2015 - 22:03	IanSullivan
#8220;Law talk #8221; as a second language: Why law school should take cues from Spanish class In a good foreign language class, the teacher use a variety of teaching ...

ManuelLorenzoFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Choices We Make By ManuelLorenzo 4 22 12 Choosing Clients The choices we make in law school and the years that follow shape the direction of our legal careers ...

ManuelLorenzoIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I grew up for most of my life in New Jersey and I came to law school straight out of college. I am a pretty laid back person but I enjoy playing sports and listening ...

ManuelLorenzoSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Courage By ManuelLorenzo 03 May 2012 What It Is and Why We Need It As the semester comes to an end, one of the lessons that should be taken away is the importance ...

MarcLegrandFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Suspect Classes Defining Suspect Classes The characteristics of suspect classes In Products , Justice Stone suggested that #8220;statutes directed at particular ...

MarcLegrandIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The problem I had a long time with understanding the law, is because of the language in the law. And the fact that, instead of taking each word and finding out the ...

MarcLegrandSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Feedback By MarcLegrand 16 May 2012 Introduction #8220;Professor Moglen, I #8217;d like to keep working on this based on your comments. #8221; This sentiment ...

March12thSongWouldnTItBeLovely	16 Mar 2009 - 20:55	EbenMoglen
XinpingZhu 14 Mar 2009 Wouldn't It Be Loverly Song Lyrics by Cassandra Wilson Not by Cassandra Wilson. By Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, from ...

MarcusStrongFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Letter to My Future Peers By MarcusStrong 16 Feb 2012 Personal Introduction In many ways, my path to law school and any success at this point in life is traditional ...

MarcusStrongIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is Marcus Strong and I consider myself as a simple person. I love reading good books, listening to good music, eating good food, and knowing honest, authentic ...

MarcusStrongSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Politics of Home By MarcusStrong 15 May 2012 (edited July 2012) Is a House Just a Home? As Americans struggle over domestic issues of immigration, gay marriage ...

MarenHuldenFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Moral Development of Jurisprudence By MarenHulden 26 Feb 2010 Introduction Brown v. Board of Education is revered as a triumph for civil rights both as a ...

MarenHuldenIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I like challenges. Before law school I was a classroom teacher, which I discovered to be one of the most challenging and fulfilling jobs I could imagine. I left, though ...

MarenHuldenSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

MariHulbuttaFirstEssay	19 Apr 2018 - 14:16	MariHulbutta
Tribal Sovereignty Advancements Through Intellectual Property Law By MariHulbutta 19 April 2018 (Revised version; 1000 words) I. Current Landscape of Native American ...

MariHulbuttaSecondEssay	31 May 2018 - 22:12	MariHulbutta
A Theory of Action for Becoming the First Woman Governor of the Chickasaw Nation By MariHulbutta 31 May 2018 (Second paper, final draft; 987 words) When asked ...

MariZaldivarSecondEssay	09 Jun 2017 - 06:05	MariZaldivar
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

MariaLaGuminaFirstEssay	04 Jun 2016 - 20:08	EbenMoglen
Courageous Creativity By MariaLaGumina 19 Feb 2016 Throughout our discussions in class we have established a working hypothesis that willingness not to conform ...

MariaLaGuminaSecondEssay	15 Jun 2016 - 01:03	MariaLaGumina
The Decision By MariaLaGumina 03 Apr 2016 Families of Lawyers I'm Maria Teresa, I'm an Italian American. There are two lawyers and two law students in my family ...

MariahHaleySecondEssay	18 May 2021 - 18:39	MariahHaley
Lawyering for Change in an Epidemic By MariahHaley 16 Apr 2021 Twin Epidemics While the rest of the nation has contended with an epidemic which affects all, Black ...

MarinaHernandezFirstEssay	26 Apr 2018 - 17:22	MarinaHernandez
K12 Education and Juvenile Justice By MarinaHernandez 26 April 2018 Introduction A week in New Orleans at the Public Defender #8217;s Office has pushed me to ...

MarinaHernandezSecondEssay	06 Jun 2018 - 01:02	MarinaHernandez
Fall 2018 By MarinaHernandez 05 Jun 2018 How I Got Here I am the daughter of a convicted felon, and neither of my parents completed high school. Despite being ...

MarkBierdzFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Same old bullshit, no matter how prestigious the school. My brother woke me up that morning; he told me there was a cool movie on TV where America was under attack ...

MarkBierdzIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I've always seen myself wearing something like a double breasted navy blue blazer with mock tortoiseshell buttons, a prewashed wrinkle proof cotton striped dress shirt ...

MarkBierdzSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Mark, I am glad I interpreted your paper incorrectly. I think what you have to say is more interesting than the words I put in your mouth. That said, I am still ...

MarkusVonDerMarwitzFirstEssay	11 Jun 2016 - 08:00	EbenMoglen
Immigration and Crime in Switzerland By MarkusVonDerMarwitz 17 April 2016 My family moved to Switzerland in 1996, and I grew up there during the time when a large ...

MarkusVonDerMarwitzSecondEssay	15 Jun 2016 - 19:18	MarkusVonDerMarwitz
Liberating Animals By MarkusVonDerMarwitz 31 Mar 2016 Introduction Just as equality between human beings of different races and sexes is accepted, equality ought ...

MarshallAsOdysseus	22 Jan 2013 - 18:17	IanSullivan
Has anyone wondered why Eben chose to allude the Odyssey in comparing Thurgood Marshall to Odysseus in Vigil For Thurgood Marshall? In the Odyssey, Odysseus returns ...

MarvinBellSecondEssay	01 Jun 2022 - 01:59	MarvinBell
On Losing Paul Farmer By MarvinBell 26 Apr 2022 The Start When I was five or six years old and living in Jamaica, I watched a close family friend, #8220;cuz ...

MarvinGallowayFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 21:56	MarvinGalloway
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

MarvinGallowayJournal	31 Mar 2020 - 14:31	MarvinGalloway
MarvinGalloway's Journal For years I have wished to be closer to my family but studying on another continent has forced me to limit visits to school breaks and holidays ...

MaryJeanWhitsellFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 21:29	MaryJeanWhitsell
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

MaryJeanWhitsellJournal	08 Apr 2020 - 13:41	MaryJeanWhitsell
MaryJeanWhitsell's Journal I wanted to start journaling by answering some questions which you posed in class on Thursday, but which I have also been thinking about ...

MaryamAsenugaFirstEssay	24 May 2021 - 13:22	EbenMoglen
Learning Lessons from the Deaf Community By MaryamAsenuga 22 Feb 2021 Introduction #8220;The only bad thing about being deaf is the inaccessibility to the ...

MaryamAsenugaSecondEssay	24 May 2021 - 13:21	EbenMoglen
The topic we all think we understand: Affirmative Action By MaryamAsenuga 11 Apr 2021 Introduction Olympic runners Usain Bolt, Leo Manzano, and Galen Rupp walk ...

MasonCantrellFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 18:34	EbenMoglen
Corporate Power, Legal Manipulation, and the Donziger Case By MasonCantrell 21 Feb 2025 Informing One's Theory of Social Action To craft a theory of social action ...

MassIncarceration	22 Jan 2013 - 18:16	IanSullivan
I thought it would be useful to consolidate a conversation that's going on in the class facebook group. The material is interesting, important, and relates to our ...

MattBurkeFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:45	MarkDrake
Of the law and the practice of law studentry By MattBurke 02 Mar 2015 1. In which the law and law studentry are discussed First, in the casebooks, that is first ...

MattBurkeIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:21	MarkDrake
Personal Intro When I was a teacher, I loved the job, but loathed the profession. The job, impossible to do without loving it, the profession, impossible to love for ...

MattBurkeSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:50	MarkDrake
An anecdotal theory of interpersonal behavior By MattBurke 18 May 2015 Anecdote 1: A speech When I was nine, my parents separated. After, I had trouble in school ...

MattConroyFirstEssay	16 Jun 2017 - 15:40	MattConroy
By MattConroy 06 Jun 2017 What If Death Were No Different There are roughly 3,000 people on death row in the United States. This number alone is an abomination ...

MattConroySecondEssay	09 Jun 2017 - 09:40	MattConroy
Law Versus Mob Violence By MattConroy 07 Jun 2017 Rocky Mountain High Like most of my peers I went home after the year ended. Going home is always a bit strange ...

MattDavisRatner-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 00:24	IanSullivan
Allowing Laws to be Broken: A Restriction on Freedom At its core, each law represents at least a slight infringement of our rights. We give power to our government ...

MattDavisRatnerIntro	12 Jan 2009 - 22:53	IanSullivan
I never wanted to be a lawyer (especially not a corporate lawyer). I came to law school because I place great value in the analytical process it espouses, and wished ...

MatthewCollinsIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I #8217;m interested in creative approaches to legal thought. I #8217;ve found that alternative approaches to problem solving can lead to success (whatever that means ...

MatthewCollinsSecondPaper	05 Jun 2015 - 04:12	MatthewCollins
On Listening http://xroads.virginia.edu/~public/civilrights/a0146.html http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles Gen/Postmodern Blackness 18270.html https ...

MatthewDesmondPodcast	19 May 2023 - 16:27	MichaelPari
Thoughts on the Ezra Klein Podcast with Matthew Desmond NicoleMorote 24 Apr 2023 I was listening to podcasts while running errands the other day, and one came ...

MatthewGoldsteinFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 23:01	MatthewGoldstein
The Fugue and the Fission By MatthewGoldstein 28 Feb 2020 I saw the best minds of my generation trade in their pens to the Xerox Corporation, and they thought ...

MatthewOsnowitzFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 05:00	MatthewOsnowitz
There but for the Grace of God Go Us By MatthewOsnowitz 28 Feb 2020 Experiments in Moral Luck In the 1960 #8217; s, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted ...

MatthewSienkiewiczIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Matt and I am from Michigan. I grew up in a suburb of Detroit and then studied at the University of Michigan. While I was at U of ...

MatthewSienkiewiczSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Law By MatthewSienkiewicz 09 Apr 2013 The Law In his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson Justice Harlan acknowledged a sobering reality about the law. While ...

MatthewVillarFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Didn't They Teach You That in Law School? My interviewer, at this stage in life, was clearly a content person #8212;it was all smiles and excitement when talking ...

MatthewVillarIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I have been riding a law school wave since I started studying for my LSAT. Going to law school seemed like a logical next step in my life. Around ...

MatthewZornFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Always a Work In Progress Introduction of the Past Meet Stanley. He is the winner of the 2005 Defense Advance Research Projects Agency's Grand Challenge (DARPA), ...

MatthewZornIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
My goal in Law School is to learn how to answer questions without really addressing the substance of the question. MatthewZorn 19 Jan 2010 #8220;For example, ...

MatthewZornSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
What is a Patent? The patent system is bursting at the seams. In many areas, if not in all, the patent system no longer accomplishes what it is designed to do, mainly ...

MatthewZornTheOtherPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan
A stream of my current consciousness As an amendment to the 2006 The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, the United States Congress declared that: #8220;English ...

MaxDubin-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 22:59	IanSullivan
Trials: For Legitimacy Both for the public and for criminals on trial Certainly trials are imperfect May be a ruse to allow judges or juries to arbitrarily ...

MaxDubinIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:59	IanSullivan
MaxDubin 21 Jan 2008 Before I choose law school, I wanted to be an academic. I worked for years in college on a research project on developing democracies through ...

MaxKingsleyFirstEssay	25 Apr 2023 - 12:46	EbenMoglen
1L #8220;Selfnessless #8221; and Its Implications on the Law Student By MaxKingsley 15 Feb 2023 Introduction Selfness is commonly understood as a person #8217 ...

MaxKingsleySecondEssay	22 May 2023 - 17:36	EbenMoglen
Why the Transformation Consideration Underlying the "Purpose and Character" Factor should be Replaced By MaxKingsley 05 Apr 2023 Introduction The Supreme ...

MaxOffsayFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 06:23	MaxOffsay
Law is in the Eye of the Beholder By MaxOffsay 31 March 2017 #8220;We do not realize how large a part of our law is open to reconsideration upon a slight change ...

MaximizingWhatWeCanGainFrom1LSummerLegalIntership	08 Feb 2021 - 02:41	TaleahTyrell
TaleahTyrell 01 Feb 2021 Hi Taleah, I'm very conflicted about what to do this summer but I have to make a decision soon. I feel like my public interest option is directly ...

MayurPatelFirstEssay	21 Apr 2025 - 14:53	EbenMoglen
A Reflection on My Understanding of Being a Lawyer By MayurPatel 19 Feb 2025 My Expectations Just like many of my classmates, I #8217;m the first in my family ...

McPherson	25 Mar 2024 - 18:16	EbenMoglen
SamParnell 10 Jun 2016 This aspect trying to prompt a hyperlink just because the man's name includes two capital letters of twiki annoys me. Then you might want to ...

MeaganBurrowsFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
American Creed: Politics and Law As Ideological Ritual By MeaganBurrows 16 Feb 2012 Hartzian Fragment Theory and the Liberal Consensus Thurman Arnold #8217;s ...

MeaganBurrowsIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I #8217;m Meagan. I hail from America's hat the land of socialized medicine, maple syrup and Shania Twain, eh? I enjoy reading the Federalist Papers and eating steak ...

MeaganBurrowsSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Humility and Humanity: The Legal Leverage of the Unimportant MeaganBurrows 03 May 2012 We Are Unimportant Therein Lies Our Power To satisfy the requirements ...

MeditationAsMind-Exercise	22 Jan 2009 - 01:59	IanSullivan
Our discussion on 'vegging out' vs. meditation today reminded me of a google talk I watched recently on and happiness. The man giving the talk, Matthieu Ricard, is ...

MeherGeorgeFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 19:40	EbenMoglen
Backstabber Elegy By MeherGeorge 18 Feb 2025 (Further edited on March 5th) Mr. and Mrs. Vance I read J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy when I was sixteen years ...

MeiqiangCuiFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
A Reflection on the Legal Education By MeiqiangCui 16 Feb 2012 A law school student lives in the casebook world. But wait, there are more facts to be considered ...

MeiqiangCuiIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I am Meiqiang Cui, from Beijing. I attended a Chinese law school, and practiced in a law firm there for two years after graduation. Good news for those who may feel ...

MeiqiangCuiSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Law as a Weak Social Control Why the Chinese Judicial System Should Change By MeiqiangCui 23 May 2012 Chinese judges #8217; duties are profoundly different from ...

MelissaMitgangFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
Recognition of Error and the Creation of Space for Conscious, Script Free Thought By MelissaMitgang 27 Feb 2009 The Con Five years ago, while I was standing ...

MelissaMitgangIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I'm in law school to change the way I look at the world, which sounds very lofty, but really amounts to finding a logical framework for ordering my thought processes ...

MelissaMitgangRevisedPaper	22 Aug 2009 - 22:26	EbenMoglen
Recognition of Error and the Avoidance of Repressive #8220;Decision #8221; Making Patterns By MelissaMitgang #8220;I didn #8217;t hit him. He ran into my fist ...

MelissaMitgangSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
This is a rewrite of Jamila McCoy's paper. A Starting Point for a Social Activist Lawyer A Moving Experience in Bangalore Arnold's Approach to Organizational Behavior ...

MelissaMitgangThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
Law School, Parenthood, and Fulfillment By MelissaMitgang 15 May 2009 The Problem and the Solution Each time I sit down to work, I go through a routine. I check ...

MelissaMouritsenIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 15:29	MelissaMouritsen
I'm Melissa (she/her) and from Austin, Texas. I attended Hamilton College, where I studied Latin American literature and linguistics, with a focus on gender sexuality ...

MelissaMouritsenSecondEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 00:09	MelissaMouritsen
Direction for the Fourth Wave Second Wave Feminism: Consciousness Raising The Personal is Political. Hanisch #8217;s iconic phrase is often repeated and more ...

MeronWerknehFirstEssay	09 Jun 2016 - 16:19	EbenMoglen
Ghost Writer By MeronWerkneh 19 Feb 2016 I: The Seduction #8220;Culture is #8230;a mere training to act as a machine #8230;Your very ideas are but the outgrowth ...

MeronWerknehSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 20:23	MeronWerkneh
Serpents, Simians, and Stockholm Syndrome: Welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth By MeronWerkneh 01 Apr 2016 In a realm #8212;one father than you can imagine, ...

MerryLiFirstEssay	05 Jun 2016 - 00:38	MerryLi
The Stereotypical Foreigner By MerryLi 17 Feb 2016 As Trump rises to a political height no one thought he could have, his wall building proposal has gone from ...

MetricS	14 Jan 2015 - 22:07	IanSullivan
Metrics Our conversation today got me thinking about how grades, exams and other forms of academic assessment have informed my life. Growing up a product of the public ...

MiRiFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Myth Behind #8220;My job is not who I am. It is just what I do. #8221; By MiRi 22 Feb 2010 Essence #8211; Who I am. Heidegger said that the essence of something ...

MiRiSongIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan

MiaWhite-2ndPaper-WhoreDiamonds	12 Jan 2009 - 23:00	IanSullivan
Introduction Former Governor Eliot Spitzer was exposed as a john and identified as Client #9. His entanglement with the prostitution ring known as the Emperor #8217 ...

MiaWhiteintro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:59	IanSullivan
I often say that law can be a barrier and a bridge (I'm sure some said it first and better). Perhaps one of the major connecting themes in my experiences (academically ...

MicahMekbibFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 14:18	EbenMoglen
Convenience By MicahMekbib 20 Feb 2025 Convenience Sometimes, I find it comforting to go online and read opinions on Twitter because it #8220;inspires #8221; ...

MichaelAdamsFirstEssay	22 May 2017 - 02:06	MichaelAdams
Where do you hope to be in 20 years? By MichaelAdams 21 May 2017 How it Started Some variation of this question begins to leave the mouths of our elders beginning ...

MichaelAdamsSecondEssay	06 Jun 2017 - 03:32	MichaelAdams
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

MichaelBerkovits-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:00	IanSullivan
Out to Sea in an Ocean of Distortion: Cognitive Psychology in the Jury Box By MichaelBerkovits 10 Feb 2008 Introduction Juries in criminal trials are tasked with ...

MichaelBerkovits-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 01:59	IanSullivan
This paper has been revised and is in final form. How Swede It Is By MichaelBerkovits 19 May 2008 Congress does not ordinarily look to Scandinavia for guidance ...

MichaelBerkovitsIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:59	IanSullivan
MichaelBerkovits 17 Jan 2008 In college, I read a Supreme Court opinion for a philosophy class and realized that it would be really cool to write, whether as judge ...

MichaelBrown-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:00	IanSullivan
Truth and Reconciliation: Barack or Black, Hilary or Clinton By MichaelBrown 18 Feb 2008 Part A: The Idea The idea is simple, the consequences are not. What do ...

MichaelBrownIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 01:59	IanSullivan
At eleven, I found out the answer to one such question that most children are inquisitive about in how did we get here. My family finally told me the story surrounding ...

MichaelBrownSecondPaper	02 Jun 2008 - 22:25	MichaelBrown
The Injustice of Alimony in America In recent years a number of states have started to reconsider alimony; imposing caps on the number of years a spouse can receive ...

MichaelCurtisIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction By MichaelCurtis 19 Jan 2012 I took a year off after college. I taught English in Peru and when I came home I worked on a farm. I was GOD ...

MichaelCurtisSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Political Correctness as a Form of Social Control By MichaelCurtis 12 May 2012 Introduction Throughout the semester we have talked about many different forms ...

MichaelDignanFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
Self Narrative and Legal Narrative By MichaelDignan 20 April 2009 I. The need for explanation is kin to the need for a convincing self narrative. It is difficult ...

MichaelDignanIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
MichaelDignan 14 Jan 2009 Essentially, I want to be able to do what I want to do, work on the problems that I want to work on, and think about the things that I want ...

MichaelDignanSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
Recognition of Error and the Creation of Space for Conscious, Script Free Thought By MelissaMitgang 27 Feb 2009 The Con Five years ago, while I was standing ...

MichaelDignanThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
MichaelDignan 03 Jun 2009 "Activism" and the Second Amendment I. The problem of #8220;activism #8221; #8220;Activist #8221; is a word often used to denote a ...

MichaelDreibelbisFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
Trying Not to Die a Little By MichaelDreibelbis 03 Mar 2009 Epiphany I sat slack jawed, contemplating the unthinkable: #8220;Multiple personalities? No free ...

MichaelDreibelbisIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
MichaelDreibelbis 16 Jan 2009 One possibility I am considering is to be a law professor and research the law and economics movement as it relates to property rights ...

MichaelDreibelbisSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
This paper is a revised version of MichaelDignanFirstPaper. Demystifying Narrative MichaelDreibelbis 21 Apr 2009 I. Introduction Like poles for fishing; like ...

MichaelDreibelbisThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
(those of you interested in digital books may also be interested in JamieGottliebThirdPaper .) Selling Google Books The Google Books Settlement grants Google ...

MichaelDuignanFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
A Guide To Small Claims Court By MichaelDuignan 24 Feb 2010 Using the court to right a wrong "As a litigant, I should dread a lawsuit beyond almost anything short ...

MichaelDuignanIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
I did not always intend to go to law school. After college, I worked in research at a major bank. The job was well paid and often challenging, though not quite as ...

MichaelDuignanSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

MichaelHiltonFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Illiteracy and Contract NAAL Studies Literacy is a problem for many adults in the United States. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) study from 2003 ...

MichaelHiltonIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
What I Wanted When I arrived at law school I wanted to leave in three years with a job. In addition to a job, I wanted to leave with the tools and ability to protect ...

MichaelHiltonSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

MichaelHollowayIntro	27 Mar 2011 - 19:15	MichaelHolloway
I came to law school because, like most people in the United States, I struggle in its post industrial economy. I want to improve it for myself, my family, and others ...

MichaelPanfilFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:10	IanSullivan
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MichaelPanfilIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I #8217;m unsure if I can put a specific name to what I hope to gain through law school. In college I was interested in psychology and politics #8211; two areas ...

MichaelPanfilSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
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MichaelPanfilThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
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MichaelPariFirstEssay	23 May 2023 - 19:33	MichaelPari
Madison Square Garden Security Faces the Music Introduction Madison Square Garden (MSG) launched its #8220;attorney exclusion list #8221; in June 2021. This forbade ...

MichaelWillesIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:00	IanSullivan
I want to ask and find answers to interesting questions. The most interesting questions, I have found, exist in human interaction, especially where that interaction ...

MichelleChunIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
MichelleChun 15 Jan 2009 I came to law school to apply what I learn to my other academic work in political theory. I wanted insight on things like how 20th century ...

MichelleLuoFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
How Do We Stop Bullshitting? By MichelleLuo 13 Feb 2012 How I've Bullshitted On the first day of class, Eben said, #8220;You have all been rewarded for bullshit ...

MichelleLuoIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction By MichelleLuo 18 Jan 2012 There are two pieces of advice that I am trying to follow. 1. "Don't make the world worse." from a professor ...

MichelleXiaoFirstEssay	31 May 2022 - 04:14	MichelleXiao
A Search for Practical Ways to Foster Happiness in Law School By MichelleXiao 10 Mar 2022 Months into law school, I found myself consistently more tired, stressed ...

MichelleXiaoIntro	17 Jan 2022 - 23:12	MichelleXiao
Personal Introduction By MichelleXiao 17 Jan 2022 In Psychology, we learn that when humans are in their worst possible situations, they will adapt. In other words ...

MiddleClassCulpability	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan
The Culpability of the Middle Class Too often in class, an important point that has been stifled before it can be developed is the culpability of the middle class ...

MikeAbendFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Innocent by Circumstance By MikeAbend 28 Feb 2010 Introduction I don't think I'll ever be convicted of a serious crime. This determination is not the result ...

MikeAbendFirstPaperSecondRewrite	22 Jun 2010 - 22:32	MikeAbend
MikeAbend 15 June 2010 Innocent by Circumstance Introduction I don't think I'll ever be convicted of a serious crime. This determination is not the result of knowledge ...

MikeAbendIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:18	IanSullivan
MikeAbend 14 Jan 2010 I came to law school because it presented the best opportunity to find a future professional job I was passionate about. A legal education is ...

MikeAbendSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man ." Samuel Johnson Mike, so I left your draft and my questions, because I think the comments ...

MikeCarsonFirstEssay	02 Jun 2017 - 07:17	MikeCarson
A True Test of Resolve By MikeCarson Edited 1 June 2017 At times this course was as much about understanding subconscious thought as it was anything else. I saw ...

MikeCarsonSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 06:18	MikeCarson
A lawyer worth being By MikeCarson 08 Jun 2017 I will be back in the fall, but with a lot of work left to figure out how to train myself to be a lawyer worth ...

MikeSteinthalFirstEssay	20 Apr 2025 - 17:24	EbenMoglen
The Unconscionability of Unconscionability By MikeSteinthal 17 Feb 2025 Here is an Idea In introductory contract law courses, students are taught that consumers ...

MilesGreeneFirstEssay	10 Jun 2018 - 21:39	MilesGreene
Waking Up In Legal Hell First paper, Final Draft for Law in Contemporary Society By MilesGreene 25 Feb 2018 Introduction Felix S. Cohen begins "Transcendental ...

MilesGreeneSecondEssay	10 Jun 2018 - 21:18	MilesGreene
A Lawyer's Epitaph By MilesGreene 997 words The etching of an epitaph can be considered the final narrative shaping act of one #8217;s life. It represents an ...

MinChoiFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
White noise By MinChoi 16 Feb 2012 "Criminal law appears to say parents have no right to kill their children. The law also, however, has from time to time mitigated ...

MinChoiIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Born and raised largely in South Korea. Tried out different organizations before law school, most memorably a non profit helping people adopted abroad find and reconnect ...

MinChoiSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
By MinChoi 15 Jun 2012 1L will be the worst year of your life. Ever. My happily no longer 1L friends (some happier than others, depending on what they were billing ...

MinKyungLeeFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Perhaps I want to further edit this paper by incorporating the "Something split" idea to the dissociation idea. Yes, of course. See below. What is the "thang ...

MinKyungLeeIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I was born in Korea but was raised in many different countries including New Zealand, Japan, and the United States. Going to school and interacting with people from ...

MinKyungLeeSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

MinaNasseri-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:00	IanSullivan
Death to Socrates! By MinaNasseri 12 Feb 2008 #8220;We use the Socratic method here. I call on you, ask you a question, and you answer it #8230;Through this ...

MinaNasseri-SecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Naked, But For My Intellect REVISION: My original paper was centered on a personal experience wherein a co worker had commented on the clothes I was wearing. My goal ...

MinaNasseriIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:00	IanSullivan
One hundred words that explain my life decision: First, I am an immigrant who has never stopped believing in the #8220;American Dream. #8221; For some (perhaps ...

MinaNasseriSecondPaper	13 Apr 2015 - 02:12	EbenMoglen
Naked, But For My Intellect REVISION: My original paper was centered on a personal experience wherein a co worker had commented on the clothes I was wearing. My goal ...

MinahSoFirstEssay	08 Apr 2018 - 18:47	EbenMoglen
Compassion Fatigue in Humanitarian Work By MinahSo 01 Mar 2018 I. Introduction One, two, three, four. One homeless person on each block it takes me to walk ...

MinahSoSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 15:50	EbenMoglen
By MinahSo 25 Apr 2018 Honesty Writing the first assignment in March, I was desperate for a directive. When we were given a prompt for the second essay, I was ...

MingDingFirstEssay	07 May 2017 - 14:20	EbenMoglen
Not SO Lawyerland By MingDing 10 Mar 2017 What is a lawyer? Although the question seems idiotic for its overly broad (and futile, per Wittgenstein) metaphysical ...

MingDingSecondEssay	13 Jun 2017 - 05:17	MingDing
Nothing New under the Sun MingDing 13 Jun 2017 I. I had to delete almost a thousand words and spend three long nights to come to the conclusion that I want to ...

MisanIkomiFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
(Career) Identity Crisis By MisanIkomi 27 Feb 2009 The sky is falling (or is it?) I should be a lawyer? Okay! But what does it mean to actually practice law ...

MisanIkomiIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I came to law school to learn how to be a practical thinker. I spent my time in undergrad discussing and analyzing world issues, tracing the arc of social ills, identifying ...

MisanIkomiSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
Law and Social Change in a Diverse Society By SoeJungKim 27 Feb 2009, Introduction The class discussion over Judith Warner #8217;s column on people #8217;s ...

MisanIkomiThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
(Not So)Great Expectations By MisanIkomi 17 May 2009 Why do Expectations Frequently Never Seem to Match Up to Reality? I mulled this question over on Thursday ...

MoAliFirstEssay	30 May 2024 - 03:48	MoAli
The Irrationality of Rationalism? By MoAli 20 Feb 2024 Natural language modeling is facing a serious problem. It is not the massive environmental cost of training ...

MoAliSecondEssay	27 May 2024 - 19:14	EbenMoglen
ANARCHISM RECALCITRANT By MoAli 22 Apr 2024 In Book 22 of Livy #8217;s magisterial Roman history, #8220;Ab Urbe Condita, #8221; he recounts a curious interaction ...

ModernConnection	12 Mar 2020 - 19:30	GabrielleKloppers
GabrielleKloppers 12 Mar 2020 GabrielleKloppers 12 Mar 2020 I agree with Jason that perhaps there can be a distinction between school related and non school related ...

ModernLegalMagicAndAdvocacy	07 Jan 2010 - 22:49	IanSullivan
I particularly enjoyed Jerome Frank's writing because I wholeheartedly agree with many of his assertions. Frank stated that "when 'primitive' man loses his way.. ...

ModernLegalMagicCritique1	22 Jan 2009 - 02:00	IanSullivan
How was "subjectivity" or "discretion" a sufficient threat to have required magic? Could Frank's theory be influenced by WWII? (I removed posts by AmandaHungerford ...

MohitGourisariaFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Empty Title By MohitGourisaria 21 Feb 2010 This is not a spiel on how Tiger Wood #8217;s #8220;drifted away #8221; from Buddhism. In fact, from the little I ...

MohitGourisariaIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
MohitGourisaria 14 Jan 2010 I came to law school because I wanted to be an actor #8211; until I got my first professional role and realised that I did not want to ...

MohitGourisariaSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
War, Cannibalism, and Criminal Punishment By MohitGourisaria 06 Apr 2010 I believe that when man evolves a civilization higher than the mechanized but still primitive ...

MolissaFarberFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
You don't need the old version to be carried along, because it is under the "History" button and its presence makes taking the difference among versions more rather ...

MolissaFarberIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:25	IanSullivan
I came to law school to expand the movement for problem solving community justice in criminal law. I hope to emerge from law school with not only the tools to do ...

MolissaFarberSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
Maximizing the Utility of the Existing Law School Curriculum By WilliamKing 27 Feb 2009 Revised By MolissaFarber 17 Apr 2009 Intro In Swindling and Selling ...

MolissaFarberThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
Something Split, Regulation, and The Richard Cory Effect By MolissaFarber 14 May 2009 And he was rich #8212;yes, richer than a king, #8232; And admirably schooled ...

MollyMartinezFirstEssay	22 May 2023 - 19:03	MollyMartinez
The Solution to My Personal Disillusionment By MollyMartinez 18 Feb 2023 THIRD REVISION: I recently compared my two personal statements for law school and college ...

MollyMartinezSecondEssay	22 May 2023 - 20:04	MollyMartinez
How to Talk Like a Lawyer (Third Revision) By MollyMartinez 06 Apr 2023 Introduction I came to law school because I hoped to translate between various ...

MoneshDevireddySecondEssay	29 May 2023 - 19:34	MichaelPari
The Tragedy of the Biomedical AntiCommons An Illustration of the Problem Alzheimer's, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease, affects up to one in nine Americans ...

MoneyConcerns	08 Feb 2021 - 14:12	EmmaShumway
I wanted to create this topic to discuss money concerns related to developing a legal practice. The big draw for many law students at schools like Columbia is the ...

MoneyandtheLaw	22 Jan 2013 - 19:57	IanSullivan
In case it is not obvious by now, I have a very strong interest in the legal underpinnings of our monetary system. I find it to be of fundamental relevance to almost ...

MonicaRuizFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 03:33	MonicaRuiz
Environment in the Limelight By MonicaRuiz 10 Mar 2017 In class we inquired why we believed it was so difficult for people to be provoked about environmental issues ...

MonicaRuizSecondEssay	07 Jun 2017 - 01:29	MonicaRuiz
It Depends: Lack of Clarity after 1L By MonicaRuiz 07 Jun 2017 I overheard an attorney say, #8220;I am a lawyer, so my answer is #8216;It depends.'" As a law ...

MoreOnFear	17 Apr 2010 - 17:56	NonaFarahnik
When reading through these comments on fear and anxiety I can #8217;t help but turn back to the When Fear Turns Graphic New York Times article which is, of course ...

MorganMartinIntro	15 Jan 2022 - 19:39	MorganMartin
My name is Morgan Martin. I was an aspiring professional tennis player before law school. Unfortunately, I got injured and I am no longer able to play. I applied to ...

MorreaseLeftwichFirstEssay	25 Feb 2020 - 15:54	MorreaseLeftwich
Creativity in Law School By MorreaseLeftwich 25 Feb 2020 To be creative in law school, we must take what we want from law school while leaving what we don #8217 ...

MorreaseLeftwichJournal	18 Apr 2020 - 02:18	MorreaseLeftwich
MorreaseLeftwich 02 Apr 2020 I liked the excerpt from Lawyerland. When Judge Day talked about exerting power, I first disagreed with her, being sure that judges do ...

MultiplePersonalitiesRearTheirHeadsAgain	07 Jan 2010 - 22:40	IanSullivan
Strength in numbers? Quite the opposite. Bartleby Bartleby's great strength is his unity of character. On the strength of consistency alone #8212;whatever multiplicity ...

MusicIThinkAboutInClass	23 Apr 2010 - 05:28	MatthewZorn
JessicaCohen 19 Feb 2010 Maybe because of Eben's use of music as inspiration, I often find that other songs pop into my head in class. This week it was two Kinks ...

MusicPlayedinClass	11 Jan 2010 - 16:33	IanSullivan
I like the music played in the class, and I'm wondering if the Professor can post the names/artists of the music. Thanks! SunYi 30 Jan 2008 On today's discussion ...

MusicSuggestionsForTheFinalClass	31 May 2017 - 01:54	TyCarleton
I was wondering if anyone else had suggestions for music for the final class? Personally I think 'Gimme Shelter' by the Rolling Stones would round up the semester ...

MutualDependence	22 Jan 2013 - 19:57	IanSullivan
Mutually Economic Dependent Relationships Our legal world consists of mutually dependent economic relationships. For example, consider the relationship between Tharaud ...

MyDadFoughtTheLaw	25 Jan 2015 - 14:47	EbenMoglen
My Dad Fought the Law and the Law Won So my father, Leo Grey, a barrister, just lost a case in the High Court of Australia in a 4 2 decision. The case involved a labor ...

MyThoughtsOnThisClassSoFar	17 Apr 2010 - 16:10	NonaFarahnik
I have been trying to identify and understand a kind of anxiety I have felt while reading materials for this class thus far. The #8220;problem #8221; of the course ...

NOMDividingGayBlackAndLatinoCommunities	31 May 2017 - 01:54	TyCarleton
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is an anti LGBTQ organization that puts forth homophobic campaigns and legislation (inclusive of constitutional bans on ...

NYTimesMagazineArticle	14 Jan 2015 - 22:06	IanSullivan
Here is article that Eben was talking about the other day in class regarding the rating agencies' conflict of interest with their clients as a culpably contributing ...

NadiaYusufFirstEssay	24 Apr 2018 - 04:14	NadiaYusuf
Perception is Reality By NadiaYusuf 23 Feb 2018 Happy is the man who avoids hardship, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance I vividly remember ...

NathanStopperFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
anyone out there? i made a lot of changes to this paper after Eben's comments, and i would love some feedback. if you're reading this...please make edits/comments ...

NathanStopperIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
NathanStopper 12 Jan 2010 Life in the Cubes There's nothing that makes you feel less human than a job where you sit in a cubicle all day and watch the minutes slowly ...

NathanStopperSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Altering Risks and Creating Windfalls: the Case to Abolish Intentional Interference with Contract Introduction Intentional interference with contract is a unique ...

NathanielPettitFirstEssay	22 May 2020 - 06:03	NathanielPettit
Defying the Legal Constriction of Creativity By NathanielPettit 28 Feb 2020 edited 22 May 2020 Introduction and Overview Defining the Challenges of Expectations ...

NereeseWatsonSecondEssay	28 May 2022 - 22:59	NereeseWatson
JonBenét Ramsey Murder Background !JonBenét Ramsey was a six year old girl known throughout the children #8217;s beauty pageant industry as the winner of titles such ...

NicheVsVocation	17 Apr 2010 - 18:02	NonaFarahnik
In the last class I asked Eben regarding vocations and finding our niche as a lawyer. I would like to hear more opinions on the subject. Many times I have heard how ...

NicholasWillinghamFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:46	MarkDrake
How Changing Copyright Law Can Have A Positive Effect on Copyright Law Introduction Hip Hop was born not too far from Columbia, in the Bronx. One of the most widely ...

NicholasWillinghamIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:22	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By NicholasWillingham 29 Jan 2015 I came to law school to become a lawyer, but another two years of reading appellate decisions will not ...

NicholasWillinghamSecondEssay	30 Jun 2015 - 14:20	MarkDrake
NicholasWillingham 02 Jun 2015 Professor Moglen I attempted to answer your comments in the section titled "Scope of the Question" NicholasWillingham 17 Jun 2015 ...

NicoGurianFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:47	MarkDrake
Scared to be Robinson By NicoGurian 11 Mar 2015 Aversion to the practice Robinson is a smart and successful lawyer, who has managed to create a financially stable ...

NicoGurianIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:25	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By NicoGurian 27 Jan 2015 I want law school to equip me with the skills necessary to remedy the injustices and inequalities I see around ...

NicoGurianSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:50	MarkDrake
Swimming Against the Tide By NicoGurian 17 June 2015 Advocates for social justice face a Supreme Court openly hostile to civil rights, worker rights, and environmental ...

NicoleCastilloFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 03:13	NicoleCastillo
Just a Jersey Girl Trying to #8220;Do Good #8221; By NicoleCastillo 28 Feb 2020 Who Are You? Hint: Do Not Answer with Your Place of Employment In my ideal world ...

NicoleMedham-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:00	IanSullivan
I liked Kaleb's idea of adding a disclaimer to his paper, so I decided to write one myself. This paper is not academic in the slightest. It is, however, a topic that ...

NicoleMedham-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:01	IanSullivan
NicoleMedham 04 Apr 2008 Prenuptial Agreements: #8216;Til Death Do Us Part...Yea Right! #8220;If you ain #8217;t no punk holla we want prenup. WE WANT PRENUP! ...

NicoleMedhamIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:01	IanSullivan
NicoleMedham 18 Jan 2008 I decided to come to law school to both help myself and others. The education that law students receive even those who decide not to practice ...

NigerianPrisioner	22 Jan 2009 - 02:02	IanSullivan
I just wanted to share an case study of a "nigerian prisoner" con. Its a long article, but worth the read. A highlight is the mark's state of mind even after he ...

NithinKumarFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
A Working Relationship By NithinKumar Lawyers manage a range of professional relationships with fellow attorneys, clients, judges and a variety of other people ...

NithinKumarIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I'm Nithin and I'm from California. I've wanted to be a lawyer my whole life, but now I'm afraid this class is about to take a real life wrecking ball to the castles ...

NithinKumarSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Law students and lawyers are risk averse people and so no one should be too surprised by the approach taken by most law students towards their debt. Having incurred ...

NnamdiNwaezeapuSecondEssay	03 Jun 2021 - 17:24	NnamdiNwaezeapu
Nutrition Facts for Contracts By NnamdiNwaezeapu 3 June 2021 This essay addresses the problem of unread and unreadable clickwrap, browsewrap, and scrollwrap agreements ...

NoahJosephFirstEssay	13 Apr 2021 - 02:46	NoahJoseph
Legal English and Non Speakers of Standard English By NoahJoseph 24 Feb 2021 Introduction Law is the use of language to regulate and change society. In the United ...

