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FacebookIsDangerous 22 Jan 2013 - 18:10 IanSullivan
This post explores the risks of using Facebook, and the risks of your peers using Facebook even if you do not. Facebook transformed the way that the world interacts ...
FacebookPower 13 Apr 2015 - 20:14 NicoGurian
NicoGurian 13 Apr 2015 Potentially of interest: A recent piece in the Columbia Journalism Review about the troubling impact of Facebook on both journalism and free ...
FactFindingInBaseballDiscussion 17 May 2010 - 08:25 JoshuaHochman
I wanted to respond to some of Matt's points and for now thought it was best to keep this separate from my essay, but I'm open to suggestions on integrating this discussion ...
FaithInTheLegalSystem 16 Feb 2023 - 17:29 MichaelPari
HuazhouYe 14 Feb 2023 After reading Lawyerland, I am curious as to how everyone feels about the legal system. Did your faith for the system diminish or enlarge? What ...
FallacyOfDistributionCriminalLaw 11 Jan 2010 - 16:53 IanSullivan
Linked from ClassNotes2008Jan23: "Does the criminal law do more good than harm?" is a straw man question. To think that answering NO condemns our criminal law is a ...
FarayiMafotiFirstPaper 13 Jan 2012 - 23:14 IanSullivan
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
FarayiMafotiIntro 13 Jan 2012 - 23:18 IanSullivan
FarayiMafoti 14 Jan 2010 What I initially hoped for out of law school was a chance to hone my creative and logical sensibilities. I was a philosophy major in college ...
FarayiMafotiSecondPaper 13 Jan 2012 - 23:34 IanSullivan
Farayi, I found your paper very interesting. I have placed my re write above and your original below. I thought your essay could have benefited from more organization ...
FearAndAnxiety 17 Apr 2010 - 14:54 NonaFarahnik
When Eben talks about the fear and anxiety created by law school, grades, and dwindling firm jobs, does this resonate with you? How about fear that you won't find ...
February2Notes 03 Feb 2010 - 00:34 ChristopherCrismanCox
02.02 Tuesday Where does legal creativity come from and how does it operate? Need to clear more brush. Law and how to learn it. Realism. Realism itself is a creative ...
FeliciaGilbert-FirstPaper 21 Jan 2009 - 22:52 IanSullivan
Oral Advocacy, Success Self Gratification Intro This past weekend I participated in the 2007 2008 Northeastern Black Law Students Association Fredrick Douglass ...
FeliciaGilbert-SecondPaper 22 Jan 2009 - 01:06 IanSullivan
FeliciaGilbert 07 Apr 2008 The System Works as it Should: Spring Break and Louisiana Expungement Law Intro Every day there was freshly brewed coffee in the kitchen ...
FeliciaGilbertIntro 22 Jan 2009 - 01:06 IanSullivan
FeliciaGilbert 19 Jan 2008 Too much legal tradition has been formulated by people who look nothing like me and whose interests and perspectives are anything but representative ...
FeliciaReyesIntro 20 Jan 2022 - 00:34 FeliciaReyes
Personal Introduction By FeliciaReyes 19 Jan 2022 My name if Felicia Reyes and I graduated from USC in 2017 with a degree in American Studies and Ethnicity and ...
FeliciaReyesSecondEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 06:16 FeliciaReyes
Impact of Crimmigration on Immigrant Youth By FeliciaReyes 26 Apr 2022 Who is deserving of protection? In 2010, the Georgia Board of Regents adopted harsh anti ...
FernandoGarciaFirstEssay 06 Jun 2024 - 15:43 EbenMoglen
A (Revised) Reflection on Choosing a Practice By FernandoGarcia 24 Feb 2024 When I began this course, I mistakenly believed that ignoring Columbia #8217;s push ...
FernandoGarciaSecondEssay 30 May 2024 - 03:42 FernandoGarcia
Never Far from Evil By FernandoGarcia 23 Apr 2024 #8220;I am, after all, a lawyer. I am never far from evil. #8221; This characterization of lawyering may turn ...
FightingVisceralReactions 07 Jan 2010 - 22:22 IanSullivan
I noticed my comment is better placed in Caroline's new topic. KeithEdelman 14 Apr 2009
FightingtheDebtCollectors 17 Apr 2010 - 19:05 NonaFarahnik
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010 01 21/news/better off deadbeat craig cunningham has a simple solution for getting bill collectors off his back he sues them/3 This ...
FindingAPurpose 22 Jan 2013 - 18:10 IanSullivan
After discussing John Brown #8217;s life and the thoughts of Martha Thauraud, it has become increasingly clear that we need to be more introspective and perceptive ...
FindingLeff 13 Jan 2012 - 22:26 IanSullivan
Hi classmates! I've been searching through this website for Leff's Swindling and Selling without any success. I thought spending a lot of time trying to find it ...
FirmlyRefuse 22 Jan 2013 - 18:10 IanSullivan
I found this campaign (http://firmlyrefuse.tumblr.com) at Harvard to get students to think about why they are choosing to work for firms to be interesting, particularly ...
FirstEssay 19 Feb 2021 - 12:00 EbenMoglen
Essay Assignment Not more than 1,000 words. Under any circumstances. It's your idea. The essay tries to exposit, weigh, and prepare the reader to explore it. Because ...
FirstPaper2010 22 Feb 2015 - 15:32 EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Other Since this is an assignment page general editing is restricted. Please leave any comments ...
