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StevenRaphanSecondEssay 16 Apr 2024 - 17:39 StevenRaphan
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ChloeJoSecondEssay 16 Apr 2024 - 17:26 ChloeJo
End of War (?) By ChloeJo 16 Apr 2024 In Evelyn Waugh's Novel Scoop , Mr. Salter has limited expressions of assent. When Lord Copper was correct, he says, "Definitely ...
KieranSingh2001SecondEssay 16 Apr 2024 - 15:38 KieranSingh2001
Ideas: Is there a way, legally or legislatively. to make housing affordable for everybody in New York? How can you do this as a lawyer? How do I avoid "golden handcuffs ...
DianaAvilaSecondEssay 16 Apr 2024 - 13:08 DianaAvila
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AngelaMaaloufSecondEssay 16 Apr 2024 - 03:35 AngelaMaalouf
I grew up spending my summer holidays with family in a small Lebanese town. As a child, I could see the bullet holes from the 1975 #8211;1990 civil war in the side ...
TWikiGuestSecondEssay 16 Apr 2024 - 03:18 AngelaMaalouf
I grew up spending my summer holidays with family in a small Lebanese town. As a child, I could see the bullet holes from the 1975 #8211;1990 civil war in the side ...
PierceHeardSecondEssay 15 Apr 2024 - 22:18 PierceHeard
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IjahalaPottingerFirstEssay 15 Apr 2024 - 17:26 IjahalaPottinger
#8220;Law School for One, Please #8221;: Designing a Purpose Driven Legal Education By IjahalaPottinger 15 Apr 2024 Introduction For many law students, it is ...
WebHome 12 Apr 2024 - 15:31 EbenMoglen
Law in Contemporary Society Professor Eben Moglen Columbia Law School, Spring 2024 For April 16, please read Gaza Beach by Avi Shalit, from July 1991, and new ...
AndyZhengSecondEssay 11 Apr 2024 - 22:36 AndyZheng
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GeorgeMenzSecondEssay 11 Apr 2024 - 15:36 GeorgeMenz
My Father's Career By GeorgeMenz 09 Apr 2024 Biographical Sketch My father #8217;s family was less than bourgeois. His father was a factory worker, an employee ...
AndyZhengFirstEssay 10 Apr 2024 - 01:01 AndyZheng
The Linguistic Push for Gender Inclusion By AndyZheng 23 Feb 2024 Problem Lia Thomas decided to quit swimming because of the pressure she faced from the public ...
ShannonFramptonFirstEssay 31 Mar 2024 - 18:44 EbenMoglen
1Ls Don't Need to Learn how to !BlueBook By ShannonFrampton 24 Feb 2024 Introduction The !BlueBook: A Uniform System of Citation is a style manual that dictates ...
JonathanCoaxumFirstEssay 31 Mar 2024 - 17:50 EbenMoglen
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 ...
AlexHeyckeFirstEssay 31 Mar 2024 - 17:33 EbenMoglen
Democratizing the Legal Profession: Why Entry Barriers Need to Go By AlexHeycke 24 Feb 2024 Section I: Barriers to Entry To practice law in the United States ...
KaylieChenFirstEssay 31 Mar 2024 - 14:33 EbenMoglen
Homeownership and Wealth Disparities By KaylieChen 23 Feb 2024 Affordable housing has long been a concern in New York and in the United States in general. But ...
GhaliaAamerFirstEssay 30 Mar 2024 - 21:44 EbenMoglen
g Breaking the Mold: How Learning Pods Can Reshape K 6 Education By GhaliaAamer 23 Feb 2024 Institutionalization in Schools Personal Experience I remember walking ...
PieroZanonFirstEssay 30 Mar 2024 - 15:52 EbenMoglen
The Ideology of Competition In November of 2022 I obtained what I had obsessed over for the most part of that year. After a sleepless night awaiting my Law School ...
MoAliFirstEssay 30 Mar 2024 - 15:30 EbenMoglen
The Irrationality of Rationalism? By MoAli 20 Feb 2024 Natural language modeling is facing a serious problem. It is not the massive environmental cost of training ...
AjeeRobinsonFirstEssay 30 Mar 2024 - 13:51 EbenMoglen
My Success Has Never Been My Own By AjeeRobinson 23 Feb 2024 During my senior year of undergrad, the Sociology department hosted a farewell celebration for graduating ...
JacobLuceroFirstEssay 30 Mar 2024 - 13:13 EbenMoglen
The Trivialization of Gentrification: Superficial Solutions and Neglected Realities By JacobLucero 24 Feb 2024 Living in a neighborhood undergoing demographic ...
JoieLiewFirstEssay 30 Mar 2024 - 11:55 EbenMoglen
What Does it Mean to be Successful? (And Can We Ever be Enough?) By JoieLiew 22 Feb 2024 I have spent a fair amount of time processing this idea and would like ...
FernandoGarciaFirstEssay 29 Mar 2024 - 23:11 EbenMoglen
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 ...
AliAbidFirstEssay 29 Mar 2024 - 20:24 EbenMoglen
The Culmination of the Partition of India By AliAbid 23 Feb 2024 The partition of British India in 1947 is one of the most pivotal events in the history of South ...
SarahShaikhFirstEssay 29 Mar 2024 - 19:48 EbenMoglen
Punishment in Education By SarahShaikh 22 Feb 2024 After our discussion on the first day of class on theories of punishment and if punishment in the United States ...
TonyWangFirstEssay 29 Mar 2024 - 18:13 EbenMoglen
Friendships By TonyWang 24 Feb 2024 Ancient Wisdom Aristotle #8217;s Three Bases of Friendships In books VIII and IX of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, he ...
AngusGaffneyFirstEssay 29 Mar 2024 - 15:18 EbenMoglen
Has the apparent fragility of the US democracy and its democratic institutions of governance emboldened autocracies around the world? By AngusGaffney 24 Feb 2024 ...
ShaquilleProfittFirstEssay 27 Mar 2024 - 12:14 EbenMoglen
Challenging the Normative Baseline: The Illusion of Neutrality In 2020, the right #8220;hijacked #8221; Critical Race Theory ( #8220;CRT #8221;) and its progeny ...
RafaelMirandaFirstEssay 26 Mar 2024 - 15:29 EbenMoglen
g Wildfires, Public Utilities, Plaintiff's Bar By RafaelMiranda 22 Feb 2024 Lahaina is a small quiet coastal town off the northwest coast of Maui, Hawaii. In ...
JocelynGutierrezManriquezFirstEssay 26 Mar 2024 - 14:34 EbenMoglen
Immigration Law Practice By JocelynGutierrezManriquez 23 Feb 2024 Introduction Growing up my relatives always pushed me to be an immigration attorney. They ...
JorgeRosarioFirstEssay 26 Mar 2024 - 13:11 EbenMoglen
The Oldest Colony in the World By JorgeRosario 23 Feb 2024 With its sunny beaches and blue waters, most mainland Americans forget that they are entering a ...
BrennaDugelFirstEssay 25 Mar 2024 - 20:30 EbenMoglen
Reality TV Meets Legal Realism: Kim Kardashian #8217;s Criminal Justice Content and Legal Realist Principles In an era where popular culture and legal dialogues ...
EllisaKimFirstEssay 25 Mar 2024 - 19:07 EbenMoglen
The Contrived Path to Lawyering By EllisaKim 23 Feb 2024 How can you commit before you know The path to the legal profession appears contrived and inorganic when ...
McPherson 25 Mar 2024 - 18:16 EbenMoglen
SamParnell 10 Jun 2016 This aspect trying to prompt a hyperlink just because the man's name includes two capital letters of twiki annoys me. Then you might want to ...
AndreaRuedasFirstEssay 25 Mar 2024 - 18:13 EbenMoglen
A Brief History and Impact of the Feminist Sex Wars By AndreaRuedas 23 Feb 2024 Introduction Social movements in the United States during the latter half of the ...
ChloeJoFirstEssay 25 Mar 2024 - 13:17 EbenMoglen
What a Shame! #8220;Yes, Korea is a shame culture, #8221; Eben explained when I told him I felt ashamed with my first grades at law school. Feeling shame about ...
PierceHeardFirstEssay 25 Mar 2024 - 11:31 EbenMoglen
What is Wrong With City Design in America? By PierceHeard 19 Feb 2024 Overview American city design is flawed in a number of ways. These issues have large impacts ...
GeorgeMenzFirstEssay 24 Mar 2024 - 21:54 EbenMoglen
Playing the Game in Law School By GeorgeMenz 22 Feb 2024 The Theodicy of Law Students The socially conscious student at an elite university finds himself in a ...
VanessaNguyenFirstEssay 24 Mar 2024 - 20:16 EbenMoglen
Where Are You? By VanessaNguyen 22 Feb 2024 I #8217;m not sure exactly why this question made me cry. It was a simple question with a simple answer. I was sitting ...
CodyHuyanFirstEssay 24 Mar 2024 - 18:39 EbenMoglen
A Self Reflection: What's the Shame in Slowing Down? By CodyHuyan 20 Feb 2024 Introduction What I miss most about Seattle is chatting with strangers while I wait ...
KieranSingh2001FirstEssay 24 Mar 2024 - 17:45 EbenMoglen
The Open Source Pop Star: How Grimes Shows the Way Forward for Artists in the Age of AI By KieranSingh2001 22 Feb 2024 Introduction We expected Artificial Intelligence ...
EdsonSandovalFirstEssay 24 Mar 2024 - 14:45 EbenMoglen
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 ...
AngelaMaaloufFirstEssay 24 Mar 2024 - 14:09 EbenMoglen
Liberté. Égalité. Fraternité. What is widely admired as France #8217;s motto has been #8220;swindling #8221; everyone. Following the French Revolution, religion ...
JiaLeeFirstEssay 24 Mar 2024 - 13:43 EbenMoglen
Where Jerome Frank and Confucius Meet on Music By JiaLee 22 Feb 2024 Jerome Frank was considered an intellectual irritant by the formalist mainstream because he ...
DianaAvilaFirstEssay 24 Mar 2024 - 12:02 EbenMoglen
Future Conflict By DianaAvila 22 Feb 2024 Introduction One of the first questions you are asked when you are young is #8220;what do you want to be when you grow ...
EmmanuelOsayandeFirstEssay 23 Mar 2024 - 14:19 EbenMoglen
Between Activism And Governance: Lessons From Africa's Largest City By EmmanuelOsayande 22 Feb 2024 Lagos, a coastal city in southwestern Nigeria, has been ground ...
WebNotify 05 Feb 2024 - 21:28 KieranSingh2001
Email Notification AlexHeycke AndyZheng AngusGaffney CodyHuyan DianaAvila EbenMoglen FelizSmith FernandoGarcia GhaliaAamer ...
SamuelPittmanFirstEssay 03 Nov 2023 - 19:55 SamuelPittman
SamuelPittmanSecondEssay 03 Nov 2023 - 19:53 SamuelPittman
CourseIntroduction 01 Nov 2023 - 10:47 EbenMoglen
General Introduction This course explores two questions it's important to begin asking in the second semester of law school: 1. How can I be creative in law school ...
HoDongChyungFirstEssay 23 Jul 2023 - 22:15 HoDongChyung
The Source of My Fear and My Path to Courage By HoDongChyung 19 May 2023 Prelude Before making big decisions, like going to law school, my instinct weighs my ...
AlexNnabueFirstEssay 07 Jun 2023 - 19:19 AlexNnabue
As a law student, it can be daunting to navigate the legal profession when faced with the harsh realities of life at a big law firm that include long work weeks, feeling ...
ElieShnersonSecondEssay 05 Jun 2023 - 18:52 ElieShnerson
Thank you. Will rewrite.
ElieShnersonFirstEssay 05 Jun 2023 - 18:52 ElieShnerson
Thank you. Will rewrite.
TashaylaBordenSecondEssay 01 Jun 2023 - 02:49 TashaylaBorden
Black Tongues Can Lick (Wounds), Too Through words and expression, Black women can carve a space for coalition building in the face of exclusion and ultimately go ...
JesseRamosSecondEssay 01 Jun 2023 - 00:09 JesseRamos
Bleaching the Blue Collar: Making a Union Law Practice By JesseRamos 12 May 2023 Why? I was raised in a union family. My uncles were union contractors who have ...
ColeRileyFirstEssay 31 May 2023 - 06:03 ColeRiley
Writer a compilation of thoughts, ideas, and realizations Redacted lines from my law school personal statement AKA discards of a sanitized trauma essay #8220;Trauma ...
ColeRileySecondEssay 31 May 2023 - 05:27 ColeRiley
Fort Exodus University a cultural epic by Cole Riley the abolitionist writer Plot summary and Review by Cole Riley the afro pessimistic critic Excerpt #8220 ...
GillianHoFirstEssay 31 May 2023 - 03:53 GillianHo
Rethinking My Practice Foreword Although my original intended practice in Hong Kong is no longer viable due to the passage of the 2020 National Security Law, I ...
CameronOliverFirstEssay 31 May 2023 - 03:51 CameronOliver
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 ...
ShianneWilliamsFirstEssay 30 May 2023 - 23:23 ShianneWilliams
From Impatience to Insight By ShianneWilliams 16 Feb 2023 "Adult Advice" Growing up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, meant that my parents sat me down at a very ...
DanielAdewunmiSecondEssay 30 May 2023 - 05:05 DanielAdewunmi
Alternate Paths for Recent Graduates By DanielAdewunmi 06 Apr 2023 In my previous draft of this essay, I wrote about conversations with George Kendall. The central ...
MoneshDevireddySecondEssay 29 May 2023 - 19:34 MichaelPari
The Tragedy of the Biomedical AntiCommons An Illustration of the Problem Alzheimer's, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease, affects up to one in nine Americans ...
PushkarChaubalFirstEssay 29 May 2023 - 15:27 PushkarChaubal
Inside A Lawyer #8217;s Arsenal By PushkarChaubal 17 May 2023 Growing up, lawyers were akin to the buddy at game night who always knows the rules. They are ...
StephanieZielinskiSecondEssay 27 May 2023 - 13:49 StephanieZielinski
Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy By StephanieZielinski 29 Apr 2023 Introduction From a young age, I endeavored to become a scientist. I was fascinated by the ...
StephanieZielinskiFirstEssay 27 May 2023 - 13:47 StephanieZielinski
Indeterminacy in Self Narrative and the Rule of Law By StephanieZielinski 27 May 2023 Tell Me About Yourself #8220;So, Stephanie, tell me about yourself. #8221 ...
EricaSmithSecondEssay 27 May 2023 - 13:41 EricaSmith
The Lucky Sperm Club My father has always told me that I am a part of the "lucky sperm club" as he jokingly refers to it. When I look at my life compared to the lives ...
EricaSmithFirstEssay 27 May 2023 - 13:39 EricaSmith
How Anti blackness Perpetuates itself in Hair Introduction I have thick, long, and very kinky curly hair. Most days, I wear my hair down, but if I want it out ...
HoDongChyungSecondEssay 26 May 2023 - 21:21 HoDongChyung
Should Lawyers Fear !ChatGPT? By HoDongChyung 07 Apr 2023 The #8220;How #8221; Matters There #8217;s buzz and anxiety about !ChatGPT #8217;s ability to replace ...
BrandonReidFirstEssay 26 May 2023 - 16:44 MichaelPari
Legal Education A Personal Reflection By BrandonReid 17 Feb 2023 Earlier this semester, I wrote a piece that demonstrated frustration towards my legal education ...
IlanaDuttonSecondEssay 25 May 2023 - 20:19 IlanaDutton
Finding my Why By IlanaDutton 04 Apr 2023 #8220;So, what do you do for work? #8221; #8220;I #8217;m an immigration attorney. #8221; Then the follow up, ...
TristonFergusonSecondEssay 25 May 2023 - 01:25 TristonFerguson
Embracing Faith, Unity, and Consultation: Forging My Future Law Practice By TristonFerguson 14 Apr 2023 In the wake of my father's passing, I found solace and ...
TristonFergusonFirstEssay 25 May 2023 - 00:44 TristonFerguson
God Does Not Make Mistakes? "God makes no mistakes," my grandmother would fervently remind me whenever doubts about His actions clouded my mind. But on February 4 ...
RichardWhiteFirstEssay 24 May 2023 - 21:43 MichaelPari
The Law Needs Listeners By RichardWhite 16 Feb 2023 Is Anyone Listening? #8220;Kill the bill, kill the bill! #8221; I could hear the chorus of voices growing ...
MichaelPariFirstEssay 23 May 2023 - 19:33 MichaelPari
Madison Square Garden Security Faces the Music Introduction Madison Square Garden (MSG) launched its #8220;attorney exclusion list #8221; in June 2021. This forbade ...
MollyMartinezSecondEssay 22 May 2023 - 20:04 MollyMartinez
How to Talk Like a Lawyer (Third Revision) By MollyMartinez 06 Apr 2023 Introduction I came to law school because I hoped to translate between various ...
MollyMartinezFirstEssay 22 May 2023 - 19:03 MollyMartinez
The Solution to My Personal Disillusionment By MollyMartinez 18 Feb 2023 THIRD REVISION: I recently compared my two personal statements for law school and college ...
MaxKingsleySecondEssay 22 May 2023 - 17:36 EbenMoglen
Why the Transformation Consideration Underlying the "Purpose and Character" Factor should be Replaced By MaxKingsley 05 Apr 2023 Introduction The Supreme ...
IsBeingACorporateLawyerImmoral 22 May 2023 - 15:57 MichaelPari
I think Professor Moglen once said that the concept of giving money to the poor while earning money as a corporate lawyer is all good, but it assumes that the work ...
IlanaDuttonFirstEssay 22 May 2023 - 12:06 IlanaDutton
Preparing my Practice for Working with Clients (Second Revision): By IlanaDutton 15 Feb 2023 Introduction Someone once told me that I was "empathic to a fault ...
TobinKassaSecondEssay 21 May 2023 - 22:10 EbenMoglen
My Law School Legacy By TobinKassa Original, 06 Apr 2023, Revised 02 May 2023 When I decided to pursue a legal education, I lead with the mindset that my relationship ...
