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Prof. Chase Leaves Fed for Obama Campaign
According to news reports UHLC’s own Prof. Anthony Chase has resigned from the Fed Reserve Bank of Dallas in order to become more involved in the Obama campaign. I had the pleasure of taking two courses from Prof. Chase and only hope the campaign doesn’t draw him further afield, unless of course, it’s into the […]
Good Luck to Those About to Start Law Review Write On Competitions
The Write-On Competition, an annual rite of passage for students seeking membership to academic journals at the University of Houston Law Center, begins this Saturday, July 5th. I wrote on to law review last year and consider the past year worth every agonizing minute of the competition. I’ve already given what scant advice I have […]
The Waiting Game…
All over America law students are wait for grades to come in. As 1Ls these seemingly have apocalyptic consequences - these are the grades you interview with, get on to law review or another journal with, that decide if you spent part of your summer writing a 30-page note, etc. These grades can take forever […]
Why Law Reviews Don’t Go Gently Into That Good Night
In a strange, to some infuriating, subversion of the typical law school social order (student is to prof as pawn is to queen) the venerable academic publication of any law school, the law review, is almost entirely student run. In this horrifying academic bizarro-world it’s a gaggle of toe-headed 2Ls who pass judgment on whether […]
Law School Exam Crapware
Every law school has it’s own preferred brand of final exam crapware which must be used if you plan to type the exam rather than scrawl it out longhand. The particular brand of exam crapware is generally a difference in search of a distinction, as the user interface designers (or lack thereof) of said companies […]
Living La Vida Large Firm
Jeanne Graham has a great article in Texas Lawyer on the current batch of summer associates, Fewer Summer Associates Spread Their Wings at Big-Tex Firms This Year, while some firms are cutting back on the number of positions offered it, it doesn’t seem to dampen the spirits of the summers she follows around for the […]
Those who are about to take the bar, we salute you
Perhaps you will be consoled that you are not taking the “gaokao,” China’s version of the SAT, which takes two days, covers everything you’d ever studied, and decides your future. Oh wait…
Slate: China’s SAT - If the SAT lasted two days, covered everything you’d ever studied, and decided your future
Learning to Think Like a Chicken Sexer
The Situationist brings us a commencement-time gift of Law, Chicken Sexing, Torture Memo, and Situation Sense, a 2006 commencement speech by Yale Law Prof Dan Kahan who congratulates the gaggle of fresh-faced law grads by comparing the skills just acquired during their 3-year, $193,200 education to the dark art of chick-sexing….
Attrition Rate Numbers Among Texas Law Schools
Via one of my favorite new reads, the Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog, mouthful that, comes Retentionally yours, noting the following attrition rates among Texas law schools:
University of Houston Law Center: 1.79%
SMU Dedman School of Law: 1.81%
University of Texas School of Law: 2.13%
Texas Tech University School of Law: 2.99%
South Texas College of Law: 4.45%
Texas Southern University […]
Summer Reading List for Students Excited they are about to start Law School
Inspired by the achingly literate McSweeney’s Internet Tendency which brings us a series of clever user-contributed lists, including Classes My Top-Tier Law School Should Have Offered as Warnings About the Profession, including…
Cutting and Pasting Legal Lingo
Explaining Business Associations to the People Who Are Running Them
4 A.M. Word Processing and the Law
Ethics of Conspicuous Consumption
Forwarding E-mails: […]