NoahJosephSecondEssay	03 May 2021 - 05:23	NoahJoseph
My Career Plans By NoahJoseph 02 May 2021 Introduction Having recently finished my first year of law school, I now have a tentative long term plan for my career ...

NoahRushinFirstEssay	18 May 2021 - 02:24	NoahRushin
Dissociation By NoahRushin 26 Feb 2021 Introduction: This essay will explore the roles that dissociation plays in the practice of law. More specifically, the essay ...

NoahRushinSecondEssay	18 May 2021 - 01:04	NoahRushin
Truthfulness By NoahRushin 14 Apr 2021 Introduction Truthfulness plays a crucial role in one #8217;s legal career. Throughout the course we learned that truthfulness ...

NonUnitarySelfRealizingCohen	07 Jan 2010 - 22:14	IanSullivan
Question 1: Application of the Unitary Non Unitary Self Distinctions: Within class we probed the fiction of the unitary self. We recognized the potential danger ...

NonaFarahnik	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
NonaFarahnik 14 Jan 2010 I love almost every part of being at CLS, except for the whole grade thing/the curve that fuels it. If Eben is right that most transcripts ...

NonaFarahnikFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Everyone Should Read Arnold By NonaFarahnik 18 Feb 2010 #8220;The actual habits and attitudes which operate under the banner of the creed to make the institution ...

NonaFarahnikFirstPaperTalk	26 Feb 2010 - 05:43	NonaFarahnik
As I got to thinking about my first paper, I posted a quote by Antoine de Saint Exupery that reads "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood ...

NonaFarahnikSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
My Walk Home By NonaFarahnik 13 Apr 2010 Unfortunately, every part of this reflection is true. I live on 110th and Amsterdam. When I walk to school in the morning ...

NonsenseAndMagic	22 Jan 2009 - 02:05	IanSullivan
Cohn and Frank have given us some interesting ways to assess the value of legal arguments. Since we are all stuck reading the same cases in other classes, I thought ...

NoteTakerSignup	02 Feb 2010 - 20:56	ChristopherCrismanCox
We haven't had a note taker since 3/5. If several individuals upload their own notes to the new threads, we can refactor them into a complete version later. I had ...

NotesOnRevisions	11 May 2017 - 15:48	EbenMoglen
Notes on Revisions I have tried in my comments on your writing to offer directed suggestions for improvement. These are only suggestions: the writing is yours, and ...

Notification	21 Feb 2016 - 05:45	MalcolmEvans
Headline text AbdallahSalam AlexWeiss AliceBertram BriannaCummings CarolineCima ChaseLax CMcKinney ChrisMendez EbenMoglen ...

NovikaIsharFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Is Prediction the Only Trade of a Lawyer? By NovikaIshar 26 Feb 2010 Oliver Wendall Holmes posits that law is nothing more than "prophecies of what the courts ...

NovikaIsharIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I am a second generation Columbia law student. My father is a lawyer and a Columbia graduate who taught briefly at NYU and Columbia Law Schools. I grew up in New York ...

NovikaIsharRevisedFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan
NovikaIshar 18 Apr 2010 Is Prediction the Only Trade of a Lawyer? THE IDEOLOGICAL IMPACT Recently, University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone published ...

NovikaIsharSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
NovikaIshar 17 Apr 2010 International Human Rights Law and the United States During an introductory seminar yesterday on the current state of international law, I ...

NovikaIsharSecondPaperRewrite	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan
NovikaIshar 17 May 2010 While many independent American universities and organizations are proactive in sponsoring human rights awareness and enforcement abroad through ...

OffshoringOfLawyerWork	22 Jan 2009 - 02:05	IanSullivan
I thought I'd post the below article from the Washington Post about the growing outsourcing of legal work to India, which has been discussed in class at various points ...

OkontaPFirstEssay	20 May 2018 - 23:19	OkontaP
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OkontaPSecondEssay	20 May 2018 - 23:20	OkontaP
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OldDiscussionMaterials	21 Jan 2009 - 23:09	IanSullivan

OldIntros	21 Jan 2009 - 23:09	IanSullivan

OldPapers	21 Jan 2009 - 23:09	IanSullivan

OliviaLiSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 04:25	OliviaLi
The Streets in Thermopylae By OliviaLi 08 Jun 2017 From the minute I landed in Jackson, Mississippi, two weeks ago, I worried I made a mistake about where to spend ...

OliviaMartinezFirstEssay	12 May 2021 - 18:34	OliviaMartinez
Lawyering is Balancing Visible and Invisible Bullets By OliviaMartinez 22 Feb 2021 Lawyering is Balancing Visible and Invisible Bullets Serving as a lawyer requires ...

OliviaMartinezSecondEssay	19 May 2021 - 20:27	OliviaMartinez
Humans are Hominid Primates. Hominid Primates Believe What They See And Imagine What They Hear. By OliviaMartinez 16 Apr 2021 To make things happen in society ...

OluwafemiMorohunfola-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:09	IanSullivan
The Collapse of Federalism in the Contemporary United States of America In the course of the development of modern constitutional interpretation in America, few concepts ...

OluwafemiMorohunfolaIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:08	IanSullivan
As much as I sometimes try to deny it, why I went to law school is the quintessential study in cognitive dissonance. I have wanted to be a lawyer since I was in middle ...

OmarHarounIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
I came to law school to learn the practical skills required to promote justice. Like many of my colleagues, I am intellectually curious about a myriad of topics. ...

OnThePowerOfMeditation	07 Jan 2010 - 22:40	IanSullivan
I fear that I might be arriving late to the party, but there is no such thing as fashionably punctual. Nevertheless, this semester has been one of transition for ...

OnWhyIAmReluctantToTalkInClass	07 Jan 2010 - 22:40	IanSullivan
I can #8217;t quite figure this out. I do the readings. I suspect I understand them; at least I understand parts or sentences of them. I make notes in the margins ...

OperatingNorms	07 Jan 2010 - 22:40	IanSullivan
I am interested in seeing if folks want to set up some guidelines for our online collaboration. I am going to add one or two here and then, if you think this will ...

OptionsandHopeReMentalIllness	07 Jan 2010 - 22:40	IanSullivan
Just to take Eben #8217;s comments today in a little different direction regarding mental illness and the option of a right to treatment: I realize there are no easy ...

OurBrokenSystemofEducation	07 Jan 2010 - 22:40	IanSullivan
I was struck by the part of Professor Moglen's lecture yesterday on our education system, and I wish to address some particularly troublesome thoughts that I've had ...

OurFutureCareers	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan

OurOwnMyths	07 Jan 2010 - 22:40	IanSullivan
I don't know what 'refactor' means, "Refactoring" is a word drawn from the practices of computer programmers. In wiki communities, to refactor a wiki ...

OuraniaYancopoulosFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 21:54	OuraniaYancopoulos
The Case for Creativity: and how to teach it. By OuraniaYancopoulos 28 Feb 2020 Dear Dean Lester, It is with the utmost respect that I write you this ...

OverPrescriptionAsNormalcy	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
Over Prescription as Normalcy The Attorney General #8217;s I STOP bill, proposing the institution of a computer system that would track the medical history of patients ...

Paper2Notes	23 Aug 2015 - 21:53	CMcKinney
CMcKinney 23 Aug 2015 Fighting Repose. Then We spent a lot of time thinking about repose in this course. But as I scrawled out an essay on pay per view boxing in ...

PaperRevisionAssignment	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan
Paper Assignment When revising, make sure that your changes do not bring the total word count of the essay beyond the 1000 word limit. Instructions Find your name ...

PaperScraps	13 Jan 2012 - 23:21	IanSullivan
I know some other people had multiple ideas for papers but never finished / developed them. Here is one of mine I. Introduction Columbia Law School Exam regulations ...

PassionsRemain	17 Apr 2010 - 17:57	NonaFarahnik
MohitGourisaria 04 Feb 2010 I do not believe that our generation has, by and large, lost sight of "noble" goals, no matter how impossible or rebellious. But there ...

PathOfTheLaw	07 Jan 2010 - 22:40	IanSullivan
Holmes Condensation (edited by Davis Ratner and Lawrence) Disclaimer: Here are ideas from Holmes with links to the most related #8220;blog #8221; topics. As this ...

PatrickCroninFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
Clusterfucks and Creative Lawyers By PatrickCronin 19 April 2009 What does creative lawyering look like from the perspective of the bad man? This question ...

PatrickCroninIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
I'm here so that I can get a job that involves thinking. I studied philosophy in college, where I was especially interested in Gilles Deleuze and the philosophy of ...

PatrickCroninSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
Beyond Happiness Edited by PatrickCronin. Originally By GregOrr 27 Feb 2009 Note: I'm in the process of revising this paper as well as my third. #8220;On this ...

PatrickCroninThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
The Importance of Nonsense The Mob This summer I witnessed the of the bulls in New Orleans. A man dressed as a bishop with a bullhorn yelled from the balcony: "For ...

PatrickMarrisFirstEssay	21 Apr 2018 - 23:33	PatrickMarris
Trump Era Labor Abuse: The Newest Addition to the Dollar Menu® By PatrickMarris 28 Feb 2018 On November 7, 2017, in an anti labor move surprising to no one, House ...

PatrickMarrisSecondEssay	05 Jun 2018 - 01:41	PatrickMarris
What's the deal with injustice? By PatrickMarris 19 Apr 2018 I think I hate injustice. You might say, "Doesn't the think in that first sentence kinda take away ...

PatrickOConnorFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
By the Time I Graduate, the Government Will Have Spent More Money Keeping My Brother Locked Up Than They Will Have Leant to Me to Pay for Law School By PatrickOConnor ...

PatrickOConnorIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I spent last year working as a ski instructor in Vail, Colorado. That experience was essentially the polar opposite of the first year of law ...

PatrickOConnorSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
What Do We Owe The Incarcerated? By PatrickOConnor 07 May 2012 Abdication As a society, we have undertaken the tasks of defining deviant behavior and setting ...

PatrickWaldropFirstEssay	02 Jun 2017 - 04:05	PatrickWaldrop
The Liberalization of Law Schools and the Decline of the Lawyer Politician By PatrickWaldrop 11 Mar 2017, Revised 1 June 2017 The Decline of the Lawyer Politician ...

PatrickWaldropSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 04:01	PatrickWaldrop
My Own Terms By PatrickWaldrop 07 Jun 2017 Something to Do I have always struggled to articulate why I wanted to go to law school. Perhaps it #8217;s because ...

PaulAkereFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 18:40	EbenMoglen
Good Riddance, DEI. See you never! By PaulAkere 19 Feb 2025 Maybe we should be thanking the Trump administration for taking a hard stance against Diversity, Equity ...

PaulRileyFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 20:59	PaulRiley
A Seat at the Table By PaulRiley 28 Feb 2020 Introduction There is a proverb that states: #8220;If you do not have a seat at the table, you are probably on ...

PaulSmithFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Do Majority Minority Districts Help or Hurt? By PaulSmith 26 Feb 2010 History The 1965 Voting Rights Act significantly increased the number of minorities in elected ...

PaulSmithIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I worked in politics between college and law school. Though I enjoyed the work, it taught me that I lacked the capacity to have any real impact on issues I care about ...

PaulSmithSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
The Suburban Feedback Loop By PaulSmith 16 Apr 2010 What Suburbs Do Directly America #8217;s suburbs grew exponentially over the past century. The direct costs ...

PaulaKimFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Law School Grading System By PaulaKim 16 Feb 2012 Is it a good one? Law students care deeply about grades. Our grades are supposedly a reflection of how much ...

PaulaKimIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I'm Paula. When I was a kid I wanted to be an opera singer. I like to bake, eat, do yoga, and play the cello. I talk a lot only when I'm nervous ...

PaulaKimSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

PaulinaSalmasFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Investigating the Devils We Know By PaulinaSalmas 16 May 2010 Popular response to the stories of John Brown and Joseph Stack illustrate how easy it is to focus ...

PaulinaSalmasSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Imminence and Self Defense By PaulinaSalmas 17 Apr 2010 (Jess Hallett rewrite May 12) In some states, defendants accused of murder who seek a justification of ...

PawningOurLicenses	22 Dec 2012 - 08:28	TWikiGuest
Question for Discussion A major theme of the class is how most students will go out and pawn their licenses, which correlates strongly with the vast percentage of ...

PeerEditing	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
Are people interested in organized/formal peer editing for first paper revisions and second paper drafts? If you are, sign your name below, and once there are enough ...

PersonalIntro	13 Jan 2022 - 13:21	EbenMoglen
How to Write Your Personal Introduction Not more than 100 words, please. Formatting First, be sure you have logged in. Clicking Create Intro will create a page ...

PersonalIntro2013	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
How to Write Your Personal Introduction Not more than 100 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Intro will create a page named ...

PersonalIntroSpring2012	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
How to Write Your Personal Introduction Not more than 100 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Archived Linking You may notice that ...

PersonalIntros	25 Jan 2015 - 14:44	EbenMoglen
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PersonalIntros2010	13 Jan 2012 - 23:23	IanSullivan
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PerspectivesinLaw	07 Jan 2010 - 22:59	IanSullivan
I #8217;ve been having a hard time in this class, and would like others #8217; input. While this class is by far my favorite, it is also the most frustrating. I ...

PeteLochoreIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
The first question is ought not to be "Why do you want to be a lawyer?", but rather "Why study law?". Proofreading is important. Please do it. Deciding ...

PetefromOzFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
Government Legal Practice: Furthering Justice Through Policy Influence By PetefromOz 26 Feb 2009 Amended 17 Apr 2009 There are many legal roles within government ...

PetefromOzSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
Legal Education in Secondary Schools The first draft of this paper was prepared by YejinJennyHan 27 Feb 2009 The revision is prepared by PetefromOz 16 Apr 2009 ...

PetefromOzThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:44	IanSullivan
What is wrong with the #8220;torture memos #8221;? By PetefromOz 23 Apr 2009 Controversy surrounds the role of the lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC ...

PeterCavanaughFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Airline Policies Discriminating Due to Body Size Need Reform A Brewing Storm That air travel is degrading is something to which most people can relate, but an increasing ...

PeterCavanaughIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I came to law school with no concrete idea of what I wanted out of it. Basically, many people I have met over the years that have had interesting lives have been lawyers ...

PeterCavanaughSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

PeterClausFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 07:59	PeterClaus
#8220;Trump: How do #8220;we #8221; resist? How do I resist? #8221; Introduction Based on the feedback from my first draft, I am going to tackle the question of ...

PeterHaberreckerFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
This paper was revised as part of the second paper assignment Innocence Whenever there is a suicide bombing, an air strike or a missile strike going on, the victims ...

PeterHaberreckerSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:27	IanSullivan
The Institution of Monogamous Marriage and Alternatives Original paper by Yinan Zhang 18 Apr 2009 Introduction The institution of monogamous marriage has a significant ...

PeterHaberreckerThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:44	IanSullivan
Piracy By PeterHaberrecker 16 May 2009 Introduction For the third paper of this class, I intend to write about a "real" political problem: Modern Piracy in the ...

PeterParkFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
How do I sleep at night? I am an ADA. I'm the guy who keeps bad people away from you, the law abiding model citizen. I could have been a millionaire had I used my ...

PeterParkIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
PeterPark 14 Jan 2010 Less than 3 months after my family moved to the United States, my home country experienced the worst financial crisis in its history. My father ...

PeterParkSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Uncertainty By PeterPark 17 Apr 2010 According to one Salmon, bad math destroyed our economy. That math looks something like this: This is called a Gaussian Copula ...

PeterWadeFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Cost of the Death Penalty By PeterWade 25 Feb 2010 The Death Penalty in America In much of the world, including most of those #8220;western #8221; nations ...

PeterWadeIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
To be honest I was, and still am, not entirely sure of the specific reasons why I wanted to come to law school. It was a plan that floated around in the back of my ...

PhaseII-QandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan	14 Jan 2015 - 22:06	IanSullivan
To post questions and build out the discussion started in the Wednesday, April 9th class regarding where to go from here and how to build an action plan for shaping ...

PhaseIIQandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan	11 Jan 2010 - 16:56	IanSullivan
To post questions and build out the discussion started in the Wednesday, April 9th class regarding where to go from here and how to build an action plan for shaping ...

PhilipHowardonLawandFreedom	13 Jan 2012 - 23:25	IanSullivan
MohitGourisaria 24 Feb 2010 Philip Howard talks about how law is stifling the nation, instead of aiding in its freedom. Someone, in class today, mentioned taking a ...

PierceHeardFirstEssay	08 May 2024 - 19:29	PierceHeard
Improving American Cities; An Argument In Support Of Jane Jacobs' Ideas By PierceHeard 19 Feb 2024 Overview American city design is flawed in a number of ways ...

PierceHeardSecondEssay	20 May 2024 - 16:34	PierceHeard
Reginald Lewis' Effect on My Life and Career By PierceHeard 15 Apr 2024 Overview Reginald F. Lewis was a revolutionary. He was the first African American to ...

PieroZanonFirstEssay	04 Jun 2024 - 18:29	PieroZanon
Legal education in the United States, particularly at institutions like Columbia Law School, is widely regarded for its rigorous academic training. This curriculum ...

PieroZanonSecondEssay	04 Jun 2024 - 22:06	PieroZanon
Spring at Columbia University this year was both vibrant and unsettling. Police helicopters often hovered over the main quad, where a sign at the edge of a newly established ...

PietroSignoracci-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:07	IanSullivan
A Functional Analysis of Audiences to Executions All is well ended, if this suit be won... The following is an inquiry into the state #8217;s permitting a private ...

PietroSignoracci-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:09	IanSullivan
How To Be A Good Lawyer, Pt. 2 I needed less than a second to know that I did not want to be Tharaud or a lawyer like her, but it took this essay to know whether ...

PietroSignoracciIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:09	IanSullivan
PietroSignoracci 17 Jan 2008 Shortsighted as it may seem, what I wanted in coming to law school was simply a guarantee that I would spend the majority of my first ...

PiratesAtBay	07 Jan 2010 - 22:59	IanSullivan
Pirates at Bay XinpingZhu 15 Apr 2009 Two recent events remind me of the events happened on Mignonette years ago. One is the ongoing Pirate Bay trial in Sweden ...

PlannedObsolesence	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
What if the government is purposely creating a system that does not sustain peace in order to consolidate its control over non conformists and to garner financial ...

PlatoLawyersVsPhilosophers	13 Jan 2012 - 23:25	IanSullivan
I came across this article in the New York Times this morning and it rubbed me the wrong way. The author uses Plato's rarely invoked "Theaetetus" to set up a distinction ...

PodcastOnSwindlingModernDaySwindlers	07 Jan 2010 - 22:49	IanSullivan
I hope this doesn't count as spamming the wiki, but I listened to this podcast from This American Life a few weeks ago and thought that it related to today's reading ...

PodcastSuggestions	14 Apr 2022 - 21:24	MelissaMouritsen
Hey all, First, I was hoping that, given the desire of our class to cultivate a community of some kind, we could start that with a place to share something.In that ...

PoliticalGraffiti	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
I'm in Livorno, Italy taking a break in a coffee shop. Yes, it's amazing! I've seen political graffiti all over the place today and thought I'd pose a question for ...

PoliticsInTheAbsenceOfCivility	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
Judge Day opens the conversation by lamenting the decline of "civility" in American society. I understood "civility" as a cohesive and perhaps moderating form of ...

PoliticsLinks	06 Dec 2010 - 17:13	DRussellKraft
Links about Politics though isn't everything politics? #LatestComments http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/12/after secrets Anyone want to ...

PoliticsandExploitationofTeamMentality	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
I #8217;ve been thinking lately #8211; in the wake of this executive privilege #8211; about team mentality and politics. I #8217;m not terribly interested in passing ...

PossibleReadingList	29 Oct 2020 - 22:06	EbenMoglen
Possible Reading List Readings change from year to year as I listen to our discussion and decide what might be best to do next. This is an unrepresentative sequence ...

PotentialResponseLetterToFaculty	24 Apr 2025 - 19:05	HaydenSmith
HaydenSmith 24 Apr 2025 All In light of today's class, I decided to draft a response letter in consideration to be forwarded to faculty. Interested in your thoughts ...

PracticePickets	21 Apr 2010 - 04:25	JoshuaHochman
Amanda, I think the concept of a practice picket is fascinating! First, I want to say that I appreciate the insight you bring to our classroom discussions about organizing ...

PrashantRaiFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
A Healthy Distrust The protection of our rights through judicial channels depends on the idea that judges will self check the influence that their political ideologies ...

PrashantRaiIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates By PrashantRai 18 Jan 2012

PrashantRaiSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Control the Narrative I believe that the way in which professors teach class and grade exams encourages students to focus less on the stories behind cases and more ...

PrattEditingSummary	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
Purpose : I have reread and taken notes on Diana V. Pratt #8217;s Legal Writing: A Systematic Approach . Unlike when I read it first in the fall, I have found it ...

PropertyStudyResources	18 Apr 2021 - 18:27	JackSherrick
JackSherrick 12 Apr 2021 I've included what I have from my property outline so far below. The formatting didn't transfer over so I'll fix that soon Trespass and the ...

ProspectusForProspectives	25 Oct 2017 - 14:39	EbenMoglen
Prospectus For Prospectives Why You Might Want to Take This Course For most of the last thousand years English speaking lawyers have completed their educations, gotten ...

PursuingHappiness	07 Jan 2010 - 22:49	IanSullivan
Our discussion today got me thinking (in what I hope is a useful, rather than in an Arnold channeling Thomas kind of way) about the definition of happiness. Eben mentioned ...

PushkarChaubalFirstEssay	29 May 2023 - 15:27	PushkarChaubal
Inside A Lawyer #8217;s Arsenal By PushkarChaubal 17 May 2023 Growing up, lawyers were akin to the buddy at game night who always knows the rules. They are ...

QuestionsAboutThisCourse	31 Oct 2012 - 08:47	EbenMoglen
Questions About This Course You may ask here, by leaving a comment below, any questions you have about the course. You do not need to register in this wiki, or leave ...

QuestionsThatNeedAnswers	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan
Overview I have done my best to organize the questions so that we can begin answering them. They are organized by content area and condensed whenever possible. I ...

RaceVClass	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
I realize this is going to be a pretty damn controversial post, but I feel compelled to speak on the subject. I sometimes become concerned that classism becomes too ...

RachelGholstonFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Efficient Breach or Slavery By RachelGholston 15 Feb 2012 Why do we have a legal concept that allows people to break their word at a certain cost? Because forcing ...

RachelGholstonIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I go by Rachel G. I'm passive aggressive. However, I make my sentiments very clear via facial expressions and Facebook posts. Occasionally, I speak. Law school was ...

RachelGholstonSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Poetry By RachelGholston 26 Apr 2012 I write poetry. I have yet to write a poem beyond my own experiences. Every poem has been autobiographical in a way that ...

RachelSellerFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 11:08	RachelSeller
Living in the Civil Military Divide By RachelSeller 27 Feb 2020 After the killing of Qasem Soleimani and the associated increase in tensions between the United ...

RafaelBoissetFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan

RafaelBoissetFirstPaperAmmended	16 Apr 2009 - 20:02	RafaelBoisset

RafaelBoissetSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
Andres O #8217;Farrell revised paper by Rafael Boisset 1. Holmes defines lawyering as #8220;the prediction of the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality ...

RafaelBoissetThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan

RasheedAhmedFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:49	MarkDrake
The blurred line: Does committing a crime create the criminal; or is being a criminal a crime? We must understand that: 1) a #8216;crime #8217; is a definition and ...

RasheedAhmedIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:25	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By RasheedAhmed 29 Jan 2015 I came to law school to develop a creative and innovative way to use words in order to bring change. The experiences ...

RasheedAhmedSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:51	MarkDrake
The importance of a meaningful opportunity in high crime areas By RasheedAhmed 12 Jun 2015 Reflection When I reflect back on my life and analyze what motivated ...

RaynaReidFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Why Law School Is Like Hogwarts 1. The acceptance. No one truly knows whether they are going to get into Hogwarts, until that magical acceptance letter shows up ...

RaynaReidIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
#8220;Future lawyer at Columbia Law School, I am Rayna Reid. #8221; As you can tell, I #8217;ve done my share of intros. Yes, I do beauty scholarship pageants, and ...

ReadingandThinking	14 Aug 2010 - 13:16	CourtneySmith
As I was reading the Internet this morning, I came across a on the Daily Dish that articulated some concerns about reading and thinking that have also come up in LCS ...

RealityVsUnreality	07 Jan 2010 - 22:49	IanSullivan
When Prof. Moglen was discussing the wide chasm separating between what we know about the penal system and what really transpires behind prison doors, it occurred ...

ReconciliationOfFreedomAndTheState	17 Apr 2010 - 19:03	NonaFarahnik
I'm curious about what other people made of Robinson's enigmatic response. In class, Mohit suggested it was an attempt to dissociate himself from his actions in Vietnam ...

RediscoveredMalcolmXSpeech	22 Jan 2013 - 20:07	IanSullivan
I came across story from NPR about a lost Malcolm X speech, which has recently been uncovered 50 years after it was given at Brown University. I think it is a reminder ...

ReflectionsOnAPractice	22 Jan 2013 - 19:58	IanSullivan
"One of our clients died this morning," Paul said quietly. Before he spoke, while the interns, the other summer associates, the law fellows, and the staff attorneys ...

ReligionAndBeliefs	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan
In one of my classes last week, someone asked #8220;how do we tell the difference between religion and a regular belief? #8221; This question gets to the heart of ...

ResponseToNate	02 Feb 2010 - 18:16	SamHershey
SamHershey 02 Feb 2010 Nate, This is my first responsive post on this site, so I do not know if it will even come up under your topic. In the hope that it does, here ...

ResponsesToClassDiscussion	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan

ResponsesToReadings	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan

RevisedFirstPaper	07 Jun 2010 - 22:14	BrookSutton
Just a Little Bit More than the Law Will Allow In the first half of the last century, realist thinkers launched a formidable intellectual assault on American legal ...

RicardoWooleryFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
The mechanics of eliminating the Godcon merely bring into focus initial questions in addressing the issue of the Lawcon By RicardoWoolery 27 Feb 2009 Casting ...

RicardoWoolerySecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
The Utility of Merging Academic Discourse and the Functional Approach in enabling in people the willingness to recognize the realities of race and to act against racial ...

RicardoWooleryThirdPaper	07 Jan 2010 - 22:59	IanSullivan
The Split Is Not As Severe As It Appears The stereotype of lawyers as dishonest, money obsessed #8220;conscientious schizoids #8221; In Something Split , Carl Wylie ...

RichardWhiteFirstEssay	24 May 2023 - 21:43	MichaelPari
The Law Needs Listeners By RichardWhite 16 Feb 2023 Is Anyone Listening? #8220;Kill the bill, kill the bill! #8221; I could hear the chorus of voices growing ...

RingerTheScrivener	07 Jan 2010 - 22:59	IanSullivan
XinpingZhu 09 May 2009 It is rare to see the term scrivener used in papers these days. from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124183337729702961.html She Helped Put ...

RobLaserFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The "Family Man" (or "Community Man") Versus "The Christian Man" By RobLaser 17 Feb 2010 Disclaimer I am speaking from my personal experience as a man growing ...

RobLaserIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
RobLaser 14 Jan 2010 I hoped to gain from law school an awesome job. However, along the way I expected it to be intellectually stimulating and to actually BREED creativity ...

RobLaserSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

RobertCorp-FirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

RobertCorp-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:09	IanSullivan
Professional Sport as a Tool of White Supremacy By RobertCorp 11 June 2008 Introduction Professional sport is often offered as an example of racial equality in ...

RobertCorpFirstPaper	22 Feb 2015 - 15:32	EbenMoglen
Creeds in 2008 Democratic Primary By RobertCorp 13 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold stresses that the most effective creeds for a political campaign are those ...

RobertCorpIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:09	IanSullivan
I came to law school for the oft cited reason of career flexibility. I had little idea about what I wanted to do with my life as my senior year of college began, and ...

RobertoRivera2FirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:50	MarkDrake
Robinson: Aiming The Force of The Public Will And The Proximity of Evil By RobertoRivera2 13 Mar 2015 The Idea After our discussions on our lunch with Robinson ...

RobertoRivera2Intro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:26	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By RobertoRivera2 29 Jan 2015 I want to find my passion and a direction to channel my intellectual capabilities. I want to find that area ...

RobertoRivera2SecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:51	MarkDrake
I Hate Injustice And I'm Coming Back By RobertoRivera2 02 Jun 2015 The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living I hate injustice and that #8217;s why I #8217 ...

RobertoRiveraSecondPaper	02 Jun 2015 - 11:28	RobertoRivera2
moved.

RobinsonAndBrown	08 Aug 2012 - 15:38	RumbidzaiMaweni
Robinson Brown I do not believe that determining whether his methods were right or wrong is a useful exercise. I think that we have spent too much time focusing on ...

RobinsonClassDiscussion	13 Feb 2015 - 08:15	YashShah
Before and during class I was struck with the strong feeling that Robinson lacked sympathy for the fate of his clients chiefly because he accepts everyone as #8220 ...

RobinsonResponse	08 Feb 2012 - 02:32	ElviraKras
After reading and then listening (and trying to hear) the discussion about Robinson in Lawyerland, I came away feeling that it was a nice story with a Holden Caulfieldesque ...

RobinsonsMetamorphosisTalk	07 Jan 2010 - 23:00	IanSullivan
Discussion of Robinson's Metamorphosis I'm not sure how to move this to a new parent topic, but I thought it might be useful to begin discussing the reading about ...

RogerLowenthalOnRatingAgencies	07 Jan 2010 - 22:19	IanSullivan
Here is article that Eben was talking about the other day in class regarding the rating agencies' conflict of interest with their clients as a culpably contributing ...

RohanGreyFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
First Paper By RohanGrey 20 Feb 2012 Law is Action Of the various legal perspectives encountered throughout 1L year, the most persuasive (in my opinion) treated ...

RohanGreyIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My life is the byproduct of a combination of influences #8211;family, community, experiences, historical and cultural context #8211; but the ...

RohanGreySecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Money and Unemployment Introduction The long standing problem of involuntary unemployment has escalated in recent years to the level of a global systemic crisis. ...

RonMazorFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Comments welcome. Strict Liability Should Govern Tort By RonMazor 19 Feb 2010 The Middle Ages Had It Right Medieval law gets a short shrift. Too often, it is ...

RonMazorIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
Things To Obtain: RonMazor 14 Jan 2010

RonMazorSecondPaper	02 Apr 2018 - 16:00	RonMazor

RorySkaggsFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Case for Animals Everyone By RorySkaggs 25 Feb 2010 Introduction "Humans are more important than animals." "We have more important problems to deal with ...

RorySkaggsIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
RorySkaggs 14 Jan 2010 When I originally applied, I expected nothing from law school. Law was one of the few subjects which piqued my interest enough to apply myself ...

RorySkaggsSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Justifying Lesser Sentences for Inchoate Crimes Introduction In casebook commentary on inchoate crimes, there was near universal agreement that such crimes should ...

RubberRooms	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan
article came out in the New York Times today and I figured it would be worthwhile to post given our discussion in class yesterday. For those who don't have a chance ...

RubiRodriguezFirstEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 13:06	JustineHong
Wealth Divide on the Way to Law School By RubiRodriguez 12 Mar 2022 Introduction On a Friday evening, a couple friends and I sit in a restaurant discussing ...

RubiRodriguezIntro	16 Jan 2022 - 23:32	RubiRodriguez
Personal Introduction By RubiRodriguez 16 Jan 2022 As a Latina growing up in a Black suburb outside of Atlanta, I learned about the importance of activism long ...

RubiRodriguezSecondEssay	08 Jun 2022 - 04:38	RubiRodriguez
The Paradox of Life in the Law By RubiRodriguez 27 Apr 2022 What does justice mean to you? #8220;On the first day of class, I told you all to write down what ...

RumbidzaiMaweniIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan

RuthSamuelFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 18:00	EbenMoglen
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

RyRavenholtFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:52	MarkDrake
The Myth of Law By RyRavenholt 4 May 2015 Experience of Law Should law exist in its present form? It is a simple question that is often given a simple answer ...

RyRavenholtIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:26	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction I have always viewed the law from a position of disdain and criticism. My sojourn into law school is driven by my distaste of criticism of any ...

RyRavenholtSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:52	MarkDrake
The Iron Law School of Oligarchy By RyRavenholt 25 May 2015 Functioning as Lawyers After finishing the first year of law school, a simple question occurred to ...

RyanBinghamFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Believing in Believing By RyanBingham 12 Feb 2012 The Question What does it mean to believe in things that don't accurately reflect reality? At first glance, ...

RyanBinghamIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Ryan Bingham. My name comes from England, and my bone structure is from Denmark. I like to think about Japanese linguistics, electronic ...

RyanBinghamSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Eben, I would like to keep working with you this summer to revise this paper. Thanks. Affirming That Privacy On The Internet Is Gone: CISPA By RyanBingham 23 ...

RyanGloverFirstEssay	20 May 2022 - 05:05	OliviaVaughan?
Coffin Nails: Various designing and its Ideas By RyanGlover 13 Mar 2015 Each new time acquires recent fads numerous things including nails. This recent fad will ...

RyanGloverIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:27	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By RyanGlover 30 Jan 2015 I chose to go to law school because I wanted a degree that would give me the analytical skill set and intellectual ...

RyanGloverSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:52	MarkDrake
Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement By RyanGlover 18 May 2015 Overview On January 11, 1964, the United States Surgeon General released the first report on smoking ...

RyanMcDevitt-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:07	IanSullivan
A Bridge Too Far: Use Misuse of Predictions of Future Dangerousness By RyanMcDevitt 14 Feb 2008 Introduction Expert predictions of future dangerousness are ...

RyanMcDevitt-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:10	IanSullivan
Regulating Identity Politics in Sport By RyanMcDevitt 4 April 2008 Introduction Soccer is tied to identity politics in a remarkable and potentially destructive ...

RyanMcDevittIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:10	IanSullivan
I want to be a lawyer because I think very highly of the adversarial system as a means of getting at the truth and achieving justice of course no system is perfect ...

RyanSongFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Google book settlement: the future for orphan works? By RyanSong 16 Feb 2010 The 1976 Copyright Act has contributed to a growing proliferation of abandoned and ...

RyanSongFirstPaper_Rewrite	11 Jun 2010 - 02:44	RyanSong
Google Book Settlement In 2004, Google released the Google Book Library Project, a partnership between Google and several university libraries. The objective of the ...

RyanSongIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
My name is #8220;Ryan #8221; Yi Qian Song. As an Electrical Engineering student, my initial reason for coming to law school was to pursue a career in Intellectual ...

RyanSongSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:03	IanSullivan
Pfizer Reformed, Again When a drug manufacturer applies to the Food and Drug Administration ( #8220;FDA #8221;) for approval of a new drug, it must indicate the drug ...

SalonSubtopic1	03 Feb 2010 - 05:19	DRussellKraft
"Can you tell me how to create a new parent topic in the wiki? I think it would be great if we got people together to talk class. An Eben Salon! Would love to help ...

SalvadorRosasFirstEssay	26 Apr 2018 - 16:45	SalvadorRosas
Creating my Legal Practice By SalvadorRosas 19 Feb 2018 Law School serves to give me the skills necessary to manage my own practice. "Oh, so now you want ...

SalvadorRosasSecondEssay	19 Jun 2018 - 21:41	SalvadorRosas
Should I Stay or Should I Go? By SalvadorRosas 26 Apr 2018 Two semesters at CLS has gotten me a great network and encouraged me to seek tools to create my own ...

SamHersheyFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Paternity by Estoppel: Fighting Injustice with Injustice By SamHershey 21 Feb 2010 Introduction A recent class debate reminded me of a fascinating, heartbreaking ...

SamHersheyIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
SamHershey 19 Jan 2010 Unlike the liberal arts education that I pursued as an undergraduate, a legal education is a clear means to an end: the ability to practice ...

SamHersheySecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Concerns about the Limits of Creative Lawyering By SamHershey 16 Apr 2010 Here vs. There While the health care bill was stirring controversy last month ...

SamMatthewsFirstEssay	31 May 2017 - 23:35	SamMatthews
Damn the Torpedoes, Proceed Ahead Cautiously and Periodically Check Your Progress. By SamMatthews 12 Mar 2017 In an address to the BYU student body entitled The ...

SamMatthewsSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 03:40	SamMatthews
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

SamWellsFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
WHY "PROPERTY" ? By SamWells 13 May 2010 Property is not a thing. And it isn #8217;t even a person #8217;s relationship with a thing. We are told that ...

SamWellsIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I come to Columbia from Austin, TX, where I grew up and went to college. Perhaps this counts as membership in the axis of evil? I came to law school hoping to make ...

SamWellsSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Sam I hope that I was able to retain your original intent and meaning with my revision. I enjoyed reading your paper my dad actually owns a biotech company with ...

SamanthaLiTrentaFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Robinson's Justice By SamanthaLiTrenta 15 Feb 2012 Introduction Robinson calls his imagined prisoner/lawyer metamorphosis #8220;a form of exacting justice. ...

SamanthaLiTrentaIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Basic info: I #8217;ve always wanted to write for SNL, but instead I pursued my back up plan and came to law school. It is a little known fact that the character Liz ...

SamanthaWillaims-SecondPaper	24 Jan 2012 - 16:12	IanSullivan
Student Jurors and Liberal Education: A Case Study By SamanthaWilliams 12 April 2008 Introduction #8220;The university does not try to persuade the student ...

SamanthaWilliams-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:07	IanSullivan
Reconsidering the Assumptions of the United States Penal System By SamanthaWilliams 19 Feb 2008 Introduction Several dichotomies are useful in characterizing ...

SamanthaWilliamsIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:10	IanSullivan
I usually say that I want to be a lawyer because it combines my love of research and writing with my desire to give back to my community. Truthfully, though, my decision ...

SamanthaWishmanFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Teaching America's Leaders By SamanthaWishman 16 Feb 2012 As Justice O #8217;Connor wrote in Grutter v. Bollinger when the Supreme Court upheld an affirmative ...

SamanthaWishmanIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I want a worthwhile career that will allow me to be independent and empowered. By the end of college I had narrowed my potential paths to marketing, writing, education ...

SamanthaWishmanSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Never Accept a First Offer By SamanthaWishman 17 May 2012 The basis for the comparison is a little casual. With respect to sexual bargaining, it's true that ...

SamuelPittmanFirstEssay	03 Nov 2023 - 19:55	SamuelPittman

SamuelPittmanSecondEssay	03 Nov 2023 - 19:53	SamuelPittman

SandorMarton-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:07	IanSullivan
Topic: The Military Creed and Human Rights Violations By SandorMarton 09 Feb 2008 I. Definitions and Conflict A. The Problem Last May, a survey of U ...

SandorMarton-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:10	IanSullivan
Topic: Atheism and Acceptance SandorMarton 03 Apr 2008 I. A despised Group Over the past fifty years, minority groups that have traditionally been distrusted ...

SandorMartonIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:10	IanSullivan
SandorMarton 21 Jan 2008 I currently intend on pursuing a career in commercial real estate. My rough plan is to seek a position at a firm which provides services ...

SanjayMurtiFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Making a Decision By SanjayMurti 13 Apr 2012 In twenty four months, I will have a license, a practice, and a decision to make. For the last few months, I have ...

SanjayMurtiIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I like new challenges, good food, and house music when I'm outlining. I also like sleeping in until 2PM, Mcdonalds fries, and the sound of the ...

SanjayMurtiSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Stuck By SanjayMurti 08 May 2012 "No, call me Mark," he said, beckoning to two brown leather chairs in front of an oversized wooden desk. He waved the recruiter ...

SarahBrandFirstEssay	12 May 2021 - 19:56	SarahBrand
Planning My Practice The Secret of Cook v. Raimondo After San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, confronting property tax based school finance systems ...

SarahBrandSecondEssay	16 May 2021 - 17:16	SarahBrand
The Unnecessary Distinction Between Equality and Equity By SarahBrand 07 Apr 2021 Background Equity v. Equality I was eighteen years old when I learned that ...

SarahChanFirstEssay	28 Apr 2025 - 13:22	EbenMoglen
If Only I Were Taller By SarahChan 11 Apr 2025 To Be a Muse Helen of Troy, Xi Shi, Audrey Hepburn #8212;women who broke kingdoms and made poets weep. Perhaps ...