TobinKassaFirstEssay 21 May 2023 - 18:50 EbenMoglen
#8220;It #8217;s your exam, you can write it perfectly #8221; By TobinKassa Original 18 Feb 2023, Revised 1 May 2023 I always lead with the fact that I am a first ...
AndresAguilarSecondPaperDraft2 20 May 2023 - 23:10 MichaelPari
AndresAguilar 20 May 2023 Finding My Own Path Growing up, I have always felt like the path to my future was laid out before me. It seemed like I was always destined ...
AndresAguilarPaper1SecondDraft 20 May 2023 - 01:01 AndresAguilar
AndresAguilar 20 May 2023 Law and the Education System It seems that in today #8217;s modern society, education, specifically public education, has become more controversial ...
MatthewDesmondPodcast 19 May 2023 - 16:27 MichaelPari
Thoughts on the Ezra Klein Podcast with Matthew Desmond NicoleMorote 24 Apr 2023 I was listening to podcasts while running errands the other day, and one came ...
TheImportanceOfSleep 18 May 2023 - 18:36 IlanaDutton
The Importance of Sleep LupitaOrozco 14 May 2023 As we discussed in class, sleep is important to our mental well being. It especially helps our memories absorb ...
HuazhouYeFirstEssay 18 May 2023 - 15:18 EbenMoglen
The Normative Value of Autonomy in Property Law and its Alternative By HuazhouYe 13 Feb 2023 Functional advantage of Social Dependence Autonomy as a normative ...
DanielAdewunmiFirstEssay 17 May 2023 - 15:01 MichaelPari
Combatting DIPG By DanielAdewunmi 16 Feb 2023 What is DIPG Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, DIPG, is a tumor of the brainstem. It affects the most vital functions ...
GillianHoSecondEssay 16 May 2023 - 18:43 MichaelPari
Returning to Law School in the Fall By GillianHo 05 Apr 2023 The Question Itself Over the course of the semester, Eben has consistently challenged us to think ...
TheCurve 13 May 2023 - 15:14 MichaelPari
Thinking on the curve NicoleMorote 06 May 2023 The logic behind law school exams has been bothering me for the past few days, and I wanted to see if anyone might ...
MaxKingsleyFirstEssay 25 Apr 2023 - 12:46 EbenMoglen
1L #8220;Selfnessless #8221; and Its Implications on the Law Student By MaxKingsley 15 Feb 2023 Introduction Selfness is commonly understood as a person #8217 ...
AndresAguilarSecondEssay 22 Apr 2023 - 12:14 EbenMoglen
Finding My Own Path Growing up, I have always felt like the path to my future was laid out before me. It seemed like I was always destined to continue to go to school ...
AndresAguilarFirstEssay 21 Feb 2023 - 18:35 AndresAguilar
Law and the Education System It seems that in today #8217;s modern society, education, specifically public education, has become more controversial than ever. The ...
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 ...
GregOrrSecondPaper 12 Feb 2023 - 03:02 GregOrr
(This is a very loose adaptation of Avery's first paper. I wanted to see if I could bring out some of his underlying concerns in a manner that prompts more engagement ...
Spring2023Discussions 04 Feb 2023 - 14:35 HoDongChyung
Attempt in trying to make a folder HoDongChyung 04 Feb 2023
LawyerlandThoughts 31 Jan 2023 - 23:44 HuazhouYe
MichaelPari 31 Jan 2023 I think it's largely reflected in my own experience, but I think I'd actually reframe the point as that the public hates its perception of ...
TashaStatzGearyFirstEssay 13 Jun 2022 - 18:21 TashaStatzGeary
Britt By TashaStatzGeary 26 May 2022 Cut Short In 2018, I interned in New York before my final year of college. It was a profoundly lonely summer, the kind that ...
GabrielleStanfieldSecondEssay 10 Jun 2022 - 19:03 GabrielleStanfield
Re claiming the presentation of Black Figures in Photography By GabrielleStanfield 23 Apr 2022 On Photography In her 1977 collection of essays, On Photography ...
RubiRodriguezSecondEssay 08 Jun 2022 - 04:38 RubiRodriguez
The Paradox of Life in the Law By RubiRodriguez 27 Apr 2022 What does justice mean to you? #8220;On the first day of class, I told you all to write down what ...
CoreyWhittSecondEssay 08 Jun 2022 - 00:36 CoreyWhitt
JCPenney, the Saxophone, and Advocating for Music Education By CoreyWhitt 25 Apr 2022 Wishbooks and What They Offer I was unacquainted with the saxophone before ...
BrayanASecondEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 22:23 BrayanA
Conspiracy Doctrine: A Prosecutors Tool By BrayanA 7 June 2022 The Crime of Conspiracy A common law conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to ...
BrandonHoltSecondEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 21:10 BrandonHolt
Dishonesty in Judicial Conformation Hearings By BrandonHolt 27 Apr 2022 Introduction In an April 2021 joint confirmation hearing for seats on the United States ...
GueinahBlaiseFirstPaper 07 Jun 2022 - 21:01 GueinahBlaise
GueinahBlaise 12 Mar 2022 Grades Shouldn't Matter, but for Marginalized Persons Trying to Achieve Career Advancement They Do Introduction: #8220;Grades don #8217 ...
GueinaBlaiseSecondEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 20:10 GueinahBlaise
Introduction In college I took a class called "Philosophy of Liberation." For hours a week, we pontificated about liberation, how it may manifest itself, and whether ...
ConnorHudsonSecondEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 18:05 ConnorHudson
ConnorHudson 27 Apr 2022 The Perception of Violence in Skinner's World Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars and Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine together ...
AshleyWilsonSecondEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 16:40 AshleyWilson
A Teenager's Death and an Attorney's Legacy By AshleyWilson 26 Apr 2022 The Morning of November 3, 2013 In the freezing early morning hours of November 3, ...
BrandonHoltFirstEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 15:52 BrandonHolt
Incentivizing Corporate Diversity through Debt Finance By BrandonHolt 13 Mar 2022 Introduction When the video of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd commanded ...
JustineHongFirstEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 13:15 JustineHong
Moral and Philosophical Bearings for a Law Student's Future Direction By JustineHong 11 Mar 2022 Introduction Holmes underscores that the law does not reflect ...
KailaAlstonSecondEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 05:27 AdrianHernandez
Collectivism and Individualism: How Societal Behaviors Shaped the Response to COVID 19 By KailaAlston 30 May 2022 Individualism vs Collectivism Individualism ...
TarynWilkinsFirstEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 05:27 AdrianHernandez
Why Not Choosing Big Law Is a Hard Pill to Swallow for Minorities, But Doesn #8217;t Have to Be By TarynWilkins 03 Mar 2022 My Introduction to Big Law Ever since ...
BrayanAFirstEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 02:37 BrayanA
What Does It Means to be Human? By BrayanA 12 Mar 2022 Intro We must try to understand in some sense what it means to be human. One such way comes from insight ...
MelissaMouritsenSecondEssay 07 Jun 2022 - 00:09 MelissaMouritsen
Direction for the Fourth Wave Second Wave Feminism: Consciousness Raising The Personal is Political. Hanisch #8217;s iconic phrase is often repeated and more ...
CoreyWhittFirstEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 18:47 CoreyWhitt
By the Goodness of Gun By CoreyWhitt 10 Mar 2022 November 14, 2019 On Thursday, November 14, 2019, at 7:38AM, Saugus High School #8212; its students, parents ...
SpencerBecerraFirstEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 13:22 JustineHong
A Reason to Return By SpencerBecerra 11 Mar 2022 Dusty Memories Two of my grandfathers introduced me to the law. One was a lawyer, a CLS grad. The other did ...
RubiRodriguezFirstEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 13:06 JustineHong
Wealth Divide on the Way to Law School By RubiRodriguez 12 Mar 2022 Introduction On a Friday evening, a couple friends and I sit in a restaurant discussing ...
KarsynArchambeauFirstEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 12:56 JustineHong
It Keeps on Turning By KarsynArchambeau 11 Mar 2022 In recent days, I find myself wondering what the people in London, or Paris, or Berlin felt in the months preceding ...
AdrianHernandezFirstEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 12:46 JustineHong
Lost in Translation By AdrianHernandez 05 Jun 2022 I remember the first time I saw legalese was when I read the word #8220;lien #8221; on a letter my dad received ...
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 ...
BriannaGordonSecondEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 04:58 BriannaGordon
The Death Penalty Debate By BriannaGordon 26 Apr 2022 The Discriminatory and Detestable History of the Death Penalty Capital punishment is no stranger to opposition ...
AdrianHernandezSecondEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 04:39 AdrianHernandez
You Get Out What You Put In, According to the Court By AdrianHernandez 05 Jun 2022 The difference in what it means to be a citizen in Puerto Rico, Texas, Wyoming ...
KarsynArchambeauSecondEssay 06 Jun 2022 - 00:36 KarsynArchambeau
Hustle Culture and the Creator Economy Lay Your Hobbies to Rest By KarsynArchambeau 27 Apr 2022 My least favorite question is #8220;what are your hobbies ...
AimeePachecoSecondEssay 05 Jun 2022 - 20:12 AimeePacheco
Planning My Practice By AimeePacheco 5 June 2022 The Founding #8220;Who? #8221;, #8220;What? #8221;, #8220;When? #8221;, #8220;Where? #8221; My Positionality ...
AimeePachecoFirstEssay 05 Jun 2022 - 01:52 AimeePacheco
Undocumented Students Still Barred From Higher Education By AimeePacheco 24 May 2022 Problem In 2022, undocumented students are still barred from higher education ...
ConnorHudsonFirstEssay 04 Jun 2022 - 23:44 ConnorHudson
Daring to Build Better Lawyers By ConnorHudson 06 Mar 2022 Introduction The Adaptable Mind: Neuroscience, Psychology, Law School When I dropped out of law ...
TarynWilkinsSecondEssay 04 Jun 2022 - 21:21 TarynWilkins
Why No Knock Warrants Should Be Illegal By TarynWilkins 18 Apr 2022 Time and time again, innocent Black people are being unreasonably executed through loopholes ...
ThomasVanceSecondEssay 01 Jun 2022 - 05:58 ThomasVance
Drop the Dichotomies, Peep the Practice By ThomasVance 26 Apr 2022 Introduction First year law students become all too familiar with categorizing justices and ...
MarvinBellSecondEssay 01 Jun 2022 - 01:59 MarvinBell
On Losing Paul Farmer By MarvinBell 26 Apr 2022 The Start When I was five or six years old and living in Jamaica, I watched a close family friend, #8220;cuz ...
SpencerBecerraSecondEssay 01 Jun 2022 - 01:16 SpencerBecerra
The Rooney Rule and NFL Coaching Employment By SpencerBecerra 20 Apr 2022 A Rude Awakening On February 2, 2022, the National Football League faced a distraction ...
ThomasVanceFirstEssay 31 May 2022 - 23:38 ThomasVance
Con textual, not stitutional, Law By ThomasVance 11 Mar 2022 Section I: The Commerce Clause Introduction #8220;The Congress shall have Power #8230;To regulate ...
MichelleXiaoFirstEssay 31 May 2022 - 04:14 MichelleXiao
A Search for Practical Ways to Foster Happiness in Law School By MichelleXiao 10 Mar 2022 Months into law school, I found myself consistently more tired, stressed ...
GodardSolomonSecondEssay 30 May 2022 - 18:44 GodardSolomon
Community Intervention to Curb Over Incarceration By GodardSolomon 27 Apr 2022 (second draft 30 May 2022) Foreword During my undergraduate years, I was ...
GodardSolomonFirstEssay 29 May 2022 - 17:37 GodardSolomon
Envisioning Myself in the Courtroom By GodardSolomon 12 Mar 2022 (second draft 29 May 2022) Introduction Ever since high school, I was sure that I wanted to ...
NereeseWatsonSecondEssay 28 May 2022 - 22:59 NereeseWatson
JonBenét Ramsey Murder Background !JonBenét Ramsey was a six year old girl known throughout the children #8217;s beauty pageant industry as the winner of titles such ...
SarahKimFirstEssay 27 May 2022 - 18:33 MorganMartin
The World Is My Oyster? By SarahKim 11 Mar 2022 A few weeks ago, I went out to dinner with a couple law school friends, determined not to let out a peep about ...
GabrielleStanfieldFirstEssay 26 May 2022 - 01:55 GabrielleStanfield
Achievement vs. Acceptance By GabrielleStanfield 11 Mar 2022 SEEKING ACCEPTANCE My professional experiences have been profoundly impacted by my experience as ...
KailaAlstonFirstEssay 25 May 2022 - 12:26 KailaAlston
The Life Stages of the 21st Century Black Advocate as Told Through the Lens of a Tired Black Woman By KailaAlston 12 Mar 2022 There are four life stages that ...
LydiaMurraySecondEssay 24 May 2022 - 16:31 LydiaMurray
Ending At Will Employment Through Judicial Authority By LydiaMurray 20 Apr 2022 Introduction TThe concept of at will employment represents an inequitable model ...
ZellyRosaFirstEssay 23 May 2022 - 21:20 TashaStatzGeary
Pop Torts: a Brief History of the Frivolous Lawsuit Moral Panic Introduction The idea of a #8220;litigation crisis #8221; in America has been largely accepted as ...
ElizabethHuhFirstEssay 20 May 2022 - 19:28 ElizabethHuh
Time in Legal Practice By ElizabethHuh 20 May 2022 A Reflection from the First Draft When you told me to cut the draft before you can accept it, my first instinct ...
RyanGloverFirstEssay 20 May 2022 - 05:05 OliviaVaughan?
Coffin Nails: Various designing and its Ideas By RyanGlover 13 Mar 2015 Each new time acquires recent fads numerous things including nails. This recent fad will ...
JermelMcClureFirstEssay 04 May 2022 - 17:40 JermelMcClure
Secure The Bag #8211; The Importance of Wealth Generation in the Black Community Money Talks Wealth and access to graduate education provide families with resources ...
PodcastSuggestions 14 Apr 2022 - 21:24 MelissaMouritsen
Hey all, First, I was hoping that, given the desire of our class to cultivate a community of some kind, we could start that with a place to share something.In that ...
AshleyWilsonFirstEssay 11 Apr 2022 - 22:21 AshleyWilson
Attorney Client Courage By AshleyWilson 10 April 2022 On Risk Attorneys can be people who risk everything for a cause. One need only look to the war in Ukraine ...
IdeasAboutIdeas 02 Apr 2022 - 10:59 AnilYadav?
One Writer's Possible Essay Topics I've been considering several ideas that may be the subject of my 1000 page word essay. (Definitely a "Freudian" slip. Proofreading ...
DiscountedLaborOfBIPOCStudentsAndFaculty 08 Mar 2022 - 21:10 AimeePacheco
I just wanted to start off by saying that I appreciated the comments that were made at the end of class regarding the privilege that comes with making comments like ...
BrookeHolderIntro 20 Jan 2022 - 14:28 BrookeHolder
Personal Introduction Hello all. My name is Brooke, I use she/her pronouns and I was born raised in Washington, DC. I #8217;ve lived in DC my whole life apart from ...
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 ...
GettingToKnowUs 19 Jan 2022 - 01:26 JermelMcClure
Getting to Know Us First week small group meetings. All meetings will be held at Jitsi Meet server. Please also see NoteOnBrowsers. Tue 18 Jan 1:20pm Taryn Wilkins ...
JanabaGakouIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 18:46 JanabaGakou
Personal Introduction By JanabaGakou 18 Jan 2022 Balzac said, "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." The foundation upon which our most illustrious ...
ThomasVanceIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 18:09 ThomasVance
Personal Introduction By ThomasVance 18 Jan 2022 I came to law school because Black people are dying. Prior to CLS, I learned and understood that change does not ...
JermelMcClureIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 17:45 JermelMcClure
Personal Introduction By JermelMcClure 18 Jan 2022 Hello everyone! My name is Jermel McClure, I'm a 1L from Westchester, New York. I graduated from Binghamton ...
TashaStatzGearyIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 16:39 TashaStatzGeary
Personal Introduction I came to law school after enjoying my work as a litigation paralegal. I am interested in immigration law, environmental law and affirmative ...
MelissaMouritsenIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 15:29 MelissaMouritsen
I'm Melissa (she/her) and from Austin, Texas. I attended Hamilton College, where I studied Latin American literature and linguistics, with a focus on gender sexuality ...
YaseenMozaffarIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 13:52 YaseenMozaffar
Personal Introduction Hi folks, I'm Yaseen. My academic background is in economics and data science, and I have professional experience in the fields of education ...
AimeePachecoIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 03:35 AimeePacheco
Personal Introduction By AimeePacheco 18 Jan 2022 Pronouns: she/her. Born and raised in Georgia, I'm the proud daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala ...
TWikiGuestIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 03:01 ConnorHudson
I am interested in law as the mechanisms that create social utility. I first grew passionate about personal representation working at two leading Talent Agencies and ...
SpencerBecerraIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 02:46 SpencerBecerra
Personal Introduction By SpencerBecerra 18 Jan 2022 Hello everyone! Excited to start our first mixed section class (that isn #8217;t legal methods). I picked this ...
ZellyRosaIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 02:46 ZellyRosa
Personal Introduction By ZellyRosa 18 Jan 2022 I grew up in the bay area in California and graduated from University of Washington in 2020. My undergrad degree ...
AlexandreaChimaIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 02:45 AlexandreaChima
Personal Introduction By AlexandreaChima 18 Jan 2022 Hi Everyone! My name is Alexandrea Uche Chima and I am a 1L from Los Angeles, California. I graduated from ...
StephanieLiuIntro 18 Jan 2022 - 00:48 StephanieLiu
Personal Introduction I'm Stephanie and I'm from Vancouver, Canada, although I was born in China. I came to law school because I found that nothing else I was interested ...
AdrianHernandezIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 23:54 AdrianHernandez
Personal Introduction By AdrianHernandez 17 Jan 2022 I came to law school because no one in my community has. Growing up with stories of workplace discrimination ...
AminaStoneTaylorIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 23:41 AminaStoneTaylor
Personal Introduction By AminaStoneTaylor 17 Jan 2022 I graduated from CUNY Brooklyn College where I majored in philosophy. My favorite philosophy classes focused ...
BrayanAIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 23:30 BrayanA
Personal Introduction Initially, I chose to attend law school partly because the laws' structural hold on society fascinates me and partly to prove to people that ...
MichelleXiaoIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 23:12 MichelleXiao
Personal Introduction By MichelleXiao 17 Jan 2022 In Psychology, we learn that when humans are in their worst possible situations, they will adapt. In other words ...
JustineHongIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 23:04 JustineHong
Personal Introduction By JustineHong 17 Jan 2022 My name is Justine Hong. Although I grew up in the Palo Alto, CA, I went to an international high school in South ...
GueinahBlaiseIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 21:46 GueinahBlaise
Personal Introduction By GueinahBlaise 17 Jan 2022 My initial interest in law happened for two reasons: (1) I enjoyed argumentation and logic, and (2) I was interested ...
BrandonHoltIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 16:24 BrandonHolt
Personal Introduction By BrandonHolt 17 Jan 2022 In my personal statement I wrote, "Law school is an opportunity to be a student of our past and our present while ...
AshleyWilsonIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 15:36 AshleyWilson
Personal Introduction By AshleyWilson 17 Jan 2022 I'm Ashley Wilson and before starting law school I worked at a social and education policy research organization ...
BriannaGordonIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 04:04 BriannaGordon
Personal Introduction I am originally from Kingston, Jamaica and reside in LI,NY. I attended Temple University in Philadelphia, PA where I majored in Political Science ...
ElizabethHuhIntro 17 Jan 2022 - 02:44 ElizabethHuh
Personal Introduction By ElizabethHuh 17 Jan 2022 My name is Elizabeth Huh and I am from Seoul, Korea, although I was born in Boulder, Colorado, and went to an ...
RubiRodriguezIntro 16 Jan 2022 - 23:32 RubiRodriguez
Personal Introduction By RubiRodriguez 16 Jan 2022 As a Latina growing up in a Black suburb outside of Atlanta, I learned about the importance of activism long ...
CoreyWhittIntro 16 Jan 2022 - 17:51 CoreyWhitt
Personal Introduction Hi everyone! My name is Corey Whitt, and I come to law school after six years of working as a high school band director. I am interested in reimagining ...
LydiaMurrayIntro 16 Jan 2022 - 16:46 LydiaMurray
Personal Introduction My name is Lydia Murray. I am primarily from Michigan, but spent several years living abroad in India and China, where I graduated high school ...
AdrianaHongIntro 15 Jan 2022 - 20:37 AdrianaHong
Personal Introduction By AdrianaHong 15 Jan 2022 I grew up in New Jersey, and studied accounting as my undergraduate major. I came to law school because I didn ...
MorganMartinIntro 15 Jan 2022 - 19:39 MorganMartin
My name is Morgan Martin. I was an aspiring professional tennis player before law school. Unfortunately, I got injured and I am no longer able to play. I applied to ...
KailaAlstonIntro 15 Jan 2022 - 19:26 KailaAlston
Personal Introduction By KailaAlston 15 Jan 2022 Hello! My name is Kaila. I am straight through from undergrad where I studied legal studies and minored in Korean ...
AshleyMarceusIntro 15 Jan 2022 - 16:24 AshleyMarceus
Personal Introduction By AshleyMarceus 15 Jan 2022 My name is Ashley Marceus and I am from West Palm Beach, FL and graduated from the University of Florida. I ...
GabrielleStanfieldIntro 14 Jan 2022 - 20:57 GabrielleStanfield
Personal Introduction By GabrielleStanfield 14 Jan 2022 Hi! My name is Gabrielle (or Gabby) and my pronouns are she/her. I am originally from Boston and I graduated ...
KarsynArchambeauIntro 14 Jan 2022 - 18:18 KarsynArchambeau
Personal Introduction By KarsynArchambeau 14 Jan 2022 Hey! My name is Karsyn Archambeau and I am from just outside Atlanta, Georgia. I graduated in 2020 from the ...
SarahKimIntro 14 Jan 2022 - 17:14 SarahKim
Personal Introduction My name is Sarah Kim and I grew up in Seoul, South Korea. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon this past May. I studied chemistry in undergrad, which ...
GodardSolomonIntro 13 Jan 2022 - 22:45 GodardSolomon
Personal Introduction My name is Godard Solomon and I am from Miami, FL. I went to University of Miami for undergrad where I studied Political Science and Sociology ...
TarynWilkinsIntro 13 Jan 2022 - 18:59 TarynWilkins
Personal Introduction By TarynWilkins 13 Jan 2022 Hi everyone! My name is Taryn Wilkins and I am originally from New Jersey (the Jersey Shore). I am a 2021 Graduate ...
StartingRemote 13 Jan 2022 - 17:13 EbenMoglen
Starting With One Week of Not Meeting A class which does not meet for the first week, and then is supposed to meet "normally" in the midst of the pandemic is being ...
PersonalIntro 13 Jan 2022 - 13:21 EbenMoglen
How to Write Your Personal Introduction Not more than 100 words, please. Formatting First, be sure you have logged in. Clicking Create Intro will create a page ...
GregOrrThirdPaper 12 Jan 2022 - 16:09 GregOrr
Pluralistic Meaning By GregOrr 12 Jun 2009 In first paper, I discussed content and sense in reality, communication, and making decisions. With reference to a chapter ...
HadarDouekFirstEssay 19 Jul 2021 - 15:07 HadarDouek
(Draft #2) Is there no alternative? My 1L year has made evident the many ways in which we police ourselves and feed into the bureaucracy of late capitalism. Though ...
NnamdiNwaezeapuSecondEssay 03 Jun 2021 - 17:24 NnamdiNwaezeapu
Nutrition Facts for Contracts By NnamdiNwaezeapu 3 June 2021 This essay addresses the problem of unread and unreadable clickwrap, browsewrap, and scrollwrap agreements ...
JabariMatthewSecondEssay 02 Jun 2021 - 07:12 JabariMatthew
My Practice of Fear By JabariMatthew 16 Apr 2021 My Fear of Being Worthless James Baldwin expressed in his essay, #8220;Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region ...
JabariMatthewFirstEssay 02 Jun 2021 - 03:45 JabariMatthew
Who Cares About The Law Anyway? By JabariMatthew 26 Feb 2021 The Power of Creativity and Law As a performance artist, I have come to appreciate the powerful tool ...
JackSherrickFirstEssay 01 Jun 2021 - 13:48 JackSherrick
The Evolution of Dualism: From Jesus' First Delineation to Modern American Evangelical Conceptions By JackSherrick 21 Feb 2021 New Testament Origins of Dualism ...
JackSherrickSecondEssay 01 Jun 2021 - 13:35 JackSherrick
Setting Down Roots By JackSherrick 15 Apr 2021 How The Land Got Here Tens of thousands of years ago, vast glaciers inched their way across the land that would ...
JackReadingNotes 26 May 2021 - 15:38 JackSherrick
JackSherrick 16 Jan 2021 Usually I take my notes on a Google Doc but I'll do it here for this course. It gives me a chance to experiment with the site mechanics and ...
JessicaEgbebikeFirstEssay 26 May 2021 - 02:17 JessicaEgbebike
My Journey Towards the Law By JessicaEgbebike 22 Feb 2021 The Prelude My First Generation Experience: Duty to Visit Growing up, my parents would constantly tell ...
TaleahTyrellSecondEssay 25 May 2021 - 22:05 EbenMoglen
Lack of Discernment when Cops are Afraid By TaleahTyrell 16 Apr 2021 Suspicion and Fear Damages Ability to Discern Police Officers Discernment: De Funding is ...
EthanSingerFirstEssay 25 May 2021 - 21:59 EbenMoglen
The Interest in Dying By EthanSinger 26 Feb 2021 The Right to Die #8220;Is there a right to die? #8221; asks Chief Justice Rehnquist in v. Glucksberg. According ...
MaryamAsenugaFirstEssay 24 May 2021 - 13:22 EbenMoglen
Learning Lessons from the Deaf Community By MaryamAsenuga 22 Feb 2021 Introduction #8220;The only bad thing about being deaf is the inaccessibility to the ...
MaryamAsenugaSecondEssay 24 May 2021 - 13:21 EbenMoglen
The topic we all think we understand: Affirmative Action By MaryamAsenuga 11 Apr 2021 Introduction Olympic runners Usain Bolt, Leo Manzano, and Galen Rupp walk ...
DawitAkliluFirstEssay 24 May 2021 - 03:50 DawitAklilu
Forming identity through relating experience to craft By DawitAklilu 22 Feb 2021 Section I: Introduction Identity. The formative themes of our life that make ...
AbbePetuchowskiSecondEssay 22 May 2021 - 17:38 EbenMoglen
Reforming Maryland #8217;s Infancy Doctrine By AbbePetuchowski 18 May 2021 It doesn #8217;t take a psychologist to recognize that children think and behave differently ...
AbbePetuchowskiFirstEssay 22 May 2021 - 17:03 EbenMoglen
Community led Educational Reform By AbbePetuchowski 18 May 2021 New programs, same issues The educational arena is saturated with organizations and think tanks ...
IrisAikateriniFrangouFirstEssay 22 May 2021 - 16:05 EbenMoglen
By IrisAikateriniFrangou 25 Feb 2021 Exploring Arnold's Social Psychology of Organizations Through the Lens of Intrapsychic Psychology the Multiplicity of Individual ...
ValeriaFloresSecondEssay 22 May 2021 - 14:00 EbenMoglen
From Sundays to a Practice By ValeriaFlores 07 Apr 2021 Sundays For 20 years, I spent every Sunday at my grandmother #8217;s house. If it was a Sunday, I would ...
ValeriaFloresFirstEssay 22 May 2021 - 13:29 EbenMoglen
Why not statehood? By ValeriaFlores 22 Feb 2021 Introduction In my last essay draft, I did not offer an explanation of why statehood would not decolonize Puerto ...
TaylorPerezSecondEssay 20 May 2021 - 03:44 TaylorPerez
The Multiplicity of Personality #8220;The world existed, and my pain, my desire, my love and my uncertainty existed, and then, there was something else. #8221; ...
DanLEeSecondEssay 20 May 2021 - 01:33 DanLEe
Becoming Unhinged By DanLEe May 19, 2021 Introduction Ludwig Wittgenstein #8217;s On Certainty was his last work, and although decidedly less famous ...
DanLEeFirstEssay 20 May 2021 - 01:29 DanLEe
Chairman By DanLEe May 19 After my 1L finals, I met up with Dom, old friend of mine who had taken on a position at Sullivan Cromwell during the pandemic ...
TaylorPerezFirstEssay 20 May 2021 - 01:29 TaylorPerez
The Law as the Witness of #8216;Our #8217; Moral Life In The Path of the Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. described the relationship between law and morality quite ...
JenniferMortonFirstEssay 19 May 2021 - 21:03 JenniferMorton
First Draft History of Abortion Law in the US By JenniferMorton 26 Feb 2021 A topic I am interested in is the history of abortion laws in the United States. One ...
OliviaMartinezSecondEssay 19 May 2021 - 20:27 OliviaMartinez
Humans are Hominid Primates. Hominid Primates Believe What They See And Imagine What They Hear. By OliviaMartinez 16 Apr 2021 To make things happen in society ...
JenniferMortonSecondEssay 19 May 2021 - 18:03 JenniferMorton
By JenniferMorton 16 Apr 2021 I do think a title and some sectioning would improve the draft. I think that I will take the approach that many of my peers ...
AliJimenezFirstEssay 19 May 2021 - 04:29 AliJimenez
The Path to Disabilities Rights Advocacy By AliJimenez 18 May 2021 Foreword Before law school, I spent four years teaching 6th grade math. Over the years teaching ...
TaleahTyrellFirstEssay 19 May 2021 - 03:12 TaleahTyrell
Education, the Great Equalizer: How Lawyers can help Mitigate Education Disparities Across U.S. Public Schools By TaleahTyrell 21 Feb 2021 When I was six years ...
EthanSingerSecondEssay 19 May 2021 - 02:40 EthanSinger
An Examination of Imagining the Future By EthanSinger 13 Apr 2021 Introduction When I was younger, I often imagined my future self as a professional baseball ...
JackSherrickFirstEssayNotes 19 May 2021 - 02:35 JackSherrick
JackSherrick 18 Feb 2021 I moved this topic to JackSherrickFirstEssayNotes so that when the standard essay template is created for you it doesn't conflict with ...
LarryTaylorIIIFirstEssay 19 May 2021 - 01:50 LarryTaylorIII
A Libra's Scale: Balance Between Law Creativity By LarryTaylorIII 26 Feb 2021 I thought coming to Columbia would allow me to actualize the full ...
IrisAikateriniFrangouSecondEssay 18 May 2021 - 23:52 IrisAikateriniFrangou
The Need for Confluence of Creation Styles in the Law By IrisAikateriniFrangou 14 Apr 2021 Introduction: Kafka #8217;s and Joseph #8217;s Subjective Depiction ...
MariahHaleySecondEssay 18 May 2021 - 18:39 MariahHaley
Lawyering for Change in an Epidemic By MariahHaley 16 Apr 2021 Twin Epidemics While the rest of the nation has contended with an epidemic which affects all, Black ...
NoahRushinFirstEssay 18 May 2021 - 02:24 NoahRushin
Dissociation By NoahRushin 26 Feb 2021 Introduction: This essay will explore the roles that dissociation plays in the practice of law. More specifically, the essay ...
NoahRushinSecondEssay 18 May 2021 - 01:04 NoahRushin
Truthfulness By NoahRushin 14 Apr 2021 Introduction Truthfulness plays a crucial role in one #8217;s legal career. Throughout the course we learned that truthfulness ...
DesireeMoshayediFirstEssay 17 May 2021 - 07:18 DesireeMoshayedi
The Weaknesses and Corruption of Macro Cost Benefit Analyses in Redistributive Policy By DesireeMoshayedi 16 May 2021 I) The Structural Issues of Cost Benefit ...
DesireeMoshayediSecondEssay 17 May 2021 - 07:05 DesireeMoshayedi
Would you rather be the rat or the scientist? By DesireeMoshayedi 16 May 2021 I. Rat and Scientist A rat lives in a maze with several other rats. She watches ...
SarahBrandSecondEssay 16 May 2021 - 17:16 SarahBrand
The Unnecessary Distinction Between Equality and Equity By SarahBrand 07 Apr 2021 Background Equity v. Equality I was eighteen years old when I learned that ...
SarahBrandFirstEssay 12 May 2021 - 19:56 SarahBrand
Planning My Practice The Secret of Cook v. Raimondo After San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, confronting property tax based school finance systems ...
OliviaMartinezFirstEssay 12 May 2021 - 18:34 OliviaMartinez
Lawyering is Balancing Visible and Invisible Bullets By OliviaMartinez 22 Feb 2021 Lawyering is Balancing Visible and Invisible Bullets Serving as a lawyer requires ...
ElizabethOseiFirstEssay 11 May 2021 - 02:53 ElizabethOsei
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 ...
EmmaShumwaySecondEssay 07 May 2021 - 15:14 EmmaShumway
A Brief Exploration of Courageous Lawyering By EmmaShumway 06 Apr 2021 An Introduction Despite the enduring societal value placed in courage, it is difficult ...
EmmaShumwayFirstEssay 06 May 2021 - 15:18 EmmaShumway
Developing My Personal Lawyer #8217;s Theory of Social Action By EmmaShumway 19 Feb 2021 Why I #8217;m Here Choosing Law I learned about climate change as an ...
NoahJosephSecondEssay 03 May 2021 - 05:23 NoahJoseph
My Career Plans By NoahJoseph 02 May 2021 Introduction Having recently finished my first year of law school, I now have a tentative long term plan for my career ...
AubreyKelleySecondEssay 01 May 2021 - 18:01 EbenMoglen
Lawyering is Poetry; vice versa. By AubreyKelley 15 Apr 2021 I took my Power in my Hand #8212; And went against the World #8212; 'Twas not so much as David #8212 ...
PropertyStudyResources 18 Apr 2021 - 18:27 JackSherrick
JackSherrick 12 Apr 2021 I've included what I have from my property outline so far below. The formatting didn't transfer over so I'll fix that soon Trespass and the ...
AlexanderHohlFirstEssay 16 Apr 2021 - 05:16 AlexanderHohl
The Black white Wealth Gap: The Case For Reparations By AlexanderHohl 26 Feb 2021 The Origins of Reparations The idea of reparations is not new. In 1783, Sutton ...
JackSherrickSecondEssayNotes 14 Apr 2021 - 16:50 JackSherrick
JackSherrick 11 Apr 2021 Law practice is point in 4 dimension with Whom, what, how much, where, (speculative) 5th axis why (fun part) should I view each interaction ...
ClassPads 14 Apr 2021 - 14:58 EbenMoglen
Class Pads Jan 14 Jan 20 Jan 25 Jan 27 Feb 1 Feb 3 Feb 8 Feb 10 Feb 15 Feb 17 Feb 22 Feb 24 Mar 8 Mar 10 Mar 15 Mar 17 Mar 22 Mar 24 Mar 29 Mar 31 Apr 5 Apr 7 Apr ...
SecondEssay 14 Apr 2021 - 14:42 EbenMoglen
Essay Assignment Your choice of topic. As always, not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Second Essay will ...
ClassAudio 13 Apr 2021 - 16:49 EbenMoglen
Class Audio Jan 14 Jan 25 My thanks to Victor Young, Edward Heyman, Ben Webster, Toots Thielemans, and Marilyn Monroe Feb 1 My thanks to the late John ...
NoahJosephFirstEssay 13 Apr 2021 - 02:46 NoahJoseph
Legal English and Non Speakers of Standard English By NoahJoseph 24 Feb 2021 Introduction Law is the use of language to regulate and change society. In the United ...
