Archive for April, 2008
Houston Law Review Article on Death Penalty Profiled in New York Times
The New York Times’ Adam Liptak highlights a forthcoming article from the Houston Law Review in today’s A New Look at Race When Death Is Sought. In Racial Disparities in the Capital of Capital Punishment, Scott Phillips of the University of Denver makes a surprising finding in analysis of death penalty statistics.
A new study to […]
Justice Scalia on 60 Minutes
Leslie Stahl at 60 Minutes airs her interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in Justice Scalia On The Record - see video below.
CBS Video: Scalia, Part 1
CBS Video: Scalia, Part 2
“Anyway, that’s my view,” Scalia says. “And it happens to be correct.” Classic Nino.
Congratulations to Dean Nimmer
who was officially appointed Dean of the University of Houston Law Center today after a year as acting Dean. Read the News Release announcing Nimmer as Dean from the Law Center.
BlackBerry Orphans
My girlfriend send me this article from the Wall Street Journal - BlackBerry Orphans: The growing use of email gadgets is spawning a generation of resentful children. A look at furtive thumb-typers, the signs of compulsive use and how kids are fighting back and at first it made me really sad. I’VE ABANDONED MY BOY!!!!!!!! […]
Voir Dire - Ready for Anything and Anybody
Anne Reed at the Deliberations blog has a great post on being Ready For Anything in voir dire.
I thought of that guy when my “jury duty” search picked up this inquiry at one of the forums at Susan’s Place Transgender Resources, “a support resource for the transgender community”:
I have been summoned for jury duty […]
Considering Harris County’s Public Defender System and Youth
Rather than re-post this in full, I’ll just point out my recent post Anticipating Effect of Public Defender System on Representation of Indigent Youth in Harris County on the Children and the Law Blog, part of my work for the Center for Children, Law & Policy. This follows up on my previous post Call for […]
Lawyer Nightmares, When Your Client Wants to Talk Who’s to Stop Them
As Scott Greenfield noted at Simple Justice in Rusty Hardin Wrongly Maligned For Roger Clemens, “Clemens knew the risks and chose to talk. There’s a limit to what a lawyer can do,” as in there’s a professional obligation to abide by the decisions of yoru client even if you know they’re making a monumentally […]
Law Schools Consider the Laptop or in-class-internet Ban
Law schools have been wrestling with the following scenario for a while now -
The students sit in class, tapping away at their laptops as the boring old law professor mechanically plods through his lecture. Except one. Instead of hunching over a portable computer or a notebook, he’s playing solitaire with a deck of cards on […]
New Website for Evening Law Student Association at UH Law
The Evening Law Student Association (ELSA) at the University of Houston Law Center has a new website.
I sat on the fence for a year after I took the LSAT, knowing I wanted to become a lawyer but that the type of law I wanted to practice (bleeding heart public interest-y stuff mostly) would never […]
CUNY Law: How to Anger your Friends and Alienate People
The folks at the CUNY Law Blog are getting hassled from their alma mater about the name of the blog because the administrators are worried the blog could be ‘misidentified as official communication from CUNY’. They would prefer the blog be named something like CUNY Law Students’ Blog. It’s not an altogether unreasonable request and […]