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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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,' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Diverse Concepts of Diversity By AaronShepard 15 May 2009 Inspiration Racism is one response for why diversity policies exist. I must remind you again ...
Community led Educational Reform By AbbePetuchowski 18 May 2021 New programs, same issues The educational arena is saturated with organizations and think tanks ...
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 ...
Scale versus Ruler: Achieving Greater Justice through Malleable Legal Standards By AbbyCoster 15 Feb 2012 "Nature versus nurture" was coined by Francis Galton ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Unearthing Myths about Urban Education, Unveiling The Power of the Family By AbiolaFasehun 13 June 2012 Introduction There is a myth surrounding urban education ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Overlapping Local Law: Muslim Immigration and the European Legal System By AerinMiller 25 Feb 2010 I. Introduction There is a demographic revolution taking place ...
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 ...
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 ...
Discussion of statutes begins always with the statutory language. Much water has been flowed under the bridge below before Arlene even mentions the statutory ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Undocumented Students Still Barred From Higher Education By AimeePacheco 24 May 2022 Problem In 2022, undocumented students are still barred from higher education ...
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 ...
Planning My Practice By AimeePacheco 5 June 2022 The Founding #8220;Who? #8221;, #8220;What? #8221;, #8220;When? #8221;, #8220;Where? #8221; My Positionality ...
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 ...
Gay Marriage: Self herding Towards Heteronormative Sociability By AjGarcia 15 Feb 2012 Introduction Gay marriage has become the defining issue for the queer community ...
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 ...
Wasting an Opportunity: The Distraction of Results Driven Cultures in Charter Schools By AjGarcia 02 May 2012 Introduction Charter schools are no tuition primary ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Malleability of the Criminal Law Regina v. Dudley Stephens suggests the malleability of the criminal law because non legal considerations may have influenced ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Institution of Monogamous Marriage and Alternatives Original Work by YinanZhang 26 Feb 2009, Edited by AlexHu 15 Apr 2009 Introduction The institution of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personal Introduction I am interested in restricting governmental power, starting with the over criminalization of acceptable human behavior. law comes at the price ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Digital Expression and Exclusionary Rights By AlexWang 25 Apr 2012 In thinking about digital expression as intellectual #8220;property, #8221; I think there are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personal Introduction I came to law school because I find the economics of medical inventions and patents intriguing, especially because medical inventions are presumably ...
Individualized Dualism By AlexandraRex 12 May 2012 Levels of Inherent Discord Bruce Ackerman #8217;s #8220;democracy #8221; theory attempts to define and cohere ...
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 ...
Introduction "Skin color remains a vital part of private, perhaps subconscious, classification by citizens and public officials alike . . . it is deeply implicated ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reducing the High Stakes of Online Sports Gambling The 2018 Supreme Court decision in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association facilitated the rapid rise ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Circuit Split: Why Federal Courts Should Allow Sentencing Entrapment Defenses, and Exclude Sentencing Manipulation Defenses . Circuits are currently split as to whether ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personal Introduction By AminaStoneTaylor 17 Jan 2022 I graduated from CUNY Brooklyn College where I majored in philosophy. My favorite philosophy classes focused ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Distinction Without a Substance: The Market Participation Exception By AndrewCascini 24 Feb 2010 A Distinction is Made... The Commerce Power and the Dormant ...
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 ...
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 ...
Andrew, nice essay. The thought process that you describe is one that most law students can relate to, though probably only subconsciously. Incorporate whatever ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Abandoning the Ultimate Goal This essay is a revision of JasonLissyFirstPaper. Narratives as Stimulants For some students, an intricate personal narrative is crucial ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Political Psychology Authoritarianism in America By AnnieIsabel 20 Feb 2025 Section I: Introduction The threat to American democracy is often framed as a problem ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Another Lesson from John Brown By AnthonyTiberio 15 May 2012 John Brown exemplifies courage. John Brown also exemplifies unbridled courage. Fortunately, unbridled ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Law School, Detachment, and Creativity By AsherKalman 26 Feb 2020 Detachment makes space for creativity Organizations have creeds, and creeds exert pressure on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Artificial Lawyering? By AvanequePennant 20 Feb 2025 The increased prominence and capabilities of artificial intelligence in society have caused anxiety in many ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Moving Forward: Reflections on the Obama Administration and Myself By BeulahAgbabiaka 22 Apr 2016 I. Why I Cared So Much Several facts converged to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social Norms and Increasing Compliance With HOV Restrictions While Decreasing Police Enforcement By BrandonGe 26 Feb 2010, Revised 13 May 2010 The Destination ...