OutdoorSignUp 07 Apr 2021 - 20:29 DavidGiordano
In Person Instruction Beginning the week of 1 March, there will be weekly opportunities for small group personal section meetings with me, outdoors, for safely socially ...
WebTopicList 01 Apr 2021 - 19:54 EbenMoglen
!LawContempSoc Web Topic List Topics by Hierarchical Relationship open all close all %TREEBROWSER{ theme "file" shared "tree" title "" openTo "" ...
BasketballAnalytics 30 Mar 2021 - 21:10 JackSherrick
JackSherrick 13 Mar 2021 I'm considering writing my second paper on how analytics has changed the style of play in the NBA and how it has broadened the sport's appeal ...
ChakshuHurriaJournal 29 Mar 2021 - 13:34 ChakshuHurria
ChakshuHurria's Journal 1/20 I'm excited about this. The format is definitely a bit confusing to start off with, hopefully this is working? There'll definitely be ...
LearningInTragedy 23 Mar 2021 - 21:27 EbenMoglen
Learning From, and In, Tragedy The language of violence is at once stark and ambiguous. When we experience outbursts of violence in society, both in our individual ...
TruthfulnessAndCourage 17 Mar 2021 - 17:13 EbenMoglen
Truthfulness and Courage What people think about "lawyers" isn't what matters to us. We are becoming lawyers, the ones we want to be. Observing and learning from ...
TWikiGuestJournal 12 Mar 2021 - 21:55 TaleahTyrell
MarvinGalloway 24 Mar 2020
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 ...
SmallGroupSignups 12 Feb 2021 - 23:29 EbenMoglen
Small Group Sign up Sheets Small group discussion sessions of one hour will be scheduled irregularly. Each slot lists the time, the number of people who can sign ...
TheSocraticMethod 10 Feb 2021 - 19:27 DesireeMoshayedi
ElizabethOsei 18 Jan 2021 I completely agree, Liz! The anxiety that is caused by the cold calls sometimes distracts me from actually absorbing the knowledge the professor ...
TheBurdenOfMind 09 Feb 2021 - 22:16 AlexanderHohl
Hi all, I'm here with another topic (in part because I want to make sure this all posted correctly). I'm thinking about the burden of having a human mind. I'm curious ...
BigLaw 09 Feb 2021 - 22:14 AlexanderHohl
I noticed Dawit's "BigLaw" in the "MoneyConcerns" page turned into a blue word with a question mark, meaning it hasn't been discussed before on the Twiki. Maybe this ...
MoneyConcerns 08 Feb 2021 - 14:12 EmmaShumway
I wanted to create this topic to discuss money concerns related to developing a legal practice. The big draw for many law students at schools like Columbia is the ...
MaximizingWhatWeCanGainFrom1LSummerLegalIntership 08 Feb 2021 - 02:41 TaleahTyrell
TaleahTyrell 01 Feb 2021 Hi Taleah, I'm very conflicted about what to do this summer but I have to make a decision soon. I feel like my public interest option is directly ...
EtherPad 01 Feb 2021 - 18:09 OliviaMartinez
NnamdiNwaezeapu 14 Jan 2021 Hi Nnamdi, did you want us to talk about anything specific to the EtherPad or just about it? OliviaMartinez 01 Feb 2021
WhatAreWeGainingFromLawSchool 01 Feb 2021 - 18:01 OliviaMartinez
Hi everyone, I wanted to create this topic to ask what ARE we gaining from law school? Professor Moglen's brief discussion in the class audio regarding our lack of ...
TheDrumMajorInstinct 22 Jan 2021 - 05:39 ValeriaFlores
I'm not sure if this is the correct way to create a new topic, but I wanted to share a link to a piece by MLK, Jr. that I think is relevant to one of our discussions ...
StudentJournal 11 Jan 2021 - 17:36 EbenMoglen
Why a Student Journal Teaching and learning is a person to person activity. We aren't really teaching, now, in the time of Covid 19; we are simulating teaching. ...
AimingAtAimfulness 21 Nov 2020 - 04:50 GregOrr
I agree with Prof. Moglen that defining aims would help narrow our focus to manageable problems. I'll tentatively propose that one should reconcile three kinds of ...
AFormerStudentsRetrospective 21 Nov 2020 - 03:02 JoeBruner
A Retrospective On A Time in Law School, Now That There Is a Pandemic By JoeBruner 20 Nov 2020 Me, Four Years Ago Four years ago, I was a 1L at Columbia Law ...
PossibleReadingList 29 Oct 2020 - 22:06 EbenMoglen
Possible Reading List Readings change from year to year as I listen to our discussion and decide what might be best to do next. This is an unrepresentative sequence ...
VictoriaRamosQueneauFirstEssay 03 Jun 2020 - 15:25 EbenMoglen
Borderphobia: Humor and Legal Translation By VictoriaRamosQueneau 28 Feb 2020 Example on the border Know your audience; a key axiom for successfully executing ...
NathanielPettitFirstEssay 22 May 2020 - 06:03 NathanielPettit
Defying the Legal Constriction of Creativity By NathanielPettit 28 Feb 2020 edited 22 May 2020 Introduction and Overview Defining the Challenges of Expectations ...
LiasBorshanFirstEssay 12 May 2020 - 00:15 EbenMoglen
The Well Meaning Law School Student By LiasBorshan 28 Feb 2020 Section I: Who is she? This paper is about a fictional figure that I call the well meaning law ...
KokoZhangJournal 01 May 2020 - 05:42 KokoZhang
KokoZhang's Journal Right now I feel like there is enormous amount of stress because of the coronavirus on top of me, that makes me feel unsettled everyday. I am not ...
JustinPerezJournal 29 Apr 2020 - 16:22 JustinPerez
JustinPerez's Journal The past three weeks have been extremely trying for me. One of my family members has become very sick and two others have exhibited mild symptoms ...
LilianKlatskinJournal 28 Apr 2020 - 21:27 LilianKlatskin
LilianKlatskin's Journal This is the first time that my generation has been old enough to see ourselves as part of a national or international crisis. I was too young ...
ChristineFrancisSecondEssay 24 Apr 2020 - 15:05 ChristineFrancis
Does it matter whether property arises prior to and independent of political society? What is the relevance of the origin of property for thinking about political ...
ChristineFrancisFirstEssay 24 Apr 2020 - 14:58 ChristineFrancis
What is the relationship between civil law and the law of nature? When is one justified in disobeying the sovereign? According to Hobbes, the natural condition of ...
JooHeeKimFirstEssay 24 Apr 2020 - 13:22 JooHeeKim
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 ...
AlessiaSaracinoFendiJournal 20 Apr 2020 - 20:27 AlessiaSaracinoFendi
AlessiaSaracinoFendi's Journal I am currently in the office hours for today. Although i find it a very interactive and interesting platform, I have found it difficult ...
WhitneyLeeSecondEssay 19 Apr 2020 - 05:01 WhitneyLee
WhitneyLeeFirstEssay 19 Apr 2020 - 04:53 WhitneyLee
MorreaseLeftwichJournal 18 Apr 2020 - 02:18 MorreaseLeftwich
MorreaseLeftwich 02 Apr 2020 I liked the excerpt from Lawyerland. When Judge Day talked about exerting power, I first disagreed with her, being sure that judges do ...
ColinHendersonJournal 16 Apr 2020 - 01:48 LilianKlatskin
ColinHenderson's Journal 3/30/2020 I was really struck by the connection between "Cannibalism and the Common Law" and "Pancho and Lefty" (one of my favorite songs ...
DaimirisGarciaJournal 12 Apr 2020 - 18:28 DaimirisGarcia
DaimirisGarcia's Journal April 5, 2020 Journal Entry #2: Before law school, the only lawyers I had ever seen in my life were those stereotypically portrayed in movies ...
MaryJeanWhitsellJournal 08 Apr 2020 - 13:41 MaryJeanWhitsell
MaryJeanWhitsell's Journal I wanted to start journaling by answering some questions which you posed in class on Thursday, but which I have also been thinking about ...
ClerkshipNotes 01 Apr 2020 - 16:01 JakeGlendenning
Last week in office hours, a (presumably) 3L asked Eben for advice regarding clerkships. I found the information useful so I thought I'd share it here. He mentioned ...
MarvinGallowayJournal 31 Mar 2020 - 14:31 MarvinGalloway
MarvinGalloway's Journal For years I have wished to be closer to my family but studying on another continent has forced me to limit visits to school breaks and holidays ...
GradeChangeToPassFail 28 Mar 2020 - 21:38 MatthewGoldstein
Grade Change to Pass/Fail I'm curious to hear how you all have been affected by the grade change to credit/no credit. How has it altered your stress/anxiety levels ...
CoronavirusTracker 13 Mar 2020 - 14:52 AsherKalman
Some Links About Covid 9 Epidemiology I did some refactoring and added a title, which is useful for any topic. Here's a created by CDC showing the distribution ...
ModernConnection 12 Mar 2020 - 19:30 GabrielleKloppers
GabrielleKloppers 12 Mar 2020 GabrielleKloppers 12 Mar 2020 I agree with Jason that perhaps there can be a distinction between school related and non school related ...
AndrewSavageFirstEssay 04 Mar 2020 - 00:42 AndrewSavage
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JalilMuhammadFirstEssay 29 Feb 2020 - 02:28 JalilMuhammad
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AhmedImamFirstEssay 29 Feb 2020 - 02:27 AhmedImam
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AndrewSavagePaper1 29 Feb 2020 - 01:21 AndrewSavage
AndrewSavage 29 Feb 2020 The intersection of liability and privacy in higher education In Brief: 1.The doctrine governing duty of care universities owe to students ...
MatthewGoldsteinFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 23:01 MatthewGoldstein
The Fugue and the Fission By MatthewGoldstein 28 Feb 2020 I saw the best minds of my generation trade in their pens to the Xerox Corporation, and they thought ...
LeslieRidingsFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 22:56 LeslieRidings
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JustinFlaumenhaftFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 22:31 JustinFlaumenhaft
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ColinHendersonFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 22:25 ColinHenderson
Some of the greatest evil lies in the least romantic systems of human governance. Take, for instance, the pile of papers sitting on a judge #8217;s desk and awaiting ...
AlejandraCastanedaFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 22:23 AlejandraCastaneda
I got a banner ad for Monster.com today. Limited time offer $125 per month Stater Value. By AlejandraCastaneda 28 Feb 2020 My mom grew up in a small pueblo ...
MarvinGallowayFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 21:56 MarvinGalloway
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OuraniaYancopoulosFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 21:54 OuraniaYancopoulos
The Case for Creativity: and how to teach it. By OuraniaYancopoulos 28 Feb 2020 Dear Dean Lester, It is with the utmost respect that I write you this ...
MaryJeanWhitsellFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 21:29 MaryJeanWhitsell
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AnnePowerFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 21:03 AnnePower
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BrandonDelijaniFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 20:59 BrandonDelijani
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PaulRileyFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 20:59 PaulRiley
A Seat at the Table By PaulRiley 28 Feb 2020 Introduction There is a proverb that states: #8220;If you do not have a seat at the table, you are probably on ...
XyzloLeeFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 19:42 XyzloLee
Creativity Inside and Outside the Law School By XyzloLee 28 Feb 2020 Counseling Like many of my peers, I came to law school without a plan to practice in a specific ...
ThomasLiuFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 19:11 ThomasLiu
How to be Creative as Law Students By ThomasLiu 28 Feb 2020 As a human being, I naturally get satisfaction from being creative. Whether it is playing a drum solo ...
BrandonVinesFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 18:02 BrandonVines
A Descort for Law School By BrandonVines 28 Feb 2020 What remains in my mind A while ago, I joined the Rebel Alliance. I felt the weight of my stolen stormtrooper ...
GershamJFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 17:58 GershamJ
Why I #8217;m Leaving In the Fall (Or Better Yet, As Soon as Possible) By GershamJ 28 Feb 2020 What I Seek Is a Personal Doctrine What I seek is a personal ...
CarlySadicarioFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 15:33 CarlySadicario
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AsherKalmanFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 13:30 AsherKalman
Law School, Detachment, and Creativity By AsherKalman 26 Feb 2020 Detachment makes space for creativity Organizations have creeds, and creeds exert pressure on ...
MatthewOsnowitzFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 05:00 MatthewOsnowitz
There but for the Grace of God Go Us By MatthewOsnowitz 28 Feb 2020 Experiments in Moral Luck In the 1960 #8217; s, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted ...
LilianKlatskinFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 03:18 LilianKlatskin
Things I Will Remind Myself as I Metamorphosize into a Lawyer By LilianKlatskin 28 Feb 2020 My statement on being creative in law school will (ironically, perhaps ...
NicoleCastilloFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 03:13 NicoleCastillo
Just a Jersey Girl Trying to #8220;Do Good #8221; By NicoleCastillo 28 Feb 2020 Who Are You? Hint: Do Not Answer with Your Place of Employment In my ideal world ...
StarGulantFirstEssay 28 Feb 2020 - 02:36 StarGulant
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SethGlickmanFirstEssay 27 Feb 2020 - 20:00 SethGlickman
Creative Constraint By Seth Glickman 26 Feb 2020 The Unconstrained Abyss My father and I talk on the phone most every week, and a recurring pattern during these ...
GabrielleKloppersFirstEssay 26 Feb 2020 - 21:19 GabrielleKloppers
Writing the Law By GabrielleKloppers 26 Feb 2020 The Law is Language The interpretive powers of storytelling take on a special significance in a courtroom. After ...
MorreaseLeftwichFirstEssay 25 Feb 2020 - 15:54 MorreaseLeftwich
Creativity in Law School By MorreaseLeftwich 25 Feb 2020 To be creative in law school, we must take what we want from law school while leaving what we don #8217 ...
JustinPerezFirstEssay 25 Feb 2020 - 04:17 JustinPerez
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KokoZhangFirstEssay 25 Feb 2020 - 01:59 KokoZhang
Queering Law School By KokoZhang 25 Feb 2020 I majored in Gender and Sexuality Studies in college and I studied a lot, but really a little, about queer theory ...
AmandaCabalFirstEssay 25 Feb 2020 - 01:02 AmandaCabal
Being Creative In Law School: Disengaging From Self Deception By AmandaCabal 25 Feb 2020 The Law Student's Creed Every student who comes to Columbia Law School ...
JasonLFirstEssay 24 Feb 2020 - 19:37 JasonL
Logic, Storytelling, and Ice Floes By JasonL 24 Feb 2020 The Binary Early in the semester, taking Eben #8217;s class in conjunction with the rest of the 1L spring ...
ElijahTurnerFirstEssay 24 Feb 2020 - 13:56 ElijahTurner
How to Be Creative in Law School The Simple Answer: Don't Forget Yourself. This means retaining/maintaining a consistent understanding of who I am, where I come ...
GregOrrFirstPaper 02 Nov 2019 - 19:52 GregOrr
Content and Sense By GregOrr 17 Apr 2009 In Musil's Man Without Qualities, a group assembled from Austrian society is given an opportunity to choose something ...
AllisonHoustonFirstEssay 29 Jun 2018 - 05:05 AllisonHouston
My Fear of An Unlived Life By AllisonHouston 29 June 2018 Sometimes I feel strange and out of place being enrolled as a law student because I have no intention ...
AllisonHoustonSecondEssay 29 Jun 2018 - 05:03 AllisonHouston
A Settled Conflict: Why Law School Is the Choice for Me By AllisonHouston 29 June 2018 Oftentimes doubts concerning my law school enrollment lead me to speculate ...
UdokaOkaforSecondEssay 26 Jun 2018 - 22:40 UdokaOkafor
I Will Do Good As A Lawyer When I Learn What Good Looks Like For Me By UdokaOkafor 25 Apr 2018 I Have Always Wanted To Be A Lawyer I have always wanted to be ...
AndyGutierrezFirstEssay 23 Jun 2018 - 13:15 EbenMoglen
We Need to Know What Sex Is The mission of the Department of Education ( #8220;the Department #8221;), as stated on their website, is to promote student achievement ...
AmmarMonawarSecondEssay 22 Jun 2018 - 18:21 AmmarMonawar
During our first year of law school, all we received was exposure; the planting of these vague notions of what an area of law COULD be should we choose to pursue it ...
SalvadorRosasSecondEssay 19 Jun 2018 - 21:41 SalvadorRosas
Should I Stay or Should I Go? By SalvadorRosas 26 Apr 2018 Two semesters at CLS has gotten me a great network and encouraged me to seek tools to create my own ...
DanielImahiyeroboFirstEssay 15 Jun 2018 - 11:25 DanielImahiyerobo
I #8217;ve been the only black man in the room many times before. Yet, there are few times I can remember feeling so uncomfortable in that position as on this day ...
DanielImahiyeroboSecondEssay 15 Jun 2018 - 11:23 DanielImahiyerobo
After a year of law school, what have I learned about the sort of lawyer I want to be Coming into law school I had two ideas about the type of lawyer I #8217;d like ...
ZaneMullerFirstEssay 12 Jun 2018 - 19:52 ZaneMuller
Controlling Workers in the Platform Economy I. The Rise of Worker Misclassification While the numbers are contested, the last two decades have seen the arrival and ...
BrandonJosephSecondEssay 12 Jun 2018 - 18:49 BrandonJoseph
A Lawyer #8217;s Lawyer By BrandonJoseph 12 Jun 2018 The Path to School After graduating from college in 2012, I first worked at Manhattan Criminal Court as an ...
SarahMacielSecondEssay 12 Jun 2018 - 02:49 SarahMaciel
Growth By SarahMaciel 26 Apr 2018 At the surface, it #8217;s a simple question. Of course, many people over the years have asked the same question, but they were ...
MilesGreeneFirstEssay 10 Jun 2018 - 21:39 MilesGreene
Waking Up In Legal Hell First paper, Final Draft for Law in Contemporary Society By MilesGreene 25 Feb 2018 hehe! Introduction Felix S. Cohen begins "Transcendental ...
