Archive for April, 2007
Reaping what we’ve sown: Virginia Tech & the dismantling of the U.S. Mental Health Complex
Bernard Harcourt, guest-blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy, draws some damning correlations between historical trends in Mental Health Commitments and the Virginia Tech Shooting:
It’s impossible to make sense of the debate, though, without understanding the extent to which we’ve dismantled our mental health system in this country. Brick-by-brick, cell-by-cell, we deconstructed what was once a massive […]
Gordon, How Not to Succeed in Law School (Funniest Law Review Article Ever)
Via Shannon Quatros at the Brown Boy Blog and Nancy Rapoport whose list of favorites has proven to be a very fertile ground of procrastinatory materials.
James Gordon III, How not to Succeed in Law School (.pdf)
This settles it - Twain was right, there is no humor in heaven. I’ll be unpacking some of the highlights […]
Studying for Law School Exams
Finals are looming. The mildly comatose look you see on people’s faces in the library has taken on a more frenzied or stricken appearance depending on whether that particular person is currently in the ‘despair’ or ‘determination’ leg of the circle of rationalization.
Each student, like the intellectual snowflake that he/she is, will find his or […]
Legal Comic: A Texas Law Firm You May have Missed
Dave Blazek’s Loose Parts: A Texas Law Firm You May have Missed
NPR: David Ginsburg, 95, Looks Back on 70 Years as a Lawyer in Washington
Remarkable.
David Ginsburg, 95, retired Friday after seven decades of service in Washington. Ginsburg arrived in the capital in 1935, an idealistic young lawyer passionate about the possibilities of government.
He worked on Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and, later, was executive director of the Kerner Commission on race riots.
NPR: […]
Debt Collectors, Banks Going after Seniors’ Social Security Payments in spite of Federal Prohibition
Not the finest hour for banks in a pair of WSJ articles from Ellen Schultz.
Heart surgery halted Viola Sue Kell’s work sewing carpets in a rug mill in 2001. It was the end of 40 years of cleaning motel rooms, restaurant jobs, “just hard stuff,” says Mrs. Kell, a 64-year-old widow. She applied for Social […]
Jack Valenti, RIP
Jack Valenti - ad executive, political operative, LBJ confidant, Hollywood lobbyist, copyright promoter and University of Houston alumnus - has died. Obituary in the Houstonist.
For Saudi Women, Going to Law School Represents Far More than a Degree
Whenever I feel overwhelmed by self-loathing and/or pity at the thought that the vast majority of the legal work that gets done in this country (and that I may very well end up doing) involves nothing more than fighting over other people’s money, I get a reminder - that there are, in fact, higher […]
This American Life: Habeas Schmabeas
NPR’s This American Life had an interesting (award-winning even) show on Habeas Corpus, specifically regarding prisoners of war at Guantanamo. I won’t pretend the coverage is fair or balanced, but it should give you pause regardless of your political stripe.
This American Life ~ Habeas Schmabeas (.mp3) [via thislife.org]
Blogging as Summer Internship
From Law.com: The New Internship: Blogging
“Opinio Juris is seeking its first ever intern(s) for this coming summer for a full or part time position (at least 10 hours a week). We’d expect the position to run from June 1- August 15. Candidates should have superior web skills accompanied by an interest in international law as […]