Archive for January, 2007
Ah Family… (a lawyer joke my dad sent me)
“Southern Grandma”
Lawyers should never ask a Southern grandma a question if they aren’t prepared for the answer. In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, “Mrs.. Jones, do you know me?”
She responded, “Why, yes, I do know you, [...]
I knew I liked this guy
Add another reason why - NY Times: In Law School, Obama Found Political Voice
Though I guess I don’t like him as much as this Timothy Noah does -
The Obama Messiah Watch: Introducing a periodic feature considering evidence that Obama is the son of God.
“Oh my god, they killed Posner!”
Not really. However, our contract prof has an strange habit of allowing a few glaring factual errors to go forth into the intellectual ether uncontradicted from time to time. Last night, someone started waxing philosophical about Posner’s approach as being indicative of a bygone era and that ‘if Posner was still around today he likely would have taken a different view.’ Ouch. Just to set the record straight, not only does he live, he blogs. Long Live the Pos! Down with Asymmetrical Information!
Oddest Sentence I’ve Read Today
“First, aspirations that lesbians may have for a new and better way of creating relations may be stunted by reliance on a patriarchal contractual model, thus domesticating or colonizing lesbian relationship.” Testy, An Unlikely Resurrection, 90Nw. U.L. Rev 219, 220 (1995).
As if I didn’t already have enough weird ideas to digest about in contracts, now I get to worry that lesbians may have been trying to formulate an alternative to contract law but were once again co-opted by The Man.
Law Student Defames Self With Ridiculous Complaint
via WSJ law blog: Slow Typist Sues His Law School
Certain exams taken by [plaintiff] that required students to be skilled touch-typists in order to produce a competitive response resulted in borderline failing grades by virtue of the low volume of prose [plaintiff] could type in the time allotted as compared with other students.
Oh and he [...]
Geraldine Szott Moohr on the Martha Stewart Case and White Collar Crime
Down the SSRN pipeline comes UHLC’s Geraldine Szott Moohr’s recent article
What the Martha Stewart Case Tells Us About White Collar Crime. I wasn’t following the case very closely at the time, but found her treatment of the ‘collateral consequences of the investigative process’ is worth the price of admission.
The Martha Stewart case serves as [...]
Attorney Sues BAR/BRI
From ABANet: BAR/BRI Antitrust Suit OK’d
Anthony Park, a Manhattan-based attorney admitted to practice in 2003, sued BAR/BRI in March 2005, accusing the company of unlawful tying, monopoly leveraging and unjust enrichment. U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III of the Southern District of New York has ruled the antitrust claims can proceed. Park v. [...]
Where Angels Fear to Tread…
Here’s an interesting bit in the Houston Chronicle: In the eyes of UT, sawed-off logo is illegal.
That’s right, the University of Texas is suing an Aggie schlock peddler over his, let’s face it, less than novel use of ’sawed-off horns’. There are songs, for goodness sake, the entire, complete lyrics of which are “Saw Varsity’s [...]
In Praise of the Casebook
Legal Research and Writing (LARC in UHLC’s unfortunate acronym parlance - Legal Analysis Research and Composition, perhaps? who knows…) is the only course we’ve had so far that doesn’t use a casebook. When I arrived at law school, I found the case book a perplexing system at best - full of accidental precedent, jurisprudential pretzel-twisting [...]