MilesGreeneSecondEssay 10 Jun 2018 - 21:18 MilesGreene
A Lawyer's Epitaph By MilesGreene 997 words The etching of an epitaph can be considered the final narrative shaping act of one #8217;s life. It represents an ...
MarinaHernandezSecondEssay 06 Jun 2018 - 01:02 MarinaHernandez
Fall 2018 By MarinaHernandez 05 Jun 2018 How I Got Here I am the daughter of a convicted felon, and neither of my parents completed high school. Despite being ...
PatrickMarrisSecondEssay 05 Jun 2018 - 01:41 PatrickMarris
What's the deal with injustice? By PatrickMarris 19 Apr 2018 I think I hate injustice. You might say, "Doesn't the think in that first sentence kinda take away ...
ElizabethHaydenSecondEssay 05 Jun 2018 - 00:59 ElizabethHayden
Reflections after a year in law school By ElizabethHayden 4 June 2018 The kind of lawyer I want to be I want to be the kind of lawyer who cares about their work ...
DanielYoonSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 17:30 EbenMoglen
My Terms By DanielYoon 26 Apr 2018 Introduction When I committed to a career in law by accepting my offer at Columbia Law School, I knew only that I planned ...
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 ...
BrianTratnerSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 16:48 EbenMoglen
This Again By BrianTratner 30 Apr 2018 After a year of law school, I #8217;ve learned that I want to be the sort of lawyer that is a friend to Taiwan. I admit ...
SudiTasissaSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 16:22 EbenMoglen
By SudiTasissa 26 Apr 2018 The Bumpy Ride:First Year of Law School I came to law school heavily influenced by my background. After my family and I moved to the ...
EricSpeckhardSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 16:09 EbenMoglen
Going Forward By EricSpeckhard 25 Apr 2018 Past is Prologue A few years ago, I decided to leave behind a childhood dream. Growing up, my family went on frequent ...
MinahSoSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 15:50 EbenMoglen
By MinahSo 25 Apr 2018 Honesty Writing the first assignment in March, I was desperate for a directive. When we were given a prompt for the second essay, I was ...
ChrisSantanaSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 14:21 EbenMoglen
Feasible Goals By ChrisSantana 26 Apr 2018 Contributing to the Reformation of Our Criminal Justice System After a year of law school, I have learned that I ...
GenesisSanchezSecondEssay 01 Jun 2018 - 14:11 EbenMoglen
Not Following the Masses: Taking Charge of My Education By Genesis Sanchez Tavarez 26 Apr 2018 Breaking the Mold During this first year of law school, I have ...
MariHulbuttaSecondEssay 31 May 2018 - 22:12 MariHulbutta
A Theory of Action for Becoming the First Woman Governor of the Chickasaw Nation By MariHulbutta 31 May 2018 (Second paper, final draft; 987 words) When asked ...
CeciliaPlazaSecondEssay 31 May 2018 - 20:11 EbenMoglen
For Present Day Me By CeciliaPlaza 14 Apr 2018 I have never been a quiet person. I don #8217;t like to be pigeon holed or told what to do. I #8217;m hot headed ...
ZaneMullerSecondEssay 31 May 2018 - 18:23 EbenMoglen
The Kind of Lawyer I Want To Be By ZaneMuller 26 Apr 2018 I. Why I Came to Law School I #8217;ve spent most of my academic life coasting, although that changed ...
StephenKimSecondEssay 31 May 2018 - 13:05 EbenMoglen
From Here to There, and Where? By StephenKim 26 Apr 2018 Losing Touch During my first year of law school, I lost in touch with why I wanted to become a lawyer ...
AngeloAngelinoSecondEssay 30 May 2018 - 12:14 AngeloAngelino
Don #8217;t Force the Square Peg in the Round Hole By AngeloAngelino 25 Apr 2018 Where Do I Fit as a Lawyer? Sports? For the past 5 years, I have tailored my ...
VendarrylJenkinsSecondEssay 29 May 2018 - 12:09 EbenMoglen
Learning Who I Don't Want to Be By VendarrylJenkins 27 Apr 2018 Conversation That Got the Wheels Turning The lawyer, and more importantly the person that I want ...
VanessaAjaguSecondEssay 29 May 2018 - 02:17 VanessaAjagu
THE HISTORY OF ME By VanessaAjagu Past Me : The Lawyer I Was Born To Be December 2006. I liked bright line rules. Be in bed by 9pm, pray before you eat, respect ...
AndyGutierrezSecondEssay 28 May 2018 - 14:25 EbenMoglen
Building Bridges By AndyGutierrez 25 Apr 2018 Although I am an only child, I #8217;ve grown up believing that I would be a fantastic middle child. As a result ...
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SudiTasissaFirstEssay 01 May 2018 - 18:03 SudiTasissa
Progress In his book The Souls of Black Folk, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois writes about the concept of "double consciousness". He defined double consciousness ...
VendarrylJenkinsFirstEssay 27 Apr 2018 - 04:03 VendarrylJenkins
Beasts of the Law By VendarrylJenkins 01 Mar 2018 Law: Good or Bad When I first began to learn about law, it was presented in terms of justice. There was the ...
UdokaOkaforFirstEssay 27 Apr 2018 - 03:37 UdokaOkafor
The Law Is Not An Objective Practice, It Is A Tool Used By Those In Power To Keep Power By UdokaOkafor 01 Mar 2018 Taught To Believe That The Law Is Objective ...
AfiaKwakwaFirstEssay 27 Apr 2018 - 01:25 AfiaKwakwa
Conflicting Justice By AfiaKwakwa 01 Mar 2018 I. The Incident I was in the middle of my first year of teaching when I heard that one of my students was found ...
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 ...
ChrisSantanaFirstEssay 26 Apr 2018 - 20:41 ChrisSantana
OLD DRAFT, PLEASE SCROLL BELOW PROFESSOR MOGLEN'S RED COMMENTS FOR FINAL DRAFT By ChrisSantana 01 Mar 2018 Gang Banging Fear overwhelmed my 18 year old body ...
BrandonJosephFirstEssay 26 Apr 2018 - 19:02 BrandonJoseph
Plugging Enrollment Gaps with Students of Color A New Reality In light of the #8220;Great Recession #8221;, the 2007 2013 economic downtown impacting the United ...
MarinaHernandezFirstEssay 26 Apr 2018 - 17:22 MarinaHernandez
K12 Education and Juvenile Justice By MarinaHernandez 26 April 2018 Introduction A week in New Orleans at the Public Defender #8217;s Office has pushed me to ...
SalvadorRosasFirstEssay 26 Apr 2018 - 16:45 SalvadorRosas
Creating my Legal Practice By SalvadorRosas 19 Feb 2018 Law School serves to give me the skills necessary to manage my own practice. "Oh, so now you want ...
EricSpeckhardFirstEssay 26 Apr 2018 - 15:36 EricSpeckhard
The Right Question By EricSpeckhard 26 April 2018 Right or Right Besides the usual requests for the #8220;facts #8221; or the holding below, one question ...
DanielYoonFirstEssay 26 Apr 2018 - 03:26 DanielYoon
Society and Debt By DanielYoon 01 Mar 2018 Premise A society is defined by the success and contributions of its members. Each dollar earned and spent in some ...
CeciliaPlazaFirstEssay 25 Apr 2018 - 18:08 CeciliaPlaza
The Justice Myth: How Our Criminal Justice System and Media Representation of Gendered Violence Fosters a False Sense of Progress By CeciliaPlaza 25 Apr 2018 Individuals ...
JusticeForWhom 25 Apr 2018 - 02:24 VanessaAjagu
Justice for whom? The idea that those in law school are in law school for one of two reasons: the love they have for justice or the hate they have for injustice, made ...
VanessaAjaguFirstEssay 24 Apr 2018 - 22:28 VanessaAjagu
THE VOICE OF NON REASON By VanessaAjagu ONCE UPON A VOICE: Speaking my truth The look on Uncle Agu #8217;s face when I responded to his typically misogynistic joke ...
ElizabethHaydenFirstEssay 24 Apr 2018 - 20:23 ElizabethHayden
Creative Approaches to Providing Legal Services By ElizabethHayden 01 Mar 2018 Incorporating the needs of everyone Law school attempts to teach us to view legal ...
NadiaYusufFirstEssay 24 Apr 2018 - 04:14 NadiaYusuf
Perception is Reality By NadiaYusuf 23 Feb 2018 Happy is the man who avoids hardship, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance I vividly remember ...
PatrickMarrisFirstEssay 21 Apr 2018 - 23:33 PatrickMarris
Trump Era Labor Abuse: The Newest Addition to the Dollar MenuŽ By PatrickMarris 28 Feb 2018 On November 7, 2017, in an anti labor move surprising to no one, House ...
StephenKimFirstEssay 20 Apr 2018 - 16:31 StephenKim
First Essay, 2nd Draft How To Become A Great Lawyer By StephenKim 20 April 2018 Professor Moglen offers two great questions to becoming a great lawyer: In terms ...
MariHulbuttaFirstEssay 19 Apr 2018 - 14:16 MariHulbutta
Tribal Sovereignty Advancements Through Intellectual Property Law By MariHulbutta 19 April 2018 (Revised version; 1000 words) I. Current Landscape of Native American ...
TeacherTenure 18 Apr 2018 - 21:17 ZaneMuller
ZaneMuller 09 Apr 2018 I want to continue a conversation from office hours this past Friday around the issue of teacher tenure. The essential question is whether ...
GenesisSanchezFirstEssay 12 Apr 2018 - 18:42 GenesisSanchez
A Window to my Choices: The Evolution of a Law Student By Genesis Sanchez Tavarez 12 Apr 2018 The Search for Justice Our experiences dictate our actions and ...
AmmarMonawarFirstEssay 12 Apr 2018 - 16:39 AmmarMonawar
Users all over the world currently consume music through intermediaries; whether you stream or purchase the music, you #8217;re interfacing with a third party such ...
JustinMaffettSecondEssay 10 Apr 2018 - 17:22 JoeBruner
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MinahSoFirstEssay 08 Apr 2018 - 18:47 EbenMoglen
Compassion Fatigue in Humanitarian Work By MinahSo 01 Mar 2018 I. Introduction One, two, three, four. One homeless person on each block it takes me to walk ...
AngeloAngelinoFirstEssay 02 Apr 2018 - 16:26 EbenMoglen
Join Them, Or be Buried by Them By AngeloAngelino 01 Mar 2018 Asking for Advice Earlier in the semester, I reached out on Twitter to a lawyer from D.C. named ...
RonMazorSecondPaper 02 Apr 2018 - 16:00 RonMazor
ProspectusForProspectives 25 Oct 2017 - 14:39 EbenMoglen
Prospectus For Prospectives Why You Might Want to Take This Course For most of the last thousand years English speaking lawyers have completed their educations, gotten ...
GregOrrIntro 11 Jul 2017 - 22:18 GregOrr
I left a job as a #8216;finance risk #8217; consultant to banks, before things went really sour. I thought law school would be intellectually rewarding, grounding ...
MitchellHokansonSecondEssay 28 Jun 2017 - 18:15 MitchellHokanson
Chord Changes By MitchellHokanson 31 May 2017 I cannot count how many times I thought about quitting. Every time I picked up that trombone to play, I felt scared ...
AngelNwachukwuFirstEssay 22 Jun 2017 - 03:03 AngelNwachukwu
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KaiKarSecondEssay 16 Jun 2017 - 22:38 KaiKar
Reflection By KaiKar 31 May 2017 I applied to law school to better myself in possibly the most literal, simplistic sense of the phrase. I didn't believe this process ...
MattConroyFirstEssay 16 Jun 2017 - 15:40 MattConroy
By MattConroy 06 Jun 2017 What If Death Were No Different There are roughly 3,000 people on death row in the United States. This number alone is an abomination ...
DavidManadomSecondEssay 15 Jun 2017 - 20:02 DavidManadom
I have relearned that I am more than capable of using the law to fight on behalf of impoverished/ oppressed persons in the U.S. I use the word #8220;relearn #8221 ...
MingDingSecondEssay 13 Jun 2017 - 05:17 MingDing
Nothing New under the Sun MingDing 13 Jun 2017 I. I had to delete almost a thousand words and spend three long nights to come to the conclusion that I want to ...
MattConroySecondEssay 09 Jun 2017 - 09:40 MattConroy
Law Versus Mob Violence By MattConroy 07 Jun 2017 Rocky Mountain High Like most of my peers I went home after the year ended. Going home is always a bit strange ...
MariZaldivarSecondEssay 09 Jun 2017 - 06:05 MariZaldivar
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AlexanderBernsteinSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 07:18 AlexanderBernstein
Reflections By Alexander Bernstein 08 Jun 2017 C.S. Lewis said that everything is a subject on which there is not much to be said. This is essentially how I feel ...
DavidAlpertSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 07:04 DavidAlpert
It is awfully nice to walk in New York   What time is it inside you?   It was over. I walked up Central Park West on the last night of finals. It was 4am, and it ...
MikeCarsonSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 06:18 MikeCarson
A lawyer worth being By MikeCarson 08 Jun 2017 I will be back in the fall, but with a lot of work left to figure out how to train myself to be a lawyer worth ...
GeanetteFosterSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 04:30 GeanetteFoster
The Awakening By GeanetteFoster 08 Jun 2017 I considered framing this essay around balance, but I as I outlined this essay, I recognized that I would often have ...
JessicaRoSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 04:28 JessicaRo
Same same but Different By JessicaRo 08 Jun 2017 1L Beyond I did not particularly enjoy my first year of law school. It was rough. The majority of the time ...
OliviaLiSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 04:25 OliviaLi
The Streets in Thermopylae By OliviaLi 08 Jun 2017 From the minute I landed in Jackson, Mississippi, two weeks ago, I worried I made a mistake about where to spend ...
WilliamOmorogievaSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 04:02 WilliamOmorogieva
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 ...
PatrickWaldropSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 04:01 PatrickWaldrop
My Own Terms By PatrickWaldrop 07 Jun 2017 Something to Do I have always struggled to articulate why I wanted to go to law school. Perhaps it #8217;s because ...
YiqingShiSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 04:01 YiqingShi
My Fifth Year of Law School By YiqingShi 08 Jun 2017 I only half chose law. On my college application, my choices of major in order were Economics, Law, English ...
MaxOffsaySecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 03:36 MaxOffsay
Reality Beckons By MaxOffsay 07 Jun 2017 For the first few weeks of Law and Contemporary Society, I felt genuinely lost. While I listened to Eben go through what ...
JacobGodshallSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 02:59 JacobGodshall
Four Summers By JacobGodshall 07 Jun 2017 Building Blocks My dad builds houses. I used to work for him during the summers when I was in high school. I carried ...
AndreaMetzSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 02:27 AndreaMetz
Essay #2 By AndreaMetz 08 Jun 2017 Where I am writing this from the front porch of my best friend #8217;s family home in West Philadelphia, where I am staying ...
ImaniPhillipsSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 02:06 ImaniPhillips
ImaniPhillips 08 Jun 2017 After a year of law school, I have learned two principal things about the type of lawyer that I want to be: 1) I want to be a multifaceted ...
ElliottGrundSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 02:00 ElliottGrund
Transformation By ElliottGrund 07 Jun 2017 PTSD The conclusion of the first year of law school left me feeling somewhat shell shocked, not sure of what I had just ...
KentTolandSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 01:25 KentToland
Lessons of Immersion By KentToland 07 Jun 2017 The first semester of law school is often thought of as learning by immersion, comparable to a foreign language ...
MaeghanMurphySecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 00:38 MaeghanMurphy
THE FOUR STAGES OF MY 1L YEAR My first year of law school is akin to the five stages of grief. In my case, there are four stages: obliviousness, projection, denial ...
DavidKellamSecondEssay 08 Jun 2017 - 00:33 DavidKellam
By DavidKellam 07 Jun 2017 An hour ago, I was walking on the beach, thinking about this essay and hoping to use the last few minutes of sunlight to find another ...
BeneelBabaeiSecondEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 20:07 BeneelBabaei
Swinging Back By BeneelBabaei 06 Jun 2017 Hanging On It only took her a few weeks to say I had changed. After a decade, she knew me better than anyone. I was ...
MathewSaiontzFirstEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 12:18 MathewSaiontz
Concrete Barriers to Justice: Reframed By MathewSaiontz 31 May 2017 In the summer of 2013, I worked as an intern investigator for the criminal division of the ...
MathewSaiontzSecondEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 12:17 MathewSaiontz
A New Trajectory By MathewSaiontz 07 Jun 2017 I came to Columbia unsure of where my career would lead. I was confident in my decision to enroll: I knew that I ...
SarahSchnorrenbergFirstEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 10:20 SarahSchnorrenberg
Mob Justice in the Age of Social Media By SarahSchnorrenberg 09 Mar 2017 In recent years, incidents of mob justice have vastly increased, but in a new, more ...
SarahSchnorrenbergSecondEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 10:19 SarahSchnorrenberg
What Next? By SarahSchnorrenberg 01 Jun 2017 At First I Was Afraid, I Was Petrified I like law school. You may say, of course, why wouldn #8217;t you like ...
ZachBlumySecondEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 07:07 ZachBlumy
Musing By ZachBlumy 07 Jun 2017 Doldrums I #8217;m always stuck in the slow lane And when I change, the traffic #8217;s following me And I don #8217;t ...
TiffanyYoungFirstEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 06:39 TiffanyYoung
Trains By TiffanyYoung 31 May 2017 As I make my daily commute to work, I can #8217;t help but notice a parallel between the train system and my professional path ...
JoeTeresiSecondEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 06:17 JoeTeresi
By JoeTeresi 07 Jun 2017 I did not learn much during my 1L curriculum about what kind of lawyer I want to be. The knowledge I #8217;ve gained about what kind ...
CharlesSucherSecondEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 01:33 CharlesSucher
My Fictions, the Law, and a Bildungsroman in the Age of Trump By CharlesSucher 07 Jun 2017 With the Help of a Little Imagination I #8217;ve governed much of ...