SarahKimFirstEssay	27 May 2022 - 18:33	MorganMartin
The World Is My Oyster? By SarahKim 11 Mar 2022 A few weeks ago, I went out to dinner with a couple law school friends, determined not to let out a peep about ...

SarahKimIntro	14 Jan 2022 - 17:14	SarahKim
Personal Introduction My name is Sarah Kim and I grew up in Seoul, South Korea. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon this past May. I studied chemistry in undergrad, which ...

SarahMacielSecondEssay	12 Jun 2018 - 02:49	SarahMaciel
Growth By SarahMaciel 26 Apr 2018 At the surface, it #8217;s a simple question. Of course, many people over the years have asked the same question, but they were ...

SarahSchnorrenbergFirstEssay	07 Jun 2017 - 10:20	SarahSchnorrenberg
Mob Justice in the Age of Social Media By SarahSchnorrenberg 09 Mar 2017 In recent years, incidents of mob justice have vastly increased, but in a new, more ...

SarahSchnorrenbergSecondEssay	07 Jun 2017 - 10:19	SarahSchnorrenberg
What Next? By SarahSchnorrenberg 01 Jun 2017 At First I Was Afraid, I Was Petrified I like law school. You may say, of course, why wouldn #8217;t you like ...

SarahShaikhFirstEssay	30 May 2024 - 01:59	SarahShaikh
Punishment in Education By SarahShaikh 22 Feb 2024 After our discussion on the first day of class on theories of punishment and if punishment in the United States ...

SarahShaikhSecondEssay	30 May 2024 - 02:53	SarahShaikh
Law and Passion By SarahShaikh 23 Apr 2024 In my first semester of law school, I took the foundational course Constitutional Law. Much of the lengthy discussions ...

SaswatMisraFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Update ( 6/13/10 ) I've finished revising my first paper (for this round of review) Major Version History: Version 11 My first paper Version 12 My first paper ...

SaswatMisraIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I worked as an engineer and applied math researcher between college and law school. During that time, I spent several years working both for a government agency and ...

SaswatMisraSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Update (5/23) My revisions are now complete (for this round of review) Relevant Version History: Version 4 My second paper Version 5 My second paper with comments ...

ScottThurmanFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
You don't need to save earlier versions on the page: the wiki, being a wiki, saves every version of everything. Just look under the "Diffs" button. So I removed ...

ScottThurmanIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
After law school, I hope to be involved in employee and labor law. In college, I was challenged by and increasingly interested in a variety of #8211; how would one ...

ScottThurmanSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
The Lottery Realization (A revision of Ella Aiken's Recognizing Chance to Become Better Lawyers . Ella's paper is Revision 2; my draft is Revision 3.) ScottThurman ...

ScottThurmanThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
What Would Bartleby Do? By ScottThurman 18 May 2009 Introduction That anti anthem "I would prefer not to." I've spoken it to myself frequently; there are so many ...

SecondEssay	14 Apr 2021 - 14:42	EbenMoglen
Essay Assignment Your choice of topic. As always, not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Second Essay will ...

SecondPaper2010	13 Apr 2015 - 02:12	EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Other Since this is an assignment page general editing is restricted. Please leave any comments ...

SecondPaper2013	13 Apr 2015 - 02:12	EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Second Paper will create a page named SecondPaper2013 ...

SecondPaperSpring2012	13 Apr 2015 - 02:12	EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Archived Linking You may notice that, in addition to adding ...

SecularizationOfTheLaw	07 Jan 2010 - 23:00	IanSullivan
I am not sure if this discussion belongs under a new topic thread or a comment to the class notes. Since it's rather long, I decided to open up a new thread. I want ...

SelfReflection	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Hello everybody. I hope your final exams and preparations are going well. Throughout the semester, Eben emphasized the importance of self reflection: thinking about ...

SellingOut	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan
JenniferGreen 09 Mar 2010 One of the most offensive slurs a Black person can call another Black person is an #8220;Uncle Tom #8221;. Taken from the leading character ...

SethGlickmanFirstEssay	27 Feb 2020 - 20:00	SethGlickman
Creative Constraint By Seth Glickman 26 Feb 2020 The Unconstrained Abyss My father and I talk on the phone most every week, and a recurring pattern during these ...

SexualProwessAndWarfareOfWaste	07 Jan 2010 - 23:00	IanSullivan
In our discussions of Veblen's critique of consumerism, we tried to apply his idea of the warfare of waste to things like governments' accumulating arms and students ...

ShakedSivanFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The NFL and the Limits of Legal Formalism Recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings featured the metaphor of judges acting as umpires calling "balls and strikes. ...

ShakedSivanIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The "Sha" rhymes with the "mu" part of mustard and the "ked" rhymes with Ed. In the fall I had long, Gene Wilder esque hair and Civil War era mutton chops. Alas, ...

ShakedSivanSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Irony is Cool One of the problems with joking is that other people can't always tell when the jokes are serious. Worse is when you aren't sure yourself. I started ...

ShaquilleProfittFirstEssay	14 Jun 2024 - 20:11	ShaquilleProfitt

ShaquilleProfittSecondEssay	14 Jun 2024 - 20:09	ShaquilleProfitt

ShawKaneyasuSpeckIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:11	IanSullivan
ShawKaneyasuSpeck 18 Jan 2008 I don't know if I want to be a lawyer. ) edit: I wrote the above while still slightly depressed about leaving winter break and my ...

ShawnFettyFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
It's Not Your Grandfather's Segregation By ShawnFetty 26 Feb 2010 A Story I team taught English to middle school students for a year in the northeast of Japan ...

ShawnFettyIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I #8217;m committed to my family #8217;s wellbeing #8212;something that depended until very recently on the profits of our automotive repair shop. I could have seen ...

ShawnFettySecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
See comments in history. Update 7/7: Tweaked ever so slightly Edited paper: Walking Away from the National Dietary Guidelines By ShawnFetty 12 Apr 2010 Introduction ...

ShayBanerjeeFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:53	MarkDrake
Fossil Fuel Dependence: A Call to Action By ShayBanerjee 13 Mar 2015 Introduction Enough games. It is time to get serious. America #8217;s dependence on fossil ...

ShayBanerjeeIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:29	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By ShayBanerjee 29 Jan 2015 My mother used to tell me about the hardships she and my father faced immigrating here. How they had no money ...

ShayBanerjeeSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 22:00	MarkDrake
America's Oil Addiction: A Basic Diagnosis ShayBanerjee 24 May 2015 Introduction Oil accounts for 95 percent of energy used in the U.S. transportation sector ...

ShefaliSinghFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Clear Line By ShefaliSingh 16 Feb 2012 "Distinguishing Omission from Acts" My Criminal Law class was recently assigned to read a series of cases in our casebook ...

ShefaliSinghIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Hi, my name is Shefali Singh. I entered CLS straight from college, so I have never had a real job beyond that of average summer occupations. While in college I became ...

ShefaliSinghSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
The Sexual Intimidation of the State By ShefaliSingh 29 Apr 2012 The Growing Police State It is terrifying to think of my country as a police state, but this ...

ShenelEkiciFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 12:29	EbenMoglen
Logomachy: A Functional Approach under Fascism By Shenel Ekici The Metamorphosis When my father asked why I wouldn #8217;t go to law school, I used to say, ...

SherieGertlerFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Reflections on Certainty and Stability By SherieGertler 16 Feb 2012 Preconceptions, In Light of Holmes I am fairly confident, at this point, that I came to law ...

SherieGertlerIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I came to law school because from 2008 to 2009 I worked in a refugee camp where terrible things happened and I came away feeling helpless and afraid. I tried to learn ...

SherieGertlerSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
A Second Trip: Critical Self Examination and Hopes for Growth Travelling to "Help" The first time I moved to Africa I was 21 years old, unattached, and more idealistic ...

ShianneWilliamsFirstEssay	30 May 2023 - 23:23	ShianneWilliams
From Impatience to Insight By ShianneWilliams 16 Feb 2023 "Adult Advice" Growing up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, meant that my parents sat me down at a very ...

ShidehZokaiyFirstEssay	23 Apr 2025 - 14:56	EbenMoglen
What is the law, anyway, and who is making it? By ShidehZokaiy 19 Feb 2025 Growing up, I thought law meant justice #8212;the gold standard of civil behavior, peace ...

ShirleyBoutin-Intro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
Hello my name is Shirley Boutin. When I was younger, I thought I wanted to be a Criminal Defense Attorney. To me, something was wrong with the disproportionate number ...

ShirleyBoutinFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
Professor Moglen, I decided for this paper to write about a completely different topic from my last paper. I. Introduction II. Socio economic Factors III. Discriminatory ...

ShirleyBoutinSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
This is an edit of Yinan Zhang's first paper Introduction Marriage, as an institution, significantly impacts society evidence by the public #8217;s large scale ...

ShirleyBoutinThirdPaper	07 Jan 2010 - 23:00	IanSullivan
I. Introduction II. Facts III. Probelm IV. Solution V. Conclusion Introduction: A couple of weeks ago I received an email about an event at the School of International ...

SidneyChiangFirstEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 19:31	SidneyChiang
Drawing from Creative Writing By SidneyChiang 18 Apr 2016 Writing is Subjective The notion of "knowing your audience" seems to be repeated to students as one ...

SidneyChiangSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 17:21	SidneyChiang
Redefining Passivity By SidneyChiang 31 Mar 2016 Risk Averse Lawyers To what extent is the ability to recognize problems in the world valuable, even before, and ...

SimonYangFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 14:07	EbenMoglen
Armory and Favelas: Asking Questions By SimonYang 20 Feb 2025 Armory Raises Questions and Concerns The concept that law students might not know how or which questions ...

SingSingVisit	23 Jul 2010 - 20:47	CeciliaWang
I recall that during one class this past semester, Eben admonished all those aspiring to become prosecutors to spend a day in a prison in order to understand what ...

SkylarPolanskyFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Pro Bono By SkylarPolansky 15 Feb 2012 Introduction During my 2 year experience working at a firm pro bono was both the area of law with which I was most disgusted ...

SkylarPolanskySecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Splitting Up By SkylarPolansky 23 Apr 2012 Child Birth From you I was born. You held me, carried me through the hallway. It was not you who wrapped me in a ...

SmallGroupSignups	12 Feb 2021 - 23:29	EbenMoglen
Small Group Sign up Sheets Small group discussion sessions of one hour will be scheduled irregularly. Each slot lists the time, the number of people who can sign ...

SoHo	07 Apr 2013 - 21:42	JacksonAlberts
If I can't eliminate Bumpy Text, I can at least explain that SoHo is the area south of Houston street, formerly desolate and currently trendy. JacksonAlberts 07 ...

SoWhatShouldWeDo	07 Jan 2010 - 23:00	IanSullivan
I was intimidated by the percentage of laid off CLS biglaw lawyers Eben wrote on the board today. Still, just because a person loses her job doesn #8217;t necessarily ...

SoYeonKimFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Law as a Labyrinth for the Indigent By SoYeonKim 14 Feb 2012 Daedalus' edifice imprisoning the Minotaur was at least a unicursal labyrinth with a single non branching ...

SoYeonKimIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
My name is Soyeon. I was born in the UK and grew up in Portugal and Korea. I went to an international school in Lisbon for most of my pre college education, which ...

SoYeonKimSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Terrorism as the Strongest Form of Social Control By SoYeonKim 13 May 2012 Terrorism defies definition. Once we define terrorism, it reemerges in ever changing ...

SociobiologyAndConsilienceTalk	07 Jan 2010 - 23:00	IanSullivan
This topic is about socio biological arguments and consilient argument structures. Specifically whether the interaction seen between Tharaud and Cerriere in Cerriere ...

SoeJungKimFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
Law and Social Change in a Diverse Society By SoeJungKim 19 March 2009 Introduction The class discussion over Judith Warner #8217;s column on people #8217 ...

SoeJungKimIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:14	IanSullivan
I came to Columbia, leaving my family and friends in Korea, to realize my childhood dream of living and working in many different countries. I somehow thought that ...

SoeJungKimSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
This is a revision of the first paper by ErandiZamora SoeJungKim 19 Apr 2009 Introduction After generations of struggle, activism, and legislative action, ...

SolomonRotsteinFirstEssay	21 Apr 2016 - 04:02	SolomonRotstein
Not Even Big Data Can Disparage Rights Retained By The People By SolomonRotstein 21 Apr 2016 I. Introduction: #8220;Poca política, mucha administración #8221 ...

SomeConfusionOnInternationale	07 Jan 2010 - 22:49	IanSullivan
KevinChang 06 Feb 2009 In the class today, I was particularly fascinated by the part of the lyrics that Professor Moglen coted: "Freedom is merely privilege extended ...

SomeThoughtsFromClassOn126	17 Apr 2010 - 17:51	NonaFarahnik
NonaFarahnik 27 Jan I am not sure if I am using this right but I wanted to try. I also need to go to bed, so I am writing quickly and maybe not clearly. Anyway, I ...

SomeThoughtsOnJeromeFrankMagicAndLaw	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice ...

SomeThoughtsOnThoreau	17 Apr 2010 - 14:58	NonaFarahnik
Some thoughts on the John Brown/Thoreau reading for 2/23 prior to our class discussion: Having read through Henry David Thoreau #8217;s #8220;A Plea for Captain John ...

SorryGuys	18 Jan 2008 - 21:19	YaeAhnPark?
Hi, all. I'm Yae Ahn Park in LawContempSoc class. While I was trying my inept hands at posting my intro, I somehow managed to erase the intire WebTopicList for our ...

SpencerBecerraFirstEssay	06 Jun 2022 - 13:22	JustineHong
A Reason to Return By SpencerBecerra 11 Mar 2022 Dusty Memories Two of my grandfathers introduced me to the law. One was a lawyer, a CLS grad. The other did ...

SpencerBecerraIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 02:46	SpencerBecerra
Personal Introduction By SpencerBecerra 18 Jan 2022 Hello everyone! Excited to start our first mixed section class (that isn #8217;t legal methods). I picked this ...

SpencerBecerraSecondEssay	01 Jun 2022 - 01:16	SpencerBecerra
The Rooney Rule and NFL Coaching Employment By SpencerBecerra 20 Apr 2022 A Rude Awakening On February 2, 2022, the National Football League faced a distraction ...

SpitzerAndConspicuousConsumption	22 Jan 2009 - 02:14	IanSullivan
Today in class we talked about what Spitzer was really getting for $4300 obviously there was more to it than the nominal purpose. Why, as Moglen pointed out, would ...

Spring2023Discussions	04 Feb 2023 - 14:35	HoDongChyung
Attempt in trying to make a folder HoDongChyung 04 Feb 2023

StandWhoseGround	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Who serves to benefit from the Florida Stand Your Ground statute and others like it??? The Silver Lining In the Column today in the New York Times, Paul Krugman ...

StarGulantFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 02:36	StarGulant
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

StartingRemote	13 Jan 2022 - 17:13	EbenMoglen
Starting With One Week of Not Meeting A class which does not meet for the first week, and then is supposed to meet "normally" in the midst of the pandemic is being ...

StatementOnFinalGrades	03 Aug 2012 - 17:12	EbenMoglen
Statement On Final Grades Fate has dealt us a tough hand. A week ago, just as I was fully recovered and returning to work, my younger brother suffered a septic infection ...

StatementOnInterimGrades	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Statement on Interim Grades As you know, the Law School is being swept by a furore over timing of grades. This has been presented as a response to student demand ...

StefanRinasIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
This probably amounts to splitting hairs, but seeing as I'll be addressed with my first name throughout the semester it's pronounced as if the 'a' were a 'u', i.e ...

StefanRinasSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

StephanieLiuIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 00:48	StephanieLiu
Personal Introduction I'm Stephanie and I'm from Vancouver, Canada, although I was born in China. I came to law school because I found that nothing else I was interested ...

StephanieOduroFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
If It Doesn't Fit, You Must Acquit By StephanieOduro 15 May 2010 Introduction Criminal jury trials are complex mechanisms for finding "justice" that are not infallible ...

StephanieOduroIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I planned on going to law school since high school. It wasn #8217;t a random choice made haphazardly because I didn #8217;t know what to do with my life. I was set ...

StephanieOduroSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Confederate History Month: It #8217;s a Celebration! By StephanieOduro 15 May 2010 For the first time since 2001, Virginia's Republican Governor, Bob !McDonnell ...

StephanieZielinskiFirstEssay	27 May 2023 - 13:47	StephanieZielinski
Indeterminacy in Self Narrative and the Rule of Law By StephanieZielinski 27 May 2023 Tell Me About Yourself #8220;So, Stephanie, tell me about yourself. #8221 ...

StephanieZielinskiSecondEssay	27 May 2023 - 13:49	StephanieZielinski
Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy By StephanieZielinski 29 Apr 2023 Introduction From a young age, I endeavored to become a scientist. I was fascinated by the ...

StephenClarkeIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:14	IanSullivan
Why I decided to pursue a career in the law can be summarized in a few words: #8220;Co ed Naked Band: Do it to the Rhythm. #8221; For the meaning of these words, ...

StephenClarkeSecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:14	IanSullivan
FreeSpace: Realizing the Potential of Online Social Networks American adolescence has become an interactive online experience. majority of American teens who are online ...

StephenKimFirstEssay	20 Apr 2018 - 16:31	StephenKim
First Essay, 2nd Draft How To Become A Great Lawyer By StephenKim 20 April 2018 Professor Moglen offers two great questions to becoming a great lawyer: In terms ...

StephenKimSecondEssay	31 May 2018 - 13:05	EbenMoglen
From Here to There, and Where? By StephenKim 26 Apr 2018 Losing Touch During my first year of law school, I lost in touch with why I wanted to become a lawyer ...

StephenRushin-Intro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
I suppose I came to law school to find a purpose. Until now, my academic and professional life has focused on the study of politics. I found the field interesting ...

StephenRushinFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
Professor Moglen, As you recommended, I focused this draft on my view of Holmes's Path of Law , and I removed the section regarding Langdell and Gilmore. I also included ...

StephenRushinSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
Remedying Legal Magic Originally By JonathanFriedman 27 Feb 2009 Introduction to The Role of Legal Magic In Courts on Trial , Jerome Frank honestly examines ...

StephenRushinThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
A Pragmatic Criminal Justice System By StephenRushin 15 May 2009 Introduction Beliefs in retribution and utilitarianism play competing and complementary roles ...

StephenSeveroFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Who Said That? And Why Do We Care? By StephenSevero 18 Jun 2010 Last week, my father talked to me about the book he was currently reading. It "proved beyond a ...

StephenSeveroIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
Why law school is not important. To steal a line from Yeats, #8220;A lonely impulse of delight drove to this tumult in the clouds. #8221; I always slouched towards ...

StephenSeveroSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Chaos is a Friend of Mine By StephenSevero 16 Apr 2010 "Complexity so intricate no one can fathom it." In "Something Split," a chapter of Lawrence Joseph's Lawyerland ...

StevenRaphanFirstEssay	11 Jun 2024 - 23:06	StevenRaphan?
The complex path to becoming a lawyer with a dual legal culture. By StevenRaphan 23 Feb 2024 When you contemplate what type of lawyer you want to be and part of ...

StevenRaphanSecondEssay	11 Jun 2024 - 23:05	StevenRaphan?
The question of sexual orientation as a suspect classification. By StevenRaphan 16 Apr 2024 The Supreme Court's jurisprudence acknowledges that the Constitution ...

StifledCreativity	17 Apr 2010 - 18:08	NonaFarahnik
This is a continuation of my frustration that I touched upon in Devin's post about Law School, reading, and orthodox thinking. Background: For my brief I have to argue ...

StrikingOutOnOurOwn	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan
DavidGarfinkel 20 Apr 2010 http://www.abanet.org/lsd/studentlawyer/feb10/filisko.shtml This is an article about law students starting their own practice after starting ...

StudentAction	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan
Discussion page for improving law school. If interested, add your name, and add your ideas! Interested People Nona Farahnik Devin McDougall Jessica Cohen Christopher ...

StudentJournal	11 Jan 2021 - 17:36	EbenMoglen
Why a Student Journal Teaching and learning is a person to person activity. We aren't really teaching, now, in the time of Covid 19; we are simulating teaching. ...