FirstPaper2013 22 Feb 2015 - 15:32 EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create First Paper will create a page named FirstPaper2013 ...
FirstPaperEditRequests 13 Jan 2012 - 23:13 IanSullivan
Since I'm sure nobody has anything better to do this week, I thought I'd create this page for people who'd like some feedback on their first paper rewrites. It was ...
FirstPaperRewrite 18 Apr 2010 - 20:43 MikeAbend
MikeAbend 18 Apr 2010 Innocent by Circumstance Introduction I don't think I'll ever be convicted of a serious crime. This determination is not the result of knowledge ...
FirstPaperRound2 09 Jul 2010 - 20:28 KalliopeKefallinos
MikeAbend 09 Jul 2010 Over the past decade, as retailers subtly transformed into e tailers, I noticed that the online shopping experience was merely a new form of ...
FirstPaperSpring2012 22 Feb 2015 - 15:32 EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Archived will create a page named FirstPaperSpring2012 and ...
FolkloreofFraternity 22 Jan 2013 - 18:13 IanSullivan
Reflection on T. Arnold #8217;s Folklore of Capitalism Note to Professor Moglen: I had originally intended to offer you three main pieces for evaluation including ...
FramingQuestionsAboutBecomingLawyers 11 Jan 2010 - 16:55 IanSullivan
This thread separates today's lecture, where Eben asks a question, from our attempts at answering it, i.e. our collaborative attempts to frame questions about ...
FrancisWhiteFirstPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:15 IanSullivan
This is a revision corrected to link to publicly available sources. For Eben #8217;s comments, see the previous version. On Creative Lawyering Introduction As Eben ...
FrancisWhiteIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
My name is Francis White. I #8217;m from Indianapolis, Indiana, and went to college at Indiana University Bloomington. After undergrad I spent a year working in local ...
FrancisWhiteSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Originalism, Brown v. Board, and Constitutional Repeal and Re Enactment Introduction Originalism purports to be a method of interpretation dictating that the Constitution ...
FranciscoGuzmanFirstPaper 13 Jan 2012 - 23:14 IanSullivan
Liarland (Disclaimer: All characters described are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons or situations is purely coincidental.) By FranciscoGuzman 19 Feb ...
FranciscoGuzmanIntro 13 Jan 2012 - 23:18 IanSullivan
A professor told me that vocations do not exist and that you could study whatever you enjoyed the most. Although I was a good business student for more than two years ...
FranciscoGuzmanSecondPaper 13 Jan 2012 - 23:34 IanSullivan
I Know Something You Don #8217;t Know: Insider Trading By FranciscoGuzman 11 Apr 2010 The Origins of the Ban The United States was the first country to begin ...
Frank-LooseEndsAndContinuingDiscussion 07 Jan 2010 - 22:33 IanSullivan
II. What We Would Like to Understand Better a. Why is Magic defined in terms of #8220;necessary #8221; and #8220;sufficient #8221;? Adam #8217;s point that ...
FrankAndJohnUpdike 07 Jan 2010 - 22:48 IanSullivan
Perhaps this is irrelevant to the task at hand, but as I was reading the Frank essay today, I thought of the John Updike poem below. I wouldn't have shared it except ...
FrankDiscussionSummary 07 Jan 2010 - 22:33 IanSullivan
Summary of Discourse on #8220;Courts on Trial #8221; (Jerome Frank) This is a summary of the discussion inspired by Frank #8217;s essay, organized into what we understand ...
FrankWilliamsFirstEssay 27 Apr 2018 - 01:12 FrankWilliams
Utilitarianism: Whose Majority? By FrankWilliams 01 Mar 2018 I have always been skeptical of theoretical approaches to law. This could be due in large part to ...
FrankWilliamsSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 17:10 EbenMoglen
A Middle Ground Lawyer By FrankWilliams 27 Apr 2018 Don't be Disillusioned I want to be the kind of lawyer that doesn #8217;t believe in false dichotomies. Public ...
FreeCultureFreeFinance 25 Jan 2015 - 14:47 EbenMoglen
I wrote piece in collaboration with some other students at CLS, attempting to synthesize the copyleft approach to cultural production with my own understanding of ...
FreeInternetAct 22 Jan 2013 - 18:13 IanSullivan
Hey everyone, I know you're all probably buried with preparing for Con Law right now, but in case you feel like participating in writing some legislation, there's ...
FreeSpeechHowwhywhether 11 Jan 2010 - 16:54 IanSullivan
1) The TWiki removes the externality of speaking on listening. (caveat: this is wrong.) 2) We're reenacting Dr. Zimbardo's prison experiment, and now we get to decide ...
FromTheStreets 07 Jan 2010 - 22:33 IanSullivan
Just a couple of thoughts about last weeks reading... So in response to the 9/11 attacks and the now (the VT killings), the government (at various levels) has acted ...
FuckThisStupidRule 07 Jan 2010 - 22:34 IanSullivan
Fuck This Stupid Rule Yesterday I spent what felt like an eternity probably around 6 hours trying to learn how to apply the Rule Against Perpetuities. Over and ...
FugitiveSlaveAct 22 Jan 2013 - 18:13 IanSullivan
I was reading Prigg v. Pennsylvania, the case in our Con Law class about the Fugitive Slave Act, and I couldn't help but think of this class. It seems to be almost ...
FunFacts 13 Jan 2012 - 23:13 IanSullivan
Education, Economic Status and Race/Ethnicity in the United States Legal Education Lawyers Law Students U.S. pop. 25 High School Diploma 100 ...
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