MonicaRuizSecondEssay 07 Jun 2017 - 01:29 MonicaRuiz
It Depends: Lack of Clarity after 1L By MonicaRuiz 07 Jun 2017 I overheard an attorney say, #8220;I am a lawyer, so my answer is #8216;It depends.'" As a law ...
ImaniPhillipsFirstEssay 06 Jun 2017 - 10:11 ImaniPhillips
How will black liberationist movements evolve in Trump's America? In a society where the current President of the United States captured the support of millions of ...
MichaelAdamsSecondEssay 06 Jun 2017 - 03:32 MichaelAdams
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 ...
JoeBrunerFirstEssay 05 Jun 2017 - 00:11 JoeBruner
Redneck Hacking By JoeBruner 10 Mar 2017 A False Narrative Redneck men frequently hack women into pieces and rarely hack computer hardware or software. This makes ...
GregorySuhrSecondEssay 04 Jun 2017 - 19:16 GregorySuhr
First Semester My first year at law school taught me the power of inertia: the tendency to remain unchanged. From day one, I followed the mantra I heard at orientation ...
GeanetteFosterFirstEssay 02 Jun 2017 - 07:51 GeanetteFoster
How Do I Make Long Form Commitments in My Life Given My Upbringing Despite moving every three years on average, I know that I can make long form commitments in my ...
MikeCarsonFirstEssay 02 Jun 2017 - 07:17 MikeCarson
A True Test of Resolve By MikeCarson Edited 1 June 2017 At times this course was as much about understanding subconscious thought as it was anything else. I saw ...
ElliottGrundFirstEssay 02 Jun 2017 - 04:12 ElliottGrund
The Funnel By ElliottGrund 1 June 2017 Commencement It was Monday. After a long weekend of awkward social gatherings and not really optional panels of esteemed ...
PatrickWaldropFirstEssay 02 Jun 2017 - 04:05 PatrickWaldrop
The Liberalization of Law Schools and the Decline of the Lawyer Politician By PatrickWaldrop 11 Mar 2017, Revised 1 June 2017 The Decline of the Lawyer Politician ...
KentTolandFirstEssay 02 Jun 2017 - 03:02 KentToland
John Brown, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and a Theory of Social Action By KentToland 10 Mar 2017 In March, a classmate suggested it was absurd to condemn John Brown #8217 ...
KateJLeeFirstEssay 02 Jun 2017 - 02:22 KateJLee
Dear you, I am not sure why I am writing to you yet. I wrote this essay on equality, but you were always in the background of my mind, tucked away on the corner shelf ...
AndreaMetzFirstEssay 02 Jun 2017 - 02:20 AndreaMetz
Essay #1 By AndreaMetz 1 June 2017 Lisa In the mornings, my mother #8217;s room smelled like Calvin Klein perfume, lotion, and hairspray. The scents swirled ...
ColinONealFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 23:35 ColinONeal
The Right to Education By ColinONeal 1 June 2017 A Federal Constitutional Right to an Education and the Preservation of Freedom of Thought As networked digital ...
MaeghanMurphyFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 17:44 MaeghanMurphy
Addressing Societal Evils By Promoting Egocentrism The Problem We live in a nation with persistent inequality, discrimination, and abuse. The United States is ...
WilliamOmorogievaFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 17:10 WilliamOmorogieva
Civility is dead. Anger is alive and we must use it to our advantage. We live in a nation that claims to be the pinnacle of democracy and a model to the rest ...
PeterClausFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 07:59 PeterClaus
#8220;Trump: How do #8220;we #8221; resist? How do I resist? #8221; Introduction Based on the feedback from my first draft, I am going to tackle the question of ...
AndrewMcWhorterFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 07:23 AndrewMcWhorter
What does justice mean? By AndrewMcWhorter 13 Mar 2017 What do we mean when we talk about justice? Merriam Webster, somewhat unhelpfully, says that justice is ...
JessicaRoFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 06:33 JessicaRo
What can and should I do in order to sustain a drive in the pursuit of justice? By JessicaRo 31 May 2017 In my first draft, I asked what role faith would play ...
MaxOffsayFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 06:23 MaxOffsay
Law is in the Eye of the Beholder By MaxOffsay 31 March 2017 #8220;We do not realize how large a part of our law is open to reconsideration upon a slight change ...
ZachBlumyFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 05:21 ZachBlumy
A Tale of Three Cities By ZachBlumy 1 Jun 2017 Note: The headings for this essay's sections link to songs that should be played while one reads. "Subdivisions ...
JoshuaKoenigFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 04:15 JoshuaKoenig
On Canadian Romanticism Global Constitutionalism By JoshuaKoenig 12 Mar 2017 "As Canadian As...?" If you want to see the fear in the eyes of a Canadian, wait ...
MonicaRuizFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 03:33 MonicaRuiz
Environment in the Limelight By MonicaRuiz 10 Mar 2017 In class we inquired why we believed it was so difficult for people to be provoked about environmental issues ...
DavidKellamFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 03:05 DavidKellam
Return to the West By DavidKellam 31 May 2017 Our modern acceptance of online surveillance may irreversibly displace any feeling of entitlement that humankind ...
KaiKarFirstEssay 01 Jun 2017 - 01:56 KaiKar
Class less By KaiKar 31 May 2017 Joke My time so far at Columbia has often evoked senses of irony, an awareness of incongruences in my own experiences and understandings ...
SamMatthewsFirstEssay 31 May 2017 - 23:35 SamMatthews
Damn the Torpedoes, Proceed Ahead Cautiously and Periodically Check Your Progress. By SamMatthews 12 Mar 2017 In an address to the BYU student body entitled The ...
JacobGodshallFirstEssay 31 May 2017 - 17:47 JacobGodshall
Ke Garne? We walk among the ruined temples of Durbar Square, and Manoj falls into his tour guide shtick telling me Hindu epics of sex and murder, secrets of the Kumari ...
JoeTeresiFirstEssay 31 May 2017 - 06:26 JoeTeresi
My Comfortable Vanity By JoeTeresi 10 Mar 2017 As a lawyer, I'll be unhappy in the future because I don't care about justice. I'm much more worried about this ...
GregorySuhrFirstEssay 31 May 2017 - 03:32 GregorySuhr
Some days I swear off criminal prosecution. Other days it comes back with a powerful nostalgia, connected to a time when I was paraded around by family as an up and ...
TyCarletonFirstEssay 31 May 2017 - 02:06 TyCarleton
Social Media #8217;s Effect on Attitudes Toward Free Speech on College Campuses By TyCarleton 30 May 2017 There is a burgeoning trend in the belief systems of ...
ClassNotes2008Apr9 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
LINK TO DISCUSSION THREAD: PhaseIIQandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan OUTLINE OF LECTURE: Summing up before the final stage of this course By now, at more than ...
NOMDividingGayBlackAndLatinoCommunities 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is an anti LGBTQ organization that puts forth homophobic campaigns and legislation (inclusive of constitutional bans on ...
MusicSuggestionsForTheFinalClass 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
I was wondering if anyone else had suggestions for music for the final class? Personally I think 'Gimme Shelter' by the Rolling Stones would round up the semester ...
CamilaTapernouxIntro 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
I used to watch YouTube videos for a living and spent a lot of my free time reading. Now I do the converse. I just looked up converse and inverse to see which was ...
ClassNotesApr9 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
LINK TO DISCUSSION THREAD: PhaseIIQandAToHelpMakeAnActionPlan OUTLINE OF LECTURE: Summing up before the final stage of this course By now, at more than ...
AmandaBellFirstPaper 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
Who Wants to Chase an Eighteen Wheeler for a Year? By AmandaBell 23 Mar 2010 All labor strikes are difficult in some way. However, American unions sometimes do ...
AnaCorrea-FirstPaper 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
The Impact of New Media on Presidential Campaigns By AnaCorrea 12 Feb 2008 "Ha Ha! Your medium is dying!" Nelson, mocking a print journalist on The Simpsons ...
GavinSnyderFirstPaper 31 May 2017 - 01:54 TyCarleton
There was no need to retain prior versions of this topic on the page, because all prior versions are available if you use the "Diffs" button. So I removed the first ...
AlexanderBernsteinFirstEssay 26 May 2017 - 22:48 AlexanderBernstein
The Whim of a Judge By AlexanderBernstein 10 Mar 2017 One summer a hundred years ago, some boys went swimming in the Harlem River. They were diving off of a wooden ...
HilaryRosenthalFirstEssay 25 May 2017 - 16:06 HilaryRosenthal
What is the role of empathy in law school, if there is one at all? By HilaryRosenthal 20 May 2017 Motives and being emotionally open in law school When I realized ...
MichaelAdamsFirstEssay 22 May 2017 - 02:06 MichaelAdams
Where do you hope to be in 20 years? By MichaelAdams 21 May 2017 How it Started Some variation of this question begins to leave the mouths of our elders beginning ...
BeneelBabaeiFirstEssay 19 May 2017 - 23:08 BeneelBabaei
I hope your moment of realization comes earlier in your life than did mine. Perhaps you too will learn of Emma Lazarus #8217; words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty ...
ZebulunJohnsonFirstEssay 16 May 2017 - 23:17 ZebulunJohnson
Negligent Knowledge of the Law By ZebulunJohnson 19 Feb 2016 This paper assumes at least a novice understanding of the Model Penal Code #8217;s philosophy and ...
NotesOnRevisions 11 May 2017 - 15:48 EbenMoglen
Notes on Revisions I have tried in my comments on your writing to offer directed suggestions for improvement. These are only suggestions: the writing is yours, and ...
MingDingFirstEssay 07 May 2017 - 14:20 EbenMoglen
Not SO Lawyerland By MingDing 10 Mar 2017 What is a lawyer? Although the question seems idiotic for its overly broad (and futile, per Wittgenstein) metaphysical ...
ClassMusicList2017 16 Feb 2017 - 16:40 KaiKar
Thursday, January 19, 2017 i. The Beatles Revolution 1 (Listen Note the album version was played in class, not this live version) (Lyrics) ii. Silvio Rodriguez ...
EmpathyTheLaw 09 Feb 2017 - 22:03 TimCuffman
I came across this old article that seems to suggest that if we're concerned about just outcomes that are not divorced from social reality, empathy is important. Cultivating ...
HarperCollins 26 Oct 2016 - 06:06 WhitneyLee
SamParnell 10 Jun 2016 This aspect trying to prompt a hyperlink just because the name includes two capital letters of twiki annoys me.
YashShahSecondEssay 22 Sep 2016 - 11:32 YashShah
LivingInPovertyAtTheHandsOfTheIvyLeague 24 Aug 2016 - 15:23 MitchellSchwartz
For anyone interested, there's been a growing push for a of graduate student employees. Even NYU has done more than Columbia. one graduate student's story. To me ...
HenryRossFirstEssay 22 Aug 2016 - 15:17 HenryRoss
LaurenRoemkeSecondEssay 16 Jul 2016 - 02:39 LaurenRoemke
LaurenRoemkeFirstEssay 16 Jul 2016 - 02:38 LaurenRoemke
JinduObiofumaSecondEssay 17 Jun 2016 - 05:21 JinduObiofuma
Black women are never supposed to be angry. Sassy? Absolutely. Funny? But of course. Shady? Maybe just a touch, but no more than that otherwise people start to get ...
TamarLisbonaSecondEssay 16 Jun 2016 - 09:46 TamarLisbona
Journal Entry, June 2016 By TamarLisbona 16 Jun 2016 Introduction My first paper in this course was about the commoditization of the human body in the form of ...
LisaXiaSecondEssay 16 Jun 2016 - 08:11 EbenMoglen
Privacy in the Digital Age By LisaXia 05 Jun 2016 In my last essay, I began to explore the question of why I should care about privacy rights. I asked why the ...
LisaXiaFirstEssay 16 Jun 2016 - 08:05 EbenMoglen
Modern Loss: Sharing Grief and Finding Solace on Social Media by LisaXia 21 Apr 2016 Today, I received a text message from my dad: #8220;I know you knew Donna ...
MarkusVonDerMarwitzSecondEssay 15 Jun 2016 - 19:18 MarkusVonDerMarwitz
Liberating Animals By MarkusVonDerMarwitz 31 Mar 2016 Introduction Just as equality between human beings of different races and sexes is accepted, equality ought ...
MariaLaGuminaSecondEssay 15 Jun 2016 - 01:03 MariaLaGumina
The Decision By MariaLaGumina 03 Apr 2016 Families of Lawyers I'm Maria Teresa, I'm an Italian American. There are two lawyers and two law students in my family ...
KevinSSecondEssay 14 Jun 2016 - 01:38 KevinS
The Argument Against DAPA? By KevinS 11 Apr 2016 On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced his Executive Actions on Immigration, which among other propositions ...
ElizabethBrandtSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 21:02 ElizabethBrandt
Three Lessons from my Summer Sales Internship So Far By ElizabethBrandt 13 June 2016 So far, my summer internship is not at all what I expected. I chose a tiny ...
GraceKrasnermanSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 21:01 GraceKrasnerman
An Unfortunate Alienation By GraceKrasnerman 13 June 2016 The justice system is revered as the alleged bastion of ethics in any complex society such as ours ...
ElizabethBrandtFirstEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 20:53 ElizabethBrandt
Using Law School Intelligently By ElizabethBrandt 13 June 2016 I have no doubt that I am meant to be in law school. For some of my classmates this seems like an ...
JohnsonDFirstEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 20:50 JohnsonD
Thurman Arnold and the Bernie Sanders Revolution By JohnsonD Getting the dragon out of his cave Bernie Sanders uses the word revolution to define a political ...
BenjaminSanchezSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 20:38 BenjaminSanchez
Family Business By BenjaminSanchez 18 Apr 2016 #8220;He make the team this year? Aw, they said he wasn #8217;t tall enough? I was always small growing up. But ...
WendyCaiSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 20:33 WendyCai
Blameless By WendyCai 15 Apr 2016 Survival. Insanity. Ambition. Ignorance. Biology. All of these are explanations for human behaviors. Based on a reason, we excuse ...
MeronWerknehSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 20:23 MeronWerkneh
Serpents, Simians, and Stockholm Syndrome: Welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth By MeronWerkneh 01 Apr 2016 In a realm #8212;one father than you can imagine, ...
JohnsonDSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 20:07 JohnsonD
Fear and Big Law By JohnsonD 13 Jun 2016 1L Fear Every year Columbia 1Ls arrive to campus with dreams of becoming justice producing lawyers. By 1L summer, many ...
SidneyChiangFirstEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 19:31 SidneyChiang
Drawing from Creative Writing By SidneyChiang 18 Apr 2016 Writing is Subjective The notion of "knowing your audience" seems to be repeated to students as one ...
JohnDeBellisSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 17:41 JohnDeBellis
Presence/Absence and "Stand Your Ground" Laws Brief History of self defense justification The United States has a long history of allowing and even encouraging the ...
CharlesRoperFirstEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 17:37 CharlesRoper
Higher Education Debt: Why I Decided to Incur it By CharlesRoper 17 Feb 2016 The Problem The usual notion regarding higher education debt is that is ...
SidneyChiangSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 17:21 SidneyChiang
Redefining Passivity By SidneyChiang 31 Mar 2016 Risk Averse Lawyers To what extent is the ability to recognize problems in the world valuable, even before, and ...
CharlesRoperSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 17:18 CharlesRoper
How is Universal Interconnection, Implemented Through the Current Architecture, Affecting Human Society? By CharlesRoper 30 Mar 2016 There is no denying that ...
ArgiriosNickasSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 16:12 ArgiriosNickas
First Days on the Job By ArgiriosNickas 30 Mar 2016 Happy Birthday I #8217;m sitting here on a Thursday night. This Thursday night happens to be my birthday. ...
CasidheMcCloneSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 06:57 CasidheMcClone
The Angry Guy By CasidheMcClone 29 Mar 2016 Remember the DA from #8220;Robinson #8217;s Metamorphosis? #8221; The one who beat up the kid? I #8217;m afraid of ...
ZanderWeissThirdPaper2013 13 Jun 2016 - 05:42 ZanderWeiss
ADDENDUM, PROLOGUE And when the dust finally settled And we all settled into our addled peculiarities, I realized I had finished early. I took a moment for myself ...
BrianMaidaSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 02:17 BrianMaida
My Wily Mission By BrianMaida 01 Apr 2016 On the first day of Law in Contemporary Society, the course was described as #8220;theatre. #8221; Of all the characters ...
WilliamCoombsSecondEssay 13 Jun 2016 - 02:02 WilliamCoombs
I DON #8217;T OWN A WATCH The need for external validation seems to be an important component of a lot of the internal conflicts with which I struggle. For example ...
JulieIreneNkodoSecondEssay 11 Jun 2016 - 21:54 JulieIreneNkodo
Fight or Flight By JulieIreneNkodo 04 Apr 2016 I can acutely remember my conversation with my linesister Esther (see: historically black greek life) when I told ...
MarkusVonDerMarwitzFirstEssay 11 Jun 2016 - 08:00 EbenMoglen
Immigration and Crime in Switzerland By MarkusVonDerMarwitz 17 April 2016 My family moved to Switzerland in 1996, and I grew up there during the time when a large ...
DeWolfe 10 Jun 2016 - 13:48 SamParnell
SamParnell 10 Jun 2016 This aspect trying to prompt a hyperlink just because the man's name includes two capital letters of twiki annoys me.
TrevorGopnikSecondEssay 10 Jun 2016 - 02:41 TrevorGopnik
#8220;It #8217;s become a freelance business, in essence #8212;that #8217;s what it is. #8221; The U.S. housing market suffers from multiple personality nondisorder ...
TrevorGopnikFirstEssay 10 Jun 2016 - 02:14 TrevorGopnik
In the first draft of this essay I set out to show that a method of constitutional interpretation primarily associated with conservative justices was flat out wrong ...
MeronWerknehFirstEssay 09 Jun 2016 - 16:19 EbenMoglen
Ghost Writer By MeronWerkneh 19 Feb 2016 I: The Seduction #8220;Culture is #8230;a mere training to act as a machine #8230;Your very ideas are but the outgrowth ...
