First Essay Followup: Notes from the Southern District of Florida KristenQuesada 06 Jul 2025 I initially drafted Parts I and II as a stream of consciousness journal ...
Law in Contemporary Society Professor Eben Moglen Columbia Law School, Spring 2025 On May 14th I had open heart surgery. Another surgery was required on May 16th ...
FrankiePereiraDeLeon 30 May 2025 Reflective Preface In the first essay, I wrote about the quiet revelation that occurred while hearing stories from my grandparents ...
Decommodifying Reproductive Health: Building Resilience Through A Rights based Approach By VelenWu 01 May 2025 A woman #8217;s reproductive system is perhaps ...
Oil, Poison, and Other Remedies: Notes from the Only Living Girl By ShidehZokaiy 18 May 2025 Lately, everything feels unbearably loud. In my apartment, I hear ...
Memory, Meaning, and Multiplicity By KianaTaghavi 26 May 2025 I #8217;ve always been intrigued by the ways our minds organize meaning and store memory how certain ...
Why the Law?: The Tensions of Public Interest Lawyering By IsabellaMorales 20 Feb 2025 Introduction I decided that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was in middle ...
Privacy, Fascism, and Law: How Surveillance Chills Collective Action By CiarraLee 25 May 2025 Introduction: The Dystopian Reality I consume a lot of science ...
A Legal System Bent: Power, Chevron, and the Donziger Story By MasonCantrell 25 May 2025 A Modern Fable About Law and Power To build a meaningful theory of social ...
If Only I Were Taller By SarahChan 25 May 2025 To Be a Muse Helen of Troy, Xi Shi, Audrey Hepburn #8212;women who broke kingdoms and made poets weep. Perhaps ...
Empowering Oneself Through Imagination By FeyiFalana 20 Feb 2025 #8220;If I can imagine it, I can get it. #8221; Professor Eben Moglen This statement lived ...
Fascist Superpowers: China Today, America Tomorrow? By YuruiWu 20 Feb 2025 In the earlier stages of the first Trump presidency, I would often joke to my friends ...
This Ain #8217;t No Archive, It #8217;s An Echo: Black Womanhood and Sonic Identity By SelahWilliams 25 May 2025 A Bird #8217;s Eye View #8220;The function of ...
Challenging Conformity By AmithavReddy 19 Feb 2025 Ever since I was a child, I have experienced a tug of war between assimilating to the society around me and ...
Disciplinary Pedagogy By WillDamarjian 20 Feb 2025 #8220;The free mind is a mind that is constantly practicing and in praxis. Nefarious forces of oppression will ...
Navigating How to be Muslim in the Legal Field By LaraHafez 24 May 2025 A Moment of Realization "We need more Muslims like you in the legal field." When I heard ...
Armory and Favelas: Asking Questions By SimonYang 25 May 2025 Armory Raises Questions and Concerns The concept that law students might not know how to ask important ...
The Art of Performance By KatelynStarks 20 Feb 2025 "When creating your own artwork, would you want the crayons to draw for you? #8221; asked Professor Moglen ...
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats #8220;Then he will say to those on his left, #8216;Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for ...
How can I change my approach to law school? By MayurPatel 19 Feb 2025 Passive Navigation Being the younger sibling in my family often meant I could coast along ...
BLACK EROTIC LAWYERING By DayoAdeoye 21 Feb 2025 Dear My Future Client, You #8217;ve made a mess. So allow me to make it messier By submerging my hand in your ...
How Law Schools Can Grade More Conscientiously By ZongweiHu 23 May 2025 What #8217;s important to realize about grades is that they conflict with the goal of education ...
Language: Its Leverage in Law By AlexaShyama 23 May 2025 Coming into law school, I was already aware of the power of words to influence public discourse and private ...
Artificial Lawyering? By AvanequePennant 23 May 2025 The proliferation of artificial intelligence, especially in the legal industry has led to concerns as to what ...
I am not #8220;I #8221; By HarryBajwa 23 May 2025 The Office Hours Realization On Thursday, January 23, 2025, I walked out of Professor Moglen #8217;s office ...
The Generational Place I have no place to go but Here. By MicahMekbib 20 Feb 2025 Anxiety Avoidance The third place has always been crucial to human connection ...
From Screens to Sentencing: How Social Media Threatens Fairness in the Legal System #8212;Especially for Communities Like Mine By AngelAnene 20 Feb 2025 Section ...
Rights Affecting Clauses and Consumer Contracts By MikeSteinthal 17 Feb 2025 The Legal Fiction of Mutual Assent Contract law rests on the bedrock principle of ...
Lawson the Lawyer? By TaylorLawson 18 Feb 2025 What is a Lawyer? As a child, I rarely went anywhere without a worn out paperback book in my hands. Relatives would ...
Reimagining Equality By PaulAkere 22 May 2025 Now that we have recognized that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ( #8220;DEI #8221;) was not built to last, the ...
What's In A Name? By Shenel Ekici (revised May 22, 2025) Cohen traces how the literalization of abstract legal concepts prevents the law from engaging with real ...
