law school
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: […]
Public Interest Lawyers - Thank You for Not Being Evil
As part of its continuing campaign to encourage students and graduates to pursue careers in public interest, the law school held a “Thank You For Not Being Evil” ceremony last Wednesday recognizing graduates who chose to take jobs with employers who are not primarily dedicated to destroying weaker businesses, poor people, or the environment.
Scheduling and Law School Classes
From PT Law Mom, comes a tale of scheduling angst.
Every time I think I have it planned, a new wrinkle pops up. Just found out that I have to take tax (despite my every intention to avoid it completely!) because it is a prerequisite for 22 (yes, 22) classes at school (i.e., Mergers & […]
Rankings Twist Law School Financial Aid Choices
Margot Adler at Public Radio’s Justice Talking takes a look at the ugly side of the economics of higher education in College Admissions: A Game of Privilege?
This part of the discussion with education researcher and policymaker Ross Weiner and public universities representative Peter McPherson highlights a particularly pertinent issue in law school settings.
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Cardozo Law Revue 2007 Beavis and Butt-for
Video: Cardozo Law Revue 2007 Beavis and Butt-for, an ode to Palsgraf.
Confronting my Inner Law Nerd
Law Nerds occupy a peculiar place in nerd taxonomy. We generally retain the capacity for normal conversation and our fixations on particular theories of judicial interpretation are easily mistaken for the same types of political positions that the normals have.
We can thus avoid detection for long periods of time until our condition is at some […]
USNWR Rankings Leaked? Houston up 5 to 55 (unconfirmed)
From First Movers: Anthony Ciolli, U.S. News Rankings Leaked Early?, see this PDF.
‘Tis the Season: Law School Rankings Looming
For better or worse, my very own University of Houston Law Center, apparently still the poster child for rankings schadenfreude, features prominently in the ABA Journal’s article The Rankings Czar. Read the backstory here, here and here. The cover story begins and ends with Houston.
Tropical Storm Allison blasted through Houston killing 22 people, flattening homes […]