Law in Contemporary Society Professor Eben Moglen Columbia Law School, Spring 2023 Welcome prospective students. Please see the CourseIntroduction. Or you could ...
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 ...
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 ...
Re claiming the presentation of Black Figures in Photography By GabrielleStanfield 23 Apr 2022 On Photography In her 1977 collection of essays, On Photography ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dishonesty in Judicial Conformation Hearings By BrandonHolt 27 Apr 2022 Introduction In an April 2021 joint confirmation hearing for seats on the United States ...
GueinahBlaise 12 Mar 2022 Grades Shouldn't Matter, but for Marginalized Persons Trying to Achieve Career Advancement They Do Introduction: #8220;Grades don #8217 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Incentivizing Corporate Diversity through Debt Finance By BrandonHolt 13 Mar 2022 Introduction When the video of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd commanded ...
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 ...
Collectivism and Individualism: How Societal Behaviors Shaped the Response to COVID 19 By KailaAlston 30 May 2022 Individualism vs Collectivism Individualism ...
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 ...
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 ...
Direction for the Fourth Wave Second Wave Feminism: Consciousness Raising The Personal is Political. Hanisch #8217;s iconic phrase is often repeated and more ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Planning My Practice By AimeePacheco 5 June 2022 The Founding #8220;Who? #8221;, #8220;What? #8221;, #8220;When? #8221;, #8220;Where? #8221; My Positionality ...
Undocumented Students Still Barred From Higher Education By AimeePacheco 24 May 2022 Problem In 2022, undocumented students are still barred from higher education ...
Daring to Build Better Lawyers By ConnorHudson 06 Mar 2022 Introduction The Adaptable Mind: Neuroscience, Psychology, Law School When I dropped out of law ...
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 ...
Drop the Dichotomies, Peep the Practice By ThomasVance 26 Apr 2022 Introduction First year law students become all too familiar with categorizing justices and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Community Intervention to Curb Over Incarceration By GodardSolomon 27 Apr 2022 (second draft 30 May 2022) Foreword During my undergraduate years, I was ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Achievement vs. Acceptance By GabrielleStanfield 11 Mar 2022 SEEKING ACCEPTANCE My professional experiences have been profoundly impacted by my experience as ...
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 ...
Ending At Will Employment Through Judicial Authority By LydiaMurray 20 Apr 2022 Introduction TThe concept of at will employment represents an inequitable model ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Although I am an only child, I #8217;ve grown up believing that I would be a fantastic middle child. As a result of being adopted into a mixed family, having a mother ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personal Introduction By JanabaGakou 18 Jan 2022 Balzac said, "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." The foundation upon which our most illustrious ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personal Introduction By AminaStoneTaylor 17 Jan 2022 I graduated from CUNY Brooklyn College where I majored in philosophy. My favorite philosophy classes focused ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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