ZanderWeissFirstEssay 09 Jun 2016 - 14:45 EbenMoglen
All of the Laws are Wrong We proceed from bad premises. There are roughly 320 million Americans. Our representative government purports to represent the population ...
KevinSFirstEssay 09 Jun 2016 - 14:05 EbenMoglen
This Is Why I Have Trust Issues By KevinS 19 Feb 2016 Why We Should Be Skeptical of Our Environment In my very first class, I was told, "Rhetoric seeks to answer ...
JiMinShinSecondEssay 09 Jun 2016 - 13:49 EbenMoglen
Defending the Theatre of Public Humiliation: Why I Would Still Go to the EIP By JiMinShin 30 Mar 2016 It is true that the EIP will probably not be the best moment ...
JiMinShinFirstEssay 09 Jun 2016 - 13:37 EbenMoglen
Lawyers #8217; Metamorphosis: A Tragedy? By JiMinShin 19 Feb 2016 In Metamorphosis by Kafka, the main character changes into a vermin, something like a cockroach ...
BrandonNesfieldSecondEssay 08 Jun 2016 - 15:06 BrandonNesfield
BrandonNesfield 20 Apr 2016 The Will to Power Nietzsche believed that in every human being existed a will to power, an inexhaustible, unshakeable instinct ...
BeulahAgbabiakaSecondEssay 07 Jun 2016 - 01:40 BeulahAgbabiaka
Coogi Down to My Socks Second Draft By BeulahAgbabiaka 07 Jun 2016 #8220;Hey Mr. Knickerbocker, boppity bop. I like a the way that ya boppity bop #8221; The ...
JinduObiofumaFirstEssay 05 Jun 2016 - 21:22 EbenMoglen
The performance of protest has become a proxy for actual social change. One could say this has come about largely without comment, but the irony of the situation is ...
JohnOMearaSecondEssay 05 Jun 2016 - 20:54 EbenMoglen
Deliberate Indifference By JohnOMeara 09 Apr 2016 Good Men The lawyer who I admire most built his practice on bloodshed and theater. He compels people off ...
ArgiriosNickasFirstEssay 05 Jun 2016 - 18:57 EbenMoglen
The (Second) Restatement §90(2): A Holmesian Disaster? By ArgiriosNickas 18 Feb 2016 Charity's Unique Role in America The role of charity in American society ...
BrandonNesfieldFirstEssay 05 Jun 2016 - 17:47 EbenMoglen
By BrandonNesfield 19 Feb 2016 FINAL DRAFT: The clinic was a plain building, a patchwork of cinderblock and cement. It stood out amongst its neighbors, crude assortments ...
CasidheMcCloneFirstEssay 05 Jun 2016 - 15:44 EbenMoglen
On Approaches By CasidheMcClone 19 Feb 2016 A very small number of people will vehemently disagree with this statement: the traditional methods of playing the ...
BrianMaidaFirstEssay 05 Jun 2016 - 14:39 EbenMoglen
Dementions By BrianMaida 18 Feb 2016 Ageless #8220;When, at a fairly early hour of the morning, I put the key into the door of my darkened chambers, switch on ...
TamarLisbonaFirstEssay 05 Jun 2016 - 14:14 EbenMoglen
The Viability of Surrogacy By TamarLisbona 19 Feb 2016 Traditionally, and even biblically, surrogacy has been characterized by a woman carrying her own biological ...
MerryLiFirstEssay 05 Jun 2016 - 00:38 MerryLi
The Stereotypical Foreigner By MerryLi 17 Feb 2016 As Trump rises to a political height no one thought he could have, his wall building proposal has gone from ...
MariaLaGuminaFirstEssay 04 Jun 2016 - 20:08 EbenMoglen
Courageous Creativity By MariaLaGumina 19 Feb 2016 Throughout our discussions in class we have established a working hypothesis that willingness not to conform ...
GraceKrasnermanFirstEssay 04 Jun 2016 - 19:23 EbenMoglen
"Liberty and Justice For All?" By GraceKrasnerman 18 April 2016 Law as Secondary to Sociopolitical Influences Lawrence Joseph's Lawyerland provides a third ...
JohnDeBellisFirstEssay 29 May 2016 - 14:11 EbenMoglen
I came to law school to work with poor clients, help them navigate the legal system, and fight for their rights. I want to base my career on doing direct legal services ...
WilliamCoombsFirstEssay 29 May 2016 - 12:44 EbenMoglen
Ali in Wonderland By WilliamCoombs 19 Feb 2016 #8220;Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they #8217 ...
WendyCaiFirstEssay 28 May 2016 - 16:36 EbenMoglen
Evaluating Happiness: Rejecting Cognitive Dissonance in Law School The Rationalization Since beginning law school, I #8217;ve constantly been asked, #8220;How is ...
BeulahAgbabiakaFirstEssay 26 May 2016 - 16:34 EbenMoglen
Moving Forward: Reflections on the Obama Administration and Myself By BeulahAgbabiaka 22 Apr 2016 I. Why I Cared So Much Several facts converged to ...
JulieIreneNkodoFirstEssay 18 May 2016 - 18:39 JulieIreneNkodo
The Pursuit of Happiness: Decolonizing My Mind By JulieIreneNkodo 19 Feb 2016 #8220;The revolution will not be televised. #8221; Gil Scott Heron I listen to ...
JohnOMearaFirstEssay 18 May 2016 - 12:14 JohnOMeara
Where Are Prisoners in the Parades? By JohnOMeara 19 Feb 2016 Is This Your Comfort Zone, Sir? If strangers pass the bier to see me in repose, I hope they'd know ...
JInduObiofumathird 05 May 2016 - 18:43 JinduObiofuma
Black women are never supposed to be angry. Sassy? Absolutely. Funny? But of course. Shady? Maybe just a touch, but no more than that otherwise people start to get ...
SolomonRotsteinFirstEssay 21 Apr 2016 - 04:02 SolomonRotstein
Not Even Big Data Can Disparage Rights Retained By The People By SolomonRotstein 21 Apr 2016 I. Introduction: #8220;Poca política, mucha administración #8221 ...
TorieRecaldeFirstEssay 18 Apr 2016 - 19:16 TorieRecalde
Campaign Finance Post McCutcheon: A Desperate and Naive Hope By TorieRecalde 18 Apr 2016 Ideals Acquired and Quickly Dashed Prior to law school, I spent several ...
ZanderWeissSecondEssay 12 Apr 2016 - 03:31 ZanderWeiss
The Seventeenth One last step completes the picture This, the seventeenth. Fill out all the jagged borders. Color empty. Back to tonic. Pull the shade in this, the ...
JInduObiofumaSecondEssay 04 Apr 2016 - 06:07 JinduObiofuma
JinduObiofuma 04 Apr 2016 The performance of protest has become a proxy for actual social change. One could say this has come about largely without comment, but the ...
TheNameOfThePilotIForgot 02 Apr 2016 - 23:18 CharlesRoper
CasidheMcClone 01 Apr 2016 Didn't do much research, but I did clear some stuff up. The name of the pilot who flies Yossarian's plane, and one of Yossarian's better ...
Notification 21 Feb 2016 - 05:45 MalcolmEvans
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ContinuingDiscourse 18 Jan 2016 - 08:24 JiMinShin
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CMcKinney 23 Aug 2015 Fighting Repose. Then We spent a lot of time thinking about repose in this course. But as I scrawled out an essay on pay per view boxing in ...
CMcKinneySecondEssay 23 Aug 2015 - 21:44 CMcKinney
Rational Actors, Where Art Thou? Ray Rice, Floyd Mayweather, and $180 million. By CMcKinney 23 May 2015 Mid May: Unconsciously Seeking Repose{{ http://moglen ...
NicholasWillinghamSecondEssay 30 Jun 2015 - 14:20 MarkDrake
NicholasWillingham 02 Jun 2015 Professor Moglen I attempted to answer your comments in the section titled "Scope of the Question" NicholasWillingham 17 Jun 2015 ...
LukeReillyFirstEssayNotes 30 Jun 2015 - 14:19 MarkDrake
Here are some internal notes on my first paper. Some are transcribed from my handwritten notes, while some are just off the top of my head. Think of it as director ...
JocelynCazaresSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 22:00 MarkDrake
JocelynCazares 02 Jun 2015 Is Law School Failing? Law School The Pitch Want to be a lawyer? Go to law school! They will teach you all you need to know. It will ...
ShayBanerjeeSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 22:00 MarkDrake
America's Oil Addiction: A Basic Diagnosis ShayBanerjee 24 May 2015 Introduction Oil accounts for 95 percent of energy used in the U.S. transportation sector ...
WookJinChungSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:56 MarkDrake
Modern form of slavery: undocumented immigrant workers Nothing was said in this piece that justifies the title. If you mean to retain it, you should show it is ...
TylerCopeSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:55 MarkDrake
In this day and age we are seeing events happening that were absolutely not possible as recent as 25 years ago. These are entrepreneurs getting extremely rich very ...
TonbaraEkiyorSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:55 MarkDrake
Why Are There No Polling Stations in Prisons? By TonbaraEkiyor 01 Jun 2015 Introduction Over 2.4 million Americans cannot vote during elections because they ...
SuzanAbebeSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:53 MarkDrake
SuzanAbebe 02 Jun 2015 THE FEAR OF FAILURE, UNDERNEATH IT ALL. The 90 #8217;s. Unconventional is the term I use to describe my parent #8217;s decision to leave Ethiopia ...
RyanGloverSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:52 MarkDrake
Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement By RyanGlover 18 May 2015 Overview On January 11, 1964, the United States Surgeon General released the first report on smoking ...
RyRavenholtSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:52 MarkDrake
The Iron Law School of Oligarchy By RyRavenholt 25 May 2015 Functioning as Lawyers After finishing the first year of law school, a simple question occurred to ...
RobertoRivera2SecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:51 MarkDrake
I Hate Injustice And I'm Coming Back By RobertoRivera2 02 Jun 2015 The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living I hate injustice and that #8217;s why I #8217 ...
RasheedAhmedSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:51 MarkDrake
The importance of a meaningful opportunity in high crime areas By RasheedAhmed 12 Jun 2015 Reflection When I reflect back on my life and analyze what motivated ...
NicoGurianSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:50 MarkDrake
Swimming Against the Tide By NicoGurian 17 June 2015 Advocates for social justice face a Supreme Court openly hostile to civil rights, worker rights, and environmental ...
MattBurkeSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:50 MarkDrake
An anecdotal theory of interpersonal behavior By MattBurke 18 May 2015 Anecdote 1: A speech When I was nine, my parents separated. After, I had trouble in school ...
LukeReillySecondPaperNotes 29 Jun 2015 - 21:49 MarkDrake
This one got away from me. I originally planned it on the question of why people (including, often, me) believe the rules are correctly simply by virtue of being ...
LukeReillySecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:46 MarkDrake
There are Two Laws By LukeReilly 30 May 2015 In a year of law school I have simultaneously been taught two different visions of the law. And I can't take it. ...
LeoFarbmanSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:46 MarkDrake
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 ...
LaurenPackardSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:45 MarkDrake
CREATIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY By LaurenPackard 31 May 2015 Growing up, my neighbor was an art teacher who taught out of her home. Her house was teaming with colors and ...
IsaacLaraSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:45 MarkDrake
(Re)orienting to Law School After 1L By IsaacLara 25 May 2015 My Reasons for Applying to Law School My Job Created Certain Expectations It #8217;s no surprise ...
HenryRossSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:45 MarkDrake
An unstated assumption By HenryRoss 22 May 2015 A two part question In my personal introduction at the beginning of this semester, I wrote that I had come to ...
HarryParmenterSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:44 MarkDrake
The Problem with Law School Culture By HarryParmenter 25 May 2015 Introduction I was told by upperclassmen just before the start of my 1L year that law school ...
EliKeeneSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:44 MarkDrake
Democracy and the Press By EliKeene 25 May 2015 #8220;Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. #8221; #8211; Justice ...
ChrisMendezSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:43 MarkDrake
A Year Considered By ChrisMendez 20 May 2015 I. Refocusing Throughout the semester, I had absolutely no idea how to respond to #8220;Why are you coming back ...
ChaseLaxSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:43 MarkDrake
Business as Usual By ChaseLax 19 May 2015 The readings I most enjoyed this semester were the excerpts from Lawyerland and The Behavior of Law , and, as a result ...
BriannaCummingsSecondEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 21:42 MarkDrake
The Price of Torment: Rising from the ashes By BriannaCummings 16 May 2015 $85,755: Hell is expensive If someone asked you, would pay $85,755 to be tortured ...
IsaacLaraIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:35 MarkDrake
What I want to get out of law school is a law license so I can become a prosecutor. Before school I had worked full time as a civilian police investigator for a few ...
YashShahIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:34 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction It seems that choice and identity are increasingly structured by market processes. But it only seems that way. I want law school to ...
WookJinChungIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:33 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By WookJinChung 29 Jan 2015 I decided to pursue legal education to broaden my understanding of how societies operate and to develop my own ...
TylerCopeIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:33 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By TylerCope 30 Jan 2015 I came to law school because I wanted to learn to be an advocate for those who did not have a voice in the legal ...
TonbaraEkiyorIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:32 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By TonbaraEkiyor 30 Jan 2015 I used to research economic policy in small oil producing developing countries, and make periodic recommendations ...
TomasPalaciosIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:30 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By TomasPalacios 29 Jan 2015 My motivation for getting into Law School came from seeing small part of the law in action. When I was in high ...
ToddDensenIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:30 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By ToddDensen 30 Jan 2015 I came to law school because I was fascinated by the interaction between law, justice, and morality. I primarily ...
SuzanAbebeIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:30 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By SuzanAbebe 29 Jan 2015 I came to law school because a legal training from Columbia will provide me with mobility in society. I have seen ...
ShayBanerjeeIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:29 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By ShayBanerjee 29 Jan 2015 My mother used to tell me about the hardships she and my father faced immigrating here. How they had no money ...
RyanGloverIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:27 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By RyanGlover 30 Jan 2015 I chose to go to law school because I wanted a degree that would give me the analytical skill set and intellectual ...
RyRavenholtIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:26 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction I have always viewed the law from a position of disdain and criticism. My sojourn into law school is driven by my distaste of criticism of any ...
RobertoRivera2Intro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:26 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By RobertoRivera2 29 Jan 2015 I want to find my passion and a direction to channel my intellectual capabilities. I want to find that area ...
RasheedAhmedIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:25 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By RasheedAhmed 29 Jan 2015 I came to law school to develop a creative and innovative way to use words in order to bring change. The experiences ...
NicoGurianIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:25 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By NicoGurian 27 Jan 2015 I want law school to equip me with the skills necessary to remedy the injustices and inequalities I see around ...
NicholasWillinghamIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:22 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By NicholasWillingham 29 Jan 2015 I came to law school to become a lawyer, but another two years of reading appellate decisions will not ...
MattBurkeIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:21 MarkDrake
Personal Intro When I was a teacher, I loved the job, but loathed the profession. The job, impossible to do without loving it, the profession, impossible to love for ...
LukeReillyIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:20 MarkDrake
Luke Reilly Personal Introduction I want to learn the reasons that legal structures and rules and decisions exist. I want to understand why this or that result happened ...
LeoFarbmanIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:19 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction I am that I am. Usually that is someone else's introduction. Why are you using it here? I have a slight disability involving the ...
LaurenPackardIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:18 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By LaurenPackard 28 Jan 2015 I came to law school in search of a more meaningful life. I want an intellectually rigorous and challenging ...
JocelynCazaresIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:17 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By JocelynCazares 29 Jan 2015 From law school I gain the tools, and knowledge I need to pursue my dream. Through the knowledge, practice ...
HenryRossIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:17 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction I came to law school because I want my life #8217;s work to generate at least three things: words, fairness, and #8212;to some extent #8212;money ...
HarryParmenterIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:12 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By HarryParmenter 30 Jan 2015 I came to law school for several reasons. One is that I was an English student who had become dissatisfied ...
EliKeeneIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:10 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By EliKeene 29 Jan 2015 I came to law school to learn to solve complex problems. During my time working in international policy, I met two ...
ChrisMendezIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:09 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By ChrisMendez 28 Jan 2015 Why Law School? We live in a very unjust world. I wanted to put myself in a position to play a role in bringing ...
ChaseLaxIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:08 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction I #8217;d like to say that I came to law school because I was inspired by my college advisor, Berry, but I never internalized the idea that I ...
CarolineCimaIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:07 MarkDrake
I went to CLS because I value the sanctity of intellectual property. I believed there was a need to better compromise between ownership of ideas and dissemination ...
CMcKinneyIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:07 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By CMcKinney 29 Jan 2015 I hope to leave law school with a sharper mind and a broader understanding of diverse viewpoints. Studying the ...
BriannaCummingsIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:06 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By BriannaCummings 29 Jan 2015 I was around 7 when I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. I was inquisitive and loved to argue, especially when ...
AngeloTannuzzoIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:03 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By AngeloTannuzzo 29 Jan 2015 I decided to go to law school because I would like to play a direct and personal role in the criminal justice ...
AlexWeissIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:02 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction By AlexWeiss 30 Jan 2015 I want to live a life that's enjoyable. To that end, I want to have a career that I'm passionate about, in which ...
AbdallahSalamIntro 29 Jun 2015 - 21:01 MarkDrake
Personal Introduction Men with guns, men with money, and men with ideology are the ones who wield power in Lebanon. Disillusioned with my country, I chose to pursue ...
WookJinChungFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:56 MarkDrake
Next Generation Law Firms. By WookJinChung 18 May 2015 Disruptive force: unhappy lawyers. Innovation disrupts the established order at a fundamental level. Large ...
TylerCopeFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:55 MarkDrake
Patent law is a huge problem that faces our society faces. While most people merely accept that patents are a part of our lives, a select group of people are abusing ...
TonbaraEkiyorFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:54 MarkDrake
The Superiority of the Do Gooder By TonbaraEkiyor 31 Mar 2015 Introduction Who knows why most people decide to do #8216;good work #8217;? The more important ...
ToddDensenFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:54 MarkDrake
Capitalizing on Knowledge and Education By ToddDensen 13 Mar 2015 The Functional Reality of Law School What function does law school play? Is it to educate the ...
SuzanAbebeFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:53 MarkDrake
Avoiding Race By SuzanAbebe 17 Mar 2015 What Happens to a Dream Deferred? A significant part of what led me to law school was the opportunity to learn about ...
ShayBanerjeeFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:53 MarkDrake
Fossil Fuel Dependence: A Call to Action By ShayBanerjee 13 Mar 2015 Introduction Enough games. It is time to get serious. America #8217;s dependence on fossil ...
RyRavenholtFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:52 MarkDrake
The Myth of Law By RyRavenholt 4 May 2015 Experience of Law Should law exist in its present form? It is a simple question that is often given a simple answer ...
RobertoRivera2FirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:50 MarkDrake
Robinson: Aiming The Force of The Public Will And The Proximity of Evil By RobertoRivera2 13 Mar 2015 The Idea After our discussions on our lunch with Robinson ...
RasheedAhmedFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:49 MarkDrake
The blurred line: Does committing a crime create the criminal; or is being a criminal a crime? We must understand that: 1) a #8216;crime #8217; is a definition and ...
NicoGurianFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:47 MarkDrake
Scared to be Robinson By NicoGurian 11 Mar 2015 Aversion to the practice Robinson is a smart and successful lawyer, who has managed to create a financially stable ...
NicholasWillinghamFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:46 MarkDrake
How Changing Copyright Law Can Have A Positive Effect on Copyright Law Introduction Hip Hop was born not too far from Columbia, in the Bronx. One of the most widely ...
MattBurkeFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:45 MarkDrake
Of the law and the practice of law studentry By MattBurke 02 Mar 2015 1. In which the law and law studentry are discussed First, in the casebooks, that is first ...
LukeReillyFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:45 MarkDrake
Death of the Legislative Author By LukeReilly 13 Mar 2015 In his 1968 essay #8220;Death of the Author, #8221; Roland Barthes asked what meaning readers should ...
LeoFarbmanFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:44 MarkDrake
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility By LeoFarbman 05 Mar 2015 Technological Impact on Social Psychology The Internet, paired alongside the smart phone ...
LaurenPackardFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:44 MarkDrake
Appropriating Life: Biopiracy as Neocolonialism By LaurenPackard 10 Mar 2015 I. What is biopiracy? The United States Patent and Trademark Office ( #8220;PTO ...
JocelynCazaresFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:43 MarkDrake
What voices do you listen to when choosing your path? Voices. Your own. By JocelynCazares 13 Mar 2015 Choices As people we encounter an infinite array of ...
HarryParmenterFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:42 MarkDrake
Excepting Expulsion of the SAE Students at the University of Oklahoma Background On March 10, 2015, two members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma ...
EliKeeneFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:42 MarkDrake
Weighing the Benefits of Regulation By EliKeene 4 May 2015 Cost benefit analysis (CBA) has been the cornerstone of environmental regulatory decision making since ...
ChrisMendezFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:07 MarkDrake
Reducing Violence in Chicago By ChrisMendez 13 Mar 2015 I. Rethinking Approaches to Social Control Donald Black argues that law is one form of social control ...
ChaseLaxFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:07 MarkDrake
A Law Student Phenotype By ChaseLax 13 Mar 2015 A Familiar Feeling #8220;Risk averse control freaks. #8221; Though I laughed when we were introduced to this ...
CMcKinneyFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:06 MarkDrake
Unequal Funding of Public Education and the Conventional Criticism of Affirmative Action By CMcKinney 13 Mar 2015 Arguing against Affirmative Action The Assignments ...
BriannaCummingsFirstEssay 29 Jun 2015 - 20:04 MarkDrake
Can compulsive behavior be stopped with words? (Re Write) By BriannaCummings 15 May 2015 Lawyering As future lawyers we are supposed to be learning how to make ...
MatthewCollinsSecondPaper 05 Jun 2015 - 04:12 MatthewCollins
On Listening http://xroads.virginia.edu/~public/civilrights/a0146.html http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles Gen/Postmodern Blackness 18270.html https ...
RobertoRiveraSecondPaper 02 Jun 2015 - 11:28 RobertoRivera2
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AreWeThereYet 05 May 2015 - 18:50 LaurenPackard
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/pub/Main/LaurenPackard/AreWeThereYet.JPG are we there yet 12" x 15" magazines, rubber cement, gesso, pen LaurenPackard 05 ...
LawStudentProtests 21 Apr 2015 - 17:29 ChaseLax
In Professor Cleveland #8217;s Civ Pro class, we learned about the effort of the Immigration Clinic at Yale Law, led by Harold Koh, to free Haitian refugees that were ...
ImmigrationLawyer 14 Apr 2015 - 21:09 AbdallahSalam
We discussed the state of immigration lawyers in one of our recent classes (on building a law practice), and so I thought I would share this article I just read in ...
DudleyAndTheWhales 13 Apr 2015 - 20:33 MattBurke
Dudley and the Whales When a different storm rose over a different sea, the frightened sailors cast lots to determine whose god had called it. The lots fell on a groggy ...
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 ...
MinaNasseriSecondPaper 13 Apr 2015 - 02:12 EbenMoglen
Naked, But For My Intellect REVISION: My original paper was centered on a personal experience wherein a co worker had commented on the clothes I was wearing. My goal ...
JosephWilliamsSecondPaperRevised 13 Apr 2015 - 02:12 EbenMoglen
Introduction According to the Federal Bureau of Prison #8217;s population report, more than 200,000 inmates are incarcerated in federal correction facilities, which ...
SecondPaperSpring2012 13 Apr 2015 - 02:12 EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Archived Linking You may notice that, in addition to adding ...
SecondPaper2010 13 Apr 2015 - 02:12 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 ...
SecondPaper2013 13 Apr 2015 - 02:12 EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Second Paper will create a page named SecondPaper2013 ...
CannibalismToday 10 Apr 2015 - 21:33 NicoGurian
NicoGurian 10 Apr 2015 So it turns out that the state of Idaho's criminal code (§18 5003) includes a prohibition against cannibalism, which you are guilty of if you ...
AFewArticlesThatMightBeOfInterest 01 Apr 2015 - 01:30 AbdallahSalam
I recently read the below articles that have reminded me of our class discussions, and I thought I would share them in case someone else finds them interesting as ...
ThoughtsOnConLaw 27 Mar 2015 - 23:57 RobertoRivera2
Random Thoughts Inspired By: #8220;Constitutional Equality #8221;, #8220;Affirmative Action #8221;, and The Fiction of #8220;Reverse Racism #8221; We fight ...
WhyTableMannersExist 26 Feb 2015 - 18:37 IsaacLara
Why Do Table Manners Exist? Luke Reilly said in LukeReillyIntro, "I want to learn the reasons that legal structures and rules and decisions exist. I want to understand ...
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 ...
RobertCorpFirstPaper 22 Feb 2015 - 15:32 EbenMoglen
Creeds in 2008 Democratic Primary By RobertCorp 13 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold stresses that the most effective creeds for a political campaign are those ...
JustinPurtleFirstPaper 22 Feb 2015 - 15:32 EbenMoglen
Fears of a law student Reasonable Doubt Although I have committed myself to be trained to participate in a profession that has traditionally allowed many to live ...
DanielButrymowiczFirstPaper 22 Feb 2015 - 15:32 EbenMoglen
Ready for grading. Maintaining the Constitution Creed By DanielButrymowicz 12 Feb 2008 Introduction Thurman Arnold argues that constitutions are #8220;fundamental ...
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 ...
CarinaWallance-FirstPaper 22 Feb 2015 - 15:32 EbenMoglen
Paper Title Topic: The Forces that Drive Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform By CarinaWallance 09 Feb 2008 Who gets punished and how severely is not the product ...
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 ...
RobinsonClassDiscussion 13 Feb 2015 - 08:15 YashShah
Before and during class I was struck with the strong feeling that Robinson lacked sympathy for the fate of his clients chiefly because he accepts everyone as #8220 ...
EllenBrodyAccident 05 Feb 2015 - 18:44 RobertoRivera2
Here are some of the details on the Ellen Brody Accident. It includes more names of the victims. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/transit/2015/02/04/metro north driver ...
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 ...
MyDadFoughtTheLaw 25 Jan 2015 - 14:47 EbenMoglen
My Dad Fought the Law and the Law Won So my father, Leo Grey, a barrister, just lost a case in the High Court of Australia in a 4 2 decision. The case involved a labor ...
PersonalIntros 25 Jan 2015 - 14:44 EbenMoglen
EbenMoglenIntro
LawyerLand 25 Jan 2015 - 14:43 EbenMoglen
Lawrence Joseph, Lawyerland (2000) Used by permission of the author. EbenMoglen 14 Feb 2008 Robinson's Metamorphosis Something Split Cerriere ...
EbenMoglenIntro 25 Jan 2015 - 14:41 EbenMoglen
What I Wanted I went to law school because I wanted to write legal history. became a lawyer, at first, by accident. Later I realized that an effect making justice ...
DanBryan-SecondPaperTALK 14 Jan 2015 - 22:52 IanSullivan
Talk Page: Swindling The Seller? YMMV (Dan Bryan Second Paper) Linking #8220;If you tell me I will find information about "search engines," you shouldn't just send ...
ThirdPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:49 IanSullivan
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Third Paper will create a page named ThirdPaper2013 ...
TWikiGuestThirdPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
The Lawyering Trade Introduction Lawyering is like being a plumber, sort of. At the beginning of the semester I made a controversial claim: lawyering is a trade ...
ThirdPaper2013 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Third Paper will create a page named ThirdPaper2013 ...
BiyeremOkengwuThirdPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 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 ...
YoungKimThirdPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Legal Realism and the Criminal Code By YoungKim 29 May 2009 The American penal code has been hailed as a model of objective fairness, projecting consistency across ...
WyattLittlesSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Occupying the Grey Space By WyattLittles 09 Apr 2013 Where We've Been and Where We're Going Our pasts lay the foundation for our future. Having hit the ovarian ...
MatthewSienkiewiczSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Law By MatthewSienkiewicz 09 Apr 2013 The Law In his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson Justice Harlan acknowledged a sobering reality about the law. While ...
TamaraOSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
"Rape is bullshit," said Nick. "Everyone says all these girls are getting raped all the time, but I don't think it's true. Like, if both people are drunk, they're ...
LilyVoSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Guarding the Guards I began college at the University of Texas during the height of the 2008 Financial Crisis. After reading about how the collapse of the previously ...
LilyVoSecondPaperEdited 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
MinaNasseri-SecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Naked, But For My Intellect REVISION: My original paper was centered on a personal experience wherein a co worker had commented on the clothes I was wearing. My goal ...
XochitlRodriguezSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
CALIFORNIA'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE CRISIS THE PROBLEM The public education system in California is among the lowest ranking in the nation. One of the many symptoms of ...
ChristinaObiajuluFirstPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I removed the other drafts of this and other essays. We are concentrating here on one text. He stood there in his navy blue, and well tailored suit. A carefully ...
JacksonAlbertsSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Some Bad Men Just Are By JacksonAlberts 06 Apr 2013 An imaginative writer can contemplate scenarios as far removed from his own existence as human experiences ...
LeylaHadiSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
The Many By LeylaHadi 08 Apr 2013 Denial of the Many During my third year at Cornell, a string of sensationalized suicides occurred on campus; notably, the ...
AlexandriaSchumacherSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Introduction "Skin color remains a vital part of private, perhaps subconscious, classification by citizens and public officials alike . . . it is deeply implicated ...
JocelynGreerSecondPaperDraft2 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
What's on Your Mind? By JocelynGreer Introduction Since beginning to study law, I #8217;ve been struck by how unfair our nation #8217;s policies are and, on top ...
HeewonKimSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Outline I. How I learned to give a shit about things in life II. How law school has affected my thinking III. I like to read IV. My worries over how my background ...
BrianHoovenSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Skill, Power, Fulfillment Introduction #8220;Power, skill, and fulfillment. #8221; Ever since my last minute transition from medicine into law, I have known that ...
ChrisCrismanCoxSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Expressive Manipulation of Copyrighted Media: End Product Analysis vs. Component Analysis Background and Purpose of the Paper Increasingly, artists chose to manipulate ...
ChristinaObiajuluSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I added some paragraphing. The text is still not clearly organized, but paragraphing helps. #8220;A na ekwu ekwu a ga ahu, #8221; said my teacher, as I ...
BiyeremOkengwuSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
The Ranking Sham The human condition, in my opinion, is the desire to differentiate ourselves from our peers; the desire to be just a tad bit better than the Jones ...
ElizabethEncinasSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
The #8220;M #8221; word: Morality and the Law In Lawrence v. Texas (2002) Why isn't this a link? Surely you can help your reader find the case you're talking ...
JeremyChangSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
How the law school experience changed me By JeremyChang 08 Apr 2013 If someone asks me why I came to law school, I would not have a good answer. After a year in ...
KurtLynSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Privacy and Social Media By KurtLyn 21 June 2013 Definition of Privacy Privacy can be broken down into three subcomponents, secrecy, anonymity, and autonomy. ...
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 ...
JulianAzranSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Changing the Dialogue on Social Welfare By JulianAzran 21 June 2013 My grandfather is undoubtedly my single most important role model, but there is one topic we ...
ElieTSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
The Injustice of the Felony Murder Rule The felony murder rule allows prosecutors to charge felons with any death that occurs during the commission of a ...
JulieParetSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
The Kind of Lawyer I Want To Be By JulieParet 19 Apr 2013 Phase I: Good Fortune I never had dreams of working at a top law firm, or even of attending a top law ...
ChristopherWildsSecondPaper 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
NEGATIVE INCENTIVES INVOLVED IN GOVERNMENT SPONSORED "SNITCHING" INTRO Informants offer substantial information as #8220;credible sources #8221; to aid authorities ...
JessicaRogersIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I went to Columbia undergraduate because I loved the vitality of NYC. I wanted to stay for law school for the same reason. I was always attracted to the study of law ...
WyattLittlesIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
My name is Wyatt Littles, and I #8217;m from Dallas Texas. I chose to come to law school for two reasons. First, I think the type of work I enjoyed doing while in ...
TatsuyaSagawaIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Before coming to CLS, I engaged in intellectual property law in Sony. Through the opportunities to be involed in American law related matters during that time, I ...
JulianAzranIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Personal Introduction By JulianAzran 26 Jan 2013
JocelynGreerIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
My decision at a young age to become a lawyer was chiefly a product of my viewership of endless hours of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Thus, my career choice ...
LeylaHadiIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I grew up in Pakistan, and moved to the States when I was 18 for college. I don #8217;t have a solid answer regarding why I chose to apply to law school: it was a ...
TamaraOIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Before law school, I was a copy editor at a legal reference book publisher in Houston. I figured if I still thought law was interesting after working there, I should ...
MatthewSienkiewiczIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Matt and I am from Michigan. I grew up in a suburb of Detroit and then studied at the University of Michigan. While I was at U of ...
JulieParetIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I grew up in a family of doctors and aspiring medical professionals, and was consequently surrounded by never ending chatter involving the ins and outs of the health ...
PersonalIntroSpring2012 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
How to Write Your Personal Introduction Not more than 100 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Archived Linking You may notice that ...
JeremyChangIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Jeremy and I come from South Korea. I studied business as an undergrad, and served in the military for two years as a journalist for ...
KurtLynIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Hi. I am from Houston, Texas. Personal Introduction By KurtLyn 30 Jan 2013
LilyVoIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Personal Introduction My name is Lily Vo. I spent most of my life in Austin, TX and attended college at the University of Texas, where I studied economics. Between ...
YaNIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Personal Introduction Before law school, I studied philosophy and creative writing in a suburb off the capital of the Midwest. I came to law school as a risk averse ...
XochitlRodriguezIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Personal Introduction I came to law school looking for a career, one that would both challenge me and effect positive social change in some way. I thought law school ...
AndrewNelsonIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Personal Introduction First year law student at Columbia. Graduated March 2012 from UC Davis with a degree in Economics. I grew up mostly in the Capitol of California ...
BrianHoovenIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
My name is Brian, and I was born in Cincinnati. I was originally drawn to law school by an interest in criminal law, an interest prompted by my study of philosophy ...
BiyeremOkengwuIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I was a political prisoner while in my home country, Nigeria. If that sob story doesn #8217;t make one want to be a lawyer and gather the skills necessary to attack ...
ChristopherWildsIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. I completed undergrad at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. I am a fan of NBA basketball, especially the ...
ElieTIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Hello. I grew up in Los Angeles thinking I wanted to become a sports agent, and spent some time exploring that goal in college. I am not sure if that is what I want ...
JacksonAlbertsIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I already did this, but I didn't save it properly I suppose. Technology is what makes me most uncomfortable in this class. I know the world is changing, and worry ...
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 ...
PersonalIntro2013 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
How to Write Your Personal Introduction Not more than 100 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Intro will create a page named ...
ChristinaObiajuluIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I went to law school because I wanted power, i.e., the ability to make a difference, and law school seemed to be a traditional path one would go down to do that. In ...
EricaSenatIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
My name is Erica Senat. I am 22 and hail from Long Island, New York. I have known that I wanted to be a lawyer from a very young age and came to law school right after ...
AnaVarelaIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
My name is Ana Carolina Varela, but you can call me Caro. I was born and raised in Miami, FL. The likelihood that I would become a lawyer was apparent to virtually ...
AdrianNtwatwaIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
I was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda. I moved to the United States in 2006, and somewhere along the road I decided to become a lawyer. Part of it was just my mother ...
ElizabethEncinasIntro 14 Jan 2015 - 22:23 IanSullivan
Elizabeth Encinas , 27 years old, from Trinidad and Tobago. I graduated from Columbia College in 2008 with a B.A in Political Science. In the years between undergrad ...
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