Archive for Law & Order
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So You Want to Go to Law School?
Cartoons with robot voices talking about law school seems like an odd thing to be gaining a lot of attention among lawyers, but about fifteen people have all forwarded me the same YouTube video entitled “So You Want to Go to Law School.” It features a young woman who [...]
November 3, 2010
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Whadya know? Justice Garza is an HLS alum!
Check it out at 2:11! In the premiere of the new Jimmy Smits show “Outlaw” tonight, we learn that Justice Garza is an HLS alum. I guess our most recent tabulation of Supreme Court Justices could have used some tweaking!
September 15, 2010
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Grapevine gossip confirmed!
My post a couple days ago on Law School Prom conveyed the unconfirmed rumor that Russell Brand and Jonah Hill showed up at our party, and lo and behold, after my submission went up on the website I was sent photographic proof! Russell Brand at the Liberty Hotel with HLSers. This is amazing! Yes, amazing [...]
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Facebreaking Olympics
So is everyone else watching the Olympics, too? I just turn them on when I get home at night and watch or half-watch them for hours while I do my homework and check email. Can I just say that the funniest thing that has happened so far was when Steven Colbert was pointing out that [...]
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Harvard Law School…and The Daily Show
It is perhaps no surprise that over 70 Harvard Law School faculty and alumni — including former Dean Elena Kagan and Professors David Barron, Cass Sunstein, and Jody Freeman — have been playing an integral role in the Obama administration. (See http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotligh…) These faculty and alumni are carrying on the HLS public interest tradition and making [...]
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Dinner Party and Jersey Shore
To celebrate the end of winter term and the 1L class we’ve been teaching, Professor Wilkins invited the teaching team — his assistant, me and the other TA, and the firm partner/practitioner — plus significant others to his beautiful Victorian house for a dinner party. Oh man, if there’s any way to go through law [...]
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My Cousin Vinny
You might not believe it, but I have seen more clips from this movie during law school than ever before. Apparently it’s a great educational tool. The first time the movie was used to teach me something, I was at a weekend workshop/training for the Prison Legal Assistance Project. This particular part of the workshop [...]