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17-year old student at University of Houston goes after Loan Servicer
Fascinating. Houston Press: UH student investigates ORIX, Goes after loan servicer
Unconfirmed: Law School Rankings Released, University of Houston Jumps 10 spots to #60
Via Marshall Preddy at Legalese, the University of Houston Law Center has jumped 10 spots to #60 in the 2008 U.S. World and News Report Rankings. The USWNR site still shows 2007, but Concurring Opinions has the scoop on 2008 law school rankings which were apparently released earlier to subscribers and posted on LawSchoolDiscussion.org.
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List of Top 25 Underrated Law Schools
Yet another list for whatever it’s worth - Vault’s List of Top 25 Underrated Law Schools, Houston #19.
Economists as Expert Witnesses
Jenn Chiang, my classmate and apologist par excellence for the top hat and monocle set, has apparently thrown over Julian Simon and Montgomery Burns as her roll models and fixated, at least for the time being, on David Teece.
Read all about it @ the WSJ: Economists as Expert Witnesses
For high-profile economists like the 58-year-old Prof. [...]
Texas Supreme Court to feature Webcast of Oral Argument March 20th
From the Texas Appellate Law Blog we learn that Live Supreme Court Webcasts Begin March 20. This comes at a good time for those of us at UH preparing for the competitive rounds of the John Black Moot Court competition. I’ve been trawling the web for oral argument resources. The best so far - video [...]
Welcome to the Blogosphere
Fellow Houston Law Blogger “Brown Boy” has seen the light, repented of his lack of RSS and general Xanga depravity and rolled out a shiny new Wordpress edition. We’ll see if the newfound power goes to his head. Perhaps he’ll now be secure enough in his blogliness to reveal his Bruce Wayne identity.
It should be beneath me, and yet it’s not… Law Librarian Hotties Contest
As SAQ104 “with a D” notes, Houston is well represented in Above the Law’s Law Librarians Hotties contest. Above the Law thus continues to push the envelope…
Nancy Rapoport, Rapoport’s tried-and-true method for learning how to take law school essay exams
Nancy Rapoport has drawn on her experience as a law professor to give students an idea of some of the mistakes they might be making in law school exams and how to correct them - Rapoport’s tried-and-true method for learning how to take law school essay exams (with a shout-out to Mary Beth Beazley). This [...]
Teaching the Law
On the University of Houston Law Center Faculty Blog Professors Crump & Bush have been debating Cameron Stracher’s recent piece in the Opinion Journal - Meet the Clients: Law schools rarely teach students how to be lawyers.
Stracher uses the recent Brian-Valery-paralegal-posing-as-lawyer debacle and a recent report critical of law school teaching methods to trot out [...]
The Law School Rankings Game
The University of Houston Law Center is featured in a cover article - “The Rankings Game” - in the National Jurist this month. U.S. News & World Report is ostensibly a weekly news rag, a la Time and Newsweek. The only significance it holds in the legal community is the annual law school rankings it [...]