Confessions By KatherineOk 22 May 2025 (version 2) MARIA DID NOT KNOW WHAT TIME SHE GOT IN BED. At one point, she turned the light on again and opened a book, ...
By DylanRowling 20 Feb 2025; Revised May 21 2025 #8220;So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the ...
Elder Care Reformation (ChanyoungJeongFirstEssay) By ChanyoungJeong 21 May 2025 Elder care policies in the United States are structurally broken, rooted in Western ...
Notes from Amsterdam Ave. By KristenQuesada 20 May 2025 Undone, Remade, Unmoored Again I #8217;ve survived the collapse of my reality before. My God, my politics ...
Crossing Borders: The Failures of Immigration in the United States and Australia By WilliamTodd 18 May 2025 The regulation of immigration in the United States ...
Political Psychology Authoritarianism in America By AnnieIsabel 14 May 2025 Democracy has always been a contested project, vulnerable to both internal contradiction ...
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 ...
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 ...
Becoming The Lawyer I Want To Be: A Reflection on Purpose and Integrity By Hayden Smith I. Reconsidering My Career Path The plan was to return to Big Law after ...
Law In Contemporary Society Outline Professor Moglen, Spring 2025 Mike Steinthal #8220;The course has one single point in it. One basic fact. The only thing that ...
Mapping Identity, Memory, and Familial History Through Bad Bunny #8217;s Debi Tirar Mas Fotos Album Two vacant white plastic chairs sit side by side at the ...
The Ungovernable Undisputedly, the unfolding climate crisis presents a profound challenge, not merely of technological innovation or policy implementation, but of ...
Response to Faculty We thank you for the message you sent us in your personal capacities. We appreciate the opening of dialogue. We take this opportunity to respond ...
HaydenSmith 24 Apr 2025 All In light of today's class, I decided to draft a response letter in consideration to be forwarded to faculty. Interested in your thoughts ...
Why You Should Vote "Yes" to Make This Class P/F Written By A Concerned Classmate Dear Fellow Classmates, In light of our vote, I want to take a moment to encourage ...
A Brief History and Impact of the Feminist Sex Wars (Revised) By AndreaRuedas 12 July 2024 Introduction In the 1960s, sex and violence emerged as popular subjects ...
Lessons on trust By JonathanCoaxum 24 June 2024 Lawyering is all about trust. Trust is the most important social currency a person has. Without trust society ...
Reducing the High Stakes of Online Sports Gambling The 2018 Supreme Court decision in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association facilitated the rapid rise ...
The Irony of Crip Theory and the Academy #8217;s Inaccessibility By AndreaRuedas 14 June 2024 In #8220;Coming Out Crip: Malibu is Burning #8221;, John !McRuer ...
The complex path to becoming a lawyer with a dual legal culture. By StevenRaphan 23 Feb 2024 When you contemplate what type of lawyer you want to be and part of ...
The question of sexual orientation as a suspect classification. By StevenRaphan 16 Apr 2024 The Supreme Court's jurisprudence acknowledges that the Constitution ...
End of War (?) By ChloeJo 16 Apr 2024 Preface Reflecting now, I find myself unsure of what exactly I want to express in this second essay. We discussed war in ...
From Cricket to Politics By AliAbid 23 Feb 2024 (revised 08 Jun 2024) Thousands of people from South Asia are currently flooding into the streets of New York for ...
What a Shame! "Yes, Korea is a shame culture," Eben explained when I told him I felt ashamed of my grades. Feeling shame about not knowing what the shame culture is ...
A (Revised) Reflection on Choosing a Practice By FernandoGarcia 24 Feb 2024 When I began this course, I mistakenly believed that ignoring Columbia #8217;s push ...
A Future for NYC Housing By KieranSingh2001 27 May 2024 Housing supply and prices are undeniably a problem in New York City. Despite its reputation as a dense ...
Authenticity in an Age of Lies and Deception By EdsonSandoval 18 May 2024 Introduction What does it mean to be authentic? Why not be yourself rather than pretending ...
Spring at Columbia University this year was both vibrant and unsettling. Police helicopters often hovered over the main quad, where a sign at the edge of a newly established ...
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 ...
Legal education in the United States, particularly at institutions like Columbia Law School, is widely regarded for its rigorous academic training. This curriculum ...
Stumbling Upon Law School (Revised on May 29, 2024) Music, my past lover Thoughts race. Fingers scuttle across the keyboard. I am sitting at a Steinway Sons piano ...
When Life Isn't a Race By CodyHuyan 20 Feb 2024 Introduction It didn #8217;t occur to me, until Eben pointed it out in my first draft, that I have been constructing ...
My Success Has Never Been My Own By AjeeRobinson 23 Apr 2024 At the end of my senior year, the Sociology department hosted a celebration for graduating seniors ...
Should I return to Law School in the Fall? The Allure of a Predictable Path I decided to go to law school in my junior year of college, recognizing that it would ...