StudentPerceptionsOfTheCurve	07 Jan 2010 - 23:00	IanSullivan
A statement several people made today was that the notion of the grading curve was insulting. They based this (I assume) on the fact that their grades were measured ...

StudentResponse	24 Apr 2025 - 23:32	MeherGeorge
Response to Faculty We thank you for the message you sent us in your personal capacities. We appreciate the opening of dialogue. We take this opportunity to respond ...

StudyingProperty	22 Jan 2009 - 02:15	IanSullivan
ShawKaneyasuSpeck 07 May 2008 I don't know if anyone is still checking this site, but there's basically a hornbook worth of info on wikipedia for property law http ...

SudiTasissaFirstEssay	01 May 2018 - 18:03	SudiTasissa
Progress In his book The Souls of Black Folk, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois writes about the concept of "double consciousness". He defined double consciousness ...

SudiTasissaSecondEssay	01 Jun 2018 - 16:22	EbenMoglen
By SudiTasissa 26 Apr 2018 The Bumpy Ride:First Year of Law School I came to law school heavily influenced by my background. After my family and I moved to the ...

SummerExperience	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan
I thought I would create this page to allow us to all share our experiences this summer because 1) I'm curious what everyone is up to, 2) I've already had lots of ...

SummerReadingList	07 Jan 2010 - 23:00	IanSullivan
I am starting this thread to provide a place for everyone to post interesting readings (or videos, podcasts, or even event announcements) over the summer. I know ...

SummerWiki	13 Jan 2012 - 23:26	IanSullivan
In response to Eben's interest in hearing about our experiences revising work and using the wiki over the summer, I thought I would chime in and say that I found it ...

SunYi-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:08	IanSullivan
Not So Evil Criminals By SunYi 14 Feb 2008 It is said that crime is done by an evil mind through an evil hand. This saying is both useful and deceitful. It points ...

SunYi-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:15	IanSullivan
What is the Tibet Problem? By SunYi 04 April 2008 Introduction The recent riot in Tibet has attracted much international attention. Scholars and reports have ...

SunYiIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:15	IanSullivan
I think law embodies many aspects that I am interested in because it is a combination of morality and reality, logic and experience, intention and action, history ...

SupremeCourt1	13 Jan 2012 - 23:31	IanSullivan
DanielButrymowicz 14 Feb 2008 Part of DanielButrymowiczFirstPaper2010

SupremeCourt2	13 Jan 2012 - 23:31	IanSullivan
DanielButrymowicz 14 Feb 2008 Part of DanielButrymowiczFirstPaper2010

SupremeCourtClosesMainEntrance	13 Jan 2012 - 23:27	IanSullivan
See http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap on go su co/us supreme court access "The Supreme Court is closing its iconic front entrance beneath the words 'Equal Justice ...

SuzanAbebeFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:53	MarkDrake
Avoiding Race By SuzanAbebe 17 Mar 2015 What Happens to a Dream Deferred? A significant part of what led me to law school was the opportunity to learn about ...

SuzanAbebeIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:30	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By SuzanAbebe 29 Jan 2015 I came to law school because a legal training from Columbia will provide me with mobility in society. I have seen ...

SuzanAbebeSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:53	MarkDrake
SuzanAbebe 02 Jun 2015 THE FEAR OF FAILURE, UNDERNEATH IT ALL. The 90 #8217;s. Unconventional is the term I use to describe my parent #8217;s decision to leave Ethiopia ...

SuzanneSciarraFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Cultural Defense Defined In the United States, a cultural defense is invoked when defendants, generally immigrants, ask the court to excuse them from, or reduce ...

SuzanneSciarraIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I came to law school because I wanted to work with people in a meaningful way, and I wanted to love what I did. I did not want to sit at a desk and count the minutes ...

SuzanneSciarraSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Good Samaritan Laws Driving across the country, two young graduate students were severely injured when a drunk driver collided head on with their #8217;97 Buick ...

SwindlingAndSelling	17 Apr 2010 - 18:07	NonaFarahnik
Naturally in reading through through Leff's Swindling and Selling the first thing I thought of is the master swindler himself Bernie Madoff. Vanity Fair did a series ...

SyllabusStatement	30 Oct 2012 - 07:41	EbenMoglen
Statement on Syllabus Students considering the course often ask about the syllabus of readings. Some background is necessary in order to appreciate why there is no ...

SylvieRampal--Paper2	22 Jan 2009 - 02:15	IanSullivan
Professional Agnosticism: Why law students trade in goals to help people for golden handcuffs? SylvieRampal 24 Jun 2008 Reasons No one starts out wanting to be ...

SylvieRampal-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:08	IanSullivan
Why is life at Big Law notoriously bad? Talks with Big Law attorneys left me concerned about Big Law quality of life. This discussion centers on some factors which ...

SylvieRampal-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:15	IanSullivan
Ready for Grading Stress Management Mechanisms for Law School By SylvieRampal 21 Feb 2008 Law School: Part time job or Extreme Situation? I view law school as ...

SystemTopics	24 Jan 2009 - 22:34	EbenMoglen
A place for system created topics that Twiki creates, and that we probably aren't looking for when browsing the topic index. If you created a topic and can't find ...

TEDJohnnyLee	07 Jan 2010 - 23:01	IanSullivan
Here is some language about TED from their website: "TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people ...

TEDTalksWhyYouWillFailToHaveAGreatCareer	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
I watched video yesterday and thought some of you might also find it relevant to our discussions in class about "splitting" specifically and our career goals more ...

TWikiGuestFirstEssay	12 Jan 2022 - 18:12	TWikiGuest

TWikiGuestIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 03:01	ConnorHudson
I am interested in law as the mechanisms that create social utility. I first grew passionate about personal representation working at two leading Talent Agencies and ...

TWikiGuestJournal	12 Mar 2021 - 21:55	TaleahTyrell
MarvinGalloway 24 Mar 2020

TWikiGuestSecondEssay	23 Apr 2024 - 16:28	PieroZanon
Reflecting on the events that have unfolded in the past few days on Columbia #8217;s campus, the complex interplay between law, ethics, and society has occupied my ...

TWikiGuestThirdPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
The Lawyering Trade Introduction Lawyering is like being a plumber, sort of. At the beginning of the semester I made a controversial claim: lawyering is a trade ...

TaeSangYoo-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:08	IanSullivan
Drawing Parallels between the Criminal Trial and Levitical Sacrifices: Criminal Trial as a Ritual of Restoration By TaeSangYoo 14 Feb 2008 Introduction #8211 ...

TaeSangYooIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 00:19	IanSullivan
My main reason for coming to law school is practical: I came to law school because I thought that a legal education would be the best way to overcome any disadvantages ...

TakeThatJoneses	22 Jan 2009 - 02:16	IanSullivan
doesn't quite cover it I know this isn't useful discussion, but just wanted to share for the "wow" factor of it. It is pure marketing genius. Totally useless, incredibly ...

TaleahTyrellFirstEssay	19 May 2021 - 03:12	TaleahTyrell
Education, the Great Equalizer: How Lawyers can help Mitigate Education Disparities Across U.S. Public Schools By TaleahTyrell 21 Feb 2021 When I was six years ...

TaleahTyrellSecondEssay	25 May 2021 - 22:05	EbenMoglen
Lack of Discernment when Cops are Afraid By TaleahTyrell 16 Apr 2021 Suspicion and Fear Damages Ability to Discern Police Officers Discernment: De Funding is ...

TalkAboutQuestionsThatNeedAnswers	11 Jan 2010 - 16:56	IanSullivan
This page is a page for organizing the questions from our third assignment, QuestionsThatNeedAnswers. On Wednesday I am going to take a crack at organizing these ...

TamarLisbonaFirstEssay	05 Jun 2016 - 14:14	EbenMoglen
The Viability of Surrogacy By TamarLisbona 19 Feb 2016 Traditionally, and even biblically, surrogacy has been characterized by a woman carrying her own biological ...

TamarLisbonaSecondEssay	16 Jun 2016 - 09:46	TamarLisbona
Journal Entry, June 2016 By TamarLisbona 16 Jun 2016 Introduction My first paper in this course was about the commoditization of the human body in the form of ...

TamaraOFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
I come from a family full of lawyers. Both my parents went to law school (my dad dropped out), and of my ten aunts and uncles, five are legal professionals. My mother ...

TamaraOIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Before law school, I was a copy editor at a legal reference book publisher in Houston. I figured if I still thought law was interesting after working there, I should ...

TamaraOSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
"Rape is bullshit," said Nick. "Everyone says all these girls are getting raped all the time, but I don't think it's true. Like, if both people are drunk, they're ...

TanyaSehgalFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
Finding a Sense of Purpose By TanyaSehgal 20 April 2009 (the original paper follows this revised version) The Ideal At this year #8217;s Lawyering conference ...

TanyaSehgalIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
TanyaSehgal 27 Jan 2009 TanyaSehgal 27 Jan 2009 I hope to understand how the law can be used as a force to unleash human potential instead of a force to restrict ...

TanyaSehgalSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
This is a revision of "Law School and Contemporary Society" by KristineVanHamersveld. Her first and second drafts follow. Law School and Contemporary Society The ...

TanyaSehgalThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
Trusting the Process By TanyaSehgal 18 May 2009 I had intended on writing this paper on the ways that elite schools subtly move their students into the more "prestigious ...

TarynWilkinsFirstEssay	07 Jun 2022 - 05:27	AdrianHernandez
Why Not Choosing Big Law Is a Hard Pill to Swallow for Minorities, But Doesn #8217;t Have to Be By TarynWilkins 03 Mar 2022 My Introduction to Big Law Ever since ...

TarynWilkinsIntro	13 Jan 2022 - 18:59	TarynWilkins
Personal Introduction By TarynWilkins 13 Jan 2022 Hi everyone! My name is Taryn Wilkins and I am originally from New Jersey (the Jersey Shore). I am a 2021 Graduate ...

TarynWilkinsSecondEssay	04 Jun 2022 - 21:21	TarynWilkins
Why No Knock Warrants Should Be Illegal By TarynWilkins 18 Apr 2022 Time and time again, innocent Black people are being unreasonably executed through loopholes ...

TashaStatzGearyFirstEssay	13 Jun 2022 - 18:21	TashaStatzGeary
Britt By TashaStatzGeary 26 May 2022 Cut Short In 2018, I interned in New York before my final year of college. It was a profoundly lonely summer, the kind that ...

TashaStatzGearyIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 16:39	TashaStatzGeary
Personal Introduction I came to law school after enjoying my work as a litigation paralegal. I am interested in immigration law, environmental law and affirmative ...

TashaylaBordenSecondEssay	01 Jun 2023 - 02:49	TashaylaBorden
Black Tongues Can Lick (Wounds), Too Through words and expression, Black women can carve a space for coalition building in the face of exclusion and ultimately go ...

TatsuyaSagawaIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Before coming to CLS, I engaged in intellectual property law in Sony. Through the opportunities to be involed in American law related matters during that time, I ...

TatsuyaSagawaSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
TatsuyaSagawa 20 Apr 2009 LEFF, LAWYERING, AND LAW SCHOOL Originally by Will King Intro In the conclusion of Swindling and Selling, Arthur Leff maintains that ...

TaylorLawsonFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 10:59	TaylorLawson
Lawson the Lawyer? By TaylorLawson 18 Feb 2025 What is a Lawyer? As a child, I rarely went anywhere without a worn out paperback book in my hands. Relatives would ...

TaylorMcGowan-TheCulpabilityOfTheMiddleClass	14 Jan 2015 - 22:12	IanSullivan
The Culpability of the Middle Class Too often in class, an important point that has been stifled before it can be developed is the culpability of the middle class ...

TaylorMcGowanFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Revolutionary Lawyer By TaylorMcGowan 26 Feb 2010 The Need for Revolutions According to Thurman Arnold, altering organizations supported by a society #8217 ...

TaylorMcGowanIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
I expected law school to be just that schooling centered around the subject of law. But while my simple expectations have been surpassed when classes really engage ...

TaylorMcGowanSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Rethinking the Holy See's Sovereign Immunity By TaylorMcGowan 26 Feb 2010 Starting Point: O'Bryan v. The Holy See Soon, the Holy See will be haled back into the ...

TaylorPerezFirstEssay	20 May 2021 - 01:29	TaylorPerez
The Law as the Witness of #8216;Our #8217; Moral Life In The Path of the Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. described the relationship between law and morality quite ...

TaylorPerezSecondEssay	20 May 2021 - 03:44	TaylorPerez
The Multiplicity of Personality #8220;The world existed, and my pain, my desire, my love and my uncertainty existed, and then, there was something else. #8221; ...

TeacherTenure	18 Apr 2018 - 21:17	ZaneMuller
ZaneMuller 09 Apr 2018 I want to continue a conversation from office hours this past Friday around the issue of teacher tenure. The essential question is whether ...

TedKreit-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:08	IanSullivan
Reshaping the "War on Drugs" Narrative Peter !McWilliams Intro Convincing the public Using the language of war Countering the #8220;fear #8221; language of drug ...

TedKreitIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:17	IanSullivan
I came to law school primarily to earn a salary that will permit me the possibility of buying a house and raising a family where I grew up (the Bay Area). I also ...

TedKreitSecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:18	IanSullivan
A Problem in Privilege II A continuation of this discussion. Facts of the case Thesis: The attorneys took the best course of action under the circumstances. The ...

TedSmithIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:18	IanSullivan
I decided to go to law school last year. I was living in Japan, coming off several years of software engineering. Witnessing the operation of a society externally ...

TemiAdenijiFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Gongo Aso By TemiAdeniji 26 Feb 2010 Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as Acting President of Nigeria #8212;incidentally a country with not much good luck to speak ...

TemiAdenijiSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Post Colonial? Post Nothing. In the Theory of the Leisure Class, Veblen discusses conspicuous consump¬tion, leisure, and waste, as the ultimate expression of the pecuniary ...

TextDiscussionCohenandFrank	22 Jan 2009 - 02:18	IanSullivan
Text Discussion Cohen and Frank I thought to start text explications/discussions of phrases and sections of this weeks readings as Eben suggested. I will link the ...

ThaliaJulme-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:08	IanSullivan
#8220;For the rational study of the law the black letter man may be the man of the present, but the man of future is the man of statistics and the master of economics ...

ThaliaJulme-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:18	IanSullivan
Veblen #8217;s conspicuous consumption and Marx #8217;s commodity fetishism: two theories of value By ThaliaJulme 03 Apr 2008 Introduction According to Veblen ...

ThaliaJulmeIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:18	IanSullivan
As an undergrad, I seriously considered three courses of graduate studies: med school, law school, and sociology grad work. I decided to go to law school because I ...

TharaudDangerousWoman	22 Jan 2009 - 02:18	IanSullivan
I don #8217;t think we fully captured the role of gender in Tharaud's life. Our focus was on the indignities, but there was another thread in there as well. The ...

The99PercentVotes	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Hello class of '14 students I took this class three years ago, and I've actually followed through on a brain wave partially started here (see BottomUpIdea). Like ...

TheAffordableCareActAndHIV	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
As the Supreme Court wraps up oral arguments about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, we are afforded an opportunity to understand the benefits provided ...

TheBox	17 Apr 2010 - 20:33	NonaFarahnik
Mike, Your hypothetical reminds me of Richard Matheson's collection of short stories in The Box . The first story, Button, Button , which is fully readable here ...

TheBurdenOfMind	09 Feb 2021 - 22:16	AlexanderHohl
Hi all, I'm here with another topic (in part because I want to make sure this all posted correctly). I'm thinking about the burden of having a human mind. I'm curious ...

TheChargeOfTheLightBrigade	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
When I was reading A Plea for Captain John Brown, I was curious about the reference to "the momentary charge at Balaclava, in obedience to the blundering command, ...

TheCurve	13 May 2023 - 15:14	MichaelPari
Thinking on the curve NicoleMorote 06 May 2023 The logic behind law school exams has been bothering me for the past few days, and I wanted to see if anyone might ...

TheDrumMajorInstinct	22 Jan 2021 - 05:39	ValeriaFlores
I'm not sure if this is the correct way to create a new topic, but I wanted to share a link to a piece by MLK, Jr. that I think is relevant to one of our discussions ...

TheEuropeanDream	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
This weekend I found two articles that are relevant to our on and off line discussions about employment security and fear, and perhaps tangentially related to our ...

TheFearFromDifferentAngles	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
The discussion brewing in Loving Memory spurred me to begin writing. It surrounds the issue of #8220;the fear #8221; that we discussed in class, unionization, and ...

TheFirstLawOfRobotics	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Today I came across a article based on a brief phone interview with Eben. The focus was on internet security, specifically in the context of mobile technology. As ...

TheFolkloreOfFinancialRegulation	07 Jan 2010 - 23:02	IanSullivan
Those as smitten with Thurman Arnold as I am might want to read an essay in the current Atlantic that touches on how it became an article of faith in Washington ...

TheImportanceOfSleep	18 May 2023 - 18:36	IlanaDutton
The Importance of Sleep LupitaOrozco 14 May 2023 As we discussed in class, sleep is important to our mental well being. It especially helps our memories absorb ...

TheInternationale	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
The Lyrics (shamelessly lifted from http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia): Arise, wretched of the earth Arise, convicts of hunger Reason thunders in its volcano ...

TheInternetAndTheNewRacism	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Every time I read a news article, a blog post, or anything else on the internet related to the issue of race, I try to avoid reading the user comments. The reason ...

TheLawyerAsConfidenceMan	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Came across this Law Review article that touches on some themes in Lawyerland. If it's worth peoples' time to read, Meagan, it should be possible to put in a few ...

TheNAPSTERofLegalEducation	07 Jan 2010 - 23:02	IanSullivan
Let's conduct a thought experiment. "If someone you loved were entering as a 1L in September of 2008, how would you help that person do better than you did?" Pretend ...

TheNameOfThePilotIForgot	02 Apr 2016 - 23:18	CharlesRoper
CasidheMcClone 01 Apr 2016 Didn't do much research, but I did clear some stuff up. The name of the pilot who flies Yossarian's plane, and one of Yossarian's better ...

ThePursuitOfHappiness	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
I had about half a paper written before class on Tuesday when something was brought up that seemed to conflict with some of the basic assumptions of my thesis. Talking ...

TheRichAreWalkingAway	13 Jan 2012 - 23:28	IanSullivan
Defaulters on Mortgages Are the Rich by David Streitfeld, New York Times, July 8, 2010 It seemed apt to post this article that just came out, given that it relates ...

TheRisksAStateOfMind	11 Jan 2010 - 16:56	IanSullivan
"Every year, I find 2 million dollars and I give it away to other people. You understand what I #8217;m trying to say about the debt? The debt #8217;s a state of ...

TheSemesterInAQuickStudentNote	07 Jan 2010 - 23:02	IanSullivan
DimiaFogam 23 May 2008 Hope everyone is enjoying thier summer. I ran across this Student Note from the Harvard Law Review and thought it was really intersting. It ...

TheSocraticMethod	10 Feb 2021 - 19:27	DesireeMoshayedi
ElizabethOsei 18 Jan 2021 I completely agree, Liz! The anxiety that is caused by the cold calls sometimes distracts me from actually absorbing the knowledge the professor ...

TheWarOnWork	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
I'm a UAW kid. For that reason I'm sure it isn't coincidental that Rowe, host of the television show Jobs, has always been a source of constant fascination for me ...

TheWireHamsterdam	07 Jan 2010 - 23:03	IanSullivan
So I know everyone is busy with finals but I wanted to see people's reaction to this. This past term I got into the HBO series "The Wire" and ended up watching the ...

TheiPad	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
NonaFarahnik 05 Apr 2010 My dad has never made the effort to be fluent in anything more than basic technology. When he wants music on his iPod he asks me or one of ...

TheodorBrueningFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
Inconspicuous Consumption By TheodorBruening 27 Feb 2009 Introduction Veblen argues that the ruling superior leisure class distinguishes itself through wasteful ...

TheodorBrueningIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
Born German, European by choice, I have studied in Oxford, England and Regensburg, Germany. After completing my law degree in England, I worked in a law firm in Los ...

TheodorBrueningSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
The original paper can be found here. #8220;When we put people who murder other people in prisons #8211; where, believe me, many of them, indeed, do belong #8211 ...

TheodorBrueningThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
The Docile Masses By TheodorBruening 22 Apr 2009 Everyone #8217;s a Realist Are you being manipulated? Are the media, culture and current Zeitgeist destroying ...

TheodoreSmith-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:08	IanSullivan
Moral Distance and Procedural Legal Systems By TheodoreSmith 21 May 2008 Note: This is not so much a rewrite as it is an entirely new paper. I interpreted Eben ...

TheodoreSmith-SecondPaper	21 Jan 2009 - 22:52	IanSullivan
The Role of Grades in Law Firm Hiring By TheodoreSmith 23 May 2008 Table of Contents Introduction Law school grades are generally understood to be one of the ...

TheodoreSmithLCSPaper1	09 Feb 2008 - 00:40	TheodoreSmith
Topic: If we accept the eventual conclusion of Frank's reasoning, that the human role as truth decider ultimately forecloses the possibility of a consistent system ...

ThirdPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:49	IanSullivan
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Third Paper will create a page named ThirdPaper2013 ...

ThirdPaper2013	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Third Paper will create a page named ThirdPaper2013 ...

ThomasLiuFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 19:11	ThomasLiu
How to be Creative as Law Students By ThomasLiu 28 Feb 2020 As a human being, I naturally get satisfaction from being creative. Whether it is playing a drum solo ...

ThomasVanceFirstEssay	31 May 2022 - 23:38	ThomasVance
Con textual, not stitutional, Law By ThomasVance 11 Mar 2022 Section I: The Commerce Clause Introduction #8220;The Congress shall have Power #8230;To regulate ...

ThomasVanceIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 18:09	ThomasVance
Personal Introduction By ThomasVance 18 Jan 2022 I came to law school because Black people are dying. Prior to CLS, I learned and understood that change does not ...

ThomasVanceSecondEssay	01 Jun 2022 - 05:58	ThomasVance
Drop the Dichotomies, Peep the Practice By ThomasVance 26 Apr 2022 Introduction First year law students become all too familiar with categorizing justices and ...

ThoughtsOnCohenAndHolmes	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
Law, Holmes says, is #8220;the prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, nothing more and nothing less #8221;. That's not ...

ThoughtsOnCommunity	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
I thought Michael D. made a series of great observations in his entry, "Selflessness is Overrated," under WinningTheLottery. In particular, I thought it might be ...

ThoughtsOnConLaw	27 Mar 2015 - 23:57	RobertoRivera2
Random Thoughts Inspired By: #8220;Constitutional Equality #8221;, #8220;Affirmative Action #8221;, and The Fiction of #8220;Reverse Racism #8221; We fight ...

ThoughtsonHolmesCalabresi	30 Jan 2009 - 04:30	EbenMoglen
KahlilWilliams 27 Jan 2009 In the Path of the Law, Justice Holmes distills the calculation of damages in tort law down to a calculation of #8220;how far it is desirable ...

TiffanyKIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I grew up in New York, but sometimes I get tired of the do or die mentality. I'm not a fan of the morning commute, but I do appreciate a 24/7 public transportation ...

TiffanyKSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Our Lady of Sorrows By TiffanyK 17 May 2012 One of the main takeaways of the course has been to view law as a weak form of social control, especially when compared ...

TiffanyYoungFirstEssay	07 Jun 2017 - 06:39	TiffanyYoung
Trains By TiffanyYoung 31 May 2017 As I make my daily commute to work, I can #8217;t help but notice a parallel between the train system and my professional path ...

TiffanyYoungSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 02:59	TiffanyYoung
A Good Lawyer By TiffanyYoung 07 Jun 2017 Legal Education vs. Legal Practice What drew me to law school was not the promise of a legal career, but law school ...

TimelySubmissionOfGrades	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Days after we finished our finals we received the following email from the Dean of our law school which I am reposting here: Congratulations on finishing your exams ...

ToBeAGoodLawyer	07 Jan 2010 - 23:03	IanSullivan
"It takes two things to be a good lawyer: you have to know exactly what you want and you have to know exactly how to get it." Brevity is the soul of wit, but it often ...

TobinKassaFirstEssay	21 May 2023 - 18:50	EbenMoglen
#8220;It #8217;s your exam, you can write it perfectly #8221; By TobinKassa Original 18 Feb 2023, Revised 1 May 2023 I always lead with the fact that I am a first ...

TobinKassaSecondEssay	21 May 2023 - 22:10	EbenMoglen
My Law School Legacy By TobinKassa Original, 06 Apr 2023, Revised 02 May 2023 When I decided to pursue a legal education, I lead with the mindset that my relationship ...

ToddDensenFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:54	MarkDrake
Capitalizing on Knowledge and Education By ToddDensen 13 Mar 2015 The Functional Reality of Law School What function does law school play? Is it to educate the ...

ToddDensenIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:30	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By ToddDensen 30 Jan 2015 I came to law school because I was fascinated by the interaction between law, justice, and morality. I primarily ...

TomaLivshizFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
How I Learned to Stop Worry and Accept that Law is a Weak Form of Social Control By TomaLivshiz 16 Feb 2012 #8220;Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial ...

TomaLivshizIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Toma's Introduction! I was born in Russia, but have spent my whole life in Michigan. While I am not a comrade, I can rock a solid Russian accent when asked. Vestiges ...

TomaLivshizSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Slave Mentality: Where Choice is Key, but Choices are Shackles By TomaLivshiz 03 May 2012 Thin Market For Freedom Last year, I spent Passover visiting a friend ...

TomasPalaciosIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:30	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By TomasPalacios 29 Jan 2015 My motivation for getting into Law School came from seeing small part of the law in action. When I was in high ...

TonbaraEkiyorFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:54	MarkDrake
The Superiority of the Do Gooder By TonbaraEkiyor 31 Mar 2015 Introduction Who knows why most people decide to do #8216;good work #8217;? The more important ...

TonbaraEkiyorIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:32	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By TonbaraEkiyor 30 Jan 2015 I used to research economic policy in small oil producing developing countries, and make periodic recommendations ...

TonbaraEkiyorSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:55	MarkDrake
Why Are There No Polling Stations in Prisons? By TonbaraEkiyor 01 Jun 2015 Introduction Over 2.4 million Americans cannot vote during elections because they ...

TonyWangFirstEssay	01 Jun 2024 - 00:12	TonyWang
Jealousy in Friendships By TonyWang 31 May 2024 The Problem People can become jealous of their friends when good fortune befalls them. I fall short in this regard ...

TonyWangSecondEssay	01 Jun 2024 - 01:51	TonyWang
Canada #8217;s Online Streaming Act: Promoting Canada Through Censorship By TonyWang 15 Apr 2024 Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives ...

TorieRecaldeFirstEssay	18 Apr 2016 - 19:16	TorieRecalde
Campaign Finance Post McCutcheon: A Desperate and Naive Hope By TorieRecalde 18 Apr 2016 Ideals Acquired and Quickly Dashed Prior to law school, I spent several ...

TortureAndWholeProof	22 Jan 2009 - 02:28	IanSullivan
This article relates to Eben's point regarding torture/confession as an element of establishing proof in other law systems. The focus in on the Japanese practice ...

ToughLovePedagogy	07 Jan 2010 - 23:03	IanSullivan
The Relative Wisdom of Tough Love Pedagogy Consider the following hypothetical: Imagine a student in our class who has followed the Ivy League track his whole life ...

TragedyOfTheANTI-COMMONSOfLawyers	14 Jan 2015 - 22:05	IanSullivan
As i took a 6 hour train to upstate new york this weekend, I had a lot of time to ponder my property readings from this semester. Then, I had an idea which I immediately ...

TragedyOfTheANTICOMMONSOfLawyers	07 Jan 2010 - 23:03	IanSullivan
As i took a 6 hour train to upstate new york this weekend, I had a lot of time to ponder my property readings from this semester. Then, I had an idea which I immediately ...

TrevorGopnikFirstEssay	10 Jun 2016 - 02:14	TrevorGopnik
In the first draft of this essay I set out to show that a method of constitutional interpretation primarily associated with conservative justices was flat out wrong ...

TrevorGopnikSecondEssay	10 Jun 2016 - 02:41	TrevorGopnik
#8220;It #8217;s become a freelance business, in essence #8212;that #8217;s what it is. #8221; The U.S. housing market suffers from multiple personality nondisorder ...

TristonFergusonFirstEssay	25 May 2023 - 00:44	TristonFerguson
God Does Not Make Mistakes? "God makes no mistakes," my grandmother would fervently remind me whenever doubts about His actions clouded my mind. But on February 4 ...

TristonFergusonSecondEssay	25 May 2023 - 01:25	TristonFerguson
Embracing Faith, Unity, and Consultation: Forging My Future Law Practice By TristonFerguson 14 Apr 2023 In the wake of my father's passing, I found solace and ...

TrophyWives	07 Jan 2010 - 22:57	IanSullivan
I wonder whether Veblen #8217;s concept of the trophy wives is outdated. Today, there seems to be many wealthy married women that continue to work despite not #8220 ...

TruthfulnessAndCourage	17 Mar 2021 - 17:13	EbenMoglen
Truthfulness and Courage What people think about "lawyers" isn't what matters to us. We are becoming lawyers, the ones we want to be. Observing and learning from ...

TuneIn	17 Apr 2010 - 14:44	NonaFarahnik
I have a much larger post I was going to debut with (an extensive and substantive revision to my curt first posting), but I guess I'll throw this out there. I'm pretty ...

TwikiGuestFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
If you have reached this page, you attempted to use the FirstPaper2010 page creation link without logging in. Please log in and try again. IanSullivan 27 Feb 2009 ...

TwikiSkill	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
TwikiSkill Proficiency in using the "Twiki" medium. RonMazor 14 Jan 2010

TwinTowersCorrectionalFacility	20 Jul 2010 - 07:40	NonaFarahnik
NonaFarahnik 20 Jul 2010 Past my bedtime. Stream of consciousness. How should our society treat a guy who sliced up his roommates and then ate them? A man who would ...

TwoSpacesAfterAPeriod	04 Jun 2012 - 04:45	HarryKhanna
Two Spaces After a Period The Chicago Manual of Style says that one space should be used after a period between two sentences. But Daniel Chung's LPW instructor says ...

TyCarletonFirstEssay	31 May 2017 - 02:06	TyCarleton
Social Media #8217;s Effect on Attitudes Toward Free Speech on College Campuses By TyCarleton 30 May 2017 There is a burgeoning trend in the belief systems of ...

TylerConwayFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Moving Backwards on the Path to Law In his lecture, The Path to Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. combats the view that law is simply "a system of reason that is a deduction ...

TylerConwayIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I was an English major (creative writing) at Fairfield University. I was out of college four years before starting at Columbia. I worked mostly as a federal consultant ...

TylerCopeFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:55	MarkDrake
Patent law is a huge problem that faces our society faces. While most people merely accept that patents are a part of our lives, a select group of people are abusing ...

TylerCopeIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:33	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By TylerCope 30 Jan 2015 I came to law school because I wanted to learn to be an advocate for those who did not have a voice in the legal ...

TylerCopeSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:55	MarkDrake
In this day and age we are seeing events happening that were absolutely not possible as recent as 25 years ago. These are entrepreneurs getting extremely rich very ...

UchechiAmadiFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Problem With 'Striking It Big' By UchechiAmadi 27 Feb 2009, Revised 18 April 2009 I. Introduction Born in the South, raised ...

UchechiAmadiIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
In some ways you could say I came for mentorship. Not only to be trained to be a stronger advocate and resilient leader for those in my community back home but to ...

UchechiAmadiSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:29	IanSullivan
Courtroom 12B: An Observation of Federal Sentencing in a Post Booker Era Originally "Courtroom 12B" By XinpingZhu 22 Feb 2009 Revised by: Uchechi Amadi I. ...

UchechiAmadiThirdPaper	07 Jan 2010 - 22:56	IanSullivan
Segregation Through Space: Power, Restrictive Covenants and Informal Norms Introduction In a post (world) war US, examining both institutionalized methods of segregation ...

UchennaIbekweFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:11	IanSullivan
The Advice Last semester I went to career services to get some last minute pointers on how to make my resume #8220;stand out. #8221; The woman gleaned over my resume ...

UchennaIbekweSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
On the Grade Reform Debate By AaronShepard 04 Mar 2009 Would changing the grade curve reduce stress, and increase communal willingness to work together? Would ...

UchennaIbekweThirdPaper	07 Jan 2010 - 22:52	IanSullivan
UchennaIbekwe 24 May 2009 What Are You Fighting For? This past Saturday, I attended the 16th Annual Ruth Whitehead Whaley Luncheon that was hosted by the Association ...

UdokaOkaforFirstEssay	27 Apr 2018 - 03:37	UdokaOkafor
The Law Is Not An Objective Practice, It Is A Tool Used By Those In Power To Keep Power By UdokaOkafor 01 Mar 2018 Taught To Believe That The Law Is Objective ...

UdokaOkaforSecondEssay	26 Jun 2018 - 22:40	UdokaOkafor
I Will Do Good As A Lawyer When I Learn What Good Looks Like For Me By UdokaOkafor 25 Apr 2018 I Have Always Wanted To Be A Lawyer I have always wanted to be ...

UncoveredMalcolmXSpeachFrom1961	06 Feb 2012 - 15:45	EbenMoglen
I came across story from NPR about a lost Malcolm X speech, which has recently been uncovered 50 years after it was given at Brown University. I think it is a reminder ...

UnfinishedBlurbWorkInProgress	22 Jan 2013 - 20:02	IanSullivan
The Invite You were born in a slum. You grew up in a slum. Now you want to move out of the slum, because you want your kids to grow up somewhere people don't get killed ...

UsefulFictions	07 Jan 2010 - 22:46	IanSullivan
Today I caught the last 5 minutes of the commencement speech for CLS class of 2009. I don't know who the speaker was, but he was preaching up a storm, rallying the ...

UsingHisLicense	01 Mar 2010 - 01:09	JohnSchwab
This is an interesting essay by a lawyer who graduated in 2007 into the waiting arms of unemployment. He decided to begin helping people who were deep underwater ...

ValeriaFloresFirstEssay	22 May 2021 - 13:29	EbenMoglen
Why not statehood? By ValeriaFlores 22 Feb 2021 Introduction In my last essay draft, I did not offer an explanation of why statehood would not decolonize Puerto ...

ValeriaFloresSecondEssay	22 May 2021 - 14:00	EbenMoglen
From Sundays to a Practice By ValeriaFlores 07 Apr 2021 Sundays For 20 years, I spent every Sunday at my grandmother #8217;s house. If it was a Sunday, I would ...

ValueOfUnions	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
Professor Moglen's comments about unions the other day got me thinking that I have a natural aversion to praise for unions. In particular I have a deep seated aversion ...

VanWheelFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
A Story About Fear By VanWheel 16 Feb 2012 The Story I was walking home one night when I heard screaming. It was dark, probably later than I should have been ...

VanWheelIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
How I Decided To Go To Law School Almost everyone in my immediate family went to law school, and I was quite certain that I didn #8217;t want to because I needed to ...

VanWheelSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
An Extraordinary Man By VanWheel 16 May 2012 One of my favorite discussions in class this year was on the subject of John Brown. It didn #8217;t make me feel ...

VanessaAjaguFirstEssay	24 Apr 2018 - 22:28	VanessaAjagu
THE VOICE OF NON REASON By VanessaAjagu ONCE UPON A VOICE: Speaking my truth The look on Uncle Agu #8217;s face when I responded to his typically misogynistic joke ...

VanessaAjaguSecondEssay	29 May 2018 - 02:17	VanessaAjagu
THE HISTORY OF ME By VanessaAjagu Past Me : The Lawyer I Was Born To Be December 2006. I liked bright line rules. Be in bed by 9pm, pray before you eat, respect ...

VaultSTopLawFirmsTalk	22 Jan 2009 - 02:24	IanSullivan
ChristinaYoun 20 Feb 2008 I've looked into Vault somewhat when determining which firms to apply for this summer (not that it did me any good). What I found is that ...

VeblenAndChineseConsumerism	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
ChristinaYoun 23 Mar 2008 In Chapter 5, Veblen says that #8220;our standard of decency in expenditure, as in other ends of emulation, is set by the usage of those ...

VeblenAndEngagementRings	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
Concerning our discussion of engagement rings: if an engagement ring is used by a man to vicariously demonstrate his wealth through his soon to be wife, does the same ...

VeblenAndEngagementRingsII	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
ChristinaYoun 29 Mar 2008 I think the topic of engagement rings is particularly interesting when discussing Veblen because engagement rings are not like other commodities ...

VeblenAndRobinson	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
We discussed yesterday how a law firm that is decorated as if it never loses a case often is a self fulfilling prophecy. Why doesn't the same thing apply to dress ...

VeblenIfYouGiveAMouseACookie	17 Apr 2010 - 14:48	NonaFarahnik
Did you ever think capitalism might end because it was too #8230; successful ? Veblen offers this possibility. Specifically, Veblen seems to define capitalism as ...

VeblenTopics	17 Apr 2010 - 14:48	NonaFarahnik
An index for all the various Veblen discussion topics that have come up. if you make new ones, just make sure to put this page as the parent topic and they will automatically ...

VeblenWantsTalk	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
Veblen argues, referring to man's affection for a tidy and well kept house, that "the effects are pleasing to us chiefly because we have been taught to find them pleasing ...

VeblenandStuff	18 Apr 2010 - 18:34	JonathanWaisnor
NonaFarahnik 06 Apr 2010 Miranda is the editor of Vogue . Andy is her assistant. This is from The Devil Wears Prada . Miranda Priestly: Miranda and some assistants ...

VelenWuFirstEssay	20 Apr 2025 - 23:47	EbenMoglen
Capitalizing the Womb: Exploitation of Reproductive Labor through Healthcare By VelenWu 19 Feb 2025 I. Reproductive Labor as Capital A woman #8217;s reproductive ...

VendarrylJenkinsFirstEssay	27 Apr 2018 - 04:03	VendarrylJenkins
Beasts of the Law By VendarrylJenkins 01 Mar 2018 Law: Good or Bad When I first began to learn about law, it was presented in terms of justice. There was the ...

VendarrylJenkinsSecondEssay	29 May 2018 - 12:09	EbenMoglen
Learning Who I Don't Want to Be By VendarrylJenkins 27 Apr 2018 Conversation That Got the Wheels Turning The lawyer, and more importantly the person that I want ...

VictoriaRamosQueneauFirstEssay	03 Jun 2020 - 15:25	EbenMoglen
Borderphobia: Humor and Legal Translation By VictoriaRamosQueneau 28 Feb 2020 Example on the border Know your audience; a key axiom for successfully executing ...

VishalA-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:08	IanSullivan
Creative Lawyering in Tulia, Texas On July 23, 1999, 46 individuals were arrested in Tulia, Texas, for allegedly selling various amounts of cocaine to an undercover ...

VishalAIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:24	IanSullivan
After learning about massive impediments to reform in India while doing research on ethnic violence, I decided to study law rather than political science because I ...

WaderBiermannGermanProtest	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
Wader West German protest singer we heard singing the Internationale today Biermann East German protest singer and exiled by Honecker No, this confuses ...

WalkerNewellFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:12	IanSullivan
Make a Choice By WalkerNewell 17 Apr 2009 Introduction A law student, Ruth, is at the start of her 3L year, trying to decide whether to accept an offer from the ...

WalkerNewellIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
WalkerNewell 21 Jan 2009 I hope to learn better self discipline and work ethic in law school. Ideally, I would like to develop far more effective work habits, especially ...

WalkerNewellSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
WalkerNewell 11 Apr 2009 LEFF, LAWYERING, AND LAW SCHOOL Originally by Will King Intro In the conclusion of Swindling and Selling, Arthur Leff proposes a model ...

WalkerNewellThirdPaper	20 Sep 2009 - 20:34	EbenMoglen
After reading Daniel Margolskee's first paper a week ago, I realized that my third paper covers almost the exact same ground. Therefore, I've written a new one to ...

WalkingAway	17 Apr 2010 - 19:07	NonaFarahnik
David Streitfield, Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away , New York Times, February 2, 2010 I saw the above in the New York Times and figured this would be a good ...