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 ...
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 ...
Incentivizing Corporate Diversity through Debt Finance By BrandonHolt 13 Mar 2022 Introduction When the video of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd commanded ...
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 ...
Dishonesty in Judicial Conformation Hearings By BrandonHolt 27 Apr 2022 Introduction In an April 2021 joint confirmation hearing for seats on the United States ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BrandonNesfield 20 Apr 2016 The Will to Power Nietzsche believed that in every human being existed a will to power, an inexhaustible, unshakeable instinct ...
Legal Education A Personal Reflection By BrandonReid 17 Feb 2023 Earlier this semester, I wrote a piece that demonstrated frustration towards my legal education ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Skill, Power, Fulfillment Introduction #8220;Power, skill, and fulfillment. #8221; Ever since my last minute transition from medicine into law, I have known that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Unequal Funding of Public Education and the Conventional Criticism of Affirmative Action By CMcKinney 13 Mar 2015 Arguing against Affirmative Action The Assignments ...
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 ...
Rational Actors, Where Art Thou? Ray Rice, Floyd Mayweather, and $180 million. By CMcKinney 23 May 2015 Mid May: Unconsciously Seeking Repose{{ http://moglen ...
Felony Disenfranchisement: Just, Unjust, or Just Plain Racist? By CalebGreig 16 Feb 2012 Introduction Nationwide, more than 5 million Americans who have been ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Property Rights and Transcendental Nonsense By CamilaTapernoux 16 Feb 2012 Introduction Rousseau famously said that #8220;the first man who, having enclosed ...
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 ...
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 ...
Legal Thoughts on Operation Streamline In 2005 the Department of Justice enacted Operation Streamline, and began treating undocumented entrants as felons. Operation ...
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 ...
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 ...
Some questions that might be worth pursuing that emerged from the IsBeingACorporateLawyerImmoral thread: Does society need corporate lawyers? Are the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Importance of Rationalization By CarolineElkin 19 Apr 2009 An edit of MichaelDignanFirstPaper. I. Introduction Often things happen in life which at first ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Questioning Cerriere's Answer By CarolineFerrisWhite 15 Apr 2010 Truth, Beauty, and the Law Martha Tharaud believes that "the truth will be revealed." Though ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Elder Care Reformation (ChanyoungJeongFirstEssay) By ChanyoungJeong 19 Feb 2025 The elder care policies in the United States are fundamentally flawed due to Western ...
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 ...
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 ...
How is Universal Interconnection, Implemented Through the Current Architecture, Affecting Human Society? By CharlesRoper 30 Mar 2016 There is no denying that ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rodell's Pursuance of Happiness By ChihIFang 17 Apr 2010 Introduction Felix Cohen, Jerome Frank, and Thurman Arnold #8211; all representatives of American legal ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Burden on Defendants: Racial Discrimination and Equal Protection in Criminal Cases In 1866, the United States added the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution ...
ChristopherCrismanCox 14 Jan 2010 The future promises both great change and great opportunity proportional to that change. New historical developments and new inventions ...
Expressive Manipulation of Copyrighted Media: End Product Analysis vs. Component Analysis Background and Purpose of the Paper Increasingly, artists chose to manipulate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
NEGATIVE INCENTIVES INVOLVED IN GOVERNMENT SPONSORED "SNITCHING" INTRO Informants offer substantial information as #8220;credible sources #8221; to aid authorities ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
LINK TO DISCUSSION THREAD: PhaseIIQandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan OUTLINE OF LECTURE: Summing up before the final stage of this course By now, at more than ...
