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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Law in Contemporary Society Professor Eben Moglen Columbia Law School, Spring 2023 Thank you for all your recent thoughtful revisions to your work. The course ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nationalism, imperialism, and Nagorno Karabakh By ArmanAntonyan 16 Feb 2023 I have long wondered: if I could be published tomorrow in the New York Times, what ...
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 ...
Replacing new draft in this topic. Next version contains edits. Should We Bother with #8220;Natural Law? #8221;: A Love Letter, from the Levant Theories ...
The Tragedy of the Biomedical AntiCommons An Illustration of the Problem Alzheimer's, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease, affects up to one in nine Americans ...
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 ...
Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy By StephanieZielinski 29 Apr 2023 Introduction From a young age, I endeavored to become a scientist. I was fascinated by the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Legal Education A Personal Reflection By BrandonReid 17 Feb 2023 Earlier this semester, I wrote a piece that demonstrated frustration towards my legal education ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gardenia Terrace: Perversion or Evolution? By JamesHebish 18 May 2023 In many Islamic countries, alcohol is taboo, not just among the Muslims, but among the Christians ...
Madison Square Garden Security Faces the Music Introduction Madison Square Garden (MSG) launched its #8220;attorney exclusion list #8221; in June 2021. This forbade ...
Should We Bother with #8220;Natural Law? #8221;: A Love Letter, from the Levant Theories of natural law hold that the world and the law follow fundamental rules ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why the Transformation Consideration Underlying the "Purpose and Character" Factor should be Replaced By MaxKingsley 05 Apr 2023 Introduction The Supreme ...
Breaking Through the Glass #8211; No Longer Afraid. By SamuelPittman 11 May 2023 Do you like girls? I remember being outed in front of my sixth grade math class ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Never Far from Danger #8211;Protecting Liberty at the Southern Border By SamuelPittman 5 March 2023 I Don #8217;t Know My Parents I have never met my mom, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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