WardBenson-FirstPaper	12 Jan 2009 - 23:08	IanSullivan
Does Sharia Have a Place in the British Legal System? By WardBenson 14 Feb 2008 When the Archbishop of Canterbury claimed that it is #8220;unavoidable #8221; ...

WardBenson-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:25	IanSullivan
WardBenson 04 Apr 2008 A Modest Proposal: Smile A police officer I know once complained about animosity towards cops in the community. What especially bothered him ...

WardBensonIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:25	IanSullivan
WardBenson 19 Jan 2008 Like some who have already posted, my decision to come to law school was in many ways more about preserving options than choosing a specific ...

WatchThisIfYouHaveTheTime	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
JessicaCohen 26 Feb 2010 Oscar nominated Short film called "Logorama." IP violations are hilarious. And it's really, really good. Before it's taken down! Quick ...

WeAreAllKin	10 Mar 2010 - 14:56	DevinMcDougall
NonaFarahnik 25 Feb 2010 Since I started this Talk page and I get to edit everyone's stuff pretty soon, I have some sort of power over what goes on here. As such, ...

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WendyCaiFirstEssay	28 May 2016 - 16:36	EbenMoglen
Evaluating Happiness: Rejecting Cognitive Dissonance in Law School The Rationalization Since beginning law school, I #8217;ve constantly been asked, #8220;How is ...

WendyCaiSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 20:33	WendyCai
Blameless By WendyCai 15 Apr 2016 Survival. Insanity. Ambition. Ignorance. Biology. All of these are explanations for human behaviors. Based on a reason, we excuse ...

WendyFrancoisFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
Seams Illogical By WendyFrancois 26 Feb 2010 We are often told that going to law school will not teach us how to be a lawyer . It will teach us how to think like ...

WendyFrancoisSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
Hey Wendy, Thanks for this really informative piece. I was aware of the international relief effort, but wasn't aware of the criticism levied upon American forces ...

WendyHuangIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:26	IanSullivan
I came to law school after a few years in finance because I thought it would teach me a valuable skill set that opened a wide variety of doors. While my work as an ...

WenweiLaiFirstPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:14	IanSullivan
The Use of Foreign Sources in Supreme Court Decisions: Why Is It an Issue Today? By WenweiLai 25 Feb 2010 After 2002, suddenly justification is needed for the ...

WenweiLaiIntro	13 Jan 2012 - 23:19	IanSullivan
As Charles Dickens said in Oliver Twist, "The law is an ass." I'm here trying to disprove it. However, it's like quantum physics: the harder you try to disprove it ...

WenweiLaiSecondPaper	13 Jan 2012 - 23:34	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

WestlawKiller	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
Ok maybe not, but has anyone used Google Scholar to search for legal opinions? It's still quite primitive, but it has "how cited" similar to shepard's and keycite ...

WhatAreWeGainingFromLawSchool	01 Feb 2021 - 18:01	OliviaMartinez
Hi everyone, I wanted to create this topic to ask what ARE we gaining from law school? Professor Moglen's brief discussion in the class audio regarding our lack of ...

WhatCanWeDoWithThisIdea	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
We are continually asked this question but I am increasingly unsure of what can be done with "the idea." Is the question merely asking what kind of understanding can ...

WhatILearnedFromJoeStack	17 Apr 2010 - 14:50	NonaFarahnik
As Eben so quietly pointed out in class, it is easy to damn Joe Stack. Flying an airplane into a building and killing someone is wrong. Was Joe Stack a bad person ...

WhatKindOfLawyerDoIWantToBe	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
A bad lawyer can achieve results under perfect conditions. A mediocre lawyer can triumph under good conditions. My kind of lawyer can realize justice under the worst ...

WhateverHappenedToDarfur	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
Whatever Happened to Darfur? Just a topic that #8217;s been on my mind. Simply because it #8217;s no longer in the popular media doesn #8217;t mean the problem is ...

WhenIHeardTheLearndAstronomer	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
Walt Whitman (1819 #8211;1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. When I heard the Learn #8217;d Astronomer WHEN I heard the learn #8217;d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures ...

WhenTheEmptinessSwallowsYouWhole	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
So I found this article "When the Emptiness Swallows You" on abovethelaw.com today. It was written by a former big firm lawyer who went to NYU law school and now is ...

WhichWasteToDispatch	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
Our discussion about Veblen and conspicuous waste reminded me of this article, which ran before things started to get really bad on Wall Street. Are these lifestyle ...

WhiteSupremacyAndIndividualPsychology	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
In today's lecture, we discussed the distinction between white supremacy and racism. In doing so, we made the distinction between institutionalized perception of ...

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WhitneyLeeSecondEssay	19 Apr 2020 - 05:01	WhitneyLee

WhoSReallyToBlame	22 Jan 2013 - 20:05	IanSullivan
On Sunday, June 10, I, along with the thousands of other University of Virginia graduates, received a cryptic e mail announcing the dismissal of the university president ...

WhyArePeopleAfraidOfTalkingAboutRape	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
When we went over rape in our criminal law class, I made a comment about the role gender plays in our society in determining the definition of "rape". While I still ...

WhyChooseCLSoverPublic	07 Jan 2010 - 22:47	IanSullivan
Note: This is a new topic that originated here. KeithEdelman 30 Mar 2009 I would like to address the issue regarding the following inquiry: "Prof. Moglen today ...

WhyICareAboutGrades	17 Apr 2010 - 14:59	NonaFarahnik
After our discussion on Thursday I thought it would be helpful to explain why I care so much about my grades. Grades have caused me a tremendous amount of #8220 ...

WhyIWillNeverPawnMyLicense	29 Apr 2010 - 21:09	JohnAlbanese
In 2007, I worked for John Edwards for President in New Hampshire as a Field Organizer. I decided to work for him because I believed in the causes that he was promoting ...

WhyTableMannersExist	26 Feb 2015 - 18:37	IsaacLara
Why Do Table Manners Exist? Luke Reilly said in LukeReillyIntro, "I want to learn the reasons that legal structures and rules and decisions exist. I want to understand ...

WhyThreeBulletPointsOnAPieceOfPaperAndSilenceMayNotWork	17 Apr 2010 - 14:42	NonaFarahnik
So by now, many of you have probably heard of Mr. Chuck. Mr. Chuck is a 3L at NYU Law School. He has been referred to as #8220;Rosencrantz #8221; on Abovethelaw.com ...

WhyYouShouldVotePassFail	03 Apr 2025 - 17:27	SophiaDalldorf
Why You Should Vote "Yes" to Make This Class P/F Written By A Concerned Classmate Dear Fellow Classmates, In light of our vote, I want to take a moment to encourage ...

WhytneBrooks-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:26	IanSullivan
Maybe Med School Is Less Suffocating? I finally get it. I wish someone would have told me that when I accepted a seat at Columbia Law School, I would be assigned my ...

WhytneBrooksIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:26	IanSullivan
The joke in my family was that I should go to law school so I could defend my cousin, who is a surgeon, when she gets sued for malpractice. I never took it as more ...

WillDamarjianFirstEssay	22 Apr 2025 - 15:15	EbenMoglen
Disciplinary Pedagogy By WillDamarjian 20 Feb 2025 #8220;A relation of surveillance, defined and regulated, is inscribed at the heart of the practice of teaching ...

WilliamCoombsFirstEssay	29 May 2016 - 12:44	EbenMoglen
Ali in Wonderland By WilliamCoombs 19 Feb 2016 #8220;Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they #8217 ...

WilliamCoombsSecondEssay	13 Jun 2016 - 02:02	WilliamCoombs
I DON #8217;T OWN A WATCH The need for external validation seems to be an important component of a lot of the internal conflicts with which I struggle. For example ...

WilliamDavidWilliamsFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Angel Eyes By WilliamDavidWilliams 24 Apr 2012 Introduction The United States #8217; pledge of allegiance proclaims #8220;with liberty and justice for all. ...

WilliamDavidWilliamsIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I want the best of what the world has to offer. It therefore frustrates me that we have not been trained better in law school classes thus far. Maybe my best decision ...

WilliamDavidWilliamsSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Continuation Chronicles By WilliamDavidWilliams 25 Apr 2012 Why Chronicle Now? Martha Tharaud and John Brown both passed the imagination test. With courageous ...

WilliamKingFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:12	IanSullivan
Leff, Lawyering and Law School Second Revision Intro In the conclusion of Swindling and Selling , Arthur Leff offers his opinion about how lawyers think and what ...

WilliamKingINTRO	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
I came to law school hoping that by learning the law, I would acquire a better understanding of how our society functions and other principles of human nature. After ...

WilliamKingSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
Reforming the U.S. Penal System Originally by Keith Edelman 19 Apr 2009 Introduction #8220;How about, gangs of murders, rapist, drug addicts, and machine #8212 ...

WilliamKingThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:44	IanSullivan
Life After the Storm By WilliamKing 14 May 2009 Intro When Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the United States she made her presence known. Why ...

WilliamKunstler	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
I think I mentioned this in an earlier post, but I'm working for the General Counsel at ORG for the summer. One sort of happy accident of my interning here is that ...

WilliamOmorogievaFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 17:10	WilliamOmorogieva
Civility is dead. Anger is alive and we must use it to our advantage. We live in a nation that claims to be the pinnacle of democracy and a model to the rest ...

WilliamOmorogievaSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 04:02	WilliamOmorogieva
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

WilliamToddFirstEssay	26 Apr 2025 - 12:50	EbenMoglen
Crossing Borders: The Failures of Immigration in the United States and Australia By WilliamTodd 19 Feb 2025 The current state of immigration in the United States ...

WinningTheLottery	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
Today, in the midst of the broader discussion of the Arnold reading, Professor Moglen talked about #8220;winning the lottery #8221;. I #8217;ve thought about this ...

WomenInThisBusiness	13 Jan 2012 - 23:32	IanSullivan
When we were discussing Cerriere's Answer today, I thought Jessica brought up an interesting point about how women sometimes worry that they come across as "too ...

WookJinChungFirstEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 20:56	MarkDrake
Next Generation Law Firms. By WookJinChung 18 May 2015 Disruptive force: unhappy lawyers. Innovation disrupts the established order at a fundamental level. Large ...

WookJinChungIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:33	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By WookJinChung 29 Jan 2015 I decided to pursue legal education to broaden my understanding of how societies operate and to develop my own ...

WookJinChungSecondEssay	29 Jun 2015 - 21:56	MarkDrake
Modern form of slavery: undocumented immigrant workers Nothing was said in this piece that justifies the title. If you mean to retain it, you should show it is ...

WyattLittlesFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
Vested Interests and the Perpetuation of American Aristocracy: Capitalism, the Courts, and Criminal Justice Capitalism and It's Consequences The criminal justice ...

WyattLittlesIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
My name is Wyatt Littles, and I #8217;m from Dallas Texas. I chose to come to law school for two reasons. First, I think the type of work I enjoyed doing while in ...

WyattLittlesSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Occupying the Grey Space By WyattLittles 09 Apr 2013 Where We've Been and Where We're Going Our pasts lay the foundation for our future. Having hit the ovarian ...

XavierSanchezFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Doing Justice By XavierSanchez 16 Feb 2012 Doing Justice Justice is something we do. The idea of absolute justice being within human capacity is a claim that ...

XavierSanchezIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
I think things work better when more people participate. Institutions wither when people think that there should be a few people who are participants and the rest ...

XavierSanchezSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
McDonaldization at the UFW By XavierSanchez 20 May 2012 In my last semester of college, I was nine units short of the 120 required to graduate. I registered ...

XinpingZhuFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:12	IanSullivan
Courtroom 12B By XinpingZhu 22 Feb 2009 On Friday morning, I visited Courtroom 12B in the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse at Foley Square. The ...

XinpingZhuIntro	07 Jan 2010 - 22:50	IanSullivan
XinpingZhu 26 Jan 2009 I came to law school to understand the role that law plays in our society. I am also interested in the comparison of different societies and ...

XinpingZhuSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:29	IanSullivan
What Can a Government Legal Career Offer? An Insider #8217;s View Originally By PetefromOz 26 Feb 2009 I worked as a government lawyer for several years in Australia ...

XinpingZhuThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
Abudallah Karim Speaks: An interview with the Somali pirate turned law student Julian Preston April 11, 2019 This past Friday is the ten year anniversary of the ...

XochitlRodriguezFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
What Type of Lawyer I'm Becoming, and Taking Steps... By XochitlRodriguez 8 April 2013 THE IDEAL As a lawyer, I see myself as someone who is independent and ...

XochitlRodriguezIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I came to law school looking for a career, one that would both challenge me and effect positive social change in some way. I thought law school ...

XochitlRodriguezSecondPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
CALIFORNIA'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE CRISIS THE PROBLEM The public education system in California is among the lowest ranking in the nation. One of the many symptoms of ...

XyzloLeeFirstEssay	28 Feb 2020 - 19:42	XyzloLee
Creativity Inside and Outside the Law School By XyzloLee 28 Feb 2020 Counseling Like many of my peers, I came to law school without a plan to practice in a specific ...

YaNIntro	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Before law school, I studied philosophy and creative writing in a suburb off the capital of the Midwest. I came to law school as a risk averse ...

YaeAhnPark-SecondPaper	22 Jan 2009 - 02:26	IanSullivan
The Overdue Abolishment of Hojuje Shouldn't that be "abolition"? YAP: Abolishment's definition is "the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution ...

YaeahnParkIntro	22 Jan 2009 - 02:26	IanSullivan
Law seemed to be the culmination of everything I was interested in. I have always been interested in the way society works: how people interact, how they set the rules ...

YaseenMozaffarIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 13:52	YaseenMozaffar
Personal Introduction Hi folks, I'm Yaseen. My academic background is in economics and data science, and I have professional experience in the fields of education ...

YashShahIntro	29 Jun 2015 - 21:34	MarkDrake
Personal Introduction It seems that choice and identity are increasingly structured by market processes. But it only seems that way. I want law school to ...

YashShahSecondEssay	22 Sep 2016 - 11:32	YashShah

YejinHanIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
My ultimate goal in coming to law school was be able to help others in more concrete ways. I served for many years in local organizations dedicated to helping immigrants ...

YejinJennyHanFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:12	IanSullivan
Legal Education in Secondary Schools By YejinJennyHan 27 Feb 2009 Introduction My family was involved in a lawsuit several years ago. We were new to America and ...

YejinJennyHanSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
I made an assumption that the author wanted to focus on prenuptial agreement, which I found most interesting in his original paper. I also disagreed with the author ...

YinanZhangFirstPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:12	IanSullivan
The Institution of Monogamous Marriage and Alternatives By YinanZhang 18 Apr 2009 Introduction The institution of monogamous marriage has an undeniably overwhelming ...

YinanZhangIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
YinanZhang 20 Jan 2009 YinanZhang 20 Jan 2009 I've been intrigued by the legal system ever since high school, during which I became closely involved with the legal ...

YinanZhangSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
Institutional Creeds, Cons, and Making Choices for Life By Yinan Zhang, revising Kevin Chang's 1st paper People are not truly making decisions Living in the U.S ...

YinanZhangThirdPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:43	IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...

YiqingShiSecondEssay	08 Jun 2017 - 04:01	YiqingShi
My Fifth Year of Law School By YiqingShi 08 Jun 2017 I only half chose law. On my college application, my choices of major in order were Economics, Law, English ...

YoungKimFirstPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:15	IanSullivan
The Illusion of Diversity and the Role of the Ethnic Interest Group By YoungKim 15 Apr 2009 Driven by ranking methodologies that score schools based on the amount ...

YoungKimIntro	08 Jan 2010 - 17:26	IanSullivan
YoungKim 16 Jan 2009 % During the 1L elective selection process, I decided on this class on the promise that it would empower me to do the things I had set out to ...

YoungKimSecondPaper	08 Jan 2010 - 22:28	IanSullivan
Smoke and Mirrors: Law as a Medium for Social Change By YoungKim 17 Apr 2009 As a reporter at an English newspaper in Korea, I often felt frustrated when my articles ...

YoungKimThirdPaper	14 Jan 2015 - 22:23	IanSullivan
Legal Realism and the Criminal Code By YoungKim 29 May 2009 The American penal code has been hailed as a model of objective fairness, projecting consistency across ...

YoungLawyersAndTrialAndError	13 Jan 2012 - 23:33	IanSullivan
My favorite way to lean is by trial and error. The problem I see is that as a lawyer it will be my clients who suffer the effects of the errors, not me. One of the ...

YuruiWuFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 13:54	EbenMoglen
Fascist Superpowers: China Today, America Tomorrow? By YuruiWu 20 Feb 2025 Sometime in the earlier stages of the first Trump presidency, I would often say to my ...

YvetteFerrerFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Teen Court By YvetteFerrer 16 Feb 2012. Edited 29 April 2012 I would like to hear your comments and have a chance to edit this again. Thank you Memory In high ...

YvetteFerrerIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I grew up in Dallas before moving to Los Angeles to attend college at the University of Southern California. I double majored in political science ...

YvetteFerrerSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Imperfections and Dystopia By YvetteFerrer 22 May 2012 Intro Throughout the semester, we have discussed the ways that structures handed down to us impede our ...

ZachBlumyFirstEssay	01 Jun 2017 - 05:21	ZachBlumy
A Tale of Three Cities By ZachBlumy 1 Jun 2017 Note: The headings for this essay's sections link to songs that should be played while one reads. "Subdivisions ...

ZachBlumySecondEssay	07 Jun 2017 - 07:07	ZachBlumy
Musing By ZachBlumy 07 Jun 2017 Doldrums I #8217;m always stuck in the slow lane And when I change, the traffic #8217;s following me And I don #8217;t ...

ZanderWeissFirstEssay	09 Jun 2016 - 14:45	EbenMoglen
All of the Laws are Wrong We proceed from bad premises. There are roughly 320 million Americans. Our representative government purports to represent the population ...

ZanderWeissSecondEssay	12 Apr 2016 - 03:31	ZanderWeiss
The Seventeenth One last step completes the picture This, the seventeenth. Fill out all the jagged borders. Color empty. Back to tonic. Pull the shade in this, the ...

ZanderWeissThirdPaper2013	13 Jun 2016 - 05:42	ZanderWeiss
ADDENDUM, PROLOGUE And when the dust finally settled And we all settled into our addled peculiarities, I realized I had finished early. I took a moment for myself ...

ZaneMullerFirstEssay	12 Jun 2018 - 19:52	ZaneMuller
Controlling Workers in the Platform Economy I. The Rise of Worker Misclassification While the numbers are contested, the last two decades have seen the arrival and ...

ZaneMullerSecondEssay	31 May 2018 - 18:23	EbenMoglen
The Kind of Lawyer I Want To Be By ZaneMuller 26 Apr 2018 I. Why I Came to Law School I #8217;ve spent most of my academic life coasting, although that changed ...

ZeHailuFirstPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION By ZeHailu 14 May 2012 Although the current debate over #8220;illegal immigration #8221; in America is often ostensibly portrayed ...

ZeHailuIntro	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Ze Emanuel Hailu. My parents met while my mother was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia. I was born and grew up in the Washington ...

ZeHailuSecondPaper	22 Jan 2013 - 20:10	IanSullivan
KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT, AND EXACTLY HOW TO GET IT By ZeHailu 14 May 2012 During the course of the semester, I #8217;ve reflected a lot on the insight Thurgood ...

ZebulunJohnsonFirstEssay	16 May 2017 - 23:17	ZebulunJohnson
Negligent Knowledge of the Law By ZebulunJohnson 19 Feb 2016 This paper assumes at least a novice understanding of the Model Penal Code #8217;s philosophy and ...

ZellyRosaFirstEssay	23 May 2022 - 21:20	TashaStatzGeary
Pop Torts: a Brief History of the Frivolous Lawsuit Moral Panic Introduction The idea of a #8220;litigation crisis #8221; in America has been largely accepted as ...

ZellyRosaIntro	18 Jan 2022 - 02:46	ZellyRosa
Personal Introduction By ZellyRosa 18 Jan 2022 I grew up in the bay area in California and graduated from University of Washington in 2020. My undergrad degree ...

ZongweiHuFirstEssay	27 Apr 2025 - 14:54	EbenMoglen
The Evil of Mystified Educational Metrics By ZongweiHu 21 Feb 2025 Introduction I was startled recently by the degree of attachment I felt towards grades. I tried ...