MakalikaNaholowaa 14 Feb 2008 Moment of Silence for Absent Classmates: paper deadlines are not excuses for class absences. #8221;The Folklore of Capitalism, #8221 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Welcome Back and Upcoming Schedule Try to avoid the tension and unnecessary fear that characterizes second semester law school ...
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 ...
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: PhaseIIQandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan 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 ...
#### 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Revised Justifications for Nationality Based Rights and Obligations By CodyHuyan 22 Apr 2024 Introduction I am a citizen of California and smoke marijuana regularly ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Daring to Build Better Lawyers By ConnorHudson 06 Mar 2022 Introduction The Adaptable Mind: Neuroscience, Psychology, Law School When I dropped out of law ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Then and Now: Two Perspectives on our Legal System By CourtneyDoak 18 Jul 2012 A Revelation While Reading Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Becoming Unhinged By DanLEe May 19, 2021 Introduction Ludwig Wittgenstein #8217;s On Certainty was his last work, and although decidedly less famous ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ready for grading. Maintaining the Constitution Creed By DanielButrymowicz 12 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold argues that constitutions are #8220;fundamental ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Symbolism, Politics, and the Future By DanielKetani 16 Feb 2012 Politics and polytheism Thurman Arnold in #8220;The Folklore of Capitalism #8221; asserts that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Edited version of MichaelDignanFirstPaper Narrative in Legal Institutions People have a deep psychological need for convincing narratives that justify and explain ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cannibalism and the Institutionalized Ritual By DavidFrydman 14 May 2012 Capital Punishment is the Modern, "Civilized" Form of Ritualized Killing Mankind has ...
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 ...
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 ...
Conspicuous Consumption and the Law Student By DavidGarfinkel 16 Apr 2010 Conspicuous Consumption as a Useful Metaphor In The Theory of the Leisure Class , ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Return to the West By DavidKellam 31 May 2017 Our modern acceptance of online surveillance may irreversibly displace any feeling of entitlement that humankind ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forming identity through relating experience to craft By DawitAklilu 22 Feb 2021 Section I: Introduction Identity. The formative themes of our life that make ...
BLACK EROTIC LAWYERING By DayoAdeoye 21 Feb 2025 INTRODUCTION: The Inseverable Part of the Unimaginable On his 90th birthday, a journalist asked Oliver Wendell ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Weaknesses and Corruption of Macro Cost Benefit Analyses in Redistributive Policy By DesireeMoshayedi 16 May 2021 I) The Structural Issues of Cost Benefit ...
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 ...
Climate Change, Creeds, and Expertise I. A problem: Climate change is a priority justice issue There is international scientific consensus that climate change is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MikeAbend 30 Jul 2010 Another potential explanation... http://www.economist.com/node/9581656 Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption Charity is just as ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Dehumanization of Immigration Politics: An Immigrant #8217;s Perspective By EdsonSandoval 23 May 2024 The dehumanization of immigration is a prevalent issue ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Weighing the Benefits of Regulation By EliKeene 4 May 2015 Cost benefit analysis (CBA) has been the cornerstone of environmental regulatory decision making since ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Ungovernable Undisputedly, the unfolding climate crisis presents a profound challenge, not merely of technological innovation or policy implementation, but of ...
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 ...
A Brief Exploration of Courageous Lawyering By EmmaShumway 06 Apr 2021 An Introduction Despite the enduring societal value placed in courage, it is difficult ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create First Paper will create a page named FirstPaper2013 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Archived will create a page named FirstPaperSpring2012 and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Originalism, Brown v. Board, and Constitutional Repeal and Re Enactment Introduction Originalism purports to be a method of interpretation dictating that the Constitution ...
Liarland (Disclaimer: All characters described are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons or situations is purely coincidental.) By FranciscoGuzman 19 Feb ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Achievement vs. Acceptance By GabrielleStanfield 11 Mar 2022 SEEKING ACCEPTANCE My professional experiences have been profoundly impacted by my experience as ...
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 ...
