Archive for May, 2006
Hallelujah
Apparently the people who weren’t at orientation were sent the wrong assignment for the first day of class so we got a bit of a reprieve from Ragazzo. It was more than welcome. The syllabus we received has no dates, just the order in which we’ll read things with the rule of thumb that we’ll […]
Preparing for the first day…
Our opening assignment for the first day of class was the introductory topic of Field’s Civil Procedure. I found the material to be pretty straightforward, but imagining myself trying to provide some basic explanations, the kind of things I would imagine come up in socratic method, it’s a little overwhelming to get a glimpse of […]
New Orleans Legal System Still Suffering Effects of Katrina
From the NY Times - Judge Steps In for Poor Inmates Without Justice Since Hurricane Katrina
The court system in New Orleans, largely still homeless and in disarray having lost most of the infrastructure on which it depends, is battling over the fate of indigent clients who, without public defenders, are in legal purgatory, unable to […]
Orientation at the University of Houston Law School today
First up - take a test. It was an evaluation of our writing proficiency, but still. It was very test-like and made law school feel that much more real and looming, which of course it is. Our first class is next tuesday.
By far the best part of orientation was getting to know the group of […]
Introducing the Blawg
Starting May 30th, 2006 I’ll be a 1L in the evening program at the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, TX.
I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now with my own High on the Hog Blog and as a regular contributor to Metroblogging Houston so it only made sense that I would join […]