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,' ...
Combating Obama's Creed By AdamCarlis 4 April 2008 Introduction This season's Democratic primary showcased two gifted politicians, providing insight into how ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vengeance, Evolution and the Criminal Justice System By AndrewWolstan 14 Feb 2008 Evolutionary Need for Vengeance The immediate reaction to being harmed is to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 04 Apr 2008 Introduction Shielded by an expansive interpretation of wartime power, the Bush administration has ignored the law prohibiting torture ...
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 ...
ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND UTILITARIANISM By CarlForbes 14 Feb 2008 Utilitarianism focuses on the aggregate happiness or pleasure of a population. The theory considers ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Burden on Defendants: Racial Discrimination and Equal Protection in Criminal Cases In 1866, the United States added the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution ...
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 01 Apr 2008 Fashion, Copyrighting, and Society Introduction The of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has been pushing Congress to pass H.R. 5055 ...
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 ...
Veblen in Lawyerland Introduction Veblen #8217;s The Theory of the Leisure Class formalized a somewhat intuitive observation that patterns of consumption reflect ...
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 ...
REVISED/REWRITTEN. My original second paper with Eben's comments is here. Filesharing and Artist Incentives for Creating New Music By ChristopherWlach 22 May ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Class Notes I put a proposed note taking procedure at NoteTakerSignup. Take a look and comment on whether you think it's a good idea. MichaelWilles 19 Jan 2008 ...
MakalikaNaholowaa 14 Feb 2008 Moment of Silence for Absent Classmates: paper deadlines are not excuses for class absences. #8221;The Folklore of Capitalism, #8221 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Welcome Back and Upcoming Schedule Try to avoid the tension and unnecessary fear that characterizes second semester law school ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
LINK TO DISCUSSION THREAD: PhaseII QandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan OUTLINE OF LECTURE: Summing up before the final stage of this course By now, at more than ...
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 ...
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 ...
CarinaWallance 23 Jan 2008 Introductory Remarks Three words not contained in any introduction that was written: duty, responsibility, and risk (Note: write shortly ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ready for grading. Maintaining the Constitution Creed By DanielButrymowicz 12 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold argues that constitutions are #8220;fundamental ...
Ready for grading. My Leisure is More Conspicuous Than Yours! (Facebook as a Vehicle for Pecuniary Emulation) DanielButrymowicz 04 Apr 2008 Introduction The ...
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 ...
Enhancing free speech with universal broadband Internet access If you're interested in ideas like this, join SLST's trips to NYU's periodic Infolaw reading group. ...
Domain Names, Trademarks and Taxonomies Disclaimer This problem, independently conceived, was addressed in ftp://ftp.rfc editor.org/in notes/rfc2352.txt 2352. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 having an effect making ...
Is gambling a crime? By EdwardNewton 14 Feb 2008 My !PartyPoker account Considering the numerous controversial federal actions that have occurred during the Bush ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Pursuit of Wealth and the Justice System Introduction #8220;Most lawyers are like most everyone else #8211; they don #8217;t take the trouble to learn anything ...
ErikaKrystian 22 Jan 2008 I #8217;ve always been interested in people and attempting to understand what we are and why we behave the way we do. Law is particularly ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Linked from ClassNotesJan23: "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 fallacy ...
Oral Advocacy, Success Self Gratification Intro This past weekend I participated in the 2007 2008 Northeastern Black Law Students Association Fredrick Douglass ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Clicking here: Create First Paper will create a page named FirstPaper and put you ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eben made many corrections on students' papers involving number agreement. For example, "Why does everyone ignore their passions?," as opposed to, say, "Why does ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Transcendental Nonsense: The Creation and Disintegration of Abortion Rights By JaredBaumgart 11 Feb 2008 Introduction Transcendental nonsense in Roe v Wade suggests ...