Re claiming the presentation of Black Figures in Photography By GabrielleStanfield 23 Apr 2022 On Photography In her 1977 collection of essays, On Photography ...
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 ...
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 ...
Revised version of ScottThurmanFirstPaper. Teaching, coercion, examination By ScottThurman 15 Apr 2009 Revised by GavinSnyder 17 Apr 2009 Teaching and coercion ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Breaking the Mold: How Learning Pods Can Reshape Education By GhaliaAamer 23 Feb 2024 Institutionalization in Schools Personal Experience I remember walking ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Community Intervention to Curb Over Incarceration By GodardSolomon 27 Apr 2022 (second draft 30 May 2022) Foreword During my undergraduate years, I was ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Liberty and Justice For All?" By GraceKrasnerman 18 April 2016 Law as Secondary to Sociopolitical Influences Lawrence Joseph's Lawyerland provides a third ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eben made many corrections on students' papers involving number agreement. For example, "Why does everyone ignore their passions?," as opposed to, say, "Why does ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
GueinahBlaise 12 Mar 2022 Grades Shouldn't Matter, but for Marginalized Persons Trying to Achieve Career Advancement They Do Introduction: #8220;Grades don #8217 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 return to Big Law after ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
The Retrospective Component of Risk Aversion By Jason Lissy Risk aversion is a primary source of occupational inertia which manifests itself in the tendency ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By IrisAikateriniFrangou 25 Feb 2021 Exploring Arnold's Social Psychology of Organizations Through the Lens of Intrapsychic Psychology the Multiplicity of Individual ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Evolution of Dualism: From Jesus' First Delineation to Modern American Evangelical Conceptions By JackSherrick 21 Feb 2021 New Testament Origins of Dualism ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Navigating the Complexities of Gentrification: How Gentrification Shaped My Legal Aspirations By JacobLucero 24 Feb 2024 Living in a neighborhood undergoing demographic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Government, the Thinking Man, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act JamesCrowley 16 Feb 2012 Introduction In the introductory chapter of The Folklore ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Obama: The Embodiment of a Message By AnjaliBhat Edited by JamieGottlieb Barack Obama was widely perceived as a uniquely inspirational candidate, one who appealed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personal Introduction By JanabaGakou 18 Jan 2022 Balzac said, "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." The foundation upon which our most illustrious ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Transcendental Nonsense: The Creation and Disintegration of Abortion Rights By JaredBaumgart 11 Feb 2008 Introduction Transcendental nonsense in Roe v Wade suggests ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Individual Narrative Legal Narrative Originally by MichaelDignan Unwilling to accept irresolution about the how #8217;s and why #8217;s of life, humans instinctively ...
Attorney Privilege Violation of the Law This paper investigates two prompts: is it ethically permissible for attorneys to violate the law without legally recognized ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Not on innovation alone: Politics and the Regulation of Television White Space On November 4, 2008, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioners voted ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
International Religious Freedom: A Cause Not Just for the Religious By JeffreyPan 12 Apr 2010 The International Religious Freedom Act In 1998, Congress passed ...
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 ...
Is Familyism Any Different Than Racism? By JeffreySchatz 15 Apr 2010 A pair of conversations Imagined Interview with a white supremacist Interviewer (I): What ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I came to law school to maximize creative expression #8211; broadly defined though, in particular, literary expression #8211; in the constitutional and intellectual ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Holmes as a Framework for Making Change Through Words Originally "Creative Lawyering " By AndresOFarrell Lawyering is more than prophesizing. Holmes defines lawyering ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Elevating Participation in American Presidential Elections Problems with the Voting System The often repeated goal of the American voting system is to provide each ...
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 ...