The Quarles Public Safety Exception, its Impact, and Prosecutorial Bias By AlexHeycke 23 Apr 2024 New York v. Quarles and the Public Safety Exception In York ...
Canada #8217;s Online Streaming Act: Promoting Canada Through Censorship By TonyWang 15 Apr 2024 Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives ...
Jealousy in Friendships By TonyWang 31 May 2024 The Problem People can become jealous of their friends when good fortune befalls them. I fall short in this regard ...
Navigating the Complexities of Gentrification: How Gentrification Shaped My Legal Aspirations By JacobLucero 24 Feb 2024 Living in a neighborhood undergoing demographic ...
Price of Security By JacobLucero 23 Apr 2024 Throughout the years, El Salvador has been synonymous with gang violence and political turmoil. After my family ...
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 ...
Never Far from Evil By FernandoGarcia 23 Apr 2024 #8220;I am, after all, a lawyer. I am never far from evil. #8221; This characterization of lawyering may turn ...
Why are 73% of people afraid of public speaking? By GhaliaAamer 22 Apr 2024 So what if you mess up. It seemed odd to me that the first week of law school orientation ...
Breaking the Mold: How Learning Pods Can Reshape Education By GhaliaAamer 23 Feb 2024 Institutionalization in Schools Personal Experience I remember walking ...
Law and Passion By SarahShaikh 23 Apr 2024 In my first semester of law school, I took the foundational course Constitutional Law. Much of the lengthy discussions ...
The Emboldening of Autocracies: A Threat to the Democratic World Order By AngusGaffney 29 May 2024 Introduction As a young boy growing up in rural England, I ...
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 ...
Japanese Americans in World War II: A Fight for their Country and their Rights By KaylieChen 19 Apr 2024 The history of Asian Americans in the United States is ...
Homeownership and Wealth Disparities By KaylieChen 23 Feb 2024 Affordable housing has been a longstanding concern across the United States. However, these housing ...
Wings of Contention: Unraveling the CIA's Drone Program By JorgeRosario 21 Apr 2024 Over the last few decades, the United States #8217; approach to war has ...
The Dehumanization of Immigration Politics: An Immigrant #8217;s Perspective By EdsonSandoval 23 May 2024 The dehumanization of immigration is a prevalent issue ...
Revised Justifications for Nationality Based Rights and Obligations By CodyHuyan 22 Apr 2024 Introduction I am a citizen of California and smoke marijuana regularly ...
ANARCHISM RECALCITRANT By MoAli 22 Apr 2024 In Book 22 of Livy #8217;s magisterial Roman history, #8220;Ab Urbe Condita, #8221; he recounts a curious interaction ...
Portrayal of Lawyers in Bee Movie , Cars : Law and Life By JoieLiew Revised 25 May 2024 PBS Kids, Pixar, Disney, Studio Ghibli, and many more #8211; I could ...
What Might it Mean to be Successful in School and Work? (In a Lawyering Context, For Me) By JoieLiew Revised 25 May 2024 I see much of what we picture when describing ...
Free Artistry and the Pitfalls of Music Copyright By KieranSingh2001 5 May 2024 History of Music Ownership Music, as a cultural and social phenomenon, was not ...
Reginald Lewis' Effect on My Life and Career By PierceHeard 15 Apr 2024 Overview Reginald F. Lewis was a revolutionary. He was the first African American to ...
#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 ...
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 ...
My Shadow in the Sun By GeorgeMenz 22 Feb 2024 What I Am It is not essential to my self conception that I am a good person. I am well aware that if I stood before ...
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 ...
Divine Yet Deprived: An Analysis of the Nepali Supreme Court #8217;s Failure to Protect the Kumari #8217;s Child Rights In Nepal, girls as young as two become ...
France finds comfort in its creed, Liberté. Égalité. Fraternité . It is admired as its apparent simplicity earns the public #8217;s confidence. This is even more ...
Improving American Cities; An Argument In Support Of Jane Jacobs' Ideas By PierceHeard 19 Feb 2024 Overview American city design is flawed in a number of ways ...
By DianaAvila 16 Apr 2024 Welcome to CA Intro Something I have always been open to speaking about is the criminal justice system and how it has affected my community ...
Future Conflict By DianaAvila 22 Feb 2024 Introduction One of the first questions you #8217;re asked when you #8217;re young is #8220;what do you want to be ...
Law Schools and the Empathy Crisis Introduction: Why Do Lawyers Need Empathy? #8220;Lawyers think of cases as legal problems, not as people with problems. #8221 ...
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 ...
Reflecting on the events that have unfolded in the past few days on Columbia #8217;s campus, the complex interplay between law, ethics, and society has occupied my ...
Crossroads of Destiny: Puerto Rico's Search for its Future By JorgeRosario 23 Feb 2024 #8220;We, the people of Puerto Rico in order to organize politically ...
Navigating a Legal Crossroads of Activists and Rulers: Lessons from Lagos By EmmanuelOsayande 18 Apr 2024 In March 1996, a group of human rights activists took ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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