Class Action Lawsuits to Enjoin Foreclosure: The Fremont Case (rewrite) Excessive Foreclosures and the Massachusetts Model The Problem The recent financial crisis ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Introduction According to the Federal Bureau of Prison #8217;s population report, more than 200,000 inmates are incarcerated in federal correction facilities, which ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pandemic Irrationality By JuanCoeymans 15 May 2009 I clearly remember when Professor Moglen, during one of our first classes, talked about the ridiculous amount ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Speculative Inquest By JuliaS 09 Feb 2008 Prediction markets are aggregations of betting exchanges for contingent future events. On sites like !InTrade ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Choosing Souter's Replacement The Candidates Qualifications The Confirmation Process The Nominee is Confirmed Choosing Souter's Replacement With Justice Souter ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Collectivism and Individualism: How Societal Behaviors Shaped the Response to COVID 19 By KailaAlston 30 May 2022 Individualism vs Collectivism Individualism ...
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 ...
KalliopeKefallinos 13 Jan 2010 My name is Kalli Kefallinos. As an undergrad studying philosophy, I became fascinated with critical social theory. I found myself ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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China in Africa, a New Colonialism or Opportunities for Development? A comparative involvement with the #8216;Old Europe #8217; Underlined text. From Miss Uchenna ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Balancing Act: Discovery Costs, Public Access, and Privacy Introduction Secrecy in litigation drives up discovery costs for plaintiffs who are generally already ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Homeownership and Wealth Disparities By KaylieChen 23 Feb 2024 Affordable housing has been a longstanding concern across the United States. However, these housing ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Persistence of Prisons: An Exposition of Economic Foundations By KeithEdelman 19 Apr 2009 Introduction Our criminal justice system is failing to achieve ...
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 ...
Repression of Cognitive Dissonance: Grand Effects on our Legal System Revision by KeithEdelman of Elyse Schneider's first paper A Personal Revelation Upon arriving ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Who Controls Dissemination of Information? Introduction The past two decades have borne witness to an increase in public access to mobile digital video recording ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Privacy and Social Media By KurtLyn 21 June 2013 Definition of Privacy Privacy can be broken down into three subcomponents, secrecy, anonymity, and autonomy. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Appropriating Life: Biopiracy as Neocolonialism By LaurenPackard 10 Mar 2015 I. What is biopiracy? The United States Patent and Trademark Office ( #8220;PTO ...
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 ...
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 ...
Who's running this show, anyway? The subordination of intellectual development in law school policy By LaurenRosenberg Introduction On February 25, I attended ...
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 ...
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 ...
Releasing the Ball and Chain Utilizing Modern Technology As An Advantage Modern technology allows efficient access to legal information from anywhere, at any time ...
Law In Contemporary Society Outline Professor Moglen, Spring 2025 Mike Steinthal #8220;The course has one single point in it. One basic fact. The only thing that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility By LeoFarbman 05 Mar 2015 Technological Impact on Social Psychology The Internet, paired alongside the smart phone ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Sun Setting on Affirmative Action By LissetteDuran 29 Apr 2012 Introduction If the Supreme Court finds affirmative action programs unconstitutional, schools ...
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 ...
Here's an interesting related law review article: Leaders, Followers, and Free Riders: The Community Lawyer's Dilemma When Representing Non Democratic Client Organizations ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Altering Risks and Creating Windfalls: the Case to Abolish Intentional Interference with Contract Introduction Intentional interference with contract is a unique ...
Defying the Legal Constriction of Creativity By NathanielPettit 28 Feb 2020 edited 22 May 2020 Introduction and Overview Defining the Challenges of Expectations ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NicholasWillingham 02 Jun 2015 Professor Moglen I attempted to answer your comments in the section titled "Scope of the Question" NicholasWillingham 17 Jun 2015 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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! ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Working Relationship By NithinKumar Lawyers manage a range of professional relationships with fellow attorneys, clients, judges and a variety of other people ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nutrition Facts for Contracts By NnamdiNwaezeapu 3 June 2021 This essay addresses the problem of unread and unreadable clickwrap, browsewrap, and scrollwrap agreements ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NovikaIshar 18 Apr 2010 Is Prediction the Only Trade of a Lawyer? THE IDEOLOGICAL IMPACT Recently, University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone published ...
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 ...
NovikaIshar 17 May 2010 While many independent American universities and organizations are proactive in sponsoring human rights awareness and enforcement abroad through ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lawyering is Balancing Visible and Invisible Bullets By OliviaMartinez 22 Feb 2021 Lawyering is Balancing Visible and Invisible Bullets Serving as a lawyer requires ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Clusterfucks and Creative Lawyers By PatrickCronin 19 April 2009 What does creative lawyering look like from the perspective of the bad man? This question ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Government Legal Practice: Furthering Justice Through Policy Influence By PetefromOz 26 Feb 2009 Amended 17 Apr 2009 There are many legal roles within government ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
The Institution of Monogamous Marriage and Alternatives Original paper by Yinan Zhang 18 Apr 2009 Introduction The institution of monogamous marriage has a significant ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Legal education in the United States, particularly at institutions like Columbia Law School, is widely regarded for its rigorous academic training. This curriculum ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Links about Politics though isn't everything politics? #LatestComments http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/12/after secrets Anyone want to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personal Introduction My life is the byproduct of a combination of influences #8211;family, community, experiences, historical and cultural context #8211; but the ...
Money and Unemployment Introduction The long standing problem of involuntary unemployment has escalated in recent years to the level of a global systemic crisis. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Justifying Lesser Sentences for Inchoate Crimes Introduction In casebook commentary on inchoate crimes, there was near universal agreement that such crimes should ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Bridge Too Far: Use Misuse of Predictions of Future Dangerousness By RyanMcDevitt 14 Feb 2008 Introduction Expert predictions of future dangerousness are ...
Regulating Identity Politics in Sport By RyanMcDevitt 4 April 2008 Introduction Soccer is tied to identity politics in a remarkable and potentially destructive ...
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 ...
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 ...
Google Book Settlement In 2004, Google released the Google Book Library Project, a partnership between Google and several university libraries. The objective of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paternity by Estoppel: Fighting Injustice with Injustice By SamHershey 21 Feb 2010 Introduction A recent class debate reminded me of a fascinating, heartbreaking ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Robinson's Justice By SamanthaLiTrenta 15 Feb 2012 Introduction Robinson calls his imagined prisoner/lawyer metamorphosis #8220;a form of exacting justice. ...
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 ...
Student Jurors and Liberal Education: A Case Study By SamanthaWilliams 12 April 2008 Introduction #8220;The university does not try to persuade the student ...
Reconsidering the Assumptions of the United States Penal System By SamanthaWilliams 19 Feb 2008 Introduction Several dichotomies are useful in characterizing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Topic: Atheism and Acceptance SandorMarton 03 Apr 2008 I. A despised Group Over the past fifty years, minority groups that have traditionally been distrusted ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Planning My Practice The Secret of Cook v. Raimondo After San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, confronting property tax based school finance systems ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Hello everybody. I hope your final exams and preparations are going well. Throughout the semester, Eben emphasized the importance of self reflection: thinking about ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This topic is about socio biological arguments and consilient argument structures. Specifically whether the interaction seen between Tharaud and Cerriere in Cerriere ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a revision of the first paper by ErandiZamora SoeJungKim 19 Apr 2009 Introduction After generations of struggle, activism, and legislative action, ...
Not Even Big Data Can Disparage Rights Retained By The People By SolomonRotstein 21 Apr 2016 I. Introduction: #8220;Poca política, mucha administración #8221 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy By StephanieZielinski 29 Apr 2023 Introduction From a young age, I endeavored to become a scientist. I was fascinated by the ...
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, ...
FreeSpace: Realizing the Potential of Online Social Networks American adolescence has become an interactive online experience. majority of American teens who are online ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Remedying Legal Magic Originally By JonathanFriedman 27 Feb 2009 Introduction to The Role of Legal Magic In Courts on Trial , Jerome Frank honestly examines ...
A Pragmatic Criminal Justice System By StephenRushin 15 May 2009 Introduction Beliefs in retribution and utilitarianism play competing and complementary roles ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The question of sexual orientation as a suspect classification. By StevenRaphan 16 Apr 2024 The Supreme Court's jurisprudence acknowledges that the Constitution ...
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 ...
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 ...
Discussion page for improving law school. If interested, add your name, and add your ideas! Interested People Nona Farahnik Devin McDougall Jessica Cohen Christopher ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A few suggestions for summer reading, whether you are sure your are returning to law school or not: Richard Kluger, Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Drawing Parallels between the Criminal Trial and Levitical Sacrifices: Criminal Trial as a Ritual of Restoration By TaeSangYoo 14 Feb 2008 Introduction #8211 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Viability of Surrogacy By TamarLisbona 19 Feb 2016 Traditionally, and even biblically, surrogacy has been characterized by a woman carrying her own biological ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a revision of "Law School and Contemporary Society" by KristineVanHamersveld. Her first and second drafts follow. Law School and Contemporary Society The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Revolutionary Lawyer By TaylorMcGowan 26 Feb 2010 The Need for Revolutions According to Thurman Arnold, altering organizations supported by a society #8217 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
Veblen #8217;s conspicuous consumption and Marx #8217;s commodity fetishism: two theories of value By ThaliaJulme 03 Apr 2008 Introduction According to Veblen ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Lyrics (shamelessly lifted from http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia): Arise, wretched of the earth Arise, convicts of hunger Reason thunders in its volcano ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Inconspicuous Consumption By TheodorBruening 27 Feb 2009 Introduction Veblen argues that the ruling superior leisure class distinguishes itself through wasteful ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Drop the Dichotomies, Peep the Practice By ThomasVance 26 Apr 2022 Introduction First year law students become all too familiar with categorizing justices and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Random Thoughts Inspired By: #8220;Constitutional Equality #8221;, #8220;Affirmative Action #8221;, and The Fiction of #8220;Reverse Racism #8221; We fight ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personal Introduction By TonbaraEkiyor 30 Jan 2015 I used to research economic policy in small oil producing developing countries, and make periodic recommendations ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Segregation Through Space: Power, Restrictive Covenants and Informal Norms Introduction In a post (world) war US, examining both institutionalized methods of segregation ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Did you ever think capitalism might end because it was too #8230; successful ? Veblen offers this possibility. Specifically, Veblen seems to define capitalism as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Capitalizing the Womb: Exploitation of Reproductive Labor through Healthcare By VelenWu 19 Feb 2025 I. Reproductive Labor as Capital A woman #8217;s reproductive ...
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 ...
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 ...
Borderphobia: Humor and Legal Translation By VictoriaRamosQueneau 28 Feb 2020 Example on the border Know your audience; a key axiom for successfully executing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wader West German protest singer we heard singing the Internationale today Biermann East German protest singer and exiled by Honecker No, this confuses ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Law in Contemporary Society Professor Eben Moglen Columbia Law School, Spring 2025 On Thursday 24 April, we will begin our course's conclusion. We will discuss ...
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Evaluating Happiness: Rejecting Cognitive Dissonance in Law School The Rationalization Since beginning law school, I #8217;ve constantly been asked, #8220;How is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In today's lecture, we discussed the distinction between white supremacy and racism. In doing so, we made the distinction between institutionalized perception of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Angel Eyes By WilliamDavidWilliams 24 Apr 2012 Introduction The United States #8217; pledge of allegiance proclaims #8220;with liberty and justice for all. ...
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 ...
Continuation Chronicles By WilliamDavidWilliams 25 Apr 2012 Why Chronicle Now? Martha Tharaud and John Brown both passed the imagination test. With courageous ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Next Generation Law Firms. By WookJinChung 18 May 2015 Disruptive force: unhappy lawyers. Innovation disrupts the established order at a fundamental level. Large ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vested Interests and the Perpetuation of American Aristocracy: Capitalism, the Courts, and Criminal Justice Capitalism and It's Consequences The criminal justice ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Institution of Monogamous Marriage and Alternatives By YinanZhang 18 Apr 2009 Introduction The institution of monogamous marriage has an undeniably overwhelming ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION By ZeHailu 14 May 2012 Although the current debate over #8220;illegal immigration #8221; in America is often ostensibly portrayed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Introduction Felix S. Cohen begins "